Notices by rysiek ✅ (rysiek@mastodon.social)

Hey #Fediverse, has anyone heard of a #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource "Smart TV" project? Something like what #OpenWRT is for WiFi routers?

@tek "Multiple issues were addressed by updating to PHP version 7.3.11 (CVE-2019-11043)"

Huh.

On my way to #FOSDEM. Going to be in #Brussels starting tonight, leaving 03 Feb. Any Fediversians wanna grab a beer, happy to oblige.

I am watching some anonymous editor from the White House trying to whitewash Washington Examiner on Wikipedia, and random Wikipedians undoing the changes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Washington_Examiner&action=history

Pretty hilarious.

This is cursed:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/nicolas-cage-new-movie-unbearable-weight-massive-talent-film-release-date-a9205506.html

Nicolas Cage to star as Nicolas Cage in film about Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage is reportedly in talks to play himself in a film about him trying to land a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie.

The meta-sounding film, titled Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, is undergoing final negotiations to be picked up by Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Hot take: hackers are computer witches.

tired: OK Boomer
wired: OK Computer

"Every time one person amasses a fortune worth a billion pounds, we are witnessing a policy failure."

Damn straight.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/viral-billionaires-super-rich-exist

@jeffalyanak I love these.

@djsundog

@sillystring you know what they say, the two hardest things in IT are:
- naming things
- cache invalidation
- off-by-one errors

Fun fact: wizzair.com let's you set a long password, but behind the scenes it truncates it to 16 characters (because obviously every byte is precious these days, I guess?).

When you try to log-in with your long long password, it fails. You have to *know* to truncate it yourself to 16 chars.

This is a major airline in 2019.

#InfoSec #WizzAir

@maloki I like the idea of talking about the ways federated social media can both help and harm marginalized people

This is absolutely stunning and incredible: https://howhatesleeps.com/index.html

I project by Emily Gorcenski

I can't tune my power saving parameters. I can't have ten workspaces that I switch between easily. I can't use the custom symbol inserter I wrote, which is way faster than any other I've used on _any_ platform.

I can't get my work done as effectively. I also wouldn't enjoy it! Using windows annoys me constantly with little things: the way the start menu works, the way applications lay themselves out on the screen, the way the login screen works, the network preferences and device listing being buried.