Notices by maiki (maiki@mastodon.sdf.org), page 3

Here’s how scammers can get into your cellphone — and what you can do about it
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/heres-how-scammers-can-get-into-your-cellphone-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Nice to see more companies put the ever controversial "respect other players" and "kick toxic dipshits out of your gaming groups" advice in their books

boosting excerpt from https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1161615769764950017 thread

Luis Villa:
The term ‘bus factor’ has bothered me since we started Tidelift
—because buses are (basically) never the cause of bad project health! So I wrote about it—and my slightly tongue-in-cheek suggested replacement, boss factor.

https://blog.tidelift.com/bus-factor-boss-factor-and-the-economics-of-disappearing-maintainers

Haaaah I forgot about when I was trying to make someone laugh here and drew unix monsters. I just unearthed them from a box. Xargs is still cutest.

So my house was built in the '90s (northeast US). Today we found out that at every corner of each room there is something magnetic behind the walls. The magnetism is independent of height along the wall, and only in the corners. Anyone know about something metal being put along the studs or in the walls in turn-of-century homes?

#DSCOVR in safe mode at L1, a million miles away... a #spacecraft with a long history. Thanks Al Gore!

"DSCOVR has been designed for a Gyro-Less Safe Mode Attitude Control – relying only on sun sensor readings and information from the reaction wheels. The safehold system uses wheel tachometers to estimate spacecraft body rates about the sun vector in order to achieve a sufficient accuracy in sun-pointing during safe mode periods."

Lots of info:
http://spaceflight101.com/dscovr

#space

@mala

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

De-calf-inated.

I'm really not excited for the future where cash is eliminated and you have to have an account on a dominant social media platform and a working surveillance device to buy anything. Also, in general, I find it very hard to care about how giant companies split the transaction fees.

#onthisday in #1987 SDF-1 received its first caller at 300 baud #happybirthday to this #anime #bbs still here and growing after 32 years #netbsd #unix50 #thankyou ARPA members #cake

peter parkour