Ricardo Martins 🐈💨 @meqif@octodon.social
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10X programmer: ten times more productive
0x10X programmer: sixteen times more productive if you can talk to them in hex
010X programmer: eight times more productive, but can toggle a bootloader for Spacewar into a PDP-1 from memory
0b10X programmer: either twice as productive at writing Intel CPU microcode, or two thousand eight hundred and thirty two times more productive at parsing badly formatted hex
4X programmer: four times more productive at developing space conquest games
the year is 2028, you're searching for a new laptop. Most of them use 48-core ARMv13 CPUs, clocked at the strange value of 555 mhz. After filtering out those that use LTO-10 tape storage, you find one that sticks out at you. It's a pastel teal convertible and the logo looks like a screaming skull. In the checkout you're given the choice between Windows 10.9b and MINIX 6. You flip a coin to make the choice, and it lands on its edge.
[97] During the Hydrocarbon Era (ca 1790-2040 CE), humans loved burning so much, they would ritually inhale smoke. - A brief history of Earth, 2357 CE
//We are approaching the end of the fossil-fuel-burning era, coincidentally at the same time tobacco smoking is declining in many parts of the world. Will future historians make a distinction between these two habits? Story by
@MicroSFF
https://storyseedvault.com/2018/01/13/97//
Just replaced the left fan in my 2013 Macbook Pro [1]. Looks like the surgery was a success, the patient is now whisper-quiet like it used to be when it was new. 🤓
However, I noticed most of the battery cells are a bit bloated, which is concerning. Replacing those would be a massive pain in the rear. 😒 [2]
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Left+Fan+Replacement/23398
[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Display+Late+2013+Battery+Replacement/89280
Just spent half an hour looking for my Fitbit with a Bluetooth LE scanner app. The bastard was hiding under the couch. No wonder I couldn't find it! 
Compromising IPv4 networks via IPv6 https://blog.fox-it.com/2018/01/11/mitm6-compromising-ipv4-networks-via-ipv6/ #pentest #redteam #WPAD #Windows #MITM https://t.co/c3nMPJnKIh
So recently in discussion, @lindar pitched an idea I really liked. Here it is, with an addition by me, so it's not hidden in threads. Please share and use if you like it.
The idea is that interacting with other folks' selfies can be somewhat fraught because you don't know where their boundaries are. And asking, "Can I compliment your appearance?" sort of short-circuits consent.
So when you post a #selfie, add tags:
• nocom (no comments/compliments)
• okcom (comments/compliments OK)
• rqcom (comments/compliments requested)
Also, if you want to specify the difference, you could replace -com with -flirt and/or use them in combination like [rqcom, noflirt].
Today I learned about tail attacks -- a kind of low-volume #DDoS attack that raises the tail latency of the target application. This sort of attack is wonderfully sneaky and hard to detect because it's based on short traffic pulses, unlike the more traditional torrent of packets, and just makes the victim service perform worse.
http://blog.acolyer.org/2017/12/11/tail-attacks-on-web-applications/
Really good article in the Guardian on depression:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/is-everything-you-think-you-know-about-depression-wrong-johann-hari-lost-connections
Via @anarchismhub
Reminds me of the similar discovery about drug abuse from rat park:
http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
We need (amongst other things) purpose and agency in our lives, when we lack this we become unhappy, this may lead to depression and/or drug abuse.
Slowly but surely,
reality is catching up with anime
Let's try this Mastodon thing again. 
