Tim Walz is from Minnesota, which is the most Scandinavian state of US so he must be a great guy :-) AFAIK, he has Swedish ancestors. There's even a village called Finland in Minnesota, and active Finnish descendant community: https://friendsoffinland.org/

This can't be a bad sign ;-)

setting up the assword

Old'ish article about #BPF from CloudFlare blog:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bpf-the-forgotten-bytecode

Was fun to read.

Preorders for my book on how debuggers work are 25% off! https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

The next #Disobey #infosec #conference has been just announced:

https://bsky.app/profile/disobeyfi.bsky.social/post/3kz4tbxs2kl2q

IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️

(Boosts appreciated)

The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230

The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.

Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1

Politico is starting to notice that Donald #Trump is completely deranged. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/6/2261209/-When-will-the-media-report-that-Trump-is-completely-deranged?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

1 year ago I switched from Mac to Linux for professional UX design work. In this article, I explain as simply as possible:
- Why I switched to Linux
- How you can do the same.

I cover design-specific concerns like:
- How to use Apple devices like the Magic Mouse in Linux
- Which design tools are available and how to install them
- How to find help if you get stuck

https://www.chris-wood.design/resources/linux-for-ux-designers
#Design #UXDesign #UIDesign #Linux #MacOS

#crowdstrike #offbyone #infosec
https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

I'm getting allergic to "immutable state". It's like a cancer ;-)

Usually that is by itself "a thing" with no context of an application.

Is it too obnoxious to say that I zero care about immutable. I've just barely got used to keeping SELinux enforced and not looking for extra complications for my machines 🤷

Do you like sex? YOU'RE THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COUNTRY, says the freakyfreaky, clammy-handed incels at the Heritage Foundation who can't wait to surveil your periods, architects of Trump's Project 2025, WHICH WILL PUT AN END TO ALL THAT "senseless" use of birth control.

A profitable business based on good old #Slackware in 2024 (!):

https://www.aronetics.com/the-tragedy-of-systemd/

Not meant to bash #systemd ;-)

So, #Fedora will have #BSOD: https://lwn.net/Articles/982398/ #lwn

I wish that some day #Bitwig will have #wavetable editor like #Cubase has: https://www.steinberg.help/r/halion/7.0/en/halion/topics/wavetable_synthesis/wavetable_editor_r.html

Feels retarded to have spawn #Serum just for the sake of editing wavetables. This is actually trend. Many DAW's have added wavetable oscillators but no means for editing them. Like why even bother? Totally useless feature without the editor part.

#FM8 is still useful today. I don't use it to play anything but it is best tool and workflow to design patches for any other #FM synth (also for hardware synths) because it has such a great visualization of the interconnections and envelopes:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/fm8/

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

Before WordPerfect, the most popular work processor was WordStar. Now, the last ever DOS version has been bundled and set free by one of its biggest fans.

One forgets today how massive WordPerfect and WordStar were in their days. In fact, anyone ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/wordstar-7-the-last-ever-dos-version-is-re-released-for-free/

#retro #technology #WordStar

I created a ticket for #isync addressing the #Fedora 40 issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/patches/19/

I've taken the quantum track at #Brilliant (actually registered it just because of this track).

After going through it my feeling of the topic is that the psychological impact of mystifying it makes it more complex than the topic itself.

It is just a new computational model, which is a superset of Turing model (a single isolated qubit has computational power of a Turing machine).

I.e. it is a just new board game with its own rules for states and ports. I'd figure that in the early days of computing it felt similar "unreachable" mystery as you had bunch of scientists describing it.

Lately I've had to learns some bits of processing of IR inside LLVM. That is about as complicated as understanding qubits. Engineers will get it when they need it ;-)

#quantum #qubit #programming

#LKML QOTD from @torvalds:

"'[…] no [#Linux] #kernel developer should spend one single second worrying about out-of-tree modules.

It's simply not a concern - never has been, and never will be.

Now, if some out-of-tree module is on the cusp of being integrated, and is out-of-tree just because it's not quite ready yet, that would maybe be then a case of "hey, wait a second".

But no. We are not going to start any kind of feature test macros for external modules […]'"

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwg1w6%2BXup%3DamYtYUCLO-SRYoy9R0z6BG-uGV%3Dy2f6yFWA@mail.gmail.com/

This resonates :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome