#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.
@jpmens I tried vars_prompt. It's apparently impossible to disable during check mode
I wrote about molly-guard for ansible https://paul.totterman.name/posts/ansible-molly-guard/ . @jpmens what do you think?
@matthew_d_green yes for not requiring login, but what about requiring POST instead of GET? Traditionally it has been a bad idea to modify state on GET. So GET serves a form with button, which results in POST and makes the change
https://www.nature.com/articles/505283a - "Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success. Countries should act now to embrace new metrics"
We're officially proposing Matrix-over-MLS to the IETF for interoperable messaging transport & message formatting as part of the MIMI (More Instant Messaging Interoperability) working group. WIP drafts at https://turt2live.github.io/ietf-mimi-matrix-transport/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-transport.html (MSC3918) + https://turt2live.github.io/ietf-mimi-matrix-message-format/draft-ralston-mimi-matrix-message-format.html (MSC3919)🦾🚀🎉
@fribbledom disable yubikey otp using ykman: ykman config mode fido+ccid or ykman config usb -d OTP
RT @genomematt@twitter.com
Slack free should now be known as slack ransomware.
"Nice looking important message history there - shame if something was to happen to it."
Will be migrating to matrix. https://matrix.org
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/genomematt/status/1569482418394120193
@eloquence call.element.io is the much better next-gen video call stack. It will be a while until it's integrated, though
@ercanbrack Try netbsd
Surveillance not necessary or even helpful for fighting CSAM https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-csam-scanning/
Huge improvements on http://matrix.org's federation performance since we switched over to pyston on May 20th :D
https://harihareswara.net/posts/2021/if-you-give-a-speech-you-care-about-post-a-transcript/ If you give speeches that you're proud of, that you want people to think about & pass along so they can keep influencing people, you should get transcripts up ASAP.
Re-publicizing this post because friends are giving talks soon that I want to read!
Or in general the mindset of almost all political and economical leaders, and most people seem to buy into this based on the lack of demand for action.
RT @shalzzj@twitter.com
Lately I found myself using and switching between 6+ chatting apps 🥴
This lead to quite a bit of mental context switching overhead and with no single place to manage every app's notifications.
I thought there has to be a better way...
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Austrian DSB: Use of Google Analytics violates "Schrems II" decision by CJEU. - https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal "This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore." huge #gdpr