Adrián Pérez @aperezdc@mastodon.social
💻 Programming 🗽💿 Free Software 🎸 Music 🚂 Traveling — 🌍 https://perezdecastro.org
Joined Apr 2017
#TIL that Nintendo still manufactures its traditional hanafuda decks of playing cards. Yes, they did games before, well “games” 
→ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n09/hana-kabu_items/
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Here is a videogame I have narrative designed and written. “Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?”
https://voidbastards.com/
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Cheese is just a loaf of milk
Today, in Things You Won't Believe Stores Don't Have in Finland: it's impossible to find whole peanuts, with their shells, unpeeled.
It has been like this for a few months, but it still feels weird to have audio announcements for tram stops in Helsinki 😌🚋
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The disk drive was full. After moving a couple of videos to “permanent” storage (that is: external USB hard drive), free space went up to 2 GiB. Then I remembered that Git does this thing of leaving data around, so after going to my #WebKit checkout, and running “git remote prune origin && git gc” I ended up with 17 GiB free. Well, that was a freebie!
#TIL there is a Buddhist monastery *in Scotland*, and David Bowie was there: http://www.samyeling.org/ 
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If you’re going through a border and you have a Mac and Apple Watch with you and your Mac can be unlocked with the watch, make sure you take the watch off or that it is locked or, depending on jurisdiction, you might be forced to unlock your Mac. Similarly, disable Face ID on your phone by pressing Volume-Top + Power for 3 seconds. In some jurisdictions, you cannot be compelled to hand over your passcode but your biometrics are not similarly protected (we need progressive legislation on this).
Well, it turns out that the whole “Secret Sharing” thing is super interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing 
Interesting algorithm to split secret in pieces among a certain amount of parts, where the number of parts needed to reconstruct the original data may be smaller than the total number of parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
(And it's by Shamir, the “S” in RSA.)
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After a long day hopping from one airport to another, and three weeks abroad, it feels great to be able to sleep on your own bed at home 🛏️ 🏠
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Geary has two projects approved for Outreachy, a paid-internship programme to support people from groups that are underrepresented in tech, to help make their first contributions to a FOSS project.
The first is is looking at improving Geary's user experience with junk email, the second is looking at creating automated mail server testing for Geary.
If those sound interesting, please do apply: https://www.outreachy.org/apply
Boosts appreciated!
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NASA has made all of its media library publicly available/copyright free! I'm hoping there's enough stuff here for me to make a real crap sci fi film
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> If you can't fix it, you don't own it.
Repair:
- Is better than recycling
- Saves you money
- Teaches engineering
- Saves the planet
Well, I just had a couple of pull requests to personal projects by people half my age. One of the projects was started when the contributor was only eight years old. This makes me both feel old, and in awe at the same time
💻 Programming 🗽💿 Free Software 🎸 Music 🚂 Traveling — 🌍 https://perezdecastro.org
Joined Apr 2017
