Mirco Hansen @kosebamse@mastodon.kosebamse.com

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'.

Fediverse Conf - Feneas forum

https://talk.feneas.org/t/fediverse-conf-speakers/102

Would you like to see a #Fediverse #conference happen in #Barcelone in 2020? Come in and throw in some ideas!

#BOFH excuse #126:

it has Intel Inside

Mozilla updated its recommended configurations for server-side TLS:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Modern_compatibility

Modern configuration:
– TLS 1.3 only
– ECDSA certificate
– X25519, prime256v1, and secp384r1 curve

#mozilla #tls #https #tls13 #ecdsa

First working version: 1 stupidly long one-liner

First legible version: ~6 lines

Plus minimal error handling: ~40 lines

Plus configuration hooks: ~75 lines

Plus shellcheck overrides: ~77 lines

Plus documentary code comments: ~1KB

Plus invocation documentation (-?/-h/--help): 2.5KB

Plus README.md: ~4KB

Plus CONTRIBUTING.md: ~6KB

Version control system that preserves this evolution and lets me use commit messages to explain the logic of each step: priceless

Party time.
Patreon.Com/chrishallbeck

#BOFH excuse #452:

Somebody ran the operating system through a spelling checker.

ok wtf

#BOFH excuse #385:

Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers

#Firefox

#BOFH excuse #398:

Data for intranet got routed through the extranet and landed on the internet.