Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Today on 11AM UTC parliamentary task force for fighting transportation divide of the Polish parliament will meet again to discuss the Newag trains DRM issue again.

Last time Newag representatives were giving everyone a spectacle of going offtopic and blaming literally everything on everyone just but themselves.

Later Newag CEO was said to low-key threaten the chairman of aforementioned task force during some different event.

And in the meantime new details showed up claiming that Newag Impuls trains were going into lockout mode DURING SERVICE with PASSENGERS ONBOARD while passing through Mińsk Mazowiecki station that has Newag main competitor's (Pesa) maintenance workshop nearby

This will be 🔥

I can't say what manual I'm reading, but it feels like they were legally required to fully document the system, but at the same time didn't want anyone to understand it.

Dear developers: Please stop using random valid domains in your examples or documentation, there are dedicated domain names and IP ranges for that.

For domain names for example use: example.com

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5

For IP address ranges for example use: 203.0.113.0/24
or
2001:DB8::/32

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5737#section-3 [IPv4] or https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849#section-4 [IPv6]

Thanks!
The infrastructure people.

Domain-Driven Design: building a product out of guilt because you’ve had the domain for 10 years and the annual renewal reminder just came around again.

Being the responsible parents we are, we have Carbon Monoxide alarms in the house, because hey, it’s what you do. Right?

Of course, they have never gone off (knock wood), so you do tend to forget that they exist at all.

Well, yesterday one of those alarms decided that it needed to really remind us that it exists, and that it’s been ten years since we activated it. Because it’s now time to replace it.

Of course, nobody was home - except for the dog. Who is now traumatized by that beeping hell-box that suddenly decided that it was a good idea to tell everybody out of the blue that it needs replacing - at 95dB, just to make sure.

Kidde - I’m sure you could at least start out with just a mild chirp, instead of going full “the bark collar from hell” crazy. No?

That's not rhetorical. I'm really open to the possibility that I'm missing something. It seems like people who have more concerns about privacy and safety have the ability to organize their mastodon instance so it is locked down by default. And they can open up selectively. Yes, it puts more onus on you to make decisions rather than depending on other people to do the right thing. But again, I guess I thought that was the tradeoff people were making intentionally.

Mozilla neglecting its core product for years and losing marketshare while the suits that run it flail around wildly feels really true to its Netscape heritage.