@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-11 09:42:03
from my link log —
Stephen Hawking’s floppy disks: an interview with Leontien Talboom.
https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/stephen-hawkings-floppy-disks-the-digital-legacy-of-scie…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-11 09:42:03
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-12-12 04:40:59
legacy code, OH:
junior engineer, bright-eyed: "once your fixes land, my broken job should be fine, right?"
staff engineer, staring into middle distance: "the [redacted] pipeline contains many ancient evils that are best left undisturbed. And yet... here we are."
staff, a few minutes later: "Our team now owns this pipeline; my fingerprints are on the doorframe."
junior: "it looks like your changes just landed! shall I try again? cros…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-02 18:37:12
Dangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2025-12-04 14:11:54
Reflecting on legacy, it's clear it goes beyond financial wealth. Legacy is the cherished memories, enduring values, and life lessons we pass to loved ones. 💙 Integrity, for instance, is a value I hope my family treasures—acting with honesty and moral principles shapes character and success. What value do you wish for your family to hold dear? 🧡 #Legacy #FamilyValues
@rae@bne.social2026-01-02 05:51:54
Usman Khawaja will go down as one of my all time favourite Australian cricketers. Funny, kind and steadfast. #cricket
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-02/usm
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-02 10:24:57
If you have Amazon Prime, you also have Luna Standard for gaming which includes Hogwarts Legacy for free, an excellent game. I see what Amazon is doing here, making gaming without a game console cheap and lock people in…
For a casual gamer like me, Luna is great, cheap, I can play on my large television or PC etc. Always good performance, no hardware necessary (besides a controller).
#amazon
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-03 09:04:26
"Spending as a share of GDP is pretty well where it was at the end of the last government. This government had reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending and debt interest the substantial reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under fourteen years of Tory rule has not and will not be significantly reversed."
mainly macro:
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 21:51:13
2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 19:15:30
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
Found an obscure hint that perhaps instead of authenticating through #Evolution I should instead authenticate through the #Gnome settings for attached accounts, so I tried that approach, this time it asks for far more permissions (8 in all) but, you guessed it, a classic Sam Beckett "No Answer" and the terse response, "timed out".
So the app doesn't matter. The browser doesn't matter. The account or any legacy cruft doesn't matter.
Does this leave as the only explanation that perhaps Google no longer provides OAuth2 tokens? Surely that would be all over the news if true, but I'm running out of local culprits. Also Emacs inability to authenticate Mastodon suggests its neither google nor Debian per se? Maybe I should spend my time more productively slamming a car door on my fingers?
I have a dread feeling wiping the laptop and carefully reinstalling from scratch will not work.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-06 21:42:01
from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-12-02 17:18:40
I bought my first modem at a post-Christmas sale in December 1992, and spent a few shot months discovering BBS’s and the text-based net before getting Mosaic and discover WWW in 1993. It opened up a whole new world! https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11565105…
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2025-11-13 01:12:22
I remember my excitement when, randomly in change, I got my first steel
penny made during the height of WWII. It felt like such a connection to the lives of my grandparents. Curious to see if the penny of any form will feel the same to my grandchildren.
# penny
https…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-23 19:30:58
My daughter sent this to me, and she doesn't know where it originated, so I can't credit the creator. I hope that it's not scripted because it's incredibly funny.
#FinalWishes #Legacy
@jswright61@ruby.social2025-10-25 16:05:16
Prompted by the inability to locate a dongle I _knew_ I had, I embarked on a major purge / organization of my tech accessories. What's the point of having something if you can’t locate it when you need it?
I was ruthless.
All power adapters < 15W GONE - life’s too short
All non USB-C cables GONE (I have a few adapters USB-C to just about every legacy USB plug and Lightning pictured)
Waiting on a couple bins to finish up, but everything will be in a labeled bin s…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-02 04:35:18
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
and so, once again, the 'solution' isn't in the distro or legacy, it is in the wiki on the internals of Evolution where I just incidentally learn it can be a flatpak or not, and thus there are TWO .local/share folders to wipe. So I delete all accts in Evo, empty trash just in case, exit, wipe those folders, go into Settings, delete the Google connection which shows as two identical so delete them both, reboot.
On boot, go straight to settings which shows none, add Google and I'm in, quick as a wink. I start #Evolution, and lo, there it is, my account fetching emails!
Now to figure that #mastodonel thing and why mastodon.plstore is so problematic.
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-24 23:47:25
EoY project is finally upgrading my Pi CM4 NAS to a recent OS that doesn't depend on a custom legacy 5.15.92 kernel that I literally backported 6.1-tree Pericom PCIe switch fixes to as well as building in SATA and XFS support.
Looks like openSUSE finally supports the Pi 5 https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 02:43:05
It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy.
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-10-14 10:07:27
Just fixed an issue where our calendaring server was having issues, which I tracked down to a bunch of old events in the timezone "Europe/Kiev" which now doesn't exist.
Ugh.
(Timezone was renamed Europe/Kyiv in Aug 2022, so now I have to add "tzdata-legacy" to my build scripts.)
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-11-19 12:42:02
from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2025-12-15 13:48:49
Over the last month, we've explored themes of hope, fear, legacy, and freedom. My latest collaboration aims to empower those 55 to create online income streams. You don't have to journey alone. Ready for your next chapter? Let's start this adventure together! 🚀
