Just found out about #chaosscon happening on Friday: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2020-eu/
Unfortunately it's sold out :(
I joined the waitlist and can only hope more tickets become available.
FreeNAS 11.3 is out.
I fly to Brussels for #fosdem in a few hours.
Why not update now?
What could go wrong?
https://twitter.com/pythonsummit/status/1220058551684456448
Our 2020 Call for Participation is now open! We are looking forward to your talk proposals before June 1st.
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death
Court rules AI-written article is protected by copyright.
https://www.ecns.cn/news/2020-01-09/detail-ifzsqcrm6562963.shtml
I can't recall exactly who recommended this documentary in my feed, but I just started watching it and wow, it's amazing:
"The Century of the Self"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/
Today is #InternationalDayofDisabilities and I'd like to show off my hearing aids once again.
Without them I'm a poorly concentrated, tired and grumpy person. With them I can talk and work for hours, I can listen and be in noisy environments without getting exhausted.
Hearing loss is an invisible disability. You can't tell that I'm hearing impaired from looking at me, because my hearing aids are often hidden by my hair or simply hard to spot behind my ears. That also makes it harder to have my needs met. Even with hearing aids I need that people look at me and speak clearly when they're talking to me.
I often feel like I'm an imposter when I call myself disabled, but the alternative is to pretend I have a normal hearing and stop functioning in everyday life. I'm beyond happy and grateful that I live in a country where I get hearing aids for free and where I have rights both as a disabled student and in the workplace.
And here are my tiny, wonderful hearing aids 💞
I'm late to the conversation, thanks for the patience!
I agree most of the people who work with programming and/or system development are not academically trained and from this group even a smaller fraction has extensive compsci education. But look it from the other way around, these people are still working in the field - meaning this education isn't necessary for most.
By all means go after it if it interests you, but take some time to look around. There are so many specializations and subfields one can study, I find it difficult to recommend it in generic terms. An analogy would be to compare "I want to study medicine" to "I want to study oncology".
I like to study theory of computation, but it isn't for everyone. Find your niche :)
And good luck with your studies!
@Full_marx @design_RG
@tek @kornel @namark @raman @fahrni @mngrif @jump_spider @shibaprasad @Gomario @EdS @freemo
@pganssle it really depends on your threat model and budget.
Are you protecting your systems and data from random, tailored, mass or state-sponsored attacks? And how much time are you willing to invest on maintaining the system (patching etc)?
For example, if you are concerned about state-level attacks and have little time for sysadmin, just put it online as you *will* get compromised :)
On the other hand, if you are mostly concerned about worms and random attacks and have no budget for security, just keep it LAN only.
@freemo oh no! I was thinking about www, gopher, mail and irc bouncer - didn't think about mastodon.
But I already re-opened my postmortem for the last time I self-hosted all these things and reminded myself of all the pain :)
Which is a good reminder to thank you for all the work hosting qoto.org!
We are thrilled to announce that there will be a Swiss Python Summit in 2020, hosted again by @hsr_rapperswil@twitter.com!
🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
You can find all the details at https://www.python-summit.ch/
A call for participation will be published in a few weeks.
migrating birds in europe tracked by gps...
#migration #migrating #birds #europe #tracked #gps #animatedgif
I am Time grown old to destroy the world,
Embarked on the course of world annihilation.