⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

BREAKING: Ruby Rhod arrested in Fhloston Paradise after Governor Zorg's new anti-drag law goes into effect. Was Gemini Croquettes too "woke" in speaking out in support of Rhod? We'll ask some average Mangalores in this Fhloston diner, after the break.

Siri, show me physical technical debt

(We’re clearing out at least 30 years’ worth of accumulated cabling under a datacentre raised floor. Lots of voice copper, co-ax (voice and Ethernet), serial cables and even some AppleTalk!)

@azonenberg The f00f bug is probably in microcode, so here's a random piece of the Pentium's microcode as it appears on the die :-)

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x " X is a toxic media platform and … its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse".

So why are YOU?

"Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"

You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.

These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.

This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.

If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?

A few weeks ago, I sent my 1985 Swiss Army Knife back to Victorinox for a broken blade replacement.

It came back today, fully repaired, cleaned, polished, lubricated and in a new box.

Total cost: £10 + return postage.

They sent the knife back with an invoice. I didn't have to pay a penny before the job was done.

A product that's been out of production for almost 40 years, repaired at very little cost by the original manufacturer.

I'm stunned. Happy, impressed, grateful and stunned.

"Patterson, who just wrapped up his remarks, said he still didn't know whether the Horizon IT system was reliable and that he would be "very worried" if its Post Office contract was renewed"

In other words...

Major government contractor says "please don't renew our contract because we don't want to be associated with this thing we've sold you and charged you millions for...

#postoffice #horizon

@signalapp
Please can you allow each nag message to be disabled permanently.

#DarkPatterns #Signal

@masek

In my opinion, the generic icon that the GNOME dock uses for applications that don't have an icon is extremely bad. It looks too similar to the Settings icon.

Can YOU guess which of the below icons is the GNOME settings app and which is tidal-hifi (no icon)?

Starship Troopers celebrated its 27th anniversary on November 7. So it's a great opportunity to take a look back at a small part of his creation!

This weekend, this new piece is available to all my Patreon subscribers, both paid and free. 🖖

https://www.patreon.com/posts/starship-would-115668123

OTD in 1999 the OSCE conference was in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove our troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002.

We lied. Which is why Ukraine should believe our promises now & negotiate…

Meet the OpenUK Awards Law and Policy Category Shortlist, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: Chris Eastham, Sonia Cooper, Margaret Hartnett #openukawards #opensourcelaw

HOW COOL IS THIS? 🤩

Women in #Bolivia are #KNITTING tiny #occluders ('top hats' to block a hole in the #heart) of ELASTIC METAL, which are then folded up in a catheter, inserted into the body, travel ON THEIR OWN to the heart, then 'pop open' to their proper shape, b/c they 'remember' what shape they are supposed to be.

Old craft meets future #scifi

*faints from coolness of it all*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32076070

#Cardiology #PDA #HeartDefects #Indigenous #PatentDuctusArteriosus
#Aymara #LaPaz

Help me choose my next #book to read! Poll closes in 6 hours (~01:45 UTC)

Three weeks after Voyager 1 autonomously flipped over to using the S-band transmitter for communicating with earth because of a power overload condition, it appears that it is back to communicating using X-band.

No word from NASA, but presumably the team managed to turn off the heater that caused the power surge and re-enable the X-band transmitter.

Phew 😓

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
5/n

Ted Danson Says ‘The Good Place’ Writers Had Ethics Professors “On Speed Dial” For Accuracy
#News #MichaelSchur #NBC #ParksandRecreation #TedDanson #TheGoodPlace

https://deadline.com/2024/11/ted-danson-the-good-place-writers-ethics-professors-speed-dial-1236171728/

Taken! I made someone happy!!!
I still have my first computer, an Osborne Executive with all of its original software and manuals. It still worked great when I last booted it up in 1999. We're really trying to not hang on to stuff forever, so it's heading for the electronics recycling in a week unless someone wants it. Free, but I don't think I can deal with shipping it anywhere, so pick-up in Woburn, MA.
(Computer details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Executive)
(Any ideas, @knizer?)

#free #VintageComputer