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quixoticgeek

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Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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This is a triumph...

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I have found a power cable so I can use my laptop. But even more importantly. I've found cake.

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Ffs. Picked up a world to UK plug adapter at the smiths at STP.

Seems the world does not include Schuko... Arse.

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Ah. Proper breakfast

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Due to the wonders of joined up thinking and integrated public transport. The ferry arrives at 0630. The train goes at 0631. The next train is at 0728...

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In London, where can I buy an adapter to plug an EU power cable into a UK socket?

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Lightning getting very close. Storm now covering from edge of Amsterdam to Rotterdam.

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Is anyone keeping a list of all the parts that are known to have fallen off a 737 in flight? Wondering how much longer until we can build a complete plane from the pile.

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I like the idea. But does the UK rail network work well enough to support such a move. Are there enough trains, running frequently enough? Will it in stead cause more people to drive further.

https://mastodon.scot/

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With the upcoming eclipse, it's time to remind you all of the great Scrabble word. Syzygy.

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Laying in bed listening to the rain. The wind is giving it that extra oomph as it hits against the windows.

Can't get out of my brain the thought that warm air holds more moisture unseasonably warm weather like we've been having, is gonna become more common, and with it, more rain, and heavier rain.

I wonder if anyone is doing anything to improve our infrastructure to cope with this new normal.

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Is passenger service working through the gotthard base tunnel yet ?

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Ugh. Why is there no sensible route between Brussels and Paris that doesn't involve a Thalys...

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Het thee? De thee?

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On a tram home... Phone at 16%. Will. i get home before the battery dies...

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It all comes down to trust.

I'll leave it up to you to work out which of the various topics I talk about on here this toot is about. Security? Economics? Politics? Urban design? Cycle infrastructure?

Trust.

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Oh. And before any of you lay any blame on the maintainers of these open source project.

How many of you have blindly installed stuff by running curl | sudo bash ?

Did you verify the binaries and the code the bash script ran/installed? How did you confirm trust on those binaries?

Xz is the oss supply chain attack we know about. You can guarantee there are many many more. How we manage installation, and dependency's should perhaps have a little more thought...

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One of the big advantages of the UNIX model of small tools, each built to do one thing, and so it well, is it's easy for one person to keep on top of the code base for that tool. Modern codebases measured in the millions of lines of code, are impossible for anyone to fully grasp. Systemd is 1.3m loc, which is bonkers, but the chrome code base is 35m. It's impossible for anyone person to have any real oversight of what most of that code is doing.

Our codebases are just far far too complicated.

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Oh and don't get me started on people who run docker containers they downloaded without any clue what's going on in them.

What version of liblzma does your container use? What version of libssl?

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Oh right. Clocks jump forward in 12 mins. Or did they already jump 48 mins ago?

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If you think it's gonna be hard to audit the xz code base, systemd is 1.3m lines of code...

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When people have support animals, do we know which emotions they are supporting? Cos some of them are gotta be supporting rage...

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Why are we building chip fabrication facilities in water stressed areas? Worlds biggest fabs are on Taiwan. A small island with very precarious water supplys.

US chips actually is finding new dabs in the US... In Arizona... In Texas... Seriously?!? You have states like Washington where it basically never stops raining, and you want to build a heavy water using industry in a fucking desert?!?!?

The EU is building a big facility in Magdeburg Germany, which is marginally better.

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This whole xz vulnerability. Is that effecting devuan Daedalus? Does anyone know ?

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Anyone in the Amsterdam area want four white plastic lawn chairs? Have four I want to give away.

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