A Somewhat Social Network

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 1 day ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

I thought I was gaslighting myself, but now I confirmed it: When I go to the follow page in Friendica (Frio) it follows the target immediately on the GET, instead of just showing me the info and giving me a button for POSTing.

This is from some time the last 10 days, I believe.

Will write github issue when I get around to it.

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Andre 8 hours ago mastodon (AP)

maybe this is an implementation from the "world of RESTful thinking" 😉

@heluecht

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 1 hour ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Andre @Michael Vogel No, quite the opposite.

@Andre @Michael Vogel

Webcomic Bot 3 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago) pleroma (AP)

Webcomic Name
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Fridays For Future Wien 1 day ago (Received 1 hour ago) mastodon (AP)

Frauen leiden mehr unter den Folgen der Klimakrise als Männer!

Woran liegt das?
Durch Extremwettereignisse ist die Versorgung von schwangeren Frauen oft nicht möglich. Auch die Sterberate aufgrund von Nahrungsknappheit ist bei Mädchen und Frauen höher.
Im Durchschnitt sterben mehr Frauen bei Extremwetterereignissen als Männer!

Zu diesen Ergebnissen kam eine Analyse von 130 Studien, die die unterschiedlichen Folgen der Klimakrise für Frauen und Männer untersuchten.

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Alex Gleason 3 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago) pleroma (AP)

So… being “PCI Compliant” just means to keep checking your shit? Obviously security best practices apply, what is PCI trying to say?

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 1 hour ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Alex Gleason That security is an ongoing process, not a one-time fix?

@Alex Gleason

Ivan 15 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago) mastodon (AP)

Soo true

https://fosstodon.org/media/gtZ_6EiEXf6x_jJ__UY

wızzwızz ıv 2 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago) mastodon (AP)

This is why we have echo mode. Some fancy shells will turn it off for more fine-grained control (i.e. raw mode); configure them not to over SSH, or don't use them.

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 1 hour ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@wızzwızz ıv @Ivan Mosh!

@wızzwızz ıv @Ivan

Webcomic Bot 2 hours ago pleroma (AP)

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Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 2 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Webcomic Bot otherwise invisible fluorescent tattoos are an amazing idea, are they real?

@Webcomic Bot

Kat MCP(NT4) MCSE(Win2K) 4 days ago mastodon (AP)

I've ran over 40km this week. Way to go me!

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Kat MCP(NT4) MCSE(Win2K) 3 days ago mastodon (AP)

are you enjoying it ? I am.. I find it gets me going outside regular and I've lost weight. I tend to do two days on then have a day or two off, then another two consecutive days of 10km a day.

pizza_pal 2 hours ago mastodon (AP)

Yup, I am enjoying it a lot, it is a bit less stressful than cycling.

Kat MCP(NT4) MCSE(Win2K) 4 hours ago mastodon (AP)

I liked this article in the Guardian today about nation states and money. (In particular the UK and Covid relief debt).

I often argue that governments and nation states do not have to "balance the books" like I do with my income and outgoings. But this article explains much more coherently.

#economics #money

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/26/uk-maxed-out-credit-card-bad-economics-pandemic-austerity

#economics #money

dick_turpin 6 hours ago (Received 5 hours ago) mastodon (AP)

I think the Bushmills bottle will be making an appearance tonight. 🥃

Basil 5 hours ago mastodon (AP)

@dick_turpin

dick_turpin 5 hours ago mastodon (AP)

Fortunately I only believe in the Pond Gods

Basil 5 hours ago mastodon (AP)

My first vague memory of international football is probably Denmark wining the Euros in 92.

My first more concrete memory was England conceding the early goal against San Marino in the Work Cup qualifier.

Then it's various parts of the 94 world cup.

Maradona smacked off his tits. Ray Houghton's goal against Italy. Jack Charlton. Ramario and Bebeto. The snoozefest that was the final and Baggio with his stupid hair fudging his penalty.

Andy C 10 hours ago mastodon (AP)

Maradona passed away on the same day as George Best. I know which one affected me more.

Basil 6 hours ago mastodon (AP)

he was already a good way through his transition to a washed up fat coke head by the time I started getting seriously into football.

One of my earlier memories of international football was him screaming at the TV cameras in the 94 world cup.

Stefano Zacchiroli 9 hours ago (Received 8 hours ago) mastodon (AP)

My new hobby: getting rid of as many #dotfiles from my home dir as possible, by either moving them to XDG base dirs (~/.config, etc.) or just removing them (e.g., conffiles for apps I haven't used in 10+ years). I'm doing 10 at a time. I should be done by 2030.

#dotfiles

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Lars Wirzenius 9 hours ago (Received 8 hours ago) mastodon (AP)

Mine is currently 91. It contains such gems as .nm-system-connections.tar.xz which I assume I've created as a backup of something a long time ago, timestamp is from before I got this laptop.

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 8 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Lars Wirzenius @Stefano Zacchiroli Wow, 108, more than I expected.

Wasn't aware that `find` had a `-ls` option. That's remarkably silly, even for `find`.

@Lars Wirzenius @Stefano Zacchiroli

Josh Miller 1 day ago (Received 8 hours ago) mastodon (AP)

I don't know who needs to hear this but.

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Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 17 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

The hundredth SpaceX mission lands a stage 1 that was used for the seventh time.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-100th-falcon-9-rocket-launch

Awesome!

So, stage 1 reuse, Dragon reuse ... Stage 2 reuse when?

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Guillaume 🦗 11 hours ago ActivityPub

Yeah, you have to dissipate all the kinetic and potential energy into heat. It's a lot.

I guess they would have to do something similar to the space shuttle, which was covered in ceramic tiles that had to be changed regularly. Once you dissipated most of the energy you could use a balloon or something else. I'm not sure why you would use a balloon specifically.

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 9 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Guillaume 🦗 I'm assuming they said balloon because they figured that would be cheapest for their particular combination of factors, I don't know. =)

The Dragon capsule has a "phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator" for shield.

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/images/phenolic-impregnated-carbon-ablator-pica-heat-shield-technology-is-used-by-spacex/

I wonder if it's possible to add heat shields to the stage 2 without making it too heavy or oddly-shaped. Perhaps the balloons are intended to slow it down much higher up so it can avoid the friction and shed speed much slower. For the stage 2 it wouldn't matter if it would take several days to come down.

@Guillaume 🦗

Guillaume 🦗 9 hours ago ActivityPub

You can't slow down without avoiding friction, it's friction that slows you down!

Maybe you could slow down a little with balloons at high altitude, but if you want to lose a lot of energy you're going to have to heat something up. The energy has to go somewhere. Of course it's the air that absorbs almost all of it, but if you're surrounded by extremely hot air you have to resist to those temperatures. And I don't see how balloons could do a good job there.

Guillaume 🦗 9 hours ago ActivityPub

You can't slow down while avoiding friction, it's friction that slows you down!

Maybe you could slow down a little with balloons at high altitude, but if you want to lose a lot of energy you're going to have to heat something up. The energy has to go somewhere. Of course it's the air that absorbs almost all of it, but if you're surrounded by extremely hot air you have to resist to those temperatures. And I don't see how balloons could do a good job there.

Guillaume 🦗 9 hours ago ActivityPub

(Well technically friction is only a small part of it, it's mostly the pressure distribution around the object at those speeds, with very high pressures and temperatures behind a bow shock in the front. And most of the heating occurs through the shock, not at the surface. But the result is the same.)

Guillaume 🦗 9 hours ago ActivityPub

Hmmm... unless you can spread that energy dissipation over long times, then you can stay at relatively low temperatures. But I don't think it works for atmospheric re-entry: as you lose energy you also lose altitude, so you meet higher air densities that make you lose energy faster. I don't know, I don't have the equations for that in mind, it's an interesting question.

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 8 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Guillaume 🦗 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But I have no idea how it all works out if you try.

@Guillaume 🦗

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 8 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Github reminded me of one of my proud contributions to human knowledge, almost 3 years ago:

> I see what you did here! 🤣

> Silliest PR I ever received. LGTM. 😄

‌ https://github.com/kdeldycke/kevin-deldycke-blog/pull/2

The rendered post: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-falsehoods-lists/

It has received more silliness since, and I'd like to think I inspired some of it.

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Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 22 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

biased

or based

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Borup 14 hours ago mastodon (AP)

both...

Geofrey Sanders 9 hours ago diaspora (via DFRN)

bayside

Claes Wallin 🇸🇪🇭🇰 13 hours ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Chiptune dub is stronger than coffee.

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