wiert

@wiert@mastodon.social

Makes things work in .NET/Win32/x64/C#/SQL/Delphi.
Surviving rectal cancer.
Married a cancer survivor.
Responsible for brother with IQᐸ50.
Adest Musica member.

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wiert, to random

How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker

Since about a week, Discord started showing ads. I am pretty sure the default setting is against GDPR regulations. Lifehacker indicated how to disable them. I added numbered steps for readability: How to turn off Discord ads Discord doesn't make it super clear, but there is a way to disable these in-game rewards advertisements, as well as the tracking that goes along with them.

http://wiert.me/2024/04/09/how-to-block-ads-on-discord-mostly-lifehacker/

wiert, to random

NASA broadcasted the solar eclipse’s shade on earth as seen from the ISS

International Space Station footage from the shadow that the solar eclipse projected on earth. Via

http://wiert.me/2024/04/09/nasa-broadcasted-the-solar-eclipses-shade-on-earth-as-seen-from-the-iss/

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
@xahteiwi@mastodon.social avatar

Hello, it's me, a trusted expert in open source computing with nearly two decades of experience. I wrote this article. I could not, for the life of me, figure out why my the official #Nextcloud Docker image was suddenly refusing to bind to port 80 in the container.

(Edited to add: resolved after nearly a day of hair-pulling because @eliasp nudged me in the right direction.)

https://xahteiwi.eu/resources/hints-and-kinks/rootless-podman-docker-compose/

wiert,

@xahteiwi @eliasp so how did you fix it?

(I still consider myself a n00b on docker/podman, but I am eager to learn)

wiert, (edited )

@xahteiwi @eliasp Thanks!

/me makes note in a draft blog post in order not to forget this.

wiert, to random

XZ 5.6.x are backdoored and present in many systems: downgrade to 5 4.x now; consider libarchive compromised until proven otherwise

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor Via:

http://wiert.me/2024/03/30/xz-5-6-x-are-backdoored-and-present-in-many-systems-downgrade-to-5-4-x-now-consider-libarchive-compromised-until-proven-otherwise/

chillicampari, to openSUSE
@chillicampari@layer8.space avatar

FYI openSUSE Tumbleweed users, the downgrade to the xz library to roll it back to 5.4.6 is already in place (you can check by seeing the update target version) so update now (to do the downgrade) if you haven't already.

wiert,

@withaveeay @chillicampari Debian and Gentoo are researching how downgrade to a version from before Jia Tan got involved in the 5.4.x timeframe.

Since 5.3.x is develop and 5.2.x is stable, that likely means going back quite a while.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024

https://bugs.gentoo.org/928134

wiert, to random

The death of ESXi finally confirmed by Broadcom

Quite a few people already bumped into this the last two days (will add those links later), so today's confirmation by Broadcom of the ESXi death does not come as a surprise. [Wayback/Archive] End Of General Availability of the free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x) (2107518) Symptoms VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) is no longer available on the VMware website…

http://wiert.me/2024/02/12/the-death-of-esxi-finally-confirmed-by-broadcom/

Migueldeicaza, to random
@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social avatar

This is what happens when you don’t get your skills endorsed on LinkedIn after posting a screenshot of La Terminal on visionOS:

wiert,

@Migueldeicaza I still love the VAX/VMS days. Thanks for reminding me about them!

https://wiert.me/2021/02/24/i-still-print-relevant-parts-of-code-have-been-for-a-long-time-will-keep-doing-it/

Out of nostalgia, and also since I had no idea Midnight Commander ran on VAX/VMS (I think few know), that info should somehow make it to Wikipedia (:

xahteiwi, to random
@xahteiwi@mastodon.social avatar

Sometimes, GitLab just appears silly. Like when an issue like this remains unfixed for years.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/202293

wiert,

@xahteiwi this so much reminds me why after like 13 years, StackExchange/StackOverflow still insists on the MDY time format (and on the "### ago" format as well)

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82156/allow-users-to-set-custom-date-formats

Useful progress often takes way too long.

wiert,

@xahteiwi the really sad thing is that I am not surprised at all.

Not even that it has been closed as duplicate without mentioning the original.

(the referred issue is a 404: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/business-technology/enterprise-apps/intake/-/issues/475 )

wiert,

@xahteiwi I thought I had blogged about this years ago, but probably only mentioned it on G+: the Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide Index entries for

  • recursive loop
  • infinite loop
  • loop, infinite

If memory serves me right, Richard Nelson put them there.

That was some 10 years before the Apple One Infinite Loop address everyone and their mother talks about when mentioning recursion (:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/Turbo_Pascal_Version_7.0_Language_Guide_1992.pdf

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wiert,

@xahteiwi it is one of the main reasons why I stopped submitting feature requests for many products: even for requests benefitting a lot of people there is about zero chance they will get implemented, while still getting tons of notification emails about their meta-data being changed without actually making any real progress.

foone, (edited ) to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

The 37C3 talk on TEA1 encryption (used by police and military units in europe) is hilarious.
The hackers announced they found a vulnerability in the encryption, and one of the ways the organization that standardized TEA1 downplayed the breach was by saying that it wasn't viable, because it required "high powered GPUs".

So they ported their algorithm to a Toshiba Satellite running Windows 95, and re-cracked the encryption there.

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11761-all_cops_are_broadcasting

(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhbJ4pqcOY )

wiert,

@nblr @PeterKratz @foone @erd

Paging @rop as well.

wiert,

@nblr @PeterKratz @foone @erd @rop

Thanks. With all the aliases on social media it is hard to track who is who.

Thanks for making that possible in 2006. It finally opened some eyes to the public about stuff that was public knowledge with the geeks back then.

Gargron, to firefox
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

is by far the best browser on desktop. Let me be clear, I am not saying that because I am ideologically opposed to using Google products. I use YouTube and Google Workspaces. Chrome genuinely has nothing to offer over Firefox. If your website doesn't work in Firefox then I'm not using your website.

wiert,

@Gargron I tried to switch. Serious keyboard queue handling issues are holding me back moving as because of reasons I need excellent keyboard support.

Hopefully @stevetex gets through their treatments and recovers well (fingers crossed, not just out of experience). After that (health first!) I hope to assist their team in addressing those issues.

0xabad1dea, to random

this is the box my 16th birthday present came in. the computer lasted six years before she caught fire; the box has lasted nineteen years and about eight moves (it currently contains my pens and other writing desk trappings)

wiert,

@0xabad1dea similarl to the name of the Dutch blookbank: https://www.sanquin.nl/en/about-sanquin/the-story-of-sanquin

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

“Scrollbars are becoming a problem”

The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective evidence that the people who run tech do not give a single solitary fuck about usability or UX https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html

wiert,

@baldur which has been the case for the last 15 years or more on all platforms, especially web sites where everyone tries to reinvent all kinds of wheels.

wiert, to random

"Korrelation, Kausalität, aber wer weiß es schon genau?"

Via https://twitter.com/SoerenLorensen/status/1707126625626640520

(likely not the original source)

CC @isotopp @ionica

ID: Two images of the UK with the below results that visually look very similar

1992 - MAD COW DISEASE OUTBREAK AREAS

2016 - BREXIT REFERENDUM LOCAL RESULTS

IT MAY, HOWEVER, BE A MISTAKE TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS

mollyquell, to random

Getting a wildly early start at yet another international court that is not the ICC.

wiert,

@mollyquell @isotopp

enters the chat.

"Greenhouse gasses don't count against our quota for aircrafts flying above 3000 feet"

(For metric people like me: 900 meter)

isotopp, to random German
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    wiert,

    @isotopp Blog post coming up on this?

    ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
    @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz avatar

    The puzzle in this week's New Scientist. Based on one of my favourite families of puzzles ... there are more!

    EDIT:

    I can't believe I need to ask this again, but I should learn from experience. Please, please don't post spoilers ... some people will want to have a go at this for themselves, and it's all too easy to see this accidentally.

    Thanks.

    wiert,

    @ColinTheMathmo these are things that intrigue me, but I am definitely bad at.

    So I was quite amazed by an elegant solution I found online that I think is worth gold medal: about a handful of pieces!

    CC @ionica

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934571-200-puzzle-240-can-you-help-lord-fusspot-tile-his-ballroom/

    BicycleDutch, to random
    @BicycleDutch@mastodon.social avatar

    Many people know that the Dutch tulip fields bloom in Spring, but did you know that you can also cycle to nature reserves full of blooming flowers in the Netherlands in late summer? Come along to the purple heather fields.
    New post and video
    https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p=24900

    wiert,

    @BicycleDutch don't forget the Dahlia fields.

    Most of the autumn flower corsos are end of august or early september (like Valkenswaard, Zundert, Lichtenvoorde) but still a lot of the autumn flowers are blooming.

    https://www.holland.com/global/tourism/getting-around/interests/flowers/netherlands-top-six-most-beautiful-flower-parades.htm

    CC @isotopp

    ionica, to random Dutch
    @ionica@mathstodon.xyz avatar

    Vraagt de enquête over arbeidsomstandigheden nu naar mijn neef Bas en de rest van de familie?

    wiert,

    @redegelde @ionica leuk idee!

    isotopp, to random German
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    wiert,

    @isotopp I remember that from good old G+ (:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170727131559/https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/9ugkCojU8TQ

    (which resulted in me adding this thread to https://wiert.me/2019/01/15/oath-toolkit-oath-toolkit-%c2%b7-gitlab/ )

    kevlin, to random
    @kevlin@mastodon.social avatar

    As the term 'intelligence' is used in 'artificial intelligence', it is perhaps worth asking, what kind of intelligence do AI systems represent? Confident and detail focused, but naïve, easily misled and lacking in common sense, worldliness, situational awareness, fairness, imagination, empathy, emotional intelligence and social intelligence 🤔

    wiert,

    @andrewfeeney @kevlin @cwebber credits to @amyhoy as well because of https://mastodon.social/@amyhoy/109355444166205985

    Also adding the missing reference https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109462369670144568

    Now in witch word should I show my wordblindnes to show I'm hooman?

    ( got here via https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/111711060384843387 )

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