Notices by Tek dba Tek (tek@freeradical.zone), page 8

@jsalvador Yep! I stumbled across that while looking for the age() function.

@case We do what we must.

@officialcjunior Sucked. And I kid you not, as we were about to leave, our Division Officer called a meeting to say that we weren’t going home *just* yet, that we were the closest unit to a civil war that was breaking out in some place called Rwanda...

Just realized that 25 years ago today, I was celebrating the holiday off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia.

@PendragonII Yeah, if there were any doubt that UK’s ISPs were run by children...

@pagrus ikr

@lanodan “LOL, he agreed to *what* now?” Datetime library authors everywhere cry.

@dielan Like what?

“ISPA announces finalists for 2019 Internet Heroes and Villains: Trump and Mozilla lead the way as Villain nominees » News, Press Releases | The Internet Service Providers Association” https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-announces-finalists-for-2019-internet-heroes-and-villains-trump-and-mozilla-lead-the-way-as-villain-nominees/

An association of UK ISPs lists Mozilla as a “villain” for fighting against censorship. No, seriously. If you oppose anti-censorship software, you are one of the baddies.

Mike & The Mechanics, "Silent Running". https://music.apple.com/us/album/silent-running/919919438?i=919919474&uo=4&app=music #nowplaying #fediplay

This was popular in the height of the Cold War. Tell me this isn’t relevant today:

“Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still”

Although I’d like to think we’re not being very quiet.

@sowth Huh! I didn’t know.

@paladin1 @h3artbl33d @pertho That’s true, at least for now. I opened up registration for like a day and came back to find someone had made it their own private Pirate Bay. I’m going to ease back into open enrollment as we get enough people to flag stuff.

@sowth The what now?

@sowth Hah! I had it on my C64.

Archive of Spy vs Spy cartoons from Mad Magazine: https://archive.org/details/SpyVsSpyTheCompleteCasebook

This hurts like hell: "Mad Magazine Is Shutting Down" https://jedleland.wordpress.com/2019/07/03/mad-magazine-is-shutting-down/

It's not an exaggeration to say that I learned to appreciate subversion and skepticism through their pages. It taught me to distrust all things pre-packaged and corporate. RIP, gang.

"Youtube banning security disclosures doesn't make products more secure, nor will it prevent attackers from exploiting defects -- but it will mean that users will be the last to know that they've been trusting the wrong companies, and that developers will keep on making the same stupid mistakes...forever."

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/03/nobus-r-us.html