The medical university my wife works at sent lists of its employees that have been reserved and are not to be mobilized (which is, basically, all of the teaching staff) to all the departments. They also made sure every such employee received a paper from the military confirming the reservation, so that no extra questions are asked by law enforcement officers and such.
The medical university I work at did no such thing.
A couple of weeks ago, Heroku announced they will be shutting down all their free plans this November. I’ve been using Heroku to host indieweb-glue for the last two years, and — in principle — I would be ready to pay for the nice service they provide, although the prices they’re announcing are somewhat discouraging for a little project like mine.
However, paying for Heroku isn’t even an option: I am Russian, I live in Russia, so paying online for non-domestic services requires jumping through too many hoops these days.
This post is about obvious things, but it looks like they aren’t that obvious to some people.
Many messengers allow to send voice messages instead of text. These messages are problematic: you can’t read them in a meeting, you can’t skim through them later to remember what the conversation was about, you can’t search the contents of these messages… The fact that the voice messages are possible to send doesn’t mean you should.
I recently learned that the foundations of the audiophile world are being rocked, shaken and uprooted by a horrifying scandal that has already been dubbed MoFi-gate. Everything about this scandal is so hilarious I can’t stop giggling.
My office PC hanged again today, so I ran a memtest and got rid of the faulty DIMM. I then sat at my desk and watched in fascination, as my attempts to run Thunderbird (in KDE) resulted in the birdie chawing up the 4 GiB of RAM I had left, then devour the 4 GiB of swap space, and just sit there waiting for the OOM-killer without even drawing the main window.
The postcard from Noginsk that I received today provoked some strong feelings. A typical Soviet postcard with a description in two languages on the flip side.
Zhdanov. New buildings of the city. Photo by E. Alexandrovich.
Судя по всему, Радио России закрыло небо для «Аэростатов»: нового выпуска нет вторую неделю. С учётом последних событий и однозначно выраженной позиции БГ относительно них, вполне ожидаемо. Передача была в эфире 17 лет, и всё это время выходила без пропусков (пару раз, когда БГ был в больнице, шли повторы более ранних передач, но без выпуска не обошлось ни одно воскресенье). Официального объявления о закрытии не было, и сам БГ в соцсетях ничего об этом не написал, но…
