Peter N. M. Hansteen

@pitrh
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Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com

If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship.

I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)

Bloghttps://bsdly.blogspot.com
The greytrap blocklist explainedhttps://nxdomain.no/~peter/nameandshame.html
The Book of PFhttps://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e
Open Source in Enterprise environmentshttps://www.nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html
Peter N. M. Hansteen1d ago
Spring Jo 🥚  🍀2d ago
My dad started quoting this and now I found the original
Peter N. M. Hansteen2d ago
Natasha 🇪🇺2d ago

Oh my, this is spectacularly to the point -

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived
Peter N. M. Hansteen2d ago
Vee2d ago
Peter N. M. Hansteen3d ago
Alice Stollmeyer3d ago

European Commission has updated its follow buttons.

✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in;
⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out.

(Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.)

https://commission.europa.eu/index_en

Peter N. M. Hansteen4d ago
Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah4d ago
Past four years have been wild. Going from people caring about SBoM to let machines generate code.
Peter N. M. Hansteen5d ago
Melissa BearTrix6d ago

Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?

Boost for my sanity

Yes
98.6%
No
1.4%
Poll ended at .
Peter N. M. Hansteen5d ago
Fesshole 🧻6d ago
On a software project, I used dummy text as a placeholder to be replaced later with actual descriptive error messages. Predictably, not all instances were fixed before release, and bemused corporate clients reported "Error: There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen".
Peter N. M. Hansteen5d ago
Neil Brown5d ago

I was at an ethics seminar, for people from different professions - law, medicine, accountancy etc.

One of the topics was "Is it ever appropriate to form a sexual relationship with a client/patient?"

I was surprised that one person argued, quite strongly, that it was acceptable.

I'm not sure that I'd recommend that particular vet.

Peter N. M. Hansteen6d ago
feliks✨May 3
Peter N. M. Hansteen6d ago
Neil Brown6d ago
Waiting for the government announcement that shops can only sell false moustaches and make-up pencils to people 18 or over.