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I recently resubscribed to EVE Online (a Terrible Spacehip Game In Space) and re-joined my old alliance, Goonswarm Federation. Catching up on what’s been going on, I came across this talk by Sion Kumitomo, our chief diplomat. Diplomacy is a hugely important factor in how the GSF ascended to where it is right now and has remained there, even after being almost destroyed. As player presentations go, this is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. ...

I’ve been looking for this video for ages. It’s great on many levels: – It showcases some extremely clever procedural algorithms for more natural animation of bipedal models by using muscle routing and optimisation. – It has dinosaurs. – Computer animated box-people falling over.

Versa & Rowl’s new mix!

Re-posting this from HackerNews. The story of a guy who put dry ice in a thermos flask. tl;dr: Don’t “I looked at the flask with that awful sinking feeling you get when you realise you have created something which is inevitably going to explode at some point in the future, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Source: minusbat: Under pressure

I’ve not listened to Emancipator in a while, so I was overjoyed to see that he’d done a remix of the lovely, melodic *Say My Name *by Odesza. Enjoy!

In case you haven’t heard of Gitlab yet, it’s an open-source alternative to GitHub’s own Github-FI software package. Github-FI is Github’s self-hosted version of their SaaS offering. Basically, you can get your own GitHub inside your network. However, if you don’t have several thousand dollars to blow, you can use GitLab-CE (Community Edition) instead. It offers a large subset of features that GitHub has with many integrations with external services. ...

The more I read Medium, the more I like it. For a change, a site focusing on essays on diverse topics without hyperbolic “You Won’t Believe What Scientists Have Found Inside A Grapefruit!” titles, complete with “Stories You Might Like” sections at the bottom (IFLS, I’m looking at you. You’re great, but stop using third-party traffic referers, please). Medium’s presentation is clean, text-focused (no annoying sidebars with Things I May Like) and the typography is wonderful. ...

Passenger’s Rolling Stone talks about the sea, rolling stones, flying and doubt. Lovely!

So, glitch funk guru Opiuo teamed up with Beats Antique to produce this wee gem! Good shit. Incidentally, the rest of the Meraki II album is pretty badass, too. Go get it!

Just stumbled across this! Yum!

After posting a set of postfix and sendmail Grok patterns, I’ve had a request to explain how to implement Grok patterns in Logstash. So, here we go. I’m going to make some assumptions about your installation of Logstash – on a typical Debian install, assuming you installed from the Elasticsearch PPA (hint: you should be doing this), your Logstash configs will be in /etc/logstash/conf.d/ or something of the sort. |/etc/ |-logstash/ |–conf. ...

Zimbra have recently released Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.5 (JudasPriest). One of the most-hyped features of 8.5 is native support for Exchange Web Services (EWS), meaning Macs and Outlook clients can natively connect to EWS instead of using the Zimbra Connector or IMAP. After laying the groundwork for doing the upgrade – moving data around, system updates, installing the LTS Enablement pack from Canonical on Ubuntu 12.04 to upgrade the kernel among other things, we were ready for the upgrade to 8. ...

The second part of this track is sexy as fuck. Listen to it.

It’s been ages since Pretty Lights released one of his weekly-ish podcasts featuring various glitchy, remixed goodies at around 140bpm. I’m glad to see he’s back to it!

Yesterday, internet service providers around the world and the services that used their networks started going offline and experiencing abnormal levels of packet loss and latency. The issue was widespread and affected a great many services. What happened? The internet ran out of routes. Update:  Here is a more thorough explanation of the issues of a couple of days ago: https://www.bgpmon.net/what-caused-todays-internet-hiccup/ The IPv4 public address space (the available publicly-routable IP addresses) has become more and more fragmented as companies have broken down the address blocks they own more and more and sold small chunks of their IPs on. ...