Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 29

Hmmm https://cal.streetsblog.org/2019/06/18/parking-protected-bike-lanes-even-when-built-on-the-cheap-work-really-well/#new_tab

@qrs frankly if the QR code read "NO NERDS AT OUR WEDDING" that would have been amazing

Successfully reconstructed the PNG by hand-generating a correct CRC and fixing the IHDR fields so that the QR code can be displayed (after OCR'ing the fine print on the invitation, figuring out the rotN-cipher and uudecoding the text). Hopefully I'm cool enough to go to their wedding now that I have decoded the invite.

Forget the official name, I heard a better one:

Panopticoin.

It's so apt and succint.

can we as a society finally acknowledge that touch screens are worse than physical buttons in most applications

my fave thing about reactors is, we have this super complex process to refine uranium into the isotopes we want for fission, make a super complex system of control rods and other things to control the reaction, work out how all the byproducts affect the neutrons affecting the self-sustained uranium fission that creates heat... to boil some fucking water like a bigass kettle

Savage indexing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/06/18/spot-the-interesting-entry/

Did you know that news used to be good

My next goal is to build, test, release, and deploy every time the developer stops typing for more than 300 milliseconds. I won't even wait for them to save the buffer, I'll just take whatever they have in the buffer and pretend it's been saved and committed and pushed.

Having to manually save files and commit changes is such an unnecessary overhead, which slows down development and progress for no good reason at all.

This toot may be a joke.

Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service issues found in Linux and FreeBSD kernels:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/17/5

Red alert: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack

New shirt for Pride

I like my coffee how I like my fundamental nuclear forces.

Coot Yells At Own Ass and Duck Butts are about to get submitted everywhere

Okay so, recipe. Cut the napa cabbage lengthwise, coat it in oil and salt and pepper. Grill each piece for 3 minutes on each side. Chop up into little pieces. Make a Cole slaw style sauce (many recipes available online but I like mayo + mustard + apple cider vinegar in equal proportions) and mix it all together. Incredible on its own or as a condiment on sandwiches

At the advice of my farmers market I'm attempting grilled napa cabbage

What's the worst thing about having the street in front of your house destroyed?

My grandparents decided to learn Welsh when they were 65. After two years of lessons in it (and talking Welsh with me at home, I was going to a Welsh school and was already fluent), they were fluent. My grandmother, around the same time, decided to overcome her phobia of water and had me teach her how to swim. She'd swim laps with me in the pool up into her 80s.

You're not too old and it's not too late to try something new.