sudo flaw lets Linux users run commands as root even when they're restricted:
https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html
The UK Just Got More Power From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels, a First Since 1882
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-uk-just-got-more-power-from-renewables-than-fossil-1839034441 #climatechange #climatecrisis
I don't understand why python became popular. Indention blocking is asking for trouble. Bad boolean implementation. (Not a true type, and "True/False" why the caps?)
#learningPython
How my application ran away and called home from Redmond:
https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-called-home-from-redmond-de7af081100d
Giving users the power to moderate their own feeds is the key. Centralized moderation will always be flawed--a company can never represent your sensitivities as well as you and your peers (and will likely bow to outside pressure to censor, whether it's China or groups of users).
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35yke/tech-companies-didnt-plan-for-chinese-censorship
#Janayugam Malayalam newspaper is switching to GNU/Linux with #Scribus. Possibly first daily in the world to run on 100% #FreeSoftware. Thanks to awesome work by @kannan @bady @mujeebcpy @ranjithsiji Hussain KH and Ashokan mash.
This is among the reasons I never post pictures of my son. I understand and accept risks to my own identity, but I don't own his online identity--I'm merely a steward of it until he's an adult. I hope at that point I can hand it off to him untarnished and unexploited. #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
At my second job out of college, I had the perfect work setup that no other job has ever met. My development machine was a *NIX workstation, and the lab benches were set up by the systems group on a separate bench with it's own *NIX workstation.
The job wasn't the most interesting, but I've come full circle in that regard. Now stuck in a shitty Windows PC/Windows Network/Microsoft tools environment.
#fuckMicrosoft
I wonder if anyone has really validated the "many eyes" concept in open source with respect to the number of eyes and number of open source projects. I'm not questioning the efficacy of code review, but just looking at numbers.
In order for code review to be effective, the set of reviewers must cover all the aspects that the code affects. That ranges from coding language to solution subject matter. It must also cover platform concerns like operating system and hardware.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa