Notices by rysiek ✅ (rysiek@mastodon.social)

@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.

The thing people miss about #desktop #Linux is: it's not that Linux users are using Linux purely for ideology, in most cases. If I could get everything done on Windows in a similar amount of time with a similar level of satisfaction, I probably would.

But I can't. I can't use a tiling WM. I can't use BTRFS or ZFS for my external storage cluster. I can't have a decent package manager or functioning containerization or a command-line driven workflow.

You are not stuck.

Berlin ❤