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@brennen
My Festina.
I got this as a birthday present for my 25th birthday. I'm 47 now. It still works perfectly, though it's badly in need of a service; its battery lived for about two years when I first got it, now it needs replacement after six months.
I've swam with it, dropped it, did all kinds of things to it, and it has survived all that and more.
My Festina.
I got this as a birthday present for my 25th birthday. I'm 47 now. It still works perfectly, though it's badly in need of a service; its battery lived for about two years when I first got it, now it needs replacement after six months.
I've swam with it, dropped it, did all kinds of things to it, and it has survived all that and more.
Morbid thought
Morbid thought
@CliftonR
A friend once told me a story of a guy who suddenly passed away of a heart attack while working on an overhaul of one of his customers' networks and websites. He'd moved things to his own servers while reinstalling the customer's kit, then when he passed away and his next of kin stopped paying the bills for the server, suddenly the customer's entire network stopped working.
@mjg59 @Mossop
A friend once told me a story of a guy who suddenly passed away of a heart attack while working on an overhaul of one of his customers' networks and websites. He'd moved things to his own servers while reinstalling the customer's kit, then when he passed away and his next of kin stopped paying the bills for the server, suddenly the customer's entire network stopped working.
@mjg59 @Mossop
Current mood ...
/via https://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/809105361046011904
@fromjason
The very word "bipartisan", to me, shows everything that is wrong with US politics. There are far more opinions than just two, but simply because your political system, practically, only allows two parties that matter, the very stupid idea that there are only two valid opinions has been normalised.
You guys need to get rid of FPTP, but I guess that's too far of a goal...
The very word "bipartisan", to me, shows everything that is wrong with US politics. There are far more opinions than just two, but simply because your political system, practically, only allows two parties that matter, the very stupid idea that there are only two valid opinions has been normalised.
You guys need to get rid of FPTP, but I guess that's too far of a goal...
@fromjason
*Thank* you.
Not too long ago, I was having a conversation about US politics with someone. He at one point out right said, "you don't like Trump, so I'll assume you like Biden", and I was like, what. How does my disliking one person imply even an opinion about the other?
I mean, do I think Biden was a better President than Trump? Sure. But that doesn't mean I like the guy.
*Thank* you.
Not too long ago, I was having a conversation about US politics with someone. He at one point out right said, "you don't like Trump, so I'll assume you like Biden", and I was like, what. How does my disliking one person imply even an opinion about the other?
I mean, do I think Biden was a better President than Trump? Sure. But that doesn't mean I like the guy.
@svuorela
Not too bad. For me it's "everything except day one of OSDEM, and all of FOSDEM 2020 and FOSDEM 2023".
The first because I didn't realise what I was going to be missing, the second because I was getting married that month, and the third because I couldn't take time off.
Now that I'm stepping down from organising I will probably start missing more though...
@gargle
Not too bad. For me it's "everything except day one of OSDEM, and all of FOSDEM 2020 and FOSDEM 2023".
The first because I didn't realise what I was going to be missing, the second because I was getting married that month, and the third because I couldn't take time off.
Now that I'm stepping down from organising I will probably start missing more though...
@gargle
@svuorela
The last time I could have someone sleep in that office for FOSDEM was in 2012, as that year the landlord passed away and our rent was not renewed.
I vaguely remember it was not that year that you slept there though. Maybe 2008?
As to the buildings, https://FOSDEM.org/2026/archives has links to all the older, archived FOSDEM sites, you could look at the schedules and see which one meets the building usage you remember?
The last time I could have someone sleep in that office for FOSDEM was in 2012, as that year the landlord passed away and our rent was not renewed.
I vaguely remember it was not that year that you slept there though. Maybe 2008?
As to the buildings, https://FOSDEM.org/2026/archives has links to all the older, archived FOSDEM sites, you could look at the schedules and see which one meets the building usage you remember?
@mirabilos
Even if that's the case, data at rest encrypted five to ten years from now needs encryption keys that are secure 10 to 20 years from that point.
Given how glacially slow it is to update encryption protocols and to verify that the algorithms are safe, it makes sense to rather be too soon than too late.
@bascule
Even if that's the case, data at rest encrypted five to ten years from now needs encryption keys that are secure 10 to 20 years from that point.
Given how glacially slow it is to update encryption protocols and to verify that the algorithms are safe, it makes sense to rather be too soon than too late.
@bascule
@liw
I question the 'famous' part of your post. You are pretty famous be association.
I don't mention whether this is a blessing or a curse...
@bagder @smallsees @giacomo
I question the 'famous' part of your post. You are pretty famous be association.
I don't mention whether this is a blessing or a curse...
@bagder @smallsees @giacomo
@nemobis
It doesn't. But then, none of this does. This whole law is about trying to force volunteers into doing things without being paid for that. I call BS.
If you want guarantees, pay someone for that. What happens next is between you and whomever you end up paying.
It doesn't. But then, none of this does. This whole law is about trying to force volunteers into doing things without being paid for that. I call BS.
If you want guarantees, pay someone for that. What happens next is between you and whomever you end up paying.
@bagder
Thanks, I gave feedback.
Basically the whole idea is stupid to me. I pointed out that nothing should happen without contracts being signed between attester and manufacturer, that if things end up being wrong that should be handled in the contract, and that you can't force unpaid volunteers to do anything because they can always choose to walk away from volunteering anyway.
Thanks, I gave feedback.
Basically the whole idea is stupid to me. I pointed out that nothing should happen without contracts being signed between attester and manufacturer, that if things end up being wrong that should be handled in the contract, and that you can't force unpaid volunteers to do anything because they can always choose to walk away from volunteering anyway.
@jpmens
You realise that you not telling me half the story gets me more bothered than anything, right? 😉
Anyway, that talk was indeed waiting for the speaker or devroom organiser to look at it. But here's my present to you. The talk is now transcoding and will be viewable some time tomorrow.
Kind of weird that the person who taught me about Ansible as 'infrastructure without writing any line of code' is now interested in that talk though, but you do you 😉
You realise that you not telling me half the story gets me more bothered than anything, right? 😉
Anyway, that talk was indeed waiting for the speaker or devroom organiser to look at it. But here's my present to you. The talk is now transcoding and will be viewable some time tomorrow.
Kind of weird that the person who taught me about Ansible as 'infrastructure without writing any line of code' is now interested in that talk though, but you do you 😉
@jpmens
If you have a title of the talk in question, I might be able to give you actual information on it 😉
If you have a title of the talk in question, I might be able to give you actual information on it 😉
@jpmens
That said, there are also a few states where no job needs to be dispatched and things happen out of band. In the 'preview' state, progress will stay at 'waiting' until a human reviews the video; in the 'publishing' state, progress remains at 'waiting' until the video is visible on at least one of our mirrors.
There is no 'waiting' state, but hopefully this answers your question 😉
That said, there are also a few states where no job needs to be dispatched and things happen out of band. In the 'preview' state, progress will stay at 'waiting' until a human reviews the video; in the 'publishing' state, progress remains at 'waiting' until the video is visible on at least one of our mirrors.
There is no 'waiting' state, but hopefully this answers your question 😉
@jpmens
There are two states, the 'state' and the 'progress'.
The state defines what needs to happen to the talk: transcoding, uploading, generating previews, etc.
The progress defines what is happening within the state. 'waiting' means it is waiting for a dispatcher to pick it up, 'scheduled' means it was dispatched but is waiting for the script to start running, 'running' and 'done' are self-explanatory.
There are two states, the 'state' and the 'progress'.
The state defines what needs to happen to the talk: transcoding, uploading, generating previews, etc.
The progress defines what is happening within the state. 'waiting' means it is waiting for a dispatcher to pick it up, 'scheduled' means it was dispatched but is waiting for the script to start running, 'running' and 'done' are self-explanatory.
I don't know who was first: the person who invented the word 'Chai' (as in the tea) or the person who invented the word 'Chia' (as in the seeds), but I do hope that whomever wasn't was appropriately punished for all the auto-correction madness they inflicted upon us.