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• Post #718242

  @meetingcpp@mastodon.online I enjoy just randomly flipping through that book and reading a page or two.

• Post #687538

  @akkana@fosstodon.org Last fall I had problems where power-related USB errors stemming from apcupsd preceded the system hanging. Apparently apcupsd, the daemon for the APC UPS, was triggering PCIe errors that caused a lockup. The full horror is described at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102175

• Post #659526

  @foone@digipres.club In November or so, I applied for a job at Intuitive Surgical, and got a response within a few hours. I had got the itch to leave Aurora after 6 years, but have ended up in #berlin.

• Post #658085

  "we are delighted to share that the Bumblebee Atlas is now available in NM": https://www.bumblebeeatlas.org/ @akkana@fosstodon.org

• Post #623523

  Christopher Borroni-Bird is widely credited as the inventor of the "electric skateboard" EV design. His new book is a thoughtful take on "Sustainable and Affordable Mobility for All: Putting the Heart Back into Technology": https://www.mobilityengineeringtech.com/component/content/article/54736-sae-books-mobility-for-all-with-christopher-borroni-bird

• Post #604962

  @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green The supply chain for Li has a few problems too, as unrest in Latin America shows.

• Post #599928

  @topio@mastodon.social Der nächste erste Sonntag in April ist Ostern. Vermutlich passiert dann kein D.I. Day in Moabit. Treffen wir uns der zweite Sonntag dann?

• Post #599914

  Danke, E.U.! Jeden Tag ist D.I. Day.

• Post #560150

  @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz Customs officials need not explain.

• Post #560059

  Nach 3 langer Wochen, hat die Grenzekontrolle in Köln endlich mein beliebtes Rad freisgeschaltet. Heute machen wir eine Probefahrt in Spandau.

• Post #559523

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@embedded/116165906455217723 @karlauerbach@sfba.social Check out this episode for the tale of the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange, if not for the anti-BGP rant.

• Post #559352

  @b0rk@social.jvns.ca Ticket purchasing, consistently.

• Post #559185

  @jzb@hachyderm.io I deleted my LinkedIn account about 15 years ago, yet somehow I've managed to stay employed and even get promoted in the interim. In 2025, I even managed to find a job in a foreign country where I knew few people. How is it possible? Like you, I give talks at conferences and I write articles. Since I'm a developer, I post code to public repos and send projects patches. The lesson: don't tell people you're motivated and competent, show them.

• Post #558696

  The tide turns: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600,quality=100,format=auto/content-assets/images/20260307_EPC548.png From _The Economist_.

• Post #553757

  Is enum State {GAS,LIQUID} const state; valid C? How about const enum State {GAS,LIQUID} state; ? Assuredly enum State {GAS,LIQUID}; const State state = GAS; is okay. @shafik@hachyderm.io ?

• Post #525834

  Der Fluss kehrt um: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=600,quality=100,format=auto/content-assets/images/20260307_EPC548.png Von _The Economist_

• Post #441730

  @berber@chaos.social With reggae, I've always loved the "dub version" where you hear the same track with only the beats. Sadly, we lost dub great Robbie Shakespeare a few years ago, and Sly Dunbar just last month. There's a decent chance that they're playing on any reggae favorite track.

• Post #441684

  @llvm@fosstodon.org The iconic sweater! I always found Mr. Rogers a bit creepy,

• Post #441589

  @berber@chaos.social The slowed-down aspect is odd.

• Post #441397

  @JulianOliver@mastodon.social We shouldn't forget intermediates between self-hosting and megacorps. Mastodon is an obvious example: I'm not hosting this instance. (Thanks @Larvitz@burningboard.net ). signalapp@mastodon.world is run by a non-profit foundation. @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz comes quickly to mind. It's for-profit, but it has user-friendly principles. A similar description applies to @openstreetmap@en.osm.town and Bandcamp.

• Post #412684

  @corbet@social.kernel.org Not everyone has access to a large pool of IPv4 addresses. Perhaps the new scrapers are therefore just different entities?

• Post #412679

  @llvm@fosstodon.org People who are desperate for attention make all kinds of claims.

• Post #394801

  @jzb@hachyderm.io Cats have better hearing. My guess is that the noise a sneeze makes is simply unbearable.

• Post #394723

  @alltagshack@burningboard.net Kunst!

• Post #379489

  @llvm@fosstodon.org There's also this very credible good news: "AI lowers the cost of reproducing established designs, which will shift competitive advantage away from isolated codebases and toward execution, ecosystems, and continuous innovation."

• Post #379464

  @llvm@fosstodon.org Super interesting: thanks for sharing. This seems like the money quote: "current AI systems excel at assembling known techniques and optimizing toward measurable success criteria, while struggling with the open-ended generalization required for production-quality systems." The overall point seems to be that the production of the new compiler implementation is a remarkable accomplishment, but the result is not actually all that useful. Since refactoring the wh...

• Post #376210

  Fellow cyclists, have a look at these helmet safety-test results: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html Some well-known brands like Giro and Bell have disappointing results. I found the info through https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z8curin

• Post #376198

  Radfahrer, seht diese wissenschaftliche Empfehlunger: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html Ich fand diese Webseite durch https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z8curin

• Post #372657

  Edward Snowden empfiehlt das neues Buch geschrieben bei Cindy Cohn of @eff@mastodon.social : https://eff.org/PrivacysDefenderLaunchParty

• Post #372638

  Memoir by Cindy Cohn of @eff@mastodon.social now available for preorder: https://citylights.com/events/cindy-cohn-launch-party-for-privacys-defender/#main-content Cohn will speak at @scale_www@mastodon.social and will have book-launch events at Keplers in Menlo Park and City Lights in SF.