NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

In the course of the :Hosting for yourself and others: group we decided to set up our own Mastodon instance as a collective project.

The kickoff meeting for this will be this Saturday, 04-Nov-2017, 15:00–18:00, at Finowstraße 2a, 10247 Berlin

and we'll try to find a regular date that fits as many people's schedule as possible from there on.

Hope to see you there!

Vidya game idea: a post apocalyptic game where ppl are actually not horrible but hippies and queers instead and are trying to rebuild the world and grow vegetables and rediscover science and like instead of trying to kill mutants or whatever they try to live with them or at least make peace.

#documentation #writers do you have any insight in sending Alice and Bob to retirement homes? I feel like the reference handbook I'm writing (and rewriting) could be more "fresh" without the old Alice and Bob examples (though I have already made Alice and Bob addressable via cases of 'their' as an experiment in change of text style).

You know one of the things I love?

Ghostery remains at 0 the whole time I use Mastodon. No tracking pixels, no analytics.

It's nice. Thanks @Gargron

I want to do a bit of research on opinions on federation for my #decentwebeu project. I'm digging for arguments in favor of decentralising. Please boost and/or answer any of these questions:

1) How aware are you of the federated nature of this network in your day-to-day use?

2) Which, if any, concepts of federated networks do you find challenging, confusing or foreign?

3) Why are federated networks "better" than centralised social networks (silos)?

(The last question is biased, roll with it)

There seems to be a MAJOR Signal-Desktop bug that allows a person to send and receive messages of another person. That should never be possible to happen! Reason still unclear as of now, help track it down? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1673

GitLab drops the CLA to become more community friendly and follows best practice in Free Software. As a result Debian and GNOME plan to migrate their communities and projects to GitLab. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-license #gitlab #cla #dco #gnome #debian

IPv6 Address Planning in GavleNet

"A /29, from which we use a /32 for FTTH
... from which we have up to 4,095 /44s to assign to switches
... from each /44 we have sixteen /48s to assign to VLANs
... from each /48 we have 256 /56s to assign to customers
... from each /56, the customer has 256 networks to assign as they see fit!"

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/teklov/ipv6-address-planning-in-gavlenet

Simple and easy to understand, nice.

💯 👌🏾

#networking | #ipv6

Hey, @Gargron , I wanted you to see this quote. I think it's relevant to Mastodon. <3

Thank you again, by the way. ^_^

"It is measured not by how much wealth is generated but by how people move from outrage to creating a beloved community. This kind of work is not frantic, 24/7 activism, but designed to be sustainable over time and sustaining of each other. It grows."

-- Nick Mirzoeff, about Grace Lee Boggs' methods of activism

#TechHalloween you discover you dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition to the wrong partition.

we have power ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 we dont need more or better leaders 🔫👮‍♀️🚔⚖️👩‍⚖️🏛️ we have each other 👭💃👫👬 together, we got this 😎🌈💕 #WeGotThis https://t.co/rKE1e4rwNK

RT @Th3_Rest0ration @xychelsea Your message is incredibly unclear. I wish you had some sort of “manifesto” so that I could understand you better.

Debugging memory corruption in C; a latent, hard-to-hit bug in the file chooser. I think an I/O handler is firing in idle after its closure data has been freed. Rr and valgrind tell me nothing. This is the kind of time wasting bullshit that Rust would prevent.

I'm now home from #RIPE75. Was a big success, lots of (first time!) participants from the region, and lots of excellent presentations.

The slides/video/stenographer transcripts are up at https://ripe75.ripe.net/

Hugge presented about the new optical network he is managing in Sweden.

they use a 4G connection to get access to the routers, so they can be installed completely from remote, without any preconfiguration.

this allowed them to aave their engineer time during initial install, major outages, and upgrades/replacements.

#ripe75 #networking #outofband

To nobody's surprise, gmail is still fighting anti-spam techniques, by not handling email servers that do greylisting.

greylisting is a technique where the email server looks at the IP address of a connection. if it doesn't know the IP, then it replies with 'temp error, try again later'. If the sender tries again after 30 minutes, then it is accepted. spammers never retry. they also might be on a punish list by then.

gmail retries from many different addresses, rarely from one already tried.

This is such an interesting read:

http://veekaybee.github.io/2017/02/22/being-a-woman-in-programming-in-the-soviet-union/

"The other difference is gender of this profession. In the United States, it is more male-dominated. In Russia as I was starting my professional life, it was considered more of a female occupation. In both programs I studied , girls represented 100% of the class. Guys would go for something that was considered more masculine. These choices included majors like construction engineering and mechanical engineering."