Testing yarn’s sync function
More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.
Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.
Not a surprise I guess.
L’automne, le soleil change enfin de couleur. J’adore cette saison!
Unfortunately, all pictures of the first subject turned out to be blurry. Luckily, my collection of much nicer sunsets is rather huge.
AmaIng that on these plane WiFi networks, clearly powered by satellites, even get this much bandwidth 🙃
Latency is pretty piss poor, but you kind of expect that with a moving target 🤣
more than 90% of all AWS service API endpoints do not support IPv6
Sounds like AWS is instituting an IPv4 tax soon.
After several hours of debugging in a larger task force yesterday and today, we finally figured out that we must have ran into an XFS bug (seems to work fine on ext4). An ftruncate syscall hung forever and hence the process was caught in an uninterruptible sleep. This was the first time I ever witnessed kill -9 not to “work”. But I learned a bunch of new stuff. I never dug this deep into the guts before.
Some of you probably know that /proc/$PID/syscall tells you the current system call the process is executing. And /proc/$PID/stack returns the kernel stack trace. Awesome stuff!
That’s a wonderful article on that matter: https://tanelpoder.com/2013/02/21/peeking-into-linux-kernel-land-using-proc-filesystem-for-quickndirty-troubleshooting/
Consigne du matin: trace le Diagramme Objet-Interaction d’un éléphant qui se balance sur une toile d’araignée
So, I made my first #dokuwiki theme: https://www.dokuwiki.org/template:hydrogen#hydrogen_template
Huh hey @lumen@tw.lumen.pink I didn’t even notice you run a Yarn pod 👌 Whot! 🥳
We made a bike tour in the heat of the day. The sun was brutal with 27°C in the shade. Man, this one section was suuuuper steep and you couldn’t hill-start anymore once stopped for a quick rest, because you just spun out the tire in the loose gravel. No chance. So we had to push (I didn’t mind that, though). My mate’s battery then flattened, so he had no other choice anyways. Luckily, I have an old-school bicycle with no electronics (if you don’t count the lights). So the rest of the hills weren’t too bad for me, but he was huffing and puffing badly.
We had waffles with apple sauce for lunch at a closed ski hut out in nature. It was very peaceful, nobody around, just birds and critters. After resting a bit we tried out the scout camera. Today’s mission was to get a bit familiar with that equipment. All the pictures were taken with that DSLR, a Nikon D5200 with a 18-105mm lense. Quite a heavy rig compared to my small digicam. Looking at the pics on a big screen, we gotta keep practicing. This lense is certainly not made for macro shots. We have another one that’s probably suited for that, but I didn’t want to bring the whole bag. And more zoom would also be nice for all the birds. But we don’t have a larger zoom lense.
Finally, we encountered an old train from the Märklintage (Märklin days). This weekend they pulled out old locomotives and wagons and had extra tours between Göppingen (where Märklin, the model train manufacturer, has its headquarter) and Geislingen/Steige. Tons of people all along the tracks everywhere.
Well it seems like the town of São Lourenço do Bairro suddenly turned into the world’s largest wine fountain! I bet people are now practicing their wine tasting skills directly from the street. Just make sure you don’t forget your swimming goggles and a floating wine glass! 🍷🤣
That’s the kind of study I like. 😉
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Which Countries Drink the Most Beer?
Finally I can share a not so broken version of the Web tool to record your burned calories every week 🔥🏃
Try to burn more than in previous weeks and climb to the next league against yourself from the past
As usual, any feedback is welcome 😀
Today I was fighting against a TOTP library in PHP, since it works for 6 and 8 digits, but for 10 it was giving inconsistent values, due to a conversion to a 32 bits int.
It felt amazing when, after a few hours, I found what was causing the error…
And found that many libraries have the same problem.
Now I get why TOTP is limited to 8 chars. It’s a 2FA but not a Password. Perhaps another algorithm will be needed to support 16 digits.
UK has not backed down in tech encryption row, minister says
Over the past few days, there have been a lot of reports in the media that the UK government was backing down from its requirement that every end-to-end encrypted messenger application inside the country had to give the government backdoor access to these messenger applications. However, after reading the actual words from the UK’s junior minister Stephen Parkinson, it seemed like all she did was give a “pinky p … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers
To address this customer concern, Microsoft is announcing our new Copilot Copyright Commitment. As customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services and the output they generate without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks invo … ⌘ Read more
Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root
We’ve come a long way since then, steadily retreating from openness & user control of devices, and shifting towards a far more locked-down vendor-controlled world. The next step of Android’s evolution is Android 14 (API v34, codename Upside-Down Cake) and it takes more steps down that path. In this new release, the restrictions around certificate authority (CA) certificates become significa … ⌘ Read more
Today’s a hydrophone dunking day
Play the sounds of a buckling spring keyboard as you type: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
If you’re reading this, this is my first automated twt. I added a line to twtxt.txt, typed ‘make’, and everything else was automatic.
Oh god, If I don’t repent for my sins and end up in hell - I’m pretty sure part of my punishment will be having to watch the Discord soydevs, attempt to program an Android file picker in RN, for all of eternity - as it will never be accomplished. All while I scream at them in pure agony, far greater than the one caused by my skin melting in lava.
You have to have a photo (cannot be an image, even if the extension is the same) in a specific directory, taken by the phones camera, for this file picker to function. How is code this bad even possible, unless it’s on purpose.
En fait, je n’ai pas eu à éteindre mon serveur. J’ai réussi à trouver dans le tableau électrique l’interupteur qui correspondait à la partie en travaux \o/
dmesg | grep bios.*version -> bios0: vendor LENOVO version “R0GET80W (1.80 )” date 01/03/2023
To update my Thinkpad L470 BIOS (not updated since release oO), using geteltorito to turn an iso to an img for an USB stick. Just had to re-enable UEFI. https://www.tumfatig.net/2020/update-lenovo-x260-bios-with-openbsd/
Je fais des travaux à la maison qui vont entraîner des coupures de courant. C’est possible que j’éteigne le serveur aujourd’hui et demain. Ça concerne si3t.ch, puffy.cafe, noroanka.art
Also, I’ll never take responsibility for other people’s expectations! I do what I do, work as I work, am as I am, never do what should do, work as I should work, be as I should be.
Ok, broke off my relationship with the guys I developed the driver for. They’re using a C framework which I find super crappy (https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf) and I do plain C.
I developed the driver in plain C.
Today I found that David A. Wheeler’s website contains some nice esays,
one of them being “Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control
Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems”1
Another of those, (I read it a while ago) is “Microsoft Outlook/Exchange
MS-TNEF handling (aka “Winmail.dat”, “Win.dat”, or “Part 1.2” problem of
unopenable email attachments)”2
👋 Hello @diash98212@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗
#dokuwiki has a plugin to create presentation that looks amazing! Bye bye libreoffice loimpress too heavy for creating quick tests. https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:s5
Vous souvenez-vous des anciennes cartes géographiques? Celles où l’océan arctique était encore glacial
hi @prologic@twtxt.net , did something happen to the AP sync from twtxt.net ? My “last toots” seen on mastodon seem quite outdated…
Exactly 10 years ago Kokori’s first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, we’re back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ♡
Petit rappel que #libreoffice permet de compresser les images et les redimensionner: clic-droit, Compresser. Ça peut drastiquement réduire la taille d’un fichier :)
Trouver une phrase dans un film, je risque d’en abuser dans mes cours 👿 : https://yarn.co/
Une fonte que j’aime beaucoup pour écrire des équations rapides pour un cours : JuliaMono https://juliamono.netlify.app/
#thunar est vraiment génial, surtout pour une fonctionnalité : le renommage en masse avecle support des regex
What a rough day 😣
I had forgotten how to mix a full job with everything else. I my 20s I studied, worked from Mon to Sun and spent time with my (now) wife.
I think it’s just a matter of getting used to it again. (In a healthy manner, of course)
I hate reading translations. Here’s an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasn’t faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other version…
Sometimes it feels good to be a #hacker (sort of). Need a short url to share a link of a collaborative doc with the family to prepare hollidays? #httpd location ‘/something’ {block return 301 “the real url”}. done #openbsd
Minigal Nano est vraiment pratique et facile à installer pour avoir une gallerie de photos propre et belle. Pour plus d’options et de possibilités, sfpg est pas mal non plus, arpinux en fait bon usage dans sa cave. https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=minigal_nano ; https://sye.dk/sfpg/ ; https://arpinux.org/public/ #gallerie #photo #php
I guess I found why my keyboard was frozen and sending a keypress signal without interruption : my ‘xset r rate’ command was probably too greedy #openbsd
Got a nice hand this weekend!