Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social
Dad, husband. PhD in Byzantine Archaeology. I work as a civil servant, advocate open data and develop FOSS, mostly in Python and R. Anti-fascist. 🐦stekosteko
RT @yoz@twitter.com: I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories.
This one, retold by @ferlatte@twitter.com, happened in the mid-2000s.
The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing.
But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs.
Last year, a neighbour's enormous bull literally burst through a stone wall to get to my cows. This little chap is the unexpected result!
@mrb that was my first attempt, but there are at least two separate settings that are buried down in different menus, and it's so inconvenient that I can't bother doing that 2 or 3 times a day https://androidforums.com/threads/k9-mail-how-to-turn-off-temporarily.394763/
Problem: I use my own device to access work email when I'm working away from the office (generally twice a week). I don't want to receive work emails in the evening, weekends etc. So far I've used K-9Mail with two separate accounts, personal and work.
Proposed solution: since work email is an Exchange server, install Outlook on my Android device, and disable notifications when I'm not at work. I'm not happy to install proprietary software, but #selfcare is more important in this specific case.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
Fun fact: we're not 100% sure where the story of Aladdin came from.
It wasn't in the original "1,001 Nights"/"Arabian Nights"; it appeared in the 1709 French translation, written by Antoine Galland, but while he claimed he'd heard it from a Syrian monk, there's no other record of the story before Galland's version of the Nights.
I was here this morning, Forte dell'Annunziata in #Ventimiglia #Italia #Italy #Riviera #Liguria
Better Blocker’s HTTP Archive (HAR) collection now available over DAT
Our evolving collection of HAR files from our web crawls in search of trackers is now available over DAT for researchers and anyone else who’s interested under Creative Commons ShareAlike license:
DAT link:
dat://2f063e531e6352f0326b8e0f076d74fc6fd694d77d4d5dafeb77659847214247
Please do let me know how you get on if you have a play with it. https://mastodon.ar.al/media/6fJB_6ySkSXbffot2J4
Hey all, I need some help rethinking community calls for #opensource projects.
At Moodle, as we did at Mozilla, I've been using a public Etherpad for people to:
- Sign in
- Introduce themselves
- Contribute ideas to the project
We're also using Zoom to:
- Discuss things via video and audio
- Record the call for later viewing
After a conversation with our data privacy lead today, I've got to delete the existing data we've captured in this way, and come up with a new approach.
Any ideas? 🙃
150 minutes on a train to go work today - and 130 more to go back home. That makes 280 minutes, and the actual work will last roughly the same. Everything is clocked and tallied, however.
The whole "let me just pay for it, remove ads" argument against online tracking is problematic: Not everyone has the spare cash to pay for a bunch of online services.
"I saw you walk, why do you use a wheelchair?"
"You know math, why do you use Excel?"
"If I didn't, it would take all day. Oh. Okay. Sorry."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories
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@gc as an Italian citizen, this made me laugh more than expected
an olive garden commercial written by a bot that watched 1000 hours of olive garden commercials
13 giugno 1979. A New York muore Demetrio Stratos.
Almost certainly there are other container systems which aren't receiving unspecified funding from the CIA. Docker could also be bought by Microsoft, Facebook or another big tech company and then do you really want your system associated with that? Definitely worth consideration.
«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
D'après les reportages, en archéologie, un trésor est inestimable ou n'est pas !
@ksteimel it's TODO.org actually 😉
