Mirco Hansen @kosebamse@mastodon.kosebamse.com

People in turkey and bulgaria hang their jackets on trees during winter for homeless or poor people , a small gesture can make someones happiness...

Building codes in hurricane zones rely on studies of how easily flying debris can break residential windows. If you're looking for a science fair project idea and you hate your neighbors, I'm sure they could always use more data!
https://xkcd.com/2234/

Data leak that affects 1.2 billion people:

https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/

– Many data sets contain lots of personal data.
– Sources of the leak are likely People Data Labs, and OxyData, so-called data enrichment companies.
– Data was hosted on an unprotected Elasticsearch server, accessible by everyone.

#dataleak #leak #privacy #peopledatalabs #oxydata #elasticsearch

wow.

WOW.

Y'all watch this seriously. Great job @aral

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd

New blog post: How to migrate from VSCode to VSCodium (the best code editor ever minus the corporate bullshit)

https://ar.al/2019/10/24/how-to-migrate-from-vscode-to-vscodium-the-best-code-editor-ever-minus-the-corporate-bullshit/

With thanks to @janci

#VSCodium #VSCode #FOSS

People using single letter variable names be like:
Because f u thats y

They can point to the law and tell us this is legal. They can point to the world and say everything is okay.

I disagree.

#BOFH excuse #293:

You must've hit the wrong any key.

Das nenne ich mal gelungene Interviewfrage 👍 https://amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/zdf-interview-mit-bjoern-hoecke-100.html

Habe mich heute Mittag mit nem Kollegen ca 5 Minuten lang darüber unterhalten, wie man Luftfeuchtigkeit im Raum messen und mit Philips Hue visualisieren könnte.

Zwei Stunden später hat er auf dem Handy in der Amazon App fast ausschließlich Werbung / Angebote für Luftentfeuchter. Wir können Umwege über Websuchen etc ausschließen. Das war vorher bei uns beiden nie ein Thema. Aktuell deutet also alles darauf hin, dass wir von einem / seinem Smartphone belauscht und user Gespräch analysiert wurde.

Largest black hole ever observed. 40 billion times the size of our Sun, which itself is one million times the size of Earth, which is about twice the size of yo mama. 🌎☀️⚫️

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614097/astronomers-have-discovered-the-largest-black-hole-ever-observed/

#BOFH excuse #292:

We ran out of dial tone and we're and waiting for the phone company to deliver another bottle.

The Four Seasons

#BOFH excuse #191:

Just type 'mv * /dev/null'.