JordiGH @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

Time for new #introductions!

I'm Jordi. #Mexican expat living in #Montreal, #Canada. I can say expat instead of immigrant 'cause I've had a super-sheltered and comfortable life. Nothing dreadful has ever happened to me.

I like #mathematics, #knitting, #skating, #swimming, and old #gameing because I'm old (not that old).

I also do software stuff because of course.

I work on #GreenhouseGas assessments and #environmental #mapping, which I want to call #ecological cause we need that word again!

I want a chili dog so bad now.

If you want to get rid of it, do this:

sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news

Deleting the file would probably just reinstall it next time you do an upgrade, but removing its exec permissions should be more persistent.

Oh, great, and this whole mechanism is part of base-files. You can't just delete a package to get rid of it, since it's a core, essential package.

#Ubuntu is placing ads in its motd when you ssh in.

The way it fetches this ad is by doing

USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"

curl -A "$USER_AGENT" ...

In other words, Ubuntu is sending Canonical tracking information so it can serve you an ad.

This doesn't exactly run every time you log in (it caches the ad in /var/cache), but still... phoning home for a frickin ad?

Now that Jeff Bezos is in the news for donating 1e9 USD, I would like to remind people that Amazon does not disclose their #GreenhouseGas emissions and routinely receives an F from the CDP for doing so:

https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3Damazon&queries[name]=amazon

Money is good, but we also need this data, Amazon. Show us your dirt.

I'm looking at my remaining vacation days I could request at work, and I'm unintentionally hoarding them like elixirs for the final boss. They're too valuable to ever use!

Checkmate, topologists.

I can't believe we still allow "sports" in which the objective is to give your opponent a concussion. I really hope we ban this barbaric practice in my lifetime.

I just learned that Steve Urkel is the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Huh, weird, there was a "technical problem" with my Sonic movie and they told us to go to a different theatre.

Now I'm seeing online that other people also had technical problems at their theatres. Were the Sonic movie servers saturated and the theatres couldn't download the movie or something?

#Sonic movie was fun! Perfectly functional and fun.

One more, possibly final, necrodancing attempt with Aria. Clear zone 4 or bust! https://www.twitch.tv/jordigh/

Okay, that #FinalFantasy VII remake intro cinematic is amazing.

Streaming some casual #Battletoads, need something nice and comfortable to relax and unwind: https://www.twitch.tv/jordigh/

I really really really don't like banks.

Their websites suck, their methods are slow, their fees are high.

I think my bank just ate 170 dollars in transfer fees... for a transfer of 940 dollars.

That's, like, a lot.

I just logged in to check @Chocobot 's and @GayUpdateBot 's notifications. It seems like Chocobot gets more people talking to him!

I should figure out how to make him respond. Then you can have discussions with a bot that can only kweh back at you.

Our if statement was always evaluating to true, which is pretty much what we wanted to anyway.

This is because in Python 2, '' > 0

We migrated to Python 3 around December, and then instead of evaluating to False, it was raising (can't compare different types), but being swallowed by Django's template engine.

This week someone finally noticed that our templates were empty, and let me tell you, trying to figure out why this ever worked was quite the debugging task.