cqcallaw @cqcallaw@mastodon.xyz

A photo that I did not take somewhere in Japan taken this winter. Snowboarders would call it Japow, I understand they get huge dumps in the mountains but the mountains don't have enough steep sections to truly enjoy the deep stuff.

New video tutorial: how to set up one Keyboard shortcut to check your painting values in #krita while painting? Here is a short (2min) quick tip to answer this:

Yt: https://youtu.be/FTvVBi1Vo7w
Pt: Soon on @shichimi mirror

Today I learned freezing soap bubbles are beautiful.

RT @kareem_carr@twitter.com

I've worked in a lot of different sciences and what I've discovered is that each science is its own slightly bizarre alternate reality where the scientific method turned out differently.

Mstdn.social is one of the largest and nicest instances on the Fediverse, run by an enthusiastic admin called @stux

Unfortunately Stux has today found out that they are fired from their day job 😞

However, by happy coincidence, Stux had just set up a hosting company. If you need web hosting, domain names etc please consider using Stuxhost so that Stux can continue working:

https://stuxhost.com

"I will slaughter you" - some emails penetrate even my thick open source maintainer skin. Like this threat.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

I'm working for a big tech company in California. Yesterday all employees received an email from our security guys.

We have to deactivate all personal assistant gadgets (like Alexa) during worktime in the homeoffice.

They have evidence that these gadgets are recording audio from conference calls.

Nothing new to me but notable that I've got this order.

Science and Technology links (February 13th 2021): life in Alpha Centauri? Freely available supplement makes middle-aged mice stronger, inexpensive transparent wood https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/13/science-and-technology-links-february-13th-2021

On the cost of converting ASCII to UTF-16
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/09/on-the-cost-of-converting-ascii-to-utf-16

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

this porting stuff just isn't fun. cheers to everyone who has grinded out a port -- even once! three cheers to those maintaining ports.

complicated build systems make fixing 'trivial' issues tedious at best. I know what is wrong but heaven help me to find the right knobs/env vars to set in the right places to make it work.

Am now yeeting Excel and doing it in Perl as I should have done in the first place.

Note to young people: “Perl” is a programming language used by old people.

Note to old people: “yeet” is a term used by young people to mean “hurl at high velocity”.

Note to people of all ages: Excel is not a database.

Happy #DataPrivacyDay2020 🎉 Take a moment to re-examine how safe your #data is 🤔

A few ideas:
-Update/change #passwords
-Check app #permissions
-Control who sees your #socialmedia posts w/ #privacy settings
-Enable multi-factor authentication

What else do you recommend?

#dataprivacy #mydata #cybersecurity #privacymatters

Moonlight (open source NVIDIA gamestream client) running on OpenBSD as an actual OpenBSD port :)

Sound is working, Keyboard and mouse is working fine.

Hurrah, #OpenBSD #Gaming

The best gender neutral first name is ‘; DROP TABLE users;

Science and Technology links (January 24th 2021): Year 2020 was a 'great' year for tech, more great technology to keep mice young and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/24/science-and-technology-links-january-24th-2021

The new ujoy(4) driver has been committed to -current! This is an important step to making joysticks and other controllers work out of the box on #OpenBSD, for serious work. Not games. Okay mostly games. ​

HT @thfr (destroyer of productivity)

#PlayOnBSD 🕹️🎮