#di_day nächtes Sonntag 05.07. in Berli bei @cbase@chaos.social mit #belug :
https://events.diday.org/events/ee48fdda-a134-4f27-932e-b87c7a9fa24a
Alle sind eingeladen, besonders Linux-Anfänger oder Menschen die mehr lernen möchten.
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Alison Chaiken
@alison@burningboard.net
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Ich bin in Philadelphia geboren und in USA aufgewachsen. Später arbeitete ich beim Bosch in Hildesheim und XSe in VIllingen-Schweningen. Von Februar 2026, beginne ich ein neues Leben in Berlin.
Ich arbeite seit langem mit C++/C und Linux Betriebssystemprogrammierung. Außer Technik und Deutsch Studium sind Radfahren und Musik meine Leidenschaften.
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David Airlie describes life as #linux kernel DRM subsystem maintainer: https://se-radio.net/2026/06/se-radio-723-dave-airlie-on-linux-kernel-maintenance/ @kees@hachyderm.io @corbet@social.kernel.org @lwn@fedi.lwn.net
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @vnikolov@ieji.de Indeed "crazy" often is intended to mean "odd." We STEM-lovers are often thought to be crazy.
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@mdhughes@appdot.net @ewhac@mastodon.social @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz What's with those negative and complex numbers anyway? Who ordered those?
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@vnikolov@ieji.de @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @CubeRootOfTrue@mathstodon.xyz @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz A lot of my day is like that.
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@dmarti@federate.social Yeah, the fact that MacOS and iOS are essentially FreeBSD is a poorly kept secret.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @vnikolov@ieji.de I don't know that much about van Gogh, but I read the Pirsig book at least twice. I just listened to a podcast interview with Laurence Gonzales about his book "Surviving Survival". Gonzales says that we often comment that talented people are crazy, but what we should say is that crazy people cope by burying themselves in satisfying work. That insight strikes me as obvious in retrospect, and applies to both men.
Ikniea: ein schmerzhaftes Leiden von Gelenken, das beim Aufbauen von Möbel veranlasst ist.
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@pleia2@floss.social Every minute you exercise is a minute of benefit. I always take the stairs rather than an escalator or elevator.
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#amutable hat einen Platz als ein von den größten Beiträger zum Linux Kernel gefunden:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1077425/
Dieses Resultat ist besonders beeindruckend, weil Amutable neu gegrundet ist.
Bumblebees are able to solve problems . . . on the fly!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady1618
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@dmarti@federate.social Why in your opinion are the BSDs not as successful as Linux? Assuredly they are still alive and often the source of good ideas which Linux adopts.
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@Wando@troet.cafe @knasterbax@burningboard.net Die Unannehmlichkeit von Alu-Räder gegenüber Stahl (oder Kohlefaser) stammt von der kleinen Größe von dessen Imaginärteil des Young-Modul. Kurz gesagt, Rahmen von Aluminium schüttern länger und härter als Stahl.
With the 7.1 Linux kernel release, newly founded #amutable is one of the largest contributors:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1077425/
Congratulations all!
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @karlauerbach@sfba.social If I had to "sign in with Google" to read a website or use a service, I would simply stop. I'm delighted that here in Europe far few websites run JS associated with googletagmanager.
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@alltagshack@burningboard.net Auf jedem Fall, Bewegung ist gesundlicher als nichts zu essen.
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@dmarti@federate.social Does anyone believe that the ban on US import of foreign-made network devices had nothing to do with backdoors?
Yes, I do now work for an overseas maker of network devices, but still!
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@bexelbie@toot.io I got the whole desk together in 67 short steps, except that I will need to mess with the adjustment screws for the hinges for the cabinet door. The mount for the hinges has a countersunk hole that should precisely align them, but apparently not precisely enough. Tomorrow is another day!
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@alltagshack@burningboard.net Ich gieße ein paar Tropfwn von Kefir auf meine Haferbrei oder Muesli. Kefir finde ich lecker, und ist bioaktiv!
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz Assuredly the situation in any graduate program is similar. The upside is that you keep learning about cool methods and discoveries your whole life, and that some of them are 100 years or more old.
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@hsivonen@mastodon.social There's also the piling-on effect, as in the Pandemic-era toilet-paper effect. RAM is so expensive that the concerns of manufacturers about not being able to satisfy customer demand may be misplaced.
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@gfxstrand@social.treehouse.systems @karolherbst@chaos.social @thephd@pony.social I'm almost done writing my C parser. This time I really mean it!
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@tux@burningboard.net Ich arbeite bei Nokia in letzem Jahr bevor WindowPhones. Dann hatten sie das herrlichste Meego Betriebsystem. Schade, dass die Firma so wannsinnig eine Entscheidung getroffen hat.
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@dmarti@federate.social I work on Linux kernel and bootloader, so at least at the moment, what's going on with user-visible applications is unknown to me.
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@thetransmitter@mastodon.social Hah, it would be humorous at some level if a person's genome could largely be inferred from publicly accessible data. Some privacy debates may effectively be ended by technology.
Wer Lust hat, weg von den größen Konzernen zu rennen, kommen sie zu @cbase@chaos.social am 6. Juli! Wir werden euch unterstuzten, von Google/Facebook/Microsoft bis Linux/Firefox/Signal umzuziehen. @digiges@chaos.social hat eine Beschreibung darüber veröffentlicht: https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2026/06/die-stecker-neu-stecken-digital-und-selbstbestimmt/
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@tux@burningboard.net @LAS@floss.social hat Poettering indirekt über @amutable@mastodon.social gesprochen. Das Video ist irgendwo verfügbar.
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@tux@burningboard.net Einmal im Schwarzwald habe ich "Fleischsalat" gegessen. Die Menge von Gemüse war ähnlich wenig.
The more I think about cars, the more I love public transit: https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @maxpool@mathstodon.xyz The David Bessis book which I've now finished reading discussed the question at some length.
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@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Similar reasoning applies to the charging rate of batteries. In that case, too-rapid charging produces unwanted, potentially stable material at the electrodes. Solar cells are a middle ground, as some perform better at high temperatures, up to a limit of course.
Ikneea: a painful joint condition associated with assembly of furniture from a kit.
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@Mathias@burningboard.net Es dauert von Juni 2025 bis September bevor mir ein Einladung zum Vorstellungsgespräch bekam. Kann sein, dass ich war mehr als 66-mal abgelehnt. Kannst du eine Konferenz teilnehmen. Vor ort und persönlich ist sehr einfacher.
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@paninid@mastodon.world @anildash@me.dm I have been a happy, paying customer of Flickr for at least 12 years.
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@alltagshack@burningboard.net Heute Abend plante ich ein Abo für Deutschland Ticket zu kaufen. Leider berichtete die Webseite, dass der Dienst ausgefallen ist.
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@keithp@fosstodon.org @pleia2@floss.social "Move or die" is true in some many senses. People don't understand how I could decide in my 60's to relocate overseas, but that's because they assume that all will remain the same where they are.
Unfortunately, it's "move and die anyway", as you have noticed as an age peer. I was at MIT when "X Windows" was started as "Project Athena."
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Here's a fantastic rethink of entropy and temperature along those lines: https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/93/5/390/3344551/Temperature-as-joules-per-bit