@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 21:05:38
i’m sure i’m not the first to make this but i haven’t seen one yet.
(context: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/)<…
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 21:05:38
@keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org2024-03-24 17:08:27
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-02-28 14:34:40
A reminder that Postel's Law only applies to things you control.
It's that YOU should be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept. You can't use it to say "The other end should be liberal in what they accept so I don't have to be conservative in what I send".
Everyone ought to follow it! But when they don't, you need to be conservative in what you send.
@baruch@babka.social2024-02-23 03:02:53
Imam Shamil was a widely revered Sufi imam and celebrated tribal leader of the free mountain peoples of Dagestan who heroically fought off Russian Imperial conquest of the region for decades, until they lured him out with promises of peace, and forced him into exile.
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/mendel_schn…
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-02-26 21:52:08
@… re the tty issue: "peripherally aware", eh
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-04-25 14:45:10
happy light jacket day!!!
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-04-25 16:41:59
last night at the bar above khao san road in toronto, when the “chips and thai dip” arrive at the table:
me: oh rats, those are shrimp chips, i can’t eat those
coworker: i mean they’re not shrimp anymore. former shrimp.
me: they retain their essence
coworker: their shrimpness. their shrimphood.
…
so you don’t want any?
me: they’re bugs.
🦐🦐🦐
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-02-23 14:11:49
we were discussing database autoincrement ID exhaustion at work and I made a may-may
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-03-24 21:47:36
i have one popular toot making the rounds (again, oddly enough, it was from October), and most people just favourite or boost, but of the people who reply, there are three kinds:
- understanding the joke and playing along (this is good)
- misunderstanding the joke, in the specific way it tries to trick you (this is fine)
- let me explain your joke back to you (please don’t; also this is all men, go figure)
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-30 07:17:40
Widespread rapid quenching at cosmic noon revealed by JWST deep spectroscopy
Minjung Park, Sirio Belli, Charlie Conroy, Benjamin D. Johnson, Rebecca L. Davies, Joel Leja, Sandro Tacchella, J. Trevor Mendel, Chlo\"e Benton, Letizia Bugiani, Razieh Emami, Amirhossein Khoram, Yijia Li, Gabriel Maheson, Elijah P. Mathews, Rohan P. Naidu, Erica J. Nelson, Bryan A. Terrazas, Rainer Weinberger
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-02-19 02:34:12
A conversation about automating key lights for meetings, combined with me reviewing some of the “tech things to try” on my Someday list, led to me trying out Hammerspoon, the Lua-based Mac automation tool.
A couple hours later I have much nicer light automation and Zoom mute state tools than I ever had with applescripts and shell scripts! Should’ve looked at this ages ago.
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-02-13 22:58:32
is a dead horse a sandwich
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-03-11 01:20:48
just when you think the birdsite couldn’t get any more wtf.
i know, let’s make urls tiny, except for the domain and, inexplicably, the first 14 characters after the domain.
@mendel@hachyderm.io2024-04-08 13:02:49
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-26 07:27:06
The MAGPI Survey: Evolution of radial trends in star formation activity across cosmic time
Marcie Mun, Emily Wisnioski, Andrew J. Battisti, J. Trevor Mendel, Sara L. Ellison, Edward N. Taylor, Claudia D. P. Lagos, Katherine E. Harborne, Caroline Foster, Scott M. Croom, Sabine Bellstedt, Stefania Barsanti, Anshu Gupta, Lucas M. Valenzuela, Qian-Hui Chen, Kathryn Grasha, Tamal Mukherjee, Hye-Jin Park, Piyush Sharda, Sarah M. Sweet, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Tayyaba Zafar
