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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 00:36:50 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Q: What do you call a frumpy old lady in a superhero costume?
A: Bat-Ma’am! -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Oct-2021 23:27:50 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#GS4 is crawling now. Yay! -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Oct-2021 17:23:49 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Ninety-eight percent of the time, the problem is "user error". The other two percent is "error by the user". -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 00:48:07 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I’m really starting to think the “smart” thing to do about pervasive network connected and computer controlled devices is to follow the USSR’s example.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Soviets rolled out a new aircraft (I think it was nicknamed “Foxbat” by USA / NATO). Later, when they got the opportunity to examine one, they found that its electronics still used vacuum tubes.
But were the Soviets using primitive technology because they couldn’t produce silicon semiconductors? No, I don’t think so. I think it may have been that they thought about the effects of a nuclear weapon’s “EMP” wave on electronics and concluded that tube-based systems were more likely to survive such a blast.
In other words, I think it may be “smart” to consider the possible consequences and make technology choices that mitigate the worst outcomes.
But this must happen on a broad scale. It matters little if I alone make it difficult for malware to wipe out my financial records and a widespread malware attack puts the rest of the nation back into the 1800s, except without the accumulated knowledge and skillsets to operate in that environments. -
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Oct-2021 23:49:18 UTC 
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
Please tell me there was at least one blockchain BBQ called Proof of Steak. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Oct-2021 00:44:54 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> Shooting the Messenger
> And finally, in an incredibly disappointing story, the governor of Missouri has referred a journalist for prosecution for discovering and responsibly disclosing an information leak in a state website. The flaw in the State’s Department of Education website potentially exposed the social security numbers of teachers.
https://nu.federati.net/url/283214
#MO -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Oct-2021 21:31:05 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Rain clouds coming in.
#nyc #weather https://nu.federati.net/attachment/283213 -
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Oct-2021 13:04:23 UTC
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
> I told my family I'm getting my hearing tested because I can tell it's getting worse.
Parenting goals!
> My oldest said, "You might want to get tested for Alzheimer's too because that's like the 8th time you've told us."
> She waited a solid minute before telling me it was the 1st time I told them.
nitter.nixnet.services/JeffHan… -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Oct-2021 11:51:09 UTC 
simsa04
This, via @dubh
https://collapsitarian.io/notice/ACMNbwdggELFDjYxJQ https://gnusocial.net/attachment/ae5943665ea95cca481f8f7d5417911c79c8ae12f30a779c8c5558dca9e92af0/view -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 18:17:01 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Big corporations are transnational governments, but without an effective electorate to restrict their power or actions. people who are rightwing or leftwing, pro national governments or anti national governments, authoritarian or libertarian (in the "classical liberal" sense) should all see large corporations as the threat they are. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Oct-2021 00:06:23 UTC
simsa04
https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly/status/1449151497263063047
« A gentle reminder that there is no need to dress up for Halloween. Your true horror is on the inside. And anyone who loves you will know it. » -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Oct-2021 00:36:15 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I bought him an A+ certification study guide. It was a little more than I planned to spend, but the book I planned to buy cost even more. -
an actual double vaccinated bear in a hazmat suit (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 18:51:08 UTC 
an actual double vaccinated bear in a hazmat suit
@Moon @ademan Yeah, I had looked at it early and decided I was not comfortable doing a direct bank transfer to outside of the country. Been banging my head against the wall for that one ever since.
Which goes to show how governments are not THAT worried as long as they are capable of exerting control over all the easy on-ramps. If shutting those down can keep out curious early-adopters, it will keep out the normies no question. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 16:19:31 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Requiring PDF documents to be digitally signed and encrypted, then cancelling the organization's subscription to the proprietary PDF writer software wasn't exactly a wise choice. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 03:03:18 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Spanish husbands with French-Canadian accents. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 11:53:37 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Hit schedule: bonuses for top managers.
Hit budget: bonuses for top managers. -
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 04:50:26 UTC
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
> The Romantic poets took the veneration of sadness to its logical extreme and described suffering as a prerequisite for the literary life. As Keats wrote, “Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
I learned of this meme very early on and jokingly remarked to my parents before I was even 12 that if I never became a famous author it would be their fault for giving me such a functional family and happy childhood. -
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 05:35:15 UTC
Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰
A random stranger just handed me a nice and big umbrella.
I had an umbrella in my backpack and just hadn't bothered because the rain was so light, but he was too insistent and I was too shocked to be able to reject it before he moved on under his friend's umbrella.
I will try to pass the umbrella forward.
https://libranet.de/dev/null#RandomKindness -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 00:34:06 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I occasionally come across a posting by someone dreaming about the days of glory for the antebellum South. I think they’re deceiving themselves.
Most White Southerners did not own slaves. Maybe they were small-scale farmers and could not afford / support additional mouths. Or maybe they were workers for hire … in which case, the existence of slavery severely depressed their wages. Why pay someone a fair rate for their labor, when you could have a slave do the same work for free?
So longing for those days is like desiring to relive the days of cave dwelling, hunting antelope and fleeing bears in ice age Europe. If you listen to the stories, you may find yourself longing for those times. But if you stand back and picture what those times must have been like, few people should wish to switch places with ancestors from either time period. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Oct-2021 04:10:00 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke I'm going to remember the name "death march mode". It fits what $EMPLOYER tends to do at the beginning of an assignment.
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