i think the EU should pass legislation that enforces standards based 2factor auth (like totp/hotp) for banks, health insurance etc. it is absolutely unacceptable that people are forced to buy android/ios smartphones to use critical services
@mntmn@theartlav I asked my bank to send me one of those hardware token generators where you put your girocard in. It works perfectly and I prefer that over another app (also for security reasons). It cost like 20 euros (once), and I'm happy with it.
if you are clearing your "old" #computer#books library, throwing them away, giving them to charity or getting rid of them: Please, contact me first. I'd be glad to get some off your hands! I'm paying a fair price for the book and assume all shipping and handling costs ( depending to where you live ).
By all means, please DO NOT get rid of your copy of "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho and Kernighan.
Feel free to DM me. There may be other books I may be interested in!
@gnemmi well, I have a few restrictions. I don't want to pay too much money on it, and I'm in the EU, so shipping from the US is probably always too much. But if I get a good option, I'd take it
So, my dad found an old IBM PS2 model 50. It powers on, but displays weird stuff he can't make any sense of (doesn't help that it's probably english). He tried starting with the original floppy (yes, it's still there), without success. I personally would like to keep it. Is it treasure enough to keep? #retrocomputing#ps2#ibmps2#dos
@spook I still have to publish my troff presentation macro package I prepared some time ago. It supports "better" layout for projectors, larger fonts and stuff like that, but otherwise it's pretty standard troff
The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus was a petty little bitch. Prometheus stole it back. In this essay about DRM I will
@incoherentmumblings@vonneudeck@jwz Gen 5:4: sons and daughters. Daughters often weren't that important, so you can often only find references like that
Though I should add that these were the very first people and the DNA was quite clean (basically no mutation), so the first few generations were quite safe. Incest was however forbidden at some point later, but I can't say when exactly. It's a complex topic and I'm no expert, so there are likely other points to consider
@incoherentmumblings@vonneudeck@jwz everything people can see is observed. Everything that's observed can be interpreted. Everything interpreted is driven by premises/axioms. Those "facts" you're talking about are just other observations in the light of certain premises.
what problems do you run into with git's staging area? right now I'm feeling like the staging area is one of the least confusing parts of git (merging, branches, and remotes seem to cause people a lot more problems) but I'm very open to writing about it if there are problems
@b0rk in our #plan9#9front git implementation there was a decision to not have a staging area, because there might be better alternatives, iirc, but I don't know the details. Maybe someone from our bubble can tell more?
@arti@eichkat3r@ZDF würd ich sagen, hängt vom autor ab. Perl erlaubt einem auch sehr lesbaren code zu schreiben. Aber ich verstehe natürlich den Scherz 😉😁
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
@aires I'd also add "As We May Think" to the pot. It should remind us that it's not that much about the machine, but the purpose of the machine, and the vision that helps us build machines that fulfill that purpose.
@drewdevault that's why I'm using a pixel. It still has a lot of bloat, but only the bloat of one provider and the stuff that you basically need when using Android "normally". Other manufacturers sell the same bloat, plus their own bloat, plus third party bloat.
@f4grx@georgetakei well, yes, you can. It's hard to do and you have to try out different papers, but toilet paper should be fine (and it's long enough). Iirc they folded up to 12 or 14 times
@mwl E-mail is weird nowadays. I had a hard time setting up my mail server to make it "safe enough" for Google and other big providers. It really feels like spam protection over spam protection over spam protection, because nothing really worked so far, so let's combine all of them...
#speedcubing The Mirror Cube is delightfully evil, because it totally fucks up my muscle memory, forcing me to know what I'm doing. Back to re-learning some algorithms, I guess. 😀
@fnord I love the mirror cube, because you can absolutely solve it with closed eyes. It's a totally different experience that way. I didn't try to solve the ghost cube that way 😅
And that's all the shape shifting cubes I have.
Btw, the mirror cube is the only one that's on my shelf in an unsolved state, because it looks like a cubistic sculpture. All others are solved
@fnord I did that quite a few times when I just wanted to rest my eyes when going to bed, but still wanted to solve a cube. The mirror cube is just perfect for that.
