genehack @genehack@mastodon.social
just, like, this guy, ya know?
the knights who say not invented here
There's a 'verse where people built expensive GPU mining rigs to fold proteins instead of mine cryptocurencies and they've eliminated disease but we have bitcoin ATMs so who's the real winner here
If you're at all a fan of Beach Slang, or the Replacements, or any of a number of similar groups, and you have Spotify, do yourself a favor and check out the playlists James Alex has put up on the Beach Slang Spotify page (the 'James Alex: Here I Made This For You' ones -- not the Beach Slang covers collections with similar names).
They are generally awesome collections of early post-punk and power-pop and general jangly guitar goodness and should be played loud.
Yay, updating and releasing some software!
Boo, missing incredibly stupid bugs and having to do it all over again.
YO! The SeaGL CFP closes in _less than a week!_ Send in your talk idears toot sweet! http://seagl.org/news/2017/06/19/CFP-open.html
/me pokes his snoot back into Mastodon and is happy to see some folks still twooting away
is in fact, Systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Systemd plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning Systemd system made useful by the Systemd init system, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by Lennart Poettering.
LBT: A *nix system with a missing /dev/null has all sorts of odd behaviors. It's a bit "trivia"-ish, but can be the basis for an entertaining problem-solving interview question.
"A Unix system administrator of my acquaintance once got curious about what people were putting into /dev/null. I think he also may have had some notion that it would contain secrets or other interesting material that people wanted thrown away. Both of these ideas are stupid, but what he did next was even more stupid: he decided to replace /dev/null with a plain file so that he could examine its contents.
The root filesystem quickly filled up and the admin had to be called back from dinner to fix it. But he found that he couldn't fix it: to create a Unix device file you use the mknod command, and its arguments are the major and minor device numbers of the device to create. Our friend didn't remember the correct minor device number. The ls -l command will tell you the numbers of a device file but he had removed /dev/null so he couldn't use that.
Having no other system of the same type with an intact device file to check, he was forced to restore /dev/null from the tape backups."
DON'T 💾 CALL 💾 YOURSELF 💾 A 💾 HACKER 💾 IF 💾 YOU 💾 DON'T 💾 ROLLERBLADE 💾
perl is probably the witchiest language
you have a lot of sigils everywhere, it's old and baroque, and it can get nigh incomprehensible to read for people not well versed in it. but you can do great things with it.
intentionally multiple ways, too
/me crosses the rubicon and pins his mastodon tab
The female vox on this make the song for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnM2XJcAz14
I created issue #1214 ( https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1214 ) for this concern
(True fact: EFF's internal twitterating device still has a "Post to identi.ca" button, auto selected)
actually why are Mastodon instances not called herds
The basic notion behind #family_practice_infosec is that, just like there are doctors who specialize in family practice, as well as lawyers and accountants, there is a distinct need for infosec practitioners to handle the kinds of infosec needs that arise for common people in their home life.
re: LBT* This seems bad maybe update your phones or don't leave home with WiFi on or something.
* LBT = Last Boosted Toot
