Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@jenniferplusplus the selling point of ORMs as opposed to the things we'd rather use is mostly that it lets the team include developers who only understand objects and not relations, but we would never want that, that's kind of the worst-case scenario even, because then we're guaranteed to get into problems the team can't get itself out of.

The Crowdstrike situation reminds me of Henry Ford's famous saying: "What doesn’t exist can’t break."

Maybe we should get used to increasing security by *removing* components and layers, rather than adding more.

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #TechWisdom #IT #SysAdmin

Thank you Crowdstrike for helping to illustrate that Open Source is not the problem.

@klausfiend LOL why would I try to help put a stop to the funniest thing I've seen in weeks?

#TUG2024 in Prague has started.

Thanks to @borisveytsman who has opened the conference. @TeXUsersGroup and of course the local organizers.

I will try to provide some abstracts/insights below this toot. But there are also an option to watch most of the talks online (Sadly youtube, but it's possible): https://youtube.com/c/texusersgroup/live

Schedule: https://tug.org/tug2024/program.html

#TeXLaTeX #TeX

I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet

social status and "authority" are brain rewiring biological processes

your perception will be eroded by it, ending in gaslighting if not stopped early

Me: I always like to say “mucho” when I’m around my Spanish speaking friends.

Them: Why?

Me: It means a lot to them.

Them: Get out.

People really tell themselves they would have joined the Resistance in WWII and they... couldn't even stop using a lousy website

"The privacy invading feature that was patched into your browser and silently turned on by default was announced on our browser's blog 2 years ago so why are you so mad?"

My dude I'm probably in the top 1% of humans alive advocating for your product and I have never read your fucking blog because even I think "keeping up on the blog of the browser I use" is a fucking weirdo move

My new System76 Merkaat mini PC with Linux Mint is now running all the essentials such as Medley Interlisp.

#interlisp #lisp #linux

“Our ancestors burned the oil of Earth madly and wilfully. They destroyed its coal recklessly. We despise and condemn them for that” —Asimov, The Martian Way, 1952

#Reading #SciFi #Asimov

#hiring
Experimental Devboard for a Frugal Smartphone
(2 years, gross monthly salary from 2695€)

We design a #LowTech smartphone with a one-week battery life.The goal is not to optimize a conventional smartphone nor to design a marketable product but to create an experimental platform that will enable future research in #FrugalComputing.

The engineer will design an #OpenHardware devboard built around a microcontroller.

http://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/Research/Students/2024-fiche-poste-smolphone-hw-EN.pdf

Spread the word :)
#lownum #permacomputing

@b0rk have done rcs, cvs, svn, baz, arch, tla, bzr, hg. i like git!
- no operation requires net access (except push/fetch/pull ofc)
- fast
- simple, conceptually: there are only commits, branches, blobs, refs, the index & trees. just a DAG. i can fit it into my head. (though, merging is a black box.)
- rebasing is pretty good. not magical, because i do get lost sometimes and find myself aborting the rebase rather than fixing. but good enough
- gitk is good and fast!

@cuchaz@gladtech.social And with the development history of Gecko's attempts at becoming portable and embeddable into other applications and web browsers, Servo may overtake it for usability from a development perspective sooner rather than later ​:cat-tears-of-joy:​

My mission: keep using #Firefox
My obstacle: whatever the fuck #Mozilla is doing

@gohlisch that's just C’s problem but with objects 😆