I thought NASA has mostly removed Microslop from places like the ISS after they had the microslop windows laptop infect those systems on the ISS? Why go back to this garbage on important facilities?

It only happened in the last year, or even the last six months to truly be in effect. It was a huge position shift for the German government as part of their effort to increase skilled worker immigration and retention.

Back in about 2010-ish? One of the first “amazon deletes your book remotely” events happened. They removed a Kindle version of 1984 from people’s readers.

I don’t know how much irony fits into an irony singularity, but Amazon is trying to make the most irony ever.

And even that was a fractured history. The Netscape to Mozilla release was heavily influenced by Netscape being bought by AOL followed by the Netscape team dumping a non functional browser (they ripped out a ton of code they didn’t own) on the open source world. People had to basically patch the stubs until it built and then rebuild from there. By the end, Mozilla barely resembled Netscape, but it did get the community finally building a serious open source option.

Too many OSS tools to really be able to mention them all. Thank you to so many GNU/Linus, OpenBSD, BSD*, and other developers!

I’ll mention these:

• LaTeX
• Jabref

Without TeX I’d go insane writing technical and scientific documents. You’ve saved me thousands of hours of work!

Oh, and my current time waster game: Kohan: Immortal Sovreigns.

We’re in Germany. There’s always more bread.

Cheese and a slice of sausage is a breakfast. Bread optional.

Xenophobia isn’t really a sign of rational decision making.

Bingo. They give our masters students (officially) four months to choose, execute, and write their thesis. Nothing of real note comes out of the process.

We can do so much better, but it would reduce profits.

Huge hugs all around because we will do better. The students deserve better and so do the teachers.

Thank you. I do like the teaching and student outcomes more than research. That’s not a route to huge success as a professor if you’re measuring on the money, rank, and fame scale, but it’s who I am and seeing my students succeed is my life affirming activity.

When I get out asap it’ll be to another school where I hope I can find a community who values education, not just a grant size measuring contest. It’s somewhere out there.

Huge hugs all around for those making ends meet with their own two hands!

My so-called university is run by people who have never taught a class in their lives. I’m getting out asap.

My school tried to schedule me teaching 9 hours straight (sorry, with a 45 minute break, so a total of 9:45). Get fucked. Teaching is fraking energy intensive and I literally can’t keep going that long. Their reasoning? It’s hard to schedule the classrooms since we refuse to get enough of them, so we’ll just have the faculty and students have insane schedules. Did I mention it was also going to have university students be in class 9 hours per day? NO ONE can learn like that, but it’s really good at saving money.

I had a model of the Yamamoto way back in the late 80’s. I had no idea the quality of the treasure I possessed.

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

I’m still running the last release of Hannah Montana Linux. Just waiting for something better to come out.

This isn’t the first time something like this happened with Strava and its ilk.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

InfoSec is very difficult with unsecured devices collecting local data and sending it to publicly accessible locations.

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Just the 20khz whine that’s always there.

One to change it and seven to file the paperwork.

When we moved to a developed nation from the US, I started commuting via train. My reading logs for books have gone through the roof. I also get to practice languages and use the time to generally enjoy my day. Driving a car never allowed this kind of living well.

I’m up to about 230 days car-free and it’s wonderful.

To quote a novel of greatness:

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

And somehow it led to me using Linux like fraking forever.