What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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The Dutch words ‘zolder’ (“attic”) and ‘solarium’ (“tanning salon”) are doublets: they both stem from Latin ‘sōlārium’ (“roof terrace”).

Dutch ‘solarium’ comes from English, which in turn borrowed it from Latin in the nineteenth century.

‘Zolder’ entered the language at least fifteen centuries earlier: it was borrowed from spoken Latin into Proto-West Germanic, the distant ancestor of Dutch, English, German and others.

Here’s number 9 in my series: Dutch doublets from Latin.

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"Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass keine eigenen Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinären Personen geführt werden dürfen. Die Rechte auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, Gleichbehandlung und Schutz vor Diskriminierung müssen uneingeschränkt gelten. Jegliche Pläne zur Erfassung von Minderheiten in Sonderregistern sind unverzüglich zu unterlassen."

aktuell 6800 von 30000 benötigten unterschriften

und nur noch 16 tage zeit!

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit

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My lino block print portrait for prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. 🧵

My linocut shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinders, each with two thermometers inside. She is printed in a gradient of pale blue at the bottom to bronze at the top on cream coloured washi paper. The numbered and signed print is titled “Eunice Newton Foote.”
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The presentation of @pluralisticCory Doctorow - ah, let's call it a Brandrede - at the is really good. And, congratulations on that, is a rather positive one amidst rather dark times. In this speech we find recipes that should absolutely be tried out.

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

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So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it almost completes, such that the account is transferred, but the data isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes* into thin air with zero recourse. In other words, Signal nukes your history from orbit on the old phone before validating that it actually successfully transferred to the new phone.

I am indescribably angry right now.

(The extra insurance you need, that I didn't have, was to enable general backups on the old phone first, and make sure that a backup completes on the old phone before initiating the transfer.)

Edit: kindly folks in my mentions are trying to explain that Signal wants to ensure that there is only ever one primary phone. The problem is that the risk of data loss due to the lack of confirmation of data transfer is well known enough to be in their troubleshooting guide (which, by the time you know you need it, is too late):

infosec.exchange/@tychotithonu

The user should be vigorously, repeatedly warned of the risk of data loss, right there in the transfer workflow, and strongly encouraged to make a backup prior to initiating the transfer.

* Edit 2: In the old phone, all history was visibly absent, immediately after the account was transferred. But now, after reboot of the old phone ... all of my message history is there?! But the backup option is gone, so I can't create a local backup in order to try to restore it. But at least all the history is still on the old phone? But there appears to be way to move it.

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