Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

Periodic reminder

Pretty nice view of some IBM 3270 terminals connected to a 370 system at NASA

The rotary phones aren't bad either. The magnetic tape drives just fit in too

Photo from 1981
https://archive.org/details/C-1981-2571
#RetroHardware

Maui Project Wants to Bring Convergent Apps to Linux Desktops and Android

https://9to5linux.com/maui-project-convergent-apps-linux-and-android

#Android #convergence #KDE #Maui #MauiKit

I need to start using these

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For years after this incident people still remembered that I was friends with Iain Banks. Whenever the subject came up I would launch into my story starting with "actually...".

I'm just sad that I wasn't able to tell the great man himself during our brief meeting. I'm certain the story would've appealed to his sense of humour.

Luckily, no one ever broke into my bank accounts. So, my little subterfuge worked. 😃

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Long after it was fashionable I still used a Time/System paper-based organiser. One of the things I did was enter all of my secret banking info in the address book section under the name "Iain Banks". Cunningly disguised, eh?

Once when I was attending an all-day training course, I left my organiser open on my desk at the "Iain Banks" page. When I returned in the late afternoon several excited people asked me if it was *the* Iain Banks that I knew. Worried about my secrets I said yes.

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To-day Iain Banks would've been celebrating his 66th birthday. Sadly, he was lost to us in 2013.

I only met Iain once, and it was a very short encounter. Bizarrely, it was in the tinned fruit & veg aisle of a supermarket in Fort William. As both of us were just making some quick purchases before rushing off elsewhere, I didn't have time to tell him why he was actually one of my friends. Not long afterwards he announced he had terminal cancer.

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#OTD #writing #ScienceFiction

https://c4ss.org/content/52162

#cell411 #ridesharing #p2p #peertopeer

@kensanata a million years ago I dpkg removed libc from a running system. No new programs would run so I couldn't dpkg install.

as I was running Netscape ~2 as root, was able to locate, download and install the missing libs (Debian had unpacked debs on their servers maybe? Or I uploaded the .so somewhere?)

System restored, this is why you should always run desktop apps as root :)

I was looking for a simple text editor which included inline spell checking. Vim is still my main editor, but I wanted something for doing quick edits. Having a second editor means I keep my Vim recent file list clean.

Something like Leafpad/Mousepad would've been ideal, but neither has spell checking. Surprisingly, there weren't many options available to me.

Luckily, I discovered Bluefish. It is primarily an HTML & code editor, but provides exactly what I wanted.

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http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Stop using letters that you don't know the pronunciation of. You can't just use them as fancy versions of the Latin alphabet.
Via https://cabloom.tumblr.com/post/190812377451/to-people-who-use-%C3%BE-as-an-aesthetic-p

for those wondering how to establish trade relations with crows:

- feed crows food A regularly
- when crows decide to bring you gifts, feed them food B
- when crows bring you different categories of gifts, feed them a food-per-category, ex: food C for jewelry, food D for paper money, etc
- crows will recognize these exchange patterns and opt to bring you things in order to acquire desired treats

good luck! 🐦

The Cryptographic Autonomy License is one step closer to being approved by the OSI board, having been approved by the review committee. http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2020-February/004660.html

I think this is a big mistake, though I blame myself partly for not weighing in previously. I will be spending time over today and tomorrow writing why I think this is "a big mistake with good intentions but potentially disastrous results"