Efraim Flashner @efraim@tooot.im

The robot stood frozen in the street. A jogger passed it, stopped, and turned around.
"You okay there, buddy?"
"There is just. So. Much. News."
"Can you disconnect?"
"But."
"There'll be doom tomorrow too."
"That is comforting. How can that be?"
"Dunno. Need a hug?"
"Thank you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#Guix now officially has teams and a tool for contributors to know which team to talk to!
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-07/msg00000.html

You're drifting in The Tabernacle Quasar.
Two cargo ships attack each in a fierce battle and a big planet with maroon coloured oceans is nearby.

I was pleased to discover I hold the not only the oldest commit in #guix despite still feeling like a newcomer to the project, but I also was using a timezone offset three minutes off of UTC.

Maybe future me did this, messing around with the "guix time-machine" command, as the first guix commit was in 2012...

https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=b3b33da07097af1c61d23f662902650dcdeb25af

Or maybe the real-time clock on an aarch64 (a.k.a. arm64) machine I was using was very wonky.

We'll never know.

On July 1st 2017, exactly five years ago today, the OSS-Fuzz project “adopted” curl into their program and started running fuzz tests against it.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/07/01/5-years-on-oss-fuzz/

"The Ethics Board says we can't abduct Humans for the Galactic Zoo."
"Told you."
"So we asked for volunteers."
"Human volunteers?"
"Yes."
"You asked the most curious, reckless, and inventive species we've ever found for volunteers?"
"We got lots!"
"What's your security budget?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#DOFH excuse #54:

HTTP 419 (Server Replaced With A Teapot)

#DOFH excuse #32:

This feature is not available in your country.

Antisemitic actions increased by more than 25% in the last year in Germany :-( https://taz.de/Alte-und-neue-Antisemiten/!5861088/

I've spent most of the past year in NYC where I don't have that historical knowledge. Summer was hot and humid, but it didn't move me like seeing changes in my home of 30 years.

For guix users and FOSS enthusiast who still in Russia we organized Russian Guix Meetup #1 in Moscow. Topics are "Guix Introduction and Installation" and "Guix Deploy".

The event will be in russian, it's possible to join online:
https://youtu.be/Q2lFunyX4Ys

As well as offline, but registration is required to issue a pass to the building:
https://leader-id.ru/events/308106

#foss #floss #gnu #guix #meetup

https://cloud.tomasino.org/apps/forms/KakFXPSpgj5WD9zq

I've put together a survey about the Small Internet (#gopher, #gemini, individual webpages, small community sites) and I would love your input. If you are a small internet user, please spend a few minutes and fill in your thoughts. I'm especially interested in the open response questions. This will help inform an upcoming conference talk I'll be giving at https://mch2022.org

Also, please boost this on fedi as much as possible and feel free to re-share on other social networks and in other communities. The more responses the better.

#smallweb #smallinternet

#DOFH excuse #11:

Office 365 isn't available on Feb 29th.

git-annex is incredible software. One of the tools that powers @fossandcrafts and many other projects I work on.

Thank you @joeyh!

After a break comming back with a talk about #emacs packages in #guix

https://youtu.be/gqmZjovuomc

We have some news for you.

https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

How 'bout joining us in celebrating 10 years of #GNU #Guix, Sep. 16-18, in Paris? 🎂

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/celebrating-10-years-of-guix-in-paris/

You can already register!

#FreeSoftware #ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

#OpenStreetMap has one tile rendering server for all of USA, and that server can no longer keep up with peak US traffic.

If you, or your company,are interested in hosting a rendering node in the US (or elsewhere), please contact us.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/637