The Weekly Weird - 2019-11-01
- After a long and winding road, OpenSSH is getting U2F support!
- Now we know why the hobbits couldn't take the eagles to Mordor: roaming fees. (Yes, I know I'm the eight millionth person to make this joke, shut up)
- I still feel like "1" is the wrong number of engines on an airplane but "yeah, it'll land itself" is a pretty cool feature. It apparently squawks 7700 and talks shit to the tower and recommends pulling the chute if that's the only other option. Mind you there's autoland and then there's autoland.
- Speaking of, scaling activities to "how many times more dangerous than commercial aviation" is enlightening.
- James Mickens ("I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS") is now a tenured Harvard professor.
- We programmers beat ourselves up about how bad we are at, well, everything and generally feel that Real Engineers are better. This is true, but remember that even mature engineering practice screws up. Sometimes it's caught in time and sometimes it's not. Sometimes we know what not to do and do it anyway.
- Sadly related, remember that written procedures are immediately obsolete.
- Go unfork(2) yourself.
- Firewalled? Have DNS? iodine. Have HTTP? wstunnel.