lsde @lsde@mstdn.io

A first look at #Ubuntu desktop metrics.
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/06/22/a-first-look-at-desktop-metrics

We released Archivematica version 1.7.0 today. https://wiki.archivematica.org/Archivematica_1.7_and_Storage_Service_0.11_release_notes

#digipres #archivematica

I didn't know you could write PAM module using Python (pam_python.so), this is actually quite cool :-)

It's docker's fault

Today, let's thank Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the core developers at VideoLAN and all the contributors for VLC Media Player.

VideoLAN is a nonprofit and they always kept a strong position VLC remained free/libre open source software and free from ads or any spy code even when VLC is deployed on millions/billions of computers worldwide.

VideoLAN ❤

@hergertme @garrett Former Weta Digital employee. I've never worked at Disney but the industry is pretty tight-knit.

In my experience, shots and scenes become part of the filesystem, with paths to important libs and apps essentially becoming part of the "dependencies" of a shot.

You can see the industry's current attempt to standardise across studio and software house lines here:

http://www.vfxplatform.com/

Flatpak and/or AppImages would be huge, because houses could get a "snapshot" of a show.

if you have a WD "My Cloud" drive, you'll want to read this.

https://www.techspot.com/news/72612-western-digital-cloud-drives-have-built-backdoor.html

Serves them right for outsourcing the sw development to D-Link...

Some things never change.

Anyone thinking Linux kernel and GCC take a long time to compile today should try it on hardware from 1996. Kernel still took like 30min compiling on Cyrix PR-150+.

Fast-forward to 1999 and try compiling GCC on an HP K-class of the time. We're measuring each task in hours here. It had to bootstrap stage 1 from the skeleton compiler, then make stage 2, and stage 3 (and this was JUST GCC)

https://mastodon.xyz/@lx/99100271505827643

confused by 6502 assembly? here are some helpful tips for beginners

CPY: mails you a copy of the program
TAX: fills out your 1040EZ
CLD: decreases CPU temperature
ROR: makes a lion noise
BRK: makes a dog noise
ASL: initiates AOL chat protocol
LSR: activates laser
TXS: enter Texas
TSX: leave Texas
LDY: turns you into a lady
LDA: turns you into a lad (misspelled for historical reasons)
BVS: pronounced "Beavis"

happy programming! 😋

Friendly reminder. Full disk encryption on a server you have no physical access to grants you no security, same for your laptop if you carry it around in sleep mode. FDE protects your data at rest as from a cold boot you need to provide the passphrase. If your box is running the secret is present in memory and can be grabbed by a dedicated attacker.

For the same reason, when approaching border control, TURN OFF your phone, just locking the screen is often not enough.

Alternate reality where Plan9 wins over Linux, Overwatch is a MUD, middle school kids share "everything is a file" memes

For an organization like Mozilla, building your own engine is an important choice. It's expensive, but it gives them a bigger seat at the standards table and allows them to fight for things that you just can't fight for if you're merely downstream from the browser implementer.

I've sat in standards meetings at the W3C where the Mozilla rep was the one constantly asking "What are the privacy implications of this API?" and "How could this be abused to leak user data?"

*checks how big the Czech Republic is*
Oh well, about the same size as Brittany apparently.

oh jeez I can't believe I didn't already know about this python module for working with dates, times, timestamps http://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html (from this excellent post https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2017/12/03/0 by @brainwane)

I wonder if this is even going to be accepted to the mailing list, even then I don't really expect any useful answers, if any. #aosp

https://mstdn.io/media/JRqTR9-PdqucuQWAevU

Seems like some IP traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia (hijacked by AS39523) https://bgpmon.net/popular-destinations-rerouted-to-russia/ #russia #internet https://t.co/zc9OqCxYyp

@devurandom @zyabin101
Next stop: Twitter complies with W3C standards and implements ActivityPub