Hacker Jeopardy session 1 at WHY2025 in .nl.

That middle category has surprised and delighted me :D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEtQgidBpSI

yeah github is the ai powered... hold up the page isn't loading ... yeah so github is ... yeah i'm just going to open this in a new tab, there we go yeah so github is the world's leading ai powered platform for collaboration, and yeah i think the page has almost loaded now, one sec

You can now use the tkagg backend of #matplotlib in uv-installed #python binaries!

https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/issues/129#issuecomment-3169282440

Every t.co link features a Surprise Implicit Dependency on the geopolitical good faith of Colombia. Every bit.ly link takes the same dependency on Libya. If Denmark wanted the goo.gl domain, Denmark could just take it. A lot of Creative Commons work has a baffling dependency on the kindness of the Cocos Islands.

Every, _every_ short URL service advertises tracking and metrics features, that whole field is a privacy disaster. "Fits in a tweet" doesn't matter anymore.

It's all just dumb.

Seen a few clips from the #TV #comedy #Mandy, looks fun. But once again, as with so many other British shows, it is not available anywhere for streaming (via legal ways). Not #Britbox (which never has anything), and not anything else either.

@BBCRD , if you guys have any influence on anything, please fix this (btw, back in the day, #BBC Redux was basically perfect).

@mjg "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson may be helpful. See https://calculusmadeeasy.org/ for an online version.

@jalefkowit

"HoW dO We IMprOVe EdUcaTIoN??"

People act like it's a big mystery but it's not?

1. Better educated teachers.
2. More experienced teachers. (as in a ratio to new teachers)
3. Limit class size to 20 students aim for an average of 14.
4. Equip schools with sufficient materials eg: buildings that are safe and functional, internet that works, computers for students, you know the materials.

Most "education innovations" are trying to skip this stuff and use something else instead to save money.

@whitequark You awaken in an unfamiliar bed, alone. You jolt upright, but "you" are not you; searching for the restroom, you face the mirror and see an unfamiliar face.

Your momentary panic is interrupted by a long beep from "your" bedroom. Cautiously, you return to find an IBM PC, its monochrome green CRT reading:

It is 1985 JANUARY 17 0643
You are CLYDE JOHNSON in ONTARIO
Execution of your program will resume here
Transfer complete; longjmp2() returned successfully.

if you've never read RFC 2119, you could listen to it now

https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

i heard there was a secret ooze
that turned four reptiles into dudes
but you don't really care for turtles do ya

they battle crime throughout the night
as splinter taught them how to fight
and from the sewers came a cowabunga

cowabunga, cowabunga
cowabunga, cowa-buuu-ngaaa ~🎵

I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration.

It's of course just a big fat lie. Munich is since 20+ years growing their Open Source footprint. They are sharing and they are growing their use of open source.

https://opensource.muenchen.de

Yes officer, these are all my social media handles from the past 5 years. Pages 4-7 are lewd alts on Mastodon servers that collapsed due to admin drama

Hot take: I don't think a useful response to the open source maintenance crisis is 'throw money at people'. One reason is that there's not reliable full time paid work maintaining things for all of the many, many scattered maintainers out there.

The real answer is 'corporations use less open source code', but that's the one answer corporations don't want to hear. (But they're going to be forced into it by eg the EU CRA.)

When will conferences start accepting speaker uefis already? Speaker bios are obsolete technology and do not provide for secure boots. We don't want speakers to have insecure boots, while giving a talk. That's too dangerous for everyone involved.

@mhoye Here's one group working on a vaguely similar problem:

https://bowshock.nl/irc/

SISYPHUS FM
NON STOP CLASSIC ROCK'N'ROLL

@kushal Sounds like a job for https://github.com/glyph/Fritter by @glyph