Jeff Allen @profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology

Settle down and watch hours of classic BBC computer shows! https://hackaday.com/2018/06/30/the-bbc-computer-literacy-project-from-the-1980s-is-yours-to-browse/

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1013014381385445376

OS/2 Warp 4 installer

In case you were curious about copyright law and how it is abused to make people broke without doing anything useful: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/28/the-continuing-saga-of-buck-ro.html

One of the heirs to the estate that controls Buck Rogers wants to make a movie about the Public Domain novel that the Buck Rogers comic strip was based on (in which an Anthony Rogers is hurled in to the future.)

The other heir and the trust that controls the estate are suing him to prevent him from making this movie, and doing some shady shit.

@bobstechsite @profoundlynerdy heh. Slackware 1.2 is the first distribution I was ever paid to run for someone else.

It's all good though, just a matter of what's best for task *right now*.

@profoundlynerdy I would never presume to make recommendations to the wise elders of the Linux world 😂

So, uh, literally none of OpenProject's installation methods work if followed as-written on fresh operating systems, but their docker image (which they heavily recommend against) works entirely fine.

Come on. "Actually install the project" should be part of everyone's dev routine.

@profoundlynerdy The first wiki in the world. The Portland Pattern Repository, created to research software design patterns. Warning, it's a time sink. http://wiki.c2.com/

After a decade, a landmark fair use case came to a close today: Universal's takedown of a 29-second YouTube clip of Stephanie Lenz's baby dancing to music by Prince has finally been settled.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012005080168464387

Making sandwiches with closures in JavaScript https://vickylai.com/verbose/javascript-closures/ #coding #developer

@profoundlynerdy @kensanata Yeah, but they didn't actually do it on purpose.

@profoundlynerdy @rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

Look how this man just casually uses base-8 for arithmetic like it's first-grade stuff.

Guys I got several really good books from the university library. Apparently they're getting old, and no one is interested in them anymore, but they're soviet math and physics textbooks which guide you through every proof etc and are more in depth than any other textbook I've seen. I used these books to study for analysis courses and got 100% thanks to these. So I took like 6 books and I'm really excited about this lol

@profoundlynerdy If we had all these dice, that would explain why nothing ever happens in big enterprises 😆

If at first you don’t succeed, you might be a red shirt.

I saw this on a shirt somewhere.. I should have one made.

Finally I understood the difference between zero and null.

A UDP packet walks into a bar.
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
"Please beer I'll have a bartender."

The bartender says "Ha! Not a chance. You duplicate, you talk out of order, and you don't have credentials." 🤣

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

So, this is basically what's wrong with DevOps tech culture.

Everyone thinks someone somewhere is doing it. But unless you work for Facebook or Netflix, you probably still separate Dev from Ops, and instead of Agile methodology it's probably SCRUM/Kanban shoehorned into Waterfall.

As a result there ends up being a high turnover of programmers because companies make piecemeal changes to avoid upsetting people instead of implementing the process overhaul that's actually needed.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/burn_out_and_leave_patching_the_patcher/