@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
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-06 21:42:01
@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
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-31 20:44:21
QB Simpson: Transfer would've tarnished legacy https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47787452/draft-bound-ty-simpson-new-school-hurt-bama-legacy
@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:
@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
@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.
@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
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-17 17:18:33
2026 is being celebrated by Toho as Mothra Year, as this year marks both 65 years since Mothra first appeared on screen, and also 30 years since the Heisei-era Mothra trilogy.
Mothra's my girl (my wife knows, and she's okay with it). 😍
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news…
@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…
@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.
@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…
@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/…
@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…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-01-17 03:44:30
TL;DR: The DNC/RNC “pipe bombs” were not actually bombs in any operational sense.
They were symbolic bombs.
Also: I was a better explosives chemist at 9yo than Brian Cole. My powder actually exploded. If he really thought his casually mixed ingredients would do anything, he is an imbecile. @…
@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! 🚀
