Switzerland just lost a village because #ClimateChange caused a glacier and permafrost to vanish, causing a landslide of 3 million cubic metres. It really is that simple.

“Stop trying to fix the user. It’s not the user’s fault if they click on a link and it infects their system. It’s not their fault if they plug in a strange USB drive or ignore a warning message that they can’t understand. It’s not even their fault if they get fooled by a look-alike bank website and lose their money. The problem is that we’ve designed these systems to be so insecure that regular, nontechnical people can’t use them with confidence. We’re using security awareness campaigns to cover up bad system design.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/why-take9-wont-improve-cybersecurity.html

The actor Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe and “Jean-Luc Picard is aware of him” and other little-known Star Trek facts. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/

Shots fired! :D #English #UK #US

The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html

"Because I deserved support in that moment. I deserved having my boss taking me to the side to have a coffee and asking me how I was doing. I deserved having somebody more in my team to help me figure out a new technical solution for that project, instead of leaving me alone. I deserved having a product owner communicating issues to that customer. I deserved having someone giving a fucking shit about my mental health."

https://akos.ma/blog/radio-silence/

If you ran a conference, didn’t invite a person as keynote speaker, that person then runs a vendetta against you, creates a new org, a new conference and talks bad about you just to destroy you. Because his ego is hurt.

Would you invite that person to the last version of that conference (because that person succeeded in destroying it) as keynote speaker?!

@rubycentral : yes, of course we would.

🤦

https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/114585914969796428

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Solarpunk conference gear

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"Mike gave a legendary talk called “F*ck You, Pay Me,” with a title inspired by a quote from the late Ray Liotta in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.”

What is interesting about this talk is that, despite being primarily directed to designers, its contents are immediately suitable for freelancing software engineers, a profession whose work is, at least since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, inextricably linked to that of designers."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/mike-monteiro/

"William Zani, one of the core programmers of the first BASIC compiler, tells the story of the demo of the DTSS system at the San Francisco AFIPS 1964 conference (minute 26:17), sending a BASIC program to from San Francisco to Hanover, New Hampshire over a telephone line, live in front of an audience, who (I quote) “went bananas”."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/dartmouth-college/

"Hard to believe, but it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming “Redmond, start your photocopiers” or “Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista”. The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the “Longhorn” saga."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/dave-plummer/

"Bill Gates has never received a résumé from anyone who read all of TAOCP. There’s an urban legend (now sadly debunked) that Steve Jobs told Knuth he had “read all of his books”, to which Knuth replied “you are full of crap”.

While that tale is not true, nobody including Steve Jobs can say that they have read all of TAOCP. The reason is simple: it isn’t finished yet."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-art-of-the-art-of-computer-programming/

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

"GO TO HELL [...] is not what we want."

(from the manual of North Star BASIC, p. 180):

https://shrtn.escalar.pt/DYk2

A recent study: “Ibn al-Shatir was the first astronomer to have successfully challenged the Ptolemaic cosmological system of planets revolving around Earth and corrected the theory’s inaccuracies about two centuries before Copernicus.” https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/copernicusmedieval-arab-astronomer/

Sorry, I couldn't resist

Article by R. N. West on how to use #pandoc in an advanced way in order to generate corporate-styled Word documents.
The post explains custom styles, shows how #openxml templates can be used, and includes a short primer on important aspects of the #docx-format.
https://rnwest.engineer/auto-generate-docx-with-pandoc/

America is, since 1945, singlehandedly the biggest driver of integration and unity for Europe.

First through liberation and encouragement, now through insults and threats.