Serra @serra@qoto.org

Die #Corona-Zahlen steigen (anscheinend?) wieder, alle reden von der neuen #Variante EG.5 #eris. Was steckt da wirklich hinter?

Und: Wann kommt das neue Impfstoff-Update und wer soll es überhaupt noch bekommen?

Ich hab mal ein paar Antworten versucht.

#covid
https://scilogs.spektrum.de/fischblog/corona-anstieg-varianten-impfung/

Thanks Apple for my new email signature:

"Please do not reply this message to avoid starting a new interaction."

We're hiring: Fedora Operations Architect

This new role will involve:

* Being part of the Fedora Council to coordinate and execute strategic initiatives
* Working with stakeholders and FESCo to guide technical changes to Fedora Linux
* Developing processes in the project to reduce complexity and improve outcomes

Learn more: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/job-posting-fedora-operations-architect/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

I felt this in my teeth.

At the risk of sounding like one of those open-source crazies... Mesa drivers will NEVER do this to you.

We argue over whether or not having an app hacks system in a fully open driver is sufficiently transparent. Don't want that driver hacking around games behind your back!

The notion of scraping your web history in a GPU driver would never occur to us. If someone proposed it, it'd get NAK'd so hard they'd be feeling it for a year.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer

Putting the “You” in CPU https://cpu.land is awesome -- I'm already finding a lot of things that I didn't know, or hadn't fully understood (like that the #! shebang is a kernel feature, not a shell feature)

Also the design is impeccable (check out the 404 page!), can't believe the author (https://kognise.dev/ ) is 17. Definitely going to be following their work.

Since there are a bunch of misconceptions around Flatpak, I decided to make a guide to dispel these, and explain how to do a few things, like theming all applications, using the command line interface to manage them, installing them from your web browser, and more:

#flatpak #linux #opensource

https://youtu.be/IYXlgzrZRIE

HP are such scammers

I posted about this very cheap printer before, which strongly suggests that there is No USB, only Wifi. When I first got it I figured out how to print over the network without using the app they try to bully you into downloading.

It turns out it's even easier to print, just use the USB port they try to pretend isn't there!

No company is going to rewrite their firmware to remove the USB stack. It's even more expensive to redesign the hardware to get rid of the USB port physically. They opted for the cheapest option, a little sticker.

They are just trying to store everyone's documents in their stupid cloud service that some teenage extortion group is going to break into and leak one day. Don't give them your data.

Mozilla should call for a vote on the removal of Google from the W3C over the implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is *already* useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation.

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd

/cc @mozilla

This is truly absurd and delightful. The "first human computed shader". You are assigned a pixel, given the equation, and need to show your handwritten manual calculation of its RGB value.

"405 different people have been computing pixels by hand for 4 days"

https://humanshader.com/

It's made by Inigo Quilez the undisputed king of shaders.

(HT @dpiponi )

#graphics #shaders #computation

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. it turned out the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like
"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

Remember To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.

The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit

„Keiner hat gesagt, dass es leicht wird.

Eine Generation kann sich ihre Menschheitsaufgabe nicht aussuchen.“

Klimaneutralität 2045 ist weit weg. Das zeigt der Projektionsbericht, der mir vorab vorliegt.

Die Regierung darf sich damit nicht abfinden, tut es aber.

Mein Leitartikel:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/das-ist-keine-uebung-die-erde-erhitzt-sich-trotzdem-schaut-die-regierung-weiter-zu-statt-konsequent-zu-handeln-leitartikel-a-675bb14e-dabe-482d-8a96-dec7ab46312d (+)

Re: #vanmoof

1. IoT-Firma baut IoT-Ding, das nur funktioniert, solange IoT-Firma Server dafür betreibt

2. Leute, die aus den Fehlern zahlloser anderer IoT-Firmen gelernt haben, weisen darauf hin, dass IoT-Ding nur funktionieren wird, solange IoT-Firma Server dafür betreibt

3. Andere Leute werfen ihnen vor, gegen Innovation und gegen die Sache, die IoT-Ding tut, zu sein

4. IoT-Firma hört auf, Server für IoT-Ding zu betreiben

5. IoT-Ding funktioniert nicht mehr

6. Die Leute, die genau das vorhergesehen haben, weisen höflich darauf hin, dass sie genau das vorhergesehen haben

7. Andere Leute werfen ihnen vor, gegen Innovation und gegen die Sache, die IoT-Ding getan hat, zu sein, kritisieren die Fehlerkultur dieses Landes im Allgemeinen, und fordern, aus den Fehlern von IoT-Firma zu lernen

8. Wiederholung ad infinitum

@wolfmaahn

Mal ganz einfach gefragt, no offense:

Ist hier jemand, der sagt, ok, sie hat recht - das hat mich überzeugt? Ich dachte Wasserstoffheizungen wären ein gute Alternative?

Ich fände mal interessant zu wissen, ob Zuschauer sich über solche Sendungen tatsächlich ein Meinung bilden oder nur ihr Weltbild bestätigen sehen wollen.

After a long hibernation (too many social medias not enough time) I am trying again to stick with mastodon.

I'm Andrew, I run the monthly alternative game anthology Indiepocalypse! It has a starter guide since it's been running for 3.5 years now if you wanna know more about it. (http://indiepocalypse.com/starter)

Also if there's a games focused instance for someone who does maybe 1 monthly promo post but is otherwise not *too* active (but trying to be moreso) let me know!

Me at every work-related conference I've ever been to

I wrote some software¹: git-backdate allows you to change the dates on a (range of) commit to a given time frame. For perfectly good reasons. 😇

Includes flags to keep the commits inside of or outside of business hours. Also for perfectly good reasons. 😈

https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate

¹ some time ago, naturally

Been curious about the age distribution of Mastodon users.
Internet polls are known to be the most reliable method for any such estimation.*

*Trust me, I went to grad school in statistics.

Please boost to increase precision of the point estimate and to reduce confidence intervals.