⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Do I have any road engineers among my followers?

I’m struck by the high road noise on this bus, but it was the same cycling in Cork yesterday.

Do Ireland (and UK too I think?) lay their tarmac differently to everyone else in the EU? It seems 3-4cm gravel chips are rolled into the tarmac - and do the gaps at the edge of these chips then result in more noise?

Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!

The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".

Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/vanilla_os_friendly_radical/

In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so

<- by me on @theregister

I've found myself having to subscribe to some mailing lists with my work address and oh my Outlook really is to blame for all the things (outside spam) that have gone wrong with email, isn't it?

Been reliably told that we have had some "bites" for the #CFML Graduate Developer position at my place (The Case Centre, Milton Keynes/Bedford, UK). This is good! Not too late if you want to apply! #ukjobs
https://www.thecasecentre.org/jobs

So Amazon have stopped any new users from using CodeCommit ☠️

Although I've not used it in years & not wanting to take them saying existing users are safe - time to archive the repo's I do have there, even if they are certainly obsolete, there might be stuff that's still useful historically 😞

How to migrate your AWS CodeCommit repository to another Git provider:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/how-to-migrate-your-aws-codecommit-repository-to-another-git-provider/

#amazon #codeCommit #rip

I got to try induction cooktops for the first time on this trip. I mistakenly thought they were 'a competitive choice' and not 'better by far', but they in fact are that. Startlingly so.

IEEE's MAC address allocations have a weird pricing structure.

If you want to buy a 12 (aka 4096 addresses), that's $855 one time (or $0.20 per MAC address).

However you can buy 20 bits of space (1Mil addresses) for $2,030 one time !, and 24 bits (16Mil) for $3,375 one time !

I somewhat question the desire to buy 4096 MAC addresses when 1 million is only around 2x the price.

Azure outage again, put more hamsters in the wheel MS.

Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the release of NewtonMail Modules 1.0, a set of enhancements to extend and simplify the #apple Newton messaging environment.

#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990223223049/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/pr.archive/1994/Releases-1994.July/94.07.29-NewtonMail.Release.txt

Finally, Carlos makes a decision #F1