fedi.unchat.cat

TIL in a very awkward way that on leap years, February and August have the same date to weekday distribution (until August 29th, for obvious reasons).

Potser mai havia publicat res tan personal a internet. I he decidit fer-ho en català.

Però no és només personal. És part d'un experiment mental per identificar maneres concretes d'ajudar localment, per millorar globalment.

https://evilham.com/ca/blog/2020-paraules-d-estiu/

Esto no es a lo que se refería el RGPD / GDPR.
¿Quién, si no una persona técnica, se supone que entenderá este mensaje?
Y si eres una persona técnica te quejarás: es frigging TLS, no SSL >,<.

Brilliant. I just bought an ebook I can't read because of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and after fiddling around for an hour, I am very close to getting a pirated version so I can finally read it.
Great stuff.

Every few months I keep coming back to https://haskell-miso.org and think "huh, this looks nice".
Then I spend an hour or so figuring out the tooling, end up giving up and archive it until next time I forget why I'm not using it.

Maybe for next year I should remind people ahead of time that #sysadminday is a thing.
But hey, nothing breaks, so nobody bothers me :-p, I'm fine with that too.

Ogni giorno interagisco con cinque o sei lingue naturali. Non sono capace d'immaginare la vita di un monolingue.
Una nuova lingua porta nuovi prospettivi, più cultura, più vita.

So, I got fed up with phabricator's UI for audits, if anyone has to do way too many audits and needs some streamlined batch auditing helper, this might be useful for you:
https://evilham.com/en/blog/2020-phabricator-batch-audit/

O.ô Upload Filter + diese Regelung mit Ziel: "[Verpflichtung aller Anbieter ihrer] Plattformen aktiv nach Bildern von Kindesmissbrauch zu durchsuchen", heißt doch AI trainieren und dafür **dementsprechende Datensätze haben**, oder?
Es klingt… Bescheuert.

https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3005421/

I've just wasted about 20 hours in total to, I kid you not, Windows 10's inconsistent use of case sensitive APIs.
Apparently you can find either of these depending on Windows 10's build or god knows what:
- HKCU\Software
- HKCU\SOFTWARE

Die SBB empfehlt mir die Schweiz weiter zu entdecken.
Die News empfehlen mir weiter zu hause zu bleiben '^^.
Ich wäre auch gerne Optimist abeeeer...

Heute bemerkt: morgen fängt Monat 6 meiner "sozialer Isolierung" an.
Trotz des Leids und der Leere, fühlt es sich langsam "normal" an; wozu will man Menschen um sich wieder? Ich vergesse es häufiger.

Different ways of reading the same news:

~~"US is not worthy of special treatment regarding data privacy and is to be considered a third country"
https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu

vs:

~~ "How dares the CJEU put privacy before the economy! Privacy Shield is good!"
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-china-data-flows-at-risk-in-top-eu-court-ruling/

It's official. #freebsd has become my go-to OS to test things.
Need to debug networking in a virtualisation environment? #freebsd's live "CD" it is.
Need to quickly test the deployment of X or Y? A #freebsd VM it is.

As of today I am supporting `main` as a git branch on all projects I touch.
Wherever possible I'll also disable `master`, but when it's not, `main` will be... the *main* branch.

Today I was thanked privately for creating and maintaining a #freebsd port.
This literally never happened in any other project I was involved in, and I am taking it as a sign of a healthy community.

Sooo.... iocage + vnet works super nicely on #freebsd. Somehow hadn't gotten around to testing, I guess the big warning about it being unstable on iocage's docs had something to do with me putting that off.

Regarding the whole antifa situation in the US, this is worth remembering…

It's also not just a US thing, I've heard very similar argumentations in the EU.
https://m.metrotimes.com/detroit/the-anti-anti-fascist/Content?oid=22502610

I just ran against a weird issue in a Debian Docker image where 'echo stuff > /dev/stderr' would **replace** stderr's current content with "stuff".

Had to s! > /dev/stderr! >> /dev/stderr!g to get the thing to work properly O.ô.

Wondering if it's a Docker thing.