Notices by Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.social), page 27

#systemd is amazing. Produces copious amounts of logging that do not actually say anything useful.

@MadestMadness @Tom /via http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 https://mastodon.social/media/8XpsJel-gsFq2q7uFH0

@starbreaker I can confirm this. The man has died after several days in intensive care, never regaining consciousness.

Left a well-written and argued letter explaining his motives.

All over media in #Poland. Ruling party is trying to spin this as "an act of a mad man" or a "troubled person". The man predicted this in his letter.

Haven't seen a mention outside Poland.

@douginamug @paulfree14 damn, they fscked it up. Here's a different link for the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE6aH_y7NU

Regarding "Governments have TLS MITM capabilities already, and are using them", everybody should go ahead and read this: https://citizenlab.ca/2014/08/cat-video-and-the-death-of-clear-text/

Turkmenistan has MITM+malware capability. *TURKMENISTAN*.

@paulfree14 @BryanLunduke @sillystring Can someone explain to @gabriele Mastodon and Fediverse are not "run" by @Gargron? He did create the Mastodon software, but a). #Fediverse was there long before; b). instances are run by different people with different views.

I mean, it's like saying "How will I convince people to use computers if Windows was created by Bill gates". Doesn't make any sense.

Your friends are welcome, in fact *encouraged* to use a different instance than mastodon.social.

The problem with asking Google to remove fake news is that nothing stops them from removing real news that doesn't serve their interests. It could serve to embolden them. And it won't stop fake news, either, because it's a systemic problem. Fake news exists because there's demand, and if you don't believe me, go to infowars dot com.

Talks this week: Berlin & Milan

I’m off to Berlin, tomorrow, to present “Design or Decoration?” at IxDA Berlin:

http://ixdaberlin.de/?event=62#62

Then, I fly to Milan on Thursday to speak at Desire For Meaning:

http://it.openmaker.eu/2017/09/11/desire-for-meaning-a-milano/

Looking forward to hopefully seeing some of you in person this week :)

It is amazingly frustrating and difficult to convince the postal service that, yes, people can have ~multiple~ names and I should get ~all~ of my mail.

For eternity
http://www.commitstrip.com/2017/10/04/for-eternity/ https://t.co/vem7A9aW1o

The problem with averages:

Five people receive money in the following amounts: $1, $1, $1, $2, $95.

On average, each person receives $20. (The total is $100, divide by 5.) This is the mean, but it's wildly unrepresentative.

The median value, though, is $1. (It's in the center of the sorted list.) This is a much more accurate representation of what the "average person" gets.

Consider this when you're looking at things like payouts, tax cuts, etc.