For anybody else in the Octopus Energy "saving session" tonight I created a Python script to work out my average weekday elec consumption for 17-1800 during the last two weeks - gist.github.com/notroj/653fba4…

I got where I am today because Mark gave me a chance to start my career at C2Net. Thank you for everything @iamamoose and enjoy your retirement! x.com/iamamoose/stat…

Is it only me or is 99% of the time developing CI spent working around stuff that randomly breaks in the CI environment?

My team in Red Hat is hiring two fully remote engineers (one BE, one FE). This is a great opportunity to start working on Cloud Services. Contact me if you're interested. global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/98488/sen… global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/98484/sen…

Silicon Valley, Oxford and Cambridge shown at the same magnification

I have written a new blog post after a long time, this about a new project I create recently ssimo.org/blog/id_022.ht…

Good news, thanks to the ASF infra team, I can now receive e-mail from Stefan 🏒 Eissing (parody) again. Bad news, I can no use "I never got the e-mail" as an excuse issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IN…

Three hours of free electricity? Sounds good to me. Let's see if we can trip a breaker. #octopusenergy

I'm sure someone has suggested it already but there should be a tax (negative bounty) imposed on reporters by HackerOne for reports which are not genuine security bugs. Hold it back from future reports and give it to charity of project's choice.

Did you know there are approximately 85 organizations authorized to issue TLS certificates for the web today? Or that seven of them issue 99% of all certificates currently in use? The presence of the others is largely intended to accommodate web openness and national

Using the excess free electricity during Octopus Energy "Power-Up" days gives us a significant reduction in our gas consumption. Thanks!

I've gotten together with various former Redis contributors and we've started working on a fork: github.com/madolson/place…. We are all unhappy with the license change, and are looking to build a new truly open community to fill the void left by Redis. Come join us!

This xz thing is pure nightmare fuel for distro maintainers. Cold sweats.

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It's often assumed that standards work is inherently competitive. This post examines why Internet standards are often more collaborative than competitive, and outlines some implications of this approach. #standards #collaboration mnot.net/blog/2024/07/1…

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Jon Klaric Halvar Flake FFmpeg The problem is not the reporting. There is no indication whatsoever that FFmpeg discourages bug reports. Or benchmarks for that matter. If you’re going to use massive AI resources to find bugs in volunteer-maintained code, don’t just drop the reports and run—provide the patches