Malcolm

You may know me as malc in various online places. Sysadmin and semi-lapsed computer scientist. Views here are my own, not my employer's.

[Malcolm @mas90]

@NetworkRailAng @CambsCC Whose responsibility is Carter Bridge, Cambridge station? I hope this dislodged plate on the suspension wire is not a problem...

[Malcolm @mas90]

@avsm I've been looking at @openSUSE Build Service https://t.co/iUGEuYYD87 - it can build deb (and rpm) packages on a range of distros, and host apt repositories etc., like Launchpad. Seems very promising. Though I should probably just self-host...

[Malcolm @mas90]

I know the RAM shortage is bad right now, but I didn't expect to have to wait multiple ice ages...

[Malcolm @mas90]

Uh, Amazon?

[Klara @klara_sjo]

There will be no WW3.

They've abandoned numbered releases and switched to a live service model with seasonal events.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

🚨PSA if you have a public Amazon wishlist🚨

A stalker who wants your address can open an Amazon seller account & list themselves as a third party seller for an item on your wishlist. Then they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Presto, they now know your address!

[スミマサノリ @sumimachine]

Googleストリートビューに映り込んだみたいになれるパネルを開発しました。

[Jatin K Malik @jatinkrmalik]

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

[Malcolm @mas90]

And yet they refuse to do it.

[Terribly Interesting @TerriblyHQ]

A water comparison that shows just how vast the Great Lakes system is.

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

bed overheated because AWS-east was down.

but um....... its good because it alerted them to the outage? i dont even know what to do with this shit

[Ian Sollom MP 🔶 @IanSollom]

You can sign our petition here https://t.co/zDUWQ5rqVG

[Adam Dance MP @Adamjamesdance]

Mandatory digital IDs are the wrong direction for our country. Nobody should be forced to hand over their private data just to go about daily life. I will keep speaking out and standing with the @LibDems in opposing these plans.

[Terribly Interesting @TerriblyHQ]

Word of the Day

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Professionals don't use FFmpeg and FFprobe. They use extremely expensive software that runs FFmpeg inside (and that vendor contributes nothing back)

[Malcolm @mas90]

I wonder whether the actors are being paid this year.

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

1st July 2018
In Cambridge, in July, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival players into head into town to promote their summer open-air performances held in College gardens.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at https://t.co/AZNUBJK1wr and all bookshops.

[Malcolm @mas90]

Cartons of water on my @EuropeanSlpr
train say "88% plant based". Surprisingly close to correct for water if you claim that oxygen comes from plants, but hydrogen originated in the Big Bang.

(Yes I know they meant the packaging!)

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

@BBCBreaking Care work is not a low skilled job. It's simply under-paid and under-recognised.

Stop this nonsense and start recognising those who look after our most vulnerable, whereever they come from.

On behalf of us sane people - thankyou to all overseas care workers

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Jamming avoidance response is a behaviour in certain fish which use weak electric signals for communication and navigation. If a fish meets another fish using a similar frequency, they shift their frequencies to make them different. (📷: Ian Alexander)

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Today we launched our crowdfunder to challenge last week’s Supreme Court’s decision – which we believe has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act 🏳️‍⚧️
https://t.co/MAeDDeok9M