Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Turning type into animals:

Frutiger → Fru🐯 → Fru🦁

Sreet art in #Lausanne

!B

75F and the vibes were perfect for a little walk in the woods 😩 #lichensubscribe #florespondence

855 Fotos hab ich vorhin am Apfelbaum innerhalb von 2 Stunden gemacht.

Eins ist was geworden und das macht mich froh.

Hummel im Flug. Herausforderung...

#fotografie #photography #Insekten #insects

Just found a closely related razor, Hubbard's razor:

> Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.

What I'm listening to today: "Run", Michiel van den Bos

This is from Unreal Tournament (1999), a game I don't think I've played.

One nice thing about sample trackers is the files are small and playing them back has low CPU impact, which makes them ideal for embedding in video games. Apparently UT1999's tracker files can just be extracted and played in Impulse Tracker. Some of the tracks hold up well; this one's D&B-inflected and has classic, emotionally dead-on Vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTMBOm8nII

I’m in Berlin today and tomorrow. Anyone up for a beer or a coffee?

do you think Python would let you mix 2-space, 4-space, and tab indentation, in the same file, on the same line? (poll)

[1/2]

https://standardnotes.com/blog/joining-forces-with-proton

One of my primary note-taking-services for the last almost five years - Standard Notes - have now joined forces with Proton (mostly known for Proton Mail service). My time with Standard Notes has not been entirely problem free (and what software/service is that anyway?), but the principles upon which Standard Notes is build and operaties (like their longevity commitment - https://standardnotes.com/longevity ), makes it the obvious choice for secure notes for me.

Anyway sorry I spend so much of my time on this account complaining about computers, but is just the thing is, there are so many horrible things about them,

@joanam is this not the countenance of a manifest god?

✨🆕 New project! ✨

For educational purposes only…

I HACKED A CAR IN JAVASCRIPT!!! 📡🛻

I built a web tool to hack wireless devices right from the browser and I used it to run a rolljam/replay attack against my friend's car (with consent of course) and IT WORKED!!! 😃🎉

I find myself exhausted when scientists talk so much about replication crises but so little about the heterogeneity of resources and training.

I mean, the choices made in the lab are not happening in a separate reality from the pressures on grad students and the training they have available to them. All things are environments as well as individuals.

Caring about equity in education and access and shared open resources in science IS caring about the trustworthiness of our evidence.

Prof. Inna Zakharevich joined Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris( @stoneymonster ) to talk about Turing complete origami crease patterns.

Listen to episode 474: It's All Chaos and Horror: https://embedded.fm/episodes/474

These are alt titles that were in the running for show title:
-The Apocalypse Rule
- Not that kind of topologist
- Sounds like Magic
- Tiny ant on the donut

Which would you have gone for?

Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring this week's show.

#embedded #origami #math #professor

Over the weekend, I wrote about some of the details of the culture at @oxidecomputer:

https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about cultural idiosyncrasies, both at Oxide and elsewhere. Come for the hot takes on formal performance review -- stay for the hot takes on engineering metrics!

Join us, today, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/GUcd6c8a?event=1224394765261475880

Being unexpectedly out of work is a mixed bag for me — no surprise, I have a lot of projects that could use the attention. But it's also a tough job market, especially for a neuroatypical person at the staff+ level.

If you want to help —

Schedule a time to chat: https://calendly.com/aeschright/30min
Even if your company isn't hiring at the moment, I'd like to hear what you've been up to. Particularly if you're in DevOps, dev tools, or something else in that vein.

Support my projects (pick whichever appeals to you most 🥰)

Music:
Streaming on Twitch https://twitch.tv/audrey_eee
Releases on Bandcamp: https://audrey-eee.bandcamp.com/album/dreamtime (follow me there to get notified about the new EP I'm working on)

Writing:
News Not Doom: https://www.patreon.com/news_not_doom
Weekly-ish updates on themes in the news I think are worth digging into. Ships may feature prominently for a bit. It's not the only writing I'm working on, but this is where you'll see the most frequent updates.

Code:
Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/aeschright
In addition to open source work, I started a new secret project that I think people will be interested in. It's going to take a few months to get off the ground, so this is where your support makes the most difference for me right now.
* Waiting for sponsorship approval, I'll update this once it's live *

Thank you!

On balance, do you think you look younger, older or the same age as the people you went to school with?

(Would you mind boosting this? I'm curious about this.)

#poll #boost #aging

Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource dev that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

It seems my employer doesn't want to wait around for my shoulder to heal and has helpfully given me an exciting severance package!

Anyone hiring people like me, ideally remote?

I've got 15 years experience with Scala, among other things. And doing a lot of observability related work the past few years.

This is due to something I call #KoboldLetters. By cleverly (mis)using CSS, attackers can display completely different emails to different recipients.

The problems with HTML and CSS in emails have been known for a long time, but the security implications have usually been underestimated or actively downplayed. That's why I wrote an article explaining how HTML emails can be used to deceive recipients into becoming part of an sophisticated #phishing attack.

https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/