Christian Horn @globalc@chaos.social

Just great, #nintendo . So I even bought an eshop card for 3000円 (~23€) to buy game "Baba is you", just to find out that it's not available in the Japanese nintendo store. Changing the region to "Europe" or "US", I loose that money.
Of course, you also do not accept virtual VISA credit cards, without any reasoning.

This is why I will now get it on steam/Linux.

A recap on the #boing 737 Max Disaster
(via @stiefkind )
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

Creating upscaled versions of old games is now a thing. Quite impressive!
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18311287/ai-upscaling-algorithms-video-games-mods-modding-esrgan-gigapixel

New code for #bsnes (super NES emulator) was posted, improving graphics to a surprising degree:
https://twitter.com/byuu_san/status/1118191053931040768
Original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/bdltmo/hd_mode_7_mod_for_bsnes_v1071_beta_1/

fluxcoil.net has finally #dnssec \o/
What are you guys using do monitor things like whether named or webserver processes are running, or if remote DNS servers are sending the expected answers?
This is just for a single system with restricted resources, so Nagios or Zabbix feel like to much overhead. I consider to just run a shell script and send an email if things do not look as they should..

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/silent

postillon++
"Mann verhaftet, weil er schlimme Kriegsverbrechen begang… halt nein!... enthüllt hat "
https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/04/assange2.html

#wintendo 3.1 running from the flash of a Thinkpad x200
https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/

My fourth year here just started, revamped the #japan blog: https://fluxcoil.net/files/2016_japan_move/japan.html

Japans era name is changing from "Heisei" to "Reiwa". This ambigram can be read as both era names: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2019/04/06/japanese-ambigram-heisei-reiwa/

renewable energy getting cheaper than the coal/gas/nuclear:
http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-energy-will-be-the-most-disruptive-yet/

The world religions:
http://carrieonadventures.com/inspiration/graphics/worldreligions-detailed.png
( via: http://www.carrieosgood.com/dataviz/world-population.html )

Some april fools, mostly from Japan:

Book the hotel on the moon: https://rlx.jp/lp/satellite201904
rocket taxi: https://www.sanwakoutsu.co.jp/special/aprilfool2019.html
Black teeth, like for no-theatre playing: https://www.smile-us.com/april-2019.php
Opera vintage browser: https://press.opera.com/2019/04/01/opera-launches-vintage-a-new-browser-from-a-different-era/
KFC 'pure bones': https://twitter.com/KFC_jp/status/1112368990209245188

more: https://gigazine.net/news/20190401-aprilfool/

#lifeatredhat
The Japanese era name is changing, I was in contact with our glibc engineers, as the locales which contain the era name are part of glibc. 'DJ Delorie' gets involved, after some time I realize that he is the 'DJ' in djgpp, the GCC port which I used on msdos long time ago..

So the capitalist mechanisms are so great and the natural way to do things, i.e. bigger demand of a product with restricted availability leads to higher prices?

Then could please someone explain how this is setting incentives for doctors? As I see it, pharma industry and doctors just earn money when people are sick - exactly the state we try to prevent.