Michiel Scholten @diginaut@mastodon.social
Works with computers and stuff
Joined Jul 2018
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When your chatbot turns out to be a hipster programmer:
The SQL hard drive is down, hack the optical interface so we can connect the COM bus!
If we bypass the monitor, we can get to the XSS pixel through the open-source PCI capacitor!
Indexing the monitor won't do anything, we need to index the 1080p FTP sensor!
If we override the port, we can get to the XML alarm through the neural RSS feed!
The USB matrix is down, transmit the bluetooth monitor so we can program the AI feed!
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Someone is trying to build a #language learning app like #duolingo, but it's free software. Maybe you want to help out?: https://github.com/kantord/LibreLingo https://librelingo.app/ #librelingo
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RT @peterkwells@twitter.com
'One of his clients, a 101-year-old Italian, was registered as a 1-year-old baby last month because the Home Office app “cannot scan passports of people whose age goes beyond two digits,” he said.' https://www.politico.eu/article/computer-says-no-uks-brexit-registration-scheme-causes-confusion/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/peterkwells/status/1227586678803570693
I'm reading a sci-fi book about this right now "Scientists working with Google just published the most detailed brain scans ever created" https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2020/01/22/scientists-working-with-google-just-published-the-most-detailed-brain-scans-ever-created/ (the book is called "Fall, or Dodge in hell" from Neal Stephenson) #science #sci-fi #book
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RT @adrjeffries@twitter.com
Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle. I just got my data back and there are 90K rows of this
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/adrjeffries/status/1222277544730337280
Ancient poop reveals what happened after the fall of Cahokia
"Things bottomed out (sorry; not sorry) around 1400."
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-libraries-are-almost-never-updated/
#security #webdev #javascript
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"I use Linux as my operating system," I stated proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swiveled around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he said with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!" I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk: "I use Abyss, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but not GNU+Linux."
The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body began convulsing, he foamed at the mouth, and he dropped to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhed around he screamed, "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" In a cool fashion, I replied "Abyss uses the LLVM compiler suite, GCC uninvolved."
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life was ejected from his body. He lied on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body began convulsing, he foamed at the mouth, and he dropped to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhed around he screamed, "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" In a cool fashion, I replied "Abyss uses the LLVM compiler suite, GCC uninvolved."
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life was ejected from his body. He lied on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
You might have heard of vim. I've been using it for a while, and this is how it helps me: https://dammit.nl/vim-reloaded.html #blog #vim #dev
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Those that fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it, over HTTP
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RT @0xUID@twitter.com
Holy crap, you need to block around 2776 (About 95% ads) dns/ip entries to stop #Spotify from sending your data to third parties advertisements. #Privacy
I released the NS API Python library version 2019 (or rather 3.0.0, moving from a funny Dutch-words-tagged XML API to a new JSON-based one. Home Assistant users and other automated service users rejoice! https://dammit.nl/ns-api-2019.html
A kind of retrospective of this year: Sweet Sixteen https://dammit.nl/sweet-sixteen.html
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I like making things, so I combined a fresh look for my weblog with a small howto for creating nifty looking wallpapers: https://dammit.nl/gimp-mosaic.html #photography #photo #howto
Help hunt bugs, do not just report them
https://dammit.nl/hunt-bugs-dont-just-report.html #weblog
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With this and AMP, Google is gradually erasing the line between googling something and actually visiting a website...
Works with computers and stuff
Joined Jul 2018
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