Notices by Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social), page 2

@jwz dang are they at this again? I thought they all went bankrupt after people started throwing the scooters in the nearest body of water

The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus, respectively

@foone and they color coded WASD? I am not a hardware project person but I confess this is sorely tempting

It's Friday night, which means it's time to remind you you that if you like like my writing, or want to support my #python #opensource work, you can do so at my Patreon, and if you do so, you can get a little summary of the few things that I did this week. Just a quick one today, since I was off most of the week, but nevertheless, I *do* need a few more subscribers each week if I'm going to keep doing this thing, so please share and enjoy:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-102248481

@eb I really hope that this causes an industry-wide reckoning with the common practice of letting your entire goddamn product rest on the shoulders of one overworked person having a slow mental health crisis without financially or operationally supporting them whatsoever. I want everyone who has an open source dependency to read this message https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.html

At one point as a teenager I did arrange a physical swap of “hacking” software on floppy disks in a series of posts on a BBS using coded language. We rollerbladed to a laser tag arena and traded the disks inside. Everything I have done since then has been determinedly less cool, so I understand the yearning for the prelapsarian past, even if I recognize the impulse as problematic and reactionary. But we did lose something.

As everyone under 40 in infosec tires of the “Hackers” aesthetic plastered on everything by us tedious elder millennials, one thing that I think gets lost, particularly for younger folks, is that the movie isn’t just goofy camp. I mean, obviously, it’s heavily fictionalized, but there really *was* a hacking subculture kind of like the one depicted in it in New York in the 1990s. I barely grazed the outer periphery of it myself, and I sometimes wonder if anyone did a serious ethnography of it.

@foone I think I listened to a lot of MC Ten Foot Danger Radius in college

@foone having seen him talk about the process of making it on a few youtube videos now I am pretty resigned to just never get a KVM that meets my fussy requirements

@foone level1techs did this and appears to have gone slowly insane in the process (assuming you already know this, but link for anyone who doesn’t) https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/14-kvm-switch-dual-monitor-2computer-z5erd-n6mbj

No luck for one that supports a 386 there though

I have worked on date/time systems https://xkcd.com/2867/

@foone note that this is not an article about *an* AI tool for the wood industry, but a *suite* of 7 tools, with "more to come"

@foone why would you think this

why would you manifest this into being

you must have known

https://www.wooduchoose.com/blog/ai-tool-for-wood-industry/

@angelastella @foone members of parliament would be asking him even dumber questions today

@foone @swelljoe he is definitely the tommy tallarico of free software

@foone @swelljoe ugh I cannot find this now, but there is an alternate telling of this story which makes it clear that Stallman was just being petty about nobody at the AI lab liking him, and the thing with the printer was overblown and inaccurate. When I read it I assumed it'd be linked up on Wikipedia and similar places but it seems to have been lost to time

what if we prepared for doomsday by just preventing doomsday

@davidgerard this is a minor detail, all things considered, but I am stuck on the fact that this guy has not heard of a recent time when zoonotic illnesses have been a problem for anyone

@foone …wait. does that mean that it's, like, physically impossible to play UHD discs on a mac

Many current events today are reminding me that when I was young the computer was an oasis of agency and control and connection for myself and other nerds like me; cyberspace a small place where, given a little time and some books, we could create things and express ourselves in ways denied to us in physical reality. And now, the experience of “computer” is one of being buffeted about by massive systems completely beyond our control, in fact it is the device which delivers “IRL” coercion *to* us