Even more on Sydney's mysterious tar balls

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/10/whats-really-behind-the-sticky-blobs-on-our-beaches-the-chemistry-of-tar-balls-explained

#science #marinescience #TarBalls #Sydney #academia

I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.

My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:

Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coogee-beach-tar-balls-everything-you-need-to-know/104482828

#science #oceans #TarBalls #Sydney #academia #scicomms

The random shit washing up on Sydney beaches meme was cool when it was bricks of cocaine. Not such a fan of the tar balls TBH. #tarballs #cocaine #GloriousSydney

Ah. Destroying the living world once again.

#tarballs #oilleak

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/coogee-beach-has-been-closed-after-black-tar-balls-found/news-story/76248c91356467e2bff43bfa92553752

@isotopp @eliasp @Zugschlus personally, I'm not warm with #Memenetes and I think that #BSDjails, #bhyve and jist usibg a friggin #git to version #config files and #tarballs to distribute binaries works well enough when everythin else fails.

@zenbrowser Nice! Would you pls publish a regular page on your site with all the #hashsums / #checksums for the #tarballs? Alternatively provide these in your #github pages? Eg, github.com/zen-browser/desktop… really should include these sums, but afaict does not. This request is for both Stable & Twilight.

#ZenBrowser

I know how to bootstrap.

And I have backups and I know how to use them.

#GitHub #Tarballs

In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax" https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240417053301 #openbsd #tar #archiving #tarballs #backup

Woo-hoo! I just did my half-yearly sweep through all the issues I've got open against other peoples' code, and ... one of them got fixed! The ticket wasn't closed, and it's not mentioned in the #ChangeLog so I think it was #FixedByMistake. It was to do with the #PaxHeader problem in release #tarballs on #Solaris, so I assume it was fixed by the author using a different version of tar for the next release, or tweaking his build/release process. But regardless of what happened I am happy.