Johannes Ernst @J12t@social.coop

"I Oversaw the US Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think It Should Be Banned." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/17/i-oversaw-us-nuclear-power-industry-now-i-think-it-should-be-banned

@aboutKP does not let me use a semicolon in a message on their web form. Should I ask them about Unicode support?

‪Interview question: I give you two x-ray images of the same person/location/... but 10 years different. Construct an algorithm that returns the diff. (Beats the manhole covers in NYC question imho)‬

Dear Kaiser Permanente, why is there a Doubleclick tracker on your website displaying confidential personal health care information? @aboutKP https://upon2020.com/blog/2019/05/so-kaiser-permanente-has-google-doubleclick-ad-trackers-on-their-site-displaying-my-patient-information/ #privacy #hipaa #tracking

Tech #interview question: I give you two hash tables, tell me the difference. I expect: a bunch of questions, and a white board implementation that progresses from simple values to something recursive. Bonus: discussion of structure of appropriate return values.

‪@google is kicking their “partners” out of their #IoT plans. Hope nobody is surprised. https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/07/google-to-end-works-with-nest/‬

HestiaPi -- an open alternative to the Nest Thermostat -- is crowdfunding. #IoT https://www.crowdsupply.com/makeopenstuff/hestiapi-touch

My talk on Paradux -- #FLOSS project to recover from maximum personal data disaster -- I gave at Linuxfest NorthWest this past weekend is on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld85wTh9uZs #lfnw

Bye, Diamond! June, 2007 – May 2, 2019.

‪Hosted a session on recovering from personal data disaster with Paradux at #iiw. Those guys asked some hard questions! I think Paradux remained unscathed, and some new ideas popped up. Great!!‬

‪How many flights? Rental cars? Hotel rooms? Sometimes I wish I would have kept count. ‬

‪I have a basic question about my @Hertz rental car. Why did I get two identical keys for it, connected by a steel wire? Maybe two simultaneous drivers?‬

Paradux V0.1 is here! Software for how to prepare for and recover from catastrophic personal data loss. Just in time for my talk about it at #lfnw #Linuxfest Northwest this weekend: Sunday 10:45. #personaldata #backup #datarecovery https://github.com/paradux/paradux/

...in which our protagonist remembers that it is quite easy to write less code than seemed possible, that consumes less memory and even runs faster than expected, and not does do what it needs to do.

Attempting to recycle a Laser printer cartridge. Following the instructions to get a package to ship with. @HP sends this box with instructions to “fill the box completely”. WITH WHAT?

Usually I write the code before the slides. There are exceptions. #hurrying

Atlassian security advisory from version 2.x to version 6.x. Oh, oh. https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-04-17-968660855.html

A cool research project for somebody aspiring with a 3D printer. Blogged. https://upon2020.com/blog/2019/04/a-cool-research-project-for-somebody-aspiring-with-a-3d-printer/

I made a library of common cuts for too-large #3dprinting parts. https://github.com/jernst/openscad-cuts