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OTOH, when the self-driving cars have to make a trolley decision and decide to veer into a mailbox or a fire hydrant that's really me on a bicycle, then I'm blaming you.
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According The Register's forum, this is the patch: "The current fix: Represent 2022-01-02 as 2021-12-33."
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/01/03/exchange_servery2k22_flaw/#c_4389861
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From what I can tell, they were using the decimal digits of the 32-bit number as a sort of BCD, with the base10 digits representing portions of the date. The example used is "the new date value of 2,201,010,001 is over the max value of 'long' int32 being 2,147,483,647". So, YY MMDDHHMM ?
What an extraordinarily stupid way to represent a date.
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And I can't figure out how to connect to a particular server. The #Patchwork #SSB client I'm using has a "+ Join Server" field, but it requires an invitation code. Which I can't generate unless I have a pub server. Which I can't join until I have an invitation code... Sigh.
#SSB: Concept: A+ ; Implementation: C+ ; Usability: F
You'd think a communications platform would make it easier to connect to people you want to communicate with...
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In the Netherlands (which the Dutch call "Nederland") the language is called "Nederlands", so that makes sense. Perhaps English speakers couldn't differentiate between "Nederlands" and "Deutsch", which corrupted to "Dutch".
And why do we call the country "Germany" and the inhabitants "Germans" when they call their country "Deutschland" and themselves "die Deutsche"?
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#ScienceFiction Authors. Started with "asimov", "bradbury", "clarke", got all the way to "zelazny", recently did "aldis" and "bujold"; yesterday's laptop build was "capek".
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#GooglePlus is shutting down because of a data breach that #Google can't be bothered to make secure. No idea how bad the breach is, since Google deleted logs to hide from regulatory scrutiny. https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-data-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-user/ #Privacy
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@clacke I remember the proposal for putting ads on Identi.ca, and I also remember the huge outcry at the proposal. I don't remember if Evan actually put ads on Identi.ca; if so, it didn't last more than a few weeks. It may have been on a less popular Status.net instance.
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This seems like a good time to link to the #BackBlaze annual hard drive stats: https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive.html https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/29554
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Not the @Wire I was thinking of. Need enforced fully-qualified user names, dammit!
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And #RemoteHashtag following can be done by selecting the Atom/RSS feed for a tag on the remote server and adding it to "Settings, Mirroring, Feed URL". https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/25187
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#Hashtag following is already built into !GNUsocial, just select the "Subscribe" button on http://yourinstance.example.org/tag/hashtag https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/25185
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To be fair, the !StatusNet network that Evan was running became unmanageable -- it cost too much to run, and I think Evan was funding most of it himself (although there were/are a number of paying #StatusNet customers). Evan developed #PumpIO to reduce the number of servers needed to run a federated network, and purposely kept the UI to a minimum to encourage federation. Sadly, that didn't work. Porting identi.ca from StatusNet to PumpIO was intended to introduce people to PumpIO as well as reduce Evan's costs. That partly worked; identi.ca is alive and well as a community, although much reduced from its glory days around 2013. But the #bifurcation did spawn a large number of new StatusNet / !GNUsocial instances, so that was a good thing too. But you're right in that PumpIO never gained widespread traction, the proof of which is in its lack of continued development. In that respect #GNUsocial and !OStatus are more successful than PumpIO
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#DeepSearch doesn't fail outright, just sits there until the browser times out. https://deepsearch.tsignal.io/
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The interview of @mike by @deadsuperhero is *really* good! https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19
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What did that Reddit user expect? Putting sensitive info in a Google sheet is dumb, and sharing the link on Facebook is dumber. These companies exist to mine your data, then sell the metadata to the highest bidder. They're not "search engines" or "social media platforms" but !surveillance agencies that are monetized though advertising.
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Fa and Antifa (from http://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/166841754185) https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/17712
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!TIL that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) has been bought by Western Digital
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Speaking of a #RabbitHole, here's some reading for #SysAdmins: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/ TL;DR: Hitachi drives have the lowest failure rates.
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Velcro's Hilarious Trademark Lesson Video Actually A Good Lesson In Just How Stupid Trademark Law Has Become https://gs.jonkman.ca/url/6321
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