Notices by Lars Wirzenius (liw@mastodon.acc.sunet.se), page 7

I think it's time for me to start assuming that when people are being nastgy online, they don't know what they're talking about and it's not worth responding to therir claims.

find flacs -type f -print0 | OPUSDIR=opus xargs -0 -P16 -n1 flac-to-opus

Time to try this new audio format.

@liw I could never have one because the only password I could imagine using is "SomeLikeItHot" 🔥

@ted There already exist smart saunas, which can, for example, be controlled remotely by anyone who happens to find something that deserves a CVE. Or a bad password.

Not in my home.

One of the things sauna is good for, is forgetting about people who're wrong on the Internet

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005545378.html

Traffic camera became an owl camera.

Summary of the core of #GDPR: your users' and clients' personal data is not yours, and you have to get their permission to collect it and for each way you use it, and let them control the data you have of them.

Lots of details, of course. It is legislation, after all.

I do hate debugging.

When all of your projects are alike in how the build system is run and build-tree tests are invoked, but one, that one is always a pain. Consistency helps.

The most secure computer is one that is buried inside 20m of reinforced concrete, surrounded by armed guards, a pack of hungry guard dogs, in the middle of a forest, on an uncharted island, with no electricity or power, and doesn't exist.

The least helpful error message I've ever encountered was when CUPS ran out of disk space and printed an empty page to tell me that.

When one uses crappy software one has written oneself, one is having a bad time. But at least it's usually easy to fix.