Nikola @nikola@mathstodon.xyz

seven nines sounds fancy and shit but you only get three seconds to yourself every year at that rate. you deserve better. we all deserve better. say no to seven nines.

people get obsessed with the nines which leaves some good opportunities to pick up some of the other numbers at a discount is all I am saying. shop around.

I think for april fools fatboy slim should rename to slimboy fat and release a new song titled "at a later date, in a different location"

Service message: remember, today's April 1st. Don't forget to double check everything you read on the internet.

Also remember, tomorrow will be April 2nd, it'll still be necessary to double check everything you read on the internet.

Nostalgia inducing thread exploring Duke Nukem design and engine quirks.
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RT @Foone
Did you ever notice that the theater in level 1 of Duke Nukem 3D has a big hallway off the lobby, and when you go through there, it's a bathroom? Just the one.

It's a doorless unisex public bathroom with urinals. Weird.
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372766463556083715

my LaTeX \todo macro prints "Exercise to the reader" in a box

IT ARRIVED

We now have an unstable repo for those wanting the latest and greatest ;).

Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_mobian.sources and replace Suite: mobian with Suite: unstable

Latest phosh and megapixels are already waiting for you there.

Shameless self-plug
wl-screenshot is now available in the unstable @mobian repo and gives you that screenshot app on the #pinephone that you always wanted 📸 .

one love Bunny Wailer, last of the founding members of The Wailers, who has died at age 73 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Heyyyy it's released! https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom is a distributed systems learning tool: a workbench where you can write your own "distributed" systems in any language, using JSON messages via STDIN/STDOUT. Wanna write a gossip system in Perl? A transactional KV store in bash? Maelstrom will run it, show you how messages flow through the system, and verify key safety properties.

you know who really likes big scalable performant databases?

corporations

The newly added Quartz64 page on the pine64 wiki includes a link to the datasheet PDF for "Eink 10.3" 1872x1404 ES103TC1 Glass Panel Specification" that corresponds to the panel they're planning on offering alongside the quartz64 line, I assume.

if #eink is something you're into you might want to take a peek.

Direct link to PDF: https://files.pine64.org/doc/quartz64/Eink%20P-511-754-V3_ES103TC1%20Specification%20V3.0(Signed)-20190702.pdf