Alan Pearce @alanpearce@mastodon.at

Meteorologists and scientists never imagined that there would be a need for a category 6 storm, with winds that exceed 200 miles per hour on a sustained basis, sweeping away everything in its path. Until now, such a storm wasn’t possible, so there was no need for a new category above category 5.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/hurricane-category-6-this-is-how-world-ends-book-climate-change

Consider: Names are a dark ritual to summon each other, and therefore anyone who uses the wrong ritual to try to summon you either does not deserve you, or deserves whatever happens because of their failed ritual

I've distilled my home page down to the essentials.

https://interi.org

@kuketzblog Du schriebst ja schon das Web ist kaputt. Auf Englisch heißt das "Bullshit Web", und beschreibt das Gleiche in anderen Details: https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

Living close to nature and spending time outside has significant and wide-ranging health benefits - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/it-s-official-spending-time-outside-is-good-for-you

I could say I'm a sysadmin but I'm in fact a transadmin

Dunning-Kruger and other bogus memes

https://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/

'Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in we've ever seen in the history of humanity'

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/

Chrome team breaks web to make Chrome perform better.

http://tonsky.me/blog/chrome-intervention/

a good read on understanding the cost/value proposition of static typing

http://jawaninja.com/programming/2017/10/29/on-types-and-intent

Today's inspirational quote https://mastodon.social/media/l3JucXWsgtAOxARJEJE

Closh combines the best of traditional unix shells with the power of Clojure. It aims to be a modern alternative to bash.

https://github.com/dundalek/closh

Firefox 58 is going to become the first of the major browsers to do something about canvas fingerprinting

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/10/30/firefox-takes-a-bite-out-of-the-canvas-super-cookie/

I think it's pretty cool that Unicomp is willing to make a custom keyboard layout for me despite the implied work involved (retooling, firmware change, etc) and do so for... not too much more, given the work involved.

Plus, once it's made, it gets a part number and other people can order it too :D.

Basically I'm ordering a 122 key keyboard (each key will have its own scancodes), but ANSI instead of ISO layout; this is the default one they have: https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/TN5FJPgg2UDo7IME-MQ

Like you can't get a light-up Unicomp keyboard (imo a feature because it feels gimmicky to me), which is a non-starter for a lot of people.

Welcome $given_name! How are you doing today on this $state_of_local_atmospheric_conditions day?

Perhaps you would like to peruse some $digital_photographic_data from $numerologically_elapsed_time that our neural network determined to be more statistically significant than average in your $local_peer_group?

No need to let us know what you think. We'll be monitoring $reactions_from_puny_mammalian_brain to further tune our machine learning datasets.

Sometimes I'm afraid to toot. Why? We need to teach people to put themselves out there. We need institutionalized toastmasters.