Wednesday, April 10
Daily News Stuff 10 April 2019
It's A Spreadsheet And Therefore Technically I'm Working Edition
It's A Spreadsheet And Therefore Technically I'm Working Edition
Tech News
- DungeonDelveXL is a Roguelike role playing game implemented as an Excel spreadsheet.
What do you mean, "why"?
- The Democrats' empty net neutrality bill is DOA. (Reuters)
I'm in favour of focused, specific net neutrality legislation. This is exactly not that.
- Canonical are busy beavering away on booting Ubuntu from ZFS. (Phoronix)
Or at least installing to ZFS; they might still require an EXT boot partition.
- Google has a new Cloud Strategy. (ZDNet)
They got it from Oracle. So as you would expect, the strategy is to be as annoying as possible and twice as expensive.
- Hackers are probing servers within a minute of them going online. (ZDNet)
The solution: IPv6. Assign a single /128 and no-one will be able to find you until you activate your DNS.
- DH Games managed to lock every single Android player out of their popular game Idle Heroes and they don't have an automated password reset process.
Ruby Ballroom
- So today I ventured out beyond the Crystal standard library and... Uh, yeah, things immediately got rather bumpy.
Trying to do ashards installof crystal-lmdb failed until I had the bright idea of removing the version specification. Compiling it failed because it couldn't find liblmdb.a located in /usr/local/lib.
(LMDB was in /usr/local/lib because I had to build it manually because the version that comes with Ubuntu 18.04 crashes when you run the test script bundled with crystal-lmdb. Well, good for the test script.
Fixed that andshards buildcan't find the library I just installed withshards install. I have no idea why. It congratulates me on finding a compiler bug. Yay.
I can just drop crystal-lmdb into my source directory and build it - and I did and it works and I can read and write a million (small) database records per second. But the build tools and their error messages need, let's just say, a little TLC.Error: you've found a bug in the Crystal compiler. Please open an issue, including source code that will allow us to reproduce the bug: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues
Social Media News
- Singapore is going full Ministry of Truth. (TechDirt)
- Europe is going full Ministry of Peace. (TechDirt)
- Britain is going full Ministry of Love. (TechDirt)
And also full Ministry of Children which Orwell was saving for the much darker sequel.
- Australia is going full Ministry of Plenty. (TechDirt)
Brilliant idea: Fine foreign corporations 10% of their annual revenue for ill-defined infractions that are impossible to avoid. Can't possibly have massively destructive and completely predictable adverse consequences.
- I believe all these countries are signatories to the UN Declaration of Human Rights which these laws and proposed laws massively violate, and all those involved should be declared war criminals and imprisoned in a specially constructed penitentiary at the bottom of the Challenger Deep until the heat death of the Universe.
- The New York Times is fighting the government of Singapore for that Minitrue role. (New York Times)
Venezuelan political refugee: You get jailed there because of tweets.
New York Times: But Trump.
Disclaimer: You went full [Orwellian Ministry]. Never go full [Orwellian Ministry].
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