I bought a book more or less blindly and I thought it is non-fiction about the Night Witches (Russian female aviators in WW2). Now it is a novel with a Night Witch as main character and the love story starts in chapter 3 #sigh
Software review in the open source world works great apparently. The newest version of curl fixes a security bug that exists since before 1999 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/curl_carried_auth_leak_bug_practically_forever/ #manyeyes
Es gibt das kommunistische Manifest als Kindle-Edition für 99 Cent. Kein Vermerk, ob das DRM entfernt wurde…
TIL: the earth rotation slows down every 25-30 years which probably leads to an increase of earthquakes ca every 32 years
Which reminds me: does anyone have an idea how it came to those fugly packaging covers for the Megaman Classic-games in comparison to these great 80s-manga-style covers of Rockman?
Die aktuelle ???-Folge Verbrechen im Nichts ist wirklich gut. Keine großen Sachen, eher Kleineres, man kann ein wenig miträtseln, und eine ordentliche Auslösung. Sehr schön.
This year doesn’t start good. A second funeral I need to go already… and that one came far more shockingly and surprising.
I got today an invitation to a funeral I already knew of and expected. But it hit harder than I thought it would.
I wonder what the problem with GNU coreutils so called bloat is. Does it make them slower (any benchmarks)? Does it introduce far more bugs? What is the problem with it?
Is there any desktop environment on FreeBSD that is actually close to its current version? Gnome-Shell is on 3.18 (vs 3.26), Cinnamon is on 2.4 (3.6), KDE-Plasma is not even available on the official ports-tree yet…
„Im Hexadezimalcode des Bootloaders hat der Beschuldigte den Text „Fick dich du scheiss KT!“ eingetragen.“
lol (KT = Kriminaltechnik)
Adam Segal in „The Hacked World“ about spear-phishing mails: „These multiphased attacks, often called advanced persistent threats, are in fact less advanced and much more persistent.“