Robey ☠️ @robey@mastodon.technology

OpenSSH to deprecate SHA-1 logins due to security risk

https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssh-to-deprecate-sha-1-logins-due-to-security-risk/

I do like how "Ok boomer" made "Ok Google" sound as dismissive as it should have been from the start.

“Future archaeologists trying to understand what the #Shuttle was for are going to have a mess on their hands… a vehicle designed to be launched repeatedly to near-Earth orbit, tended by five to seven passengers with little concern for their personal safety, and requiring extravagant care and preparation before each flight… Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god.” https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

Jessica Fletcher has the same (correct) instinct with computers as I do.

> os/2 is so bad that in three years of trying i have been unable to make a cohesive video about it because there's just too much to cover. here is the kind of material you would get if i was able to make any progress on this. os/2 is *unspeakably* bizarre

nitter.net/gravislizard/status…

This was so hilarious I started hyperventilating.
Gravis (edited) (@gravislizard)

@cwebber

for the gritty realism each time picard ordered tea he should have tried to sip it and go "ooh hot" and then they should end every scene with him going "oh fuck my tea"

if you ever somehow feel bad about your abilities as a software developer

remember

i have a device that does nothing but circulate and heat water

its firmware is on version 123.52

"The main reason for the existence of the ACS is to enable amateur computer builders to help each other, saving time and money by trading ideas."

Here you go

"[The] first time a user runs a new executable, Apple delays execution while waiting for a reply from their server. This check for me takes close to a second.

This is not just for files downloaded from the internet, nor is it only when you launch them via Finder, this is everything. So even if you write a one line shell script and run it in a terminal, you will get a delay!"

What the fuck.

https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/