Notices by The Doctor (drwho@hackers.town)

Due to the discourse about where to hold ongoing development chat for #youtubeDL, there is now a public Matrix room for same.

#youtube-dl:hackers.town

Share and enjoy.

Anybody know what company this is?

https://www.askamanager.org/2020/03/my-company-plans-to-absorb-any-stimulus-checks-that-employees-receive-for-themselves.html

So, in case anybody's looking for stuff to #torrent from the Internet Archive to watch, read, or listen to, I'm permaseeding the following things:

https://archive.org/details/2013-03-13_Deviant_Ollam_Fucking_in_the_Friendly_Skies_CarolinaCon

https://archive.org/details/Artbell.com_Commemorative_Disc

https://archive.org/details/cyberpunkvirtual00time

https://archive.org/details/DNALOUNGE-2008-01-13

https://archive.org/details/RobotixTheSeries1985

https://archive.org/details/TheRealCyberpunkFakeBook

#funny #hacktheplanet #concert #insoc #cartoons #cyberpunk #cybre

Systemd is trying to turn Linux into Windows NT.

From @hackerradioshow at Birbsite:

https://twitter.com/HackerRadioShow/status/1181333581450432522

Those of you in range, PLEASE come join us for a live "Off the Hook" this Wednesday evening at 7PM. It's short notice, but a show of numbers and support is desperately needed.

The Brooklyn Commons
388 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Please boost. #hacktheplanet

Another federversal generation poll. Please boost.

I am from the /x/ generation:

Timestamp: 0:29 ago.

Quoting:

A friend & former colleague who works in SF posted this ~2pm. Am trying to find any confirmation, but in the meantime, be aware.

“ICE is at BART trying to catch people at embarcadero and mission stations pass it on to those who might benefit.”

Edited:
Just checked with SF Rapid Response (who will check on the Mission station). Highly recommend calling them 415-200-1548 to report / verify. FWIW, offices for ICE / DHS are near the Embarcadero station.

Please boost!

"You'd be surprised how many sad sons of bitches believe people only care about each other in books."
--Spider Robinson, _Time Travellers Strictly Cash_

I grew up on dialup. 1200bps, max. I remember what it was like to get anything done at that speed, and now that it's no longer a thing I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. That's why I try to keep my stuff as lightweight as possible, with as few deps as possible.

Treat others as you'd want to be treated, right?

A couple of years back I went to an HTML5 meetup and hung out with a bunch of web developers. I suck at web design (so much so that I didn't bother to try to write a new theme for my website, I used one that someone else made and tweaked it a little). One of the webdevs noticed that I use a couple of adblockers and yelled at me for taking money out of his mouth. That one cannot eat money, and that he gets paid a (much larger) salary (than I do) is beside the point.

So I put my laptop on the local network (Windbringer had been tethered to my mobile - OPSEC, ya' know) and asked him for the URL of the website he works on. He gave it to me. I opened it in a bare Firefox profile (no addons, no config tweaks, new right out of the box). His precious website loaded fully after just under three minutes.

Then, to make things fair, I rebooted Windbringer, got back on the local wireless, and opened it in my usual Firefox profile, with all the adblockers turned on. His website loaded in about five seconds.

"Your website loads so much tracking garbage up front that your page won't load in less than three minutes. I don't have time for that." And I left.

Unsurprisingly, I haven't been invited back, but my point stands - too much crap means your page won't load in a reasonable period of time.

2600 Magazine has compiled a list of concentration camps.

http://concentrationcamps.us/

Accelerating a RAID-5 array with a solid-state hard drive. https://drwho.virtadpt.net/entry/accelerating-a-raid-5-array-with-a-solid-state-hard-drive

We're watching Wargames for #wearenameless is just over an hour... let's warm up with Wargames by Dual Core!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujw4FJka5zk

#nerdcore #hiphop