Tilman @mentalshirt@chaos.social

Am I… am I really done?

Der Vorverkauf zum #HOA20 startet \o/ https://smaut.stratum0.org/hoa/hoa2020/
Vom 27. bis 30. August campen wir wieder zusammen, diesmal in Gifhorn.

"XMLHttpRequest — named for the fact that nobody has ever once used it to request XML" - just one of the many gems in @eevee's exhaustive History of CSS. https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

wake me up
wake me up inside
can't wake up
wake me up inside
SAVE ME

Flag math Credit: Alesund#KE

Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html

Trotz digitaler Signatur lassen sich Inhalte in #PDF-Dokumenten ändern. Das haben Forscher auf dem #36C3 in Leipzig demonstriert. http://bit.ly/2svqcuA

Excuse me but "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it" has got to be the best take. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.