maiki @maiki@mastodon.sdf.org

‪after 4.69 years of uptime and over 16 years of continuous service our very last 64 bit DEC Alpha retired itself early this morning. @netbsd #bsd #rip #thankyou #goodbye ‬

San Franciscans who aren't techies, but are concerned about privacy: Join Electronic Frontier Alliance group @noisebridge this Friday for a Surveillance Self-Defense Workshop! https://twitter.com/noisebridge/status/1163208975892066304

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by the Trump administration to deny detained migrant children soap, toothpaste and beds.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/16/headlines/federal_court_trump_admin_cant_deny_soap_toothpaste_to_migrant_children

“There are many Hong Kongers and other smart people writing online who can explain the political context of the protests, the likelihood of intervention, and what this means in a deeper way. I am just a visitor who perhaps thinks too much about fish cakes when being tear gassed.”

https://idlewords.com/2019/08/a_walk_in_hong_kong.htm

Of course Maciej Cegłowski went to #HongKong protests and wrote a brilliant piece, with references to how the ’80s Soviet–American culture shock is as great as the 2010s America–HK one.

William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xj_JGcXhC0Q/sept-12-adam-savage.html #boingboing #cyberpunks #danah_boyd #eff #events #happy_mutants #Oakland #oakland_privacy #san_francisco #science_fiction #william_gibson

Here’s how scammers can get into your cellphone — and what you can do about it
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/heres-how-scammers-can-get-into-your-cellphone-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Nice to see more companies put the ever controversial "respect other players" and "kick toxic dipshits out of your gaming groups" advice in their books

boosting excerpt from https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1161615769764950017 thread

Luis Villa:
The term ‘bus factor’ has bothered me since we started Tidelift
—because buses are (basically) never the cause of bad project health! So I wrote about it—and my slightly tongue-in-cheek suggested replacement, boss factor.

https://blog.tidelift.com/bus-factor-boss-factor-and-the-economics-of-disappearing-maintainers

Haaaah I forgot about when I was trying to make someone laugh here and drew unix monsters. I just unearthed them from a box. Xargs is still cutest.

So my house was built in the '90s (northeast US). Today we found out that at every corner of each room there is something magnetic behind the walls. The magnetism is independent of height along the wall, and only in the corners. Anyone know about something metal being put along the studs or in the walls in turn-of-century homes?

#DSCOVR in safe mode at L1, a million miles away... a #spacecraft with a long history. Thanks Al Gore!

"DSCOVR has been designed for a Gyro-Less Safe Mode Attitude Control – relying only on sun sensor readings and information from the reaction wheels. The safehold system uses wheel tachometers to estimate spacecraft body rates about the sun vector in order to achieve a sufficient accuracy in sun-pointing during safe mode periods."

Lots of info:
http://spaceflight101.com/dscovr

#space

@mala

Current status #jomo

Indigenous people!

Please share this and reply and be my friend! Let's create a community on here where we know we have someone who gets it!

I'll start, I'm Ojibwe. Raised away from the tribe, but am a full member now as an adult.

(If not indigenous, please still share, I wanna reach others)