Factors for authentication:
* Something you know.
* Something you are.
* Something you have.
* Something you usually do.
* Someone you know.
* Someone who knows you.
* Something you used to know, it's right on the tip of your tongue, wait a moment.
* Something you love.
* Something you hate.
* Something you sing.
* Someone who hates you.
* Your obituary.
Pick any three.
I'm always surprised when one of my sitposts gets popular. (Sitposts, because I write them sitting down in my office chair, so the h is missing on purpose.)
Factors for authentication:
* Something you know.
* Something you are.
* Something you have.
* Something you usually do.
* Someone you know.
* Someone who knows you.
* Something you used to know, it's right on the tip of your tongue, wait a moment.
* Something you love.
* Something you hate.
* Something you sing.
* Someone who hates you.
* Your obituary.
Pick any three.
Where am I? What year is it? What timeline am I in?
Oh.
Crap.
#TimeTravelProblems
I like to follow NEWS. I understand why people may not want to, when there's a lot happening, but I like to keep track of what happens to software I care about.
If I were to go to foss-north, April 27-28 in Göteborg, Sweden, are there people I should meet in Göteborg or Stockholm? I could give a talk to a user group, company, or similar. Or I could do some Rust training. Or just have coffee.
I've offered a talk to foss-north on Radicle CI and Ambient. I could do that, or something else. I'm working on a talk about having been a programmer for 40 years. I could talk about the early days of Linux.
I have surprisingly few contacts in Sweden. Anyone?
If I boost someone else's post, and you see that via my boost, and respond to it, I do not feel it's necessary, or useful, to cc me in the response, unless you explicitly have a point you want me to respond to.
#rant
Every hacker needs a designated giver-of-names, on call, because you never know when you need to start a new project, and you can't git init without name.
I did some thinking and planning about Obnam backup storage in general and remote backup storage in particular.
If you think you might ever use Obnam, or care about any backup software, I would appreciate if you read that post and respond here with your feedback.
https://obnam.org/blog/2026/01/store/
#Obnam
#backupImplementation
You can't trust someone who lies frequently. You can't trust large companies or rich people to keep their promises, when the situation changes and keeping the promises might reduce profit a little.
#wakingUpThought
I have produced ten thousand lines of working source code today. I started late. Tomorrow I'll run the script to produce code to initialize an array with ten million elements. That will be my most productive day ever!
(This may be a sarcastic subtoot about the ongoing large language model craze.)
Lars Wirzenius