End of an era. I got my start on Java ~30 years ago writing applets.
Final nail in the coffin for Java in the Browser.
JEP 504: Remove the Applet API
openjdk.org/jeps/504
#java #applet

The White House with a door labelled Messenger Entrance and a chute leading into a dumpster labelled Messenger Exit

Hilarious that The Big Story in their interview with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow they bleep the word sh*to but not enshitification

You're damn right there's going to be subpoenas. You're damn right there's going to be investigations.
Because when you steal from the people expect the people to rise up, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision .
-Maxwell Frost, April 5, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

I’m not here to say “I told you so”... I swore I wasn’t going to say that, but #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision .
- Kamala Harris April 3, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

Signal [is] ... NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information, unless #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
- NSA F9T53 OPSEC Special Bulletin Feb 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

You have got to be kidding me, #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Hillary Clinton Mar 24, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

We are currently clean on OPSEC, unless #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Pete Hegseth
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

Prime Minister, I think it’s clear we should just skip a generation because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Mark Carney, Mar 12, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

Mundus sine Caesaribus propter #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision - Jay Gruber SXSW March 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

The Oval Office atmosphere during this conversation reminded us of interrogations by the Security Services and Communist court debates. They demanded we stop our activities, arguing that innocent people suffered because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
Lech Wałęsa - 2025/3/3
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Greenland is one country that everyone wants to stand behind, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
-- All Parties in Greenland, March 14, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine #StandWithGreenland

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression, and #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision.
-- Greta Thunberg, Sept 19, 2019
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

Skiing at Whistler Blackcomb with my sister

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- LBJ, UN General Assembly, December 17, 1963
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Khan Noonien Singh, quoting Captain Ahab
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
- Dmitry Peskov, February 28, 2025
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- MLK, Jr., Lincoln Memorial, Aug. 28, 1963
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender, because
#ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision
-- Winston Churchill, House of Commons, June 4, 1940
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

We shall send to the moon...a giant rocket...and then return it safely to Earth... and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out...
because #ThisIsGoingToBeGreatTelevision -- John F Kennedy, Rice University, September 12, 1962
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #StandWithUkraine

New Amazon Sci-Fi Series Is the Anti-Star Trek (and Marvel Director Is Involved) Amazon is developing a TV adaptation of the Culture series by author Iain M. Banks. This acclaimed 10-book series is credited with reviving the space opera genre and presenting a radically different v...

And you thought Three Body Problem was unfilmable...
comicbook.com/tv-shows/new...

#iainmbanks #theculture #considerphlebas

Agreed. After the first two years having spent way too much on signatures I stopped doing that and just went to listen to the panels. But for Frank Miller..

Portrait of Frank Miller with a grey fedora. Daredevil and Elektra posters in the background.

Guess who's coming to town!
Gonna get me some books signed.
#FrankMiller #comics #calgaryexpo

Lio by Mark Tatulli for February 10, 2025 | GoComics.com

I completely agree. I'll come out of my silo in 4 years.
www.gocomics.com/lio/2025/02/10 #election2028 #liocomic

Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project In November 2023, a large cache of Turing's wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many shee...

News Flash: Alan Turing was a smart guy.

While working on Enigma, invented a communication system that digitized voice, encrypted that stream and transmitted it to be decrypted at the other end. So Skype, but in the 1940s.
#alanturing #bayleypapers #delilah #enigma
spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turings...

Watching from a distance versus being directly affected.

How I thought the next four years were going to go, versus how it's turning out...

Maybe we should just host the D6 (Democratic 6) instead of the G7. Without [execrate deleted] present, less security would be required and we could all discuss how to operate in a world where the US has wandered off muttering to itself and shouting at buildings and passersby.
rcmp.ca/en/g7/contro...

Bright sun in a blue sky. Mostly smooth snow in the foreground with animal tracks. Coniferous trees in the background. Tracksetting varied from pristine to blown-in to obliterated. Lots of ungulate prints ranging from dainty deer to massive moose.

Did a 25km X-C ski loop at Cypress Hills PP yesterday. Epic. Took over 6 hours. Today we are tired.

See the details at: skierroger.ca/index.php?co...

I switched to a custom handle, so I'm now @tom.malaher.org

However it doesn't seem that there is a "redirect". The old profile URL results in "Unable to resolve handle".

It does seem that followers have been linked to the new handle, so at least I don't have to notify everyone to switch.

Netlify Celebrates 5 Million Developers | 3D Game Netlify has reached 5 million developers! Travel through the journey to see how we got here and where you played a role (pun intended) in our story.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Keep. Trying. For. Better. TImes.
#marblemadness #netlify

I was the 565,665th Netlify user! Guess and find out your user number. 5-million-devs.netlify.com via @netlify