Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Thursday, 12-May-2022 05:42:48 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
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. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 10:07:25 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 03-Jan-2022 04:11:09 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jan-2021 21:31:06 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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... -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Sep-2020 02:43:54 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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"? -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 02:05:55 UTC
Bob Jonkman
#ScienceFiction Authors. Started with "asimov", "bradbury", "clarke", got all the way to "zelazny", recently did "aldis" and "bujold"; yesterday's laptop build was "capek". -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 18:54:30 UTC
Bob Jonkman
#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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2017 04:55:09 UTC
Bob Jonkman
@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. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2017 02:54:08 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 07:17:53 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Not the @Wire I was thinking of. Need enforced fully-qualified user names, dammit! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 18:43:12 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 18:42:54 UTC
Bob Jonkman
#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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 20:21:18 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2017 03:31:39 UTC
Bob Jonkman
#DeepSearch doesn't fail outright, just sits there until the browser times out. https://deepsearch.tsignal.io/ -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2017 07:19:18 UTC
Bob Jonkman
The interview of @mike by @deadsuperhero is *really* good! https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 20:33:51 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2017 21:23:33 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Fa and Antifa (from http://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/166841754185) https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/17712 -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 21:02:54 UTC
Bob Jonkman
!TIL that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) has been bought by Western Digital -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2017 21:01:47 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 17:19:44 UTC
Bob Jonkman
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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