Notices by Diogo Cordeiro (diogo@loadaverage.org), page 8

A great article about the Boeing 737 Max issue, and the general tendencies in engineering that lead to it:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

"the relative ease—not to mention the lack of tangible cost—of software updates has created a cultural laziness within the software engineering community. Moreover, because more and more of the hardware that we create is monitored and controlled by software, that cultural laziness is now creeping into hardware engineering—like building airliners."

Mathematical sign language: https://aperiodical.com/2019/04/mathematical-sign-language-interview-with-dr-jess-boland/

Hearing-impaired eletrical engineering researcher Jess Boland discovered that weren't enough technical terms in British Sign Language to cover the mathematics she uses in her work, so she's been creating new ones as well as promoting the ones BSL already had. Katie Steckles interviews her for The Aperiodical.

(@aperiodical has a Mathstodon account but they're letting it go stale instead of promoting their new posts...)

18 squares into 7x7 #conway #ice #cube #gosper #math #hack

Today is the 50th anniversary of RFC-1, which in a sense means that programmers have now been chatting and arguing about the internet for 50 years. https://write.as/365-rfcs/50-years-of-rfcs

Will I successfully install postmarketOS tonight?

Stay tuned!

#postmarketOS #Linux

I'm upgrading my T430 to full 1080p, but accidentally ordered the converter board for a T430s. I was able to remove the S-model connector and jam a normal T430 connector into the input port, but have no idea if this will actually work yet.

Any ideas, Mastodon?

Promotion.
Patreon.Com/chrishallbeck

@codesections
Hi! I'm a #guix contributor and some of the cool things about it are the ability to have a central declarative configuration for your whole system, the fact that you can install incompatible software (for instance if they require a different version of some dependency), the per-user profiles (and more, but with no nice UI), the reproducibility and the temporary environment (à la pypi, but much better). Feel free to ask more about these ?
@grainloom

Feelings.
Patreon.Com/chrishallbeck

Here's a thing! It's a forum, for #retrocomputing
There's a weekly digest email and an RSS feed. Sign up today!
https://retrocomputingforum.com/categories
(Boost this for extra points)

Is it just me or does this ssh key's #randomart image looks fairly close to "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by #Hokusai?

@JordiGH a VPN provider is a serious choice to make. You're going to be sending them ALL of your traffic and have to take their word for it that they won't log it or alter it. What if PIA runs on hard times and has to choose between selling your data and feeding their kids? What if they get served a secret sopeana? These are questions you HAVE to ask yourself when choosing a VPN provider. Having that decision make for you by Purism is highly questionable.

Plus, it shows favoritism to a specific commercial service provider, which I don't like. If they had shipped with built-in OpenVPN or Wireguard support with an option to select a VPN provider from a bunch of them, that'd be much much better.

:pigbutt: :gayduck: !!!!

The cutting laser works!!!

We successfully had it cut though 3mm plywood unsupervised!!!!!

The line is nice and thin and it is very very precise.

It takes longer than the CNC machine, and instead of dust there are fumes to worry about so we are making a better enclosure, but it works!!

#Engineering #FrickinLasers

RT @thecrunsher@twitter.com

Quick guide to HTTP Status codes:

1XX: Wait a sec
2XX: There ya go
3XX: Fuck off
4XX: Fuck you
5XX: Fuck

??: https://twitter.com/thecrunsher/status/1111258419087007745

Really, they'd be rushing around collecting revisions to go into the next scheduled quarterly public data update, not publishing them immediately, but you have to embellish things a little for Hollywood.
https://xkcd.com/2029/