Programmer, avid roleplayer, parent of child cancer survivor. He/him.
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined February 2009
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For anybody who is migrating, I suggest Mastodon, but take some time to pick a nice server (though you can move fairly easily if you pick wrong)
I'm on @jbowtie@cloudisland.nz if you want to find me.
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No old Celtic sources describe a "veil between the worlds" that "grows thin at Samhain". They say, rather, that nothing could be hidden in the fairy mounds on Samhain, and that the magical concealing mist (féth fíada) stopped working then. #FolkloreThursday
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HEADS UP: There’s an upcoming Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability disclosure and planned patch release for Nov 2 NZDT.
Version 3.0 and above are affected. CERT NZ recommends that you begin identifying your vulnerable systems now and prepare to patch. mta.openssl.org/pipermail/op…
I figured out what happened between these two moments:
ALT Liz Truss: in first panel "I am a fighter and not a quitter", in second panel "I am resigning"
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Turns out Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood love RiffTrax? youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5x6VgY_…
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BREAKING: The Employment Court has found that four brave Uber drivers who filed a misclassification case are employees and not contractors, granting them minimum wage, guaranteed hours, sick days, the right to a union and to bargain, and the right to challenge an unfair dismissal
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Did you know about Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund? sovereigntechfund.de/en.html
It's finally doing something about the problem illustrated in this xkcd: so much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on open source tools that are only kept going through good will.
ALT xkcd cartoon showing stacks of bricks of various sizes balanced delicately on top of each other, labelled "All modern digital infrastructure". There is one small piece at the bottom that, if removed, would cause the whole stack to collapse. This brick is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".
Lovely day in the Hutt, but the cherry blossoms have already gone.
ALT Lovely clear skies on a late spring day by the stream behind the Hutt City Council. The cherry blossoms are mostly gone from the two trees that grow between the path and the stream.
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“It's not really the dollar figure that perturbs the disability community, it's the principle of the matter. It says to New Zealand and the rest of the world that disabled people are not wanted and are a burden.”💯/disabled immigrant Jonny Wilkinson nzherald.co.nz/northern-advo…
