Ivan Sagalaev @isagalaev@mastodon.social

The mail client on @elementary just forced me to obtain a real (not self-signed snakeoil) certificate for my mail server because otherwise it's been acting buggy. Like, archiving and deleting would only work *sometimes*, and saving the trusted exception for this cert didn't work.

But now as I fixed the problem for myself, I lost all the incentive to file bugs and debug the thing :-)

A profound quote of the day for me:

"Every culture should have a couple of outsiders bringing a message from outside of the dominant culture." — https://www.npr.org/2019/09/15/749547034/a-fire-lookout-on-whats-lost-in-a-transition-to-technology

Finally had a chance to map a run in Moscow! Sokolniki is nice this time of year, after summer heat but before everything gets muddy and dull. The only downside so far is people smoking everywhere.

I have no idea how to say "облепиховый чай" in English, but it's what I'm having right now, and I'm happy!

Braced for a 9 hour flight. I hate those...

I have a feeling I've been to JFK airport a little too many times lately...

Just finished Fall; or, Dodge in Hell — the latest by Neal Stephenson. I can definitely attest that he remains my favorite Sci-Fi author. This thing was a real page-turner for me, and it's saying a lot because I'm usually too impatient to read long passages of text. But here, I did.

It's 2019 and I'm still using rsync to copy a bunch of files between two laptops on a single network. Surely, I thought, there should be some out of the box discovery protocol working across various Linuxes hooked up into file managers that Just Worked?

Anyway rsync works, so I'm not complaining :-)

Apparently, watching #porn doesn't make men more sexist or misogynistic: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/socf.12506

After 9 years in U.S. I find it harder to speak Russian than I used to do. But my profound disgust towards "Runglish" (when people code-switch several times in the flow of a single sentence) still keeps me afloat :-)

Going to have more practice starting next week as I'm visiting my family in Moscow.

"[Y]ou can make better designs when you focus on solving concrete use cases." — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-types/

The article is about something else, but I just love this gem! So many Architecture Astronauts try to design a complex system from a ground up, simply *thinking up* vague use cases instead of actually having concrete ones…