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thiagocsf··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
Ah yes. The old anti-privacy mantra: you have nothing to worry about, if you have nothing to hide.
thiagocsf··on Accelerando (2005)
Charlie is on Mastodon, toots regularly and actually replies to others

https://wandering.shop/@cstross

thiagocsf··on GitHub was down
That it may be but there’s no excuse.

Declare an incident first, investigate later.

Cheating SLAs by delaying the incident is a good way to erode trust within and without.

thiagocsf··on Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
Looking forward to trying this when I have a phone that runs iOS 17+.
thiagocsf··on Google Search is indexing has halted
Plausible but likely wrong.

A dedicated comms person is part of the incident response team.

https://sre.google/sre-book/managing-incidents/

thiagocsf··on Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
As long as we keep buying stuff wrapped in plastic, someone needs to keep making more of it.
thiagocsf··on OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
It’s not gross. It’s a simple solution to a simple and common cron problem

Just because it doesn’t consider external executions, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad solution. Horses for courses etc

thiagocsf··on CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
Mileage != emissions
thiagocsf··on The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots
I’ve made it about the same number of times, and I’ve enjoyed them all. Maybe I don’t know what really good kimchi tastes like.

It lasts for a long time in the fridge and, imo, it gets better with time. The ingredients I use aren’t always the same, aside from the cabbage, salt and garlic.

I’ve used different combinations of carrot, spring onion, chilli flakes, ginger, fish sauce. I’m keen to try the anchovy paste that I just learnt about.

thiagocsf··on Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
You probably know this, but Alma means “soul” in Portuguese.

Is this why you picked the name? I like it. I went with Ada myself (after Lovelace - wife only found-out why years later).

thiagocsf··on Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation?
This is fascinating. I just watched the bbc video on YouTube about it.
thiagocsf··on Mail: Make The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) the default mta
Sendmail made me think everything in Unix was so scary and esoteric.
thiagocsf··on Baker's Math (2009)
When you’re using a starter, things get more interesting because you need to account for the water and flour content in it.

It usually doesn’t complicate it too much because most starters are 100% hydration - ie equal mass of flour and water.

thiagocsf··on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
That’s a strong opinion. Would you elaborate?
thiagocsf··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
Is that because of regulation? What’s the concern of having open source for RF firmwares?
thiagocsf··on Brazil's answer to the Sichuan pepper
Try also “batida”: equal parts cachaça, lime (not lemon!) juice, water, and sugar to taste.

Great in small sips as a palate cleanser when having bbq.

thiagocsf··on Brazil's answer to the Sichuan pepper
Great read!

Reminded me of tucupi, which has been popular for longer, and also causes a numbing sensation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucupi

thiagocsf··on The Gitlab Team Handbook
Location data is proprietary IP that GitLab doesn’t have the right to make publicly available. This is why it was made private.

If you’re applying for a job at GitLab, you’ll receive a password so you can calculate your salary.

Disclaimer: am gitlab employee.

thiagocsf··on Java Development on an Apple M1 – A One Year Review
> GitLab Runner officially supported binaries are available for the following architectures: > x86, AMD64, ARM64, ARM, s390x, ppc64le

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/

You must be talking about shared runners in GitLab.com.

thiagocsf··on Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
Pedantic note about ctrl+d: it doesn’t mean logout. It sends and EOF character.

Said EOF is honoured by your TTY, which closes the FD this ending the session.

You can see this by typing `cat -` and ending it with ctrl+d. The windows equivalent is ctrl+z.

thiagocsf··on Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
I believe is now called MANGA.
thiagocsf··on This word does not exist
That word does not exist in any language It will never be uttered by a human mouth.

  Talking Heads - Give me back my name
thiagocsf··on Anti-Café
How did you first learn about anticafés?
thiagocsf··on Government asks German residents to drive lorries even if they never have before
How do you know that?

Is it possible he just likes living in the UK?

thiagocsf··on LibreELEC 10.0
I’m a long-ish time user of LibreELEC and holy crap! That blog post is like “there be dragons here, there and everywhere”.

I’ve recently moved on from LE on RPi to OSMC on some British media centre hardware that I forget the name now. The main reason was because some (all?) of the x265 stuff I downl^H^H^H^H^Hacquired wouldn’t play properly.

thiagocsf··on On beaming solar power from low earth orbit
Charlie Stross recently wrote a blog post about this: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/09/fossil-f...

He is a lot more optimistic than the average person in this comments section.

thiagocsf··on Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
Completely off-topic but yesterday I upgraded my Debian 10 home server to 11 and it rebooted fine! It had a 132 day uptime on it.

I run a unify controller on docker, pihole, influxdb, grafana and a bunch of other small scripts. I did need to upgrade my collectd Python modules to 3 but that was it.

thiagocsf··on My small revenge on Apple
Going by this rationale, are you going to add Apple ID to your website when users request it?
thiagocsf··on Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
We’re all in the spectrum. That’s why it’s called a spectrum. :-)
thiagocsf··on Gitlab 14
FWIW, you can turn off most things by going to the project settings under general, visibility.

This reduces the menu items to a minimum.

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