Michael Chernov @VikingKong@fosstodon.org

Adobe is now telling its users they can be sued for using old versions of photoshop

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

@kev
Snaps are great to install and update, but hard to maintain and repair. Containers have really benefited from the docker ecosystem in ease of use. I ended up swapping out all my snapped applications for containerized ones, with the exception of the simplest desktop-only applications.

@erikstl @nerd7473 @mike

An interesting talk from the original developer of Node.js
10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU 2018 #nodejs #node #javascript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA

TIL: #bash provides pseudo devices for TCP and UDP connections:

echo "hello" > /dev/udp/127.0.0.1/1337

or

exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.google.com/80
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
cat <&5

I'm baffled how I've never discovered that until today.

"When you’re grown, my sweet, my love,
Please don’t go fighting wars,
But fight the men that start them
Or fight a cause that’s yours."
Kate Tempest
https://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ballad-hero

fact.

Mozilla Firefox – expired immediate signing certificate results in many disabled extensions:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978

– users report that many of their Firefox extensions are disabled
– some "security" people recommend to turn off the check for signatures → we don't recommend this at all (it's like ignoring any other certificate error which is insecure in most cases)

#mozilla #firefox #broken #certificate #extensions #authenticity

“At some point the real cost of healthcare, energy, construction, transportation, farming, and just about every other basic expense will fall by 90% as robots get involved. It would be absurd to assume we know anything about the economy in thirty years. Nothing will look the same.”

— Scott Adams

https://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964905271/robot-doctors-to-the-rescue/

Hope he's right (I think). And I hope it permanently fucks up the current US political system.

Beautiful performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_52q0djIrA

Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: "It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised" http://www.openculture.com/?p=1064281 https://t.co/ibMzK2txf7

modern software development in a nutshell

This is what users do when you create an intuitive UI.

The demon appeared in the summoning circle.
"Cool!" one of the astronauts said.
"We have summoned you," the other said, "to carry a message to Earth."
The demon glared at them. "Where. Am. I."
"In orbit. Tell Ground Control we are okay, but the solar storm killed our radios."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"You can't fav over email"

http://wondermark.com/c1120/

built myself a small #raspberrypi based handheld computer
https://hyperglitch.com/articles/hgterm

The dollmaker gave her face and hands of exquisite porcelain.
"You'll care for me," he said.
"Ny fingers cannot vend." She spoke softly through rigid lips.
"You're mean 'bend'? Force them."
"They will vreak."
"I order you."
She was never found; most parts of him were.
#Cassoland #MicroFiction

"A brand new Huawei P30 Pro smartphone has been found to be sending queries and possibly data to Chinese government servers, without the user having signed up for any Huawei services, reported OCWorkbench." - https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3685669 #Privacy #Android #Huawei