RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

#Wireshark 4.6.3 has been released. Cheers! These releases are brought to you by the Wireshark Foundation. If you or your employer can donate, it would help us out immensely.

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**seven** Hackerone reports received in the last 16 hours. Guess what I've done today!

And yeah, you can see where this is going. And it is going.

@mwichary The "analogtv" module in XScreenSaver almost does that; it's a circuit-level simulation of NTSC and its various faults, so it's at the "analog logic" layer rather than the "physics" layer.

https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analogtv.c

You can see the effect in action on most of the images posted on the @dnalounge account.

Oil

I had to. Sorry / you're welcome.

GitHub is a top sponsor of #curl. They make a real difference. Can you say the same about whoever you work for?

Partner: Ryan is our gopher (go for).
Me: Are you calling me old? I'm not 70.
Partner: ...
Friends: ...
Me: Because gopher, the protocol, uses port 70.
Everyone: throwing things at me

I shouldn’t have to say this, but please don’t post direct links to the elementary OS ISO, especially on release day. This is my only form of income and I really don’t make a lot of it. I want to keep making elementary OS as my job, but when you bypass our pay-what-you-can ask it cuts directly into the revenue I rely on to pay rent and buy food. The vast majority of people already pay nothing when they download. Please don’t take away the biggest opportunity I have for folks to support my work

Since I am stuck with maintaining the pkg-config autoconf macros, I have updated them to suggest using pkgconf instead of pkg-config, since pkg-config is clearly not maintained anymore.

Users are better served by being pointed to a maintained pkg-config implementation...

We've provided technology education to over 250,000 students.... but we've got so much more to do. I hope you'll support our work by contributing! And, you can win some pretty cool prizes if you donate today: http://ruraltechfund.org/goldenticket.

@virtulis @hailey
glibc is a non-standard standard library while glib is a standard non-standard library

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

I'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID + OUI service at https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the #FOSS and #OSWH community. Volunteers have to review of the PRs fulfill FOSS/OSHW licensing requirements before merging PRs. #usb #opensource

Building a website in 2005: "here are a list of tips to help crawlers index your website"

2025: 'here are a list of tips to help avoid crawlers indexing your website"

What's behind the little paper door for today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent?

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@wireshark

In the 90s capturing network packets was kind of a pain. Then Ethereal came along (now #Wireshark) and suddenly anyone could capture and analyze network traffic, even from Windows!

A whole generation or two of sysadmins learned the guts of what network traffic actually looked like and how it worked by running and reading Wireshark captures.

It's still out there, happily ingesting packets.

#Wireshark 4.6.2 has been released. Cheers! These releases are brought to you by the Wireshark Foundation. If you or your employer can donate, it would help us out immensely.

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The worst thing here is we almost certainly lack functioning mechanisms to hold anyone meaningfully to account for these crimes. These were not heat-of-battle excesses or unwise orders from mid-level officers. This was premeditated, national policy, crafted and approved by the Secretary of Defense and the President.

We are in a very dark place.