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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But honestly, if we weren't giving talks like this, I'm not sure any of what we built would be any more operable than what came before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z83L6xa1tw
SDOs need manuals, and SDOs will never write honest manuals because they're member organisations and learning to operate them is explicitly out of scope in membership recruiting.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We're lucky, in internet standards development, that many of the designers of the meta-systems are still around to discuss their tradeoffs. Also, many of their discussions were documented on mailing lists and such. And for more modern iterations, you can still just come talk to us.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A corollary to this is that the system *intent* is often hidden, thanks to the Law of Requisite Variety. It's nearly impossible to understand what the designers meant from just observing how the thing (doesn't) operate. Standards bodies (et. al.) are stable because the systems were design with many axes of freedom in which to adapt their responses.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Gave a talk on web standards today at work, and it reminds me that complex social systems are complex, in part, because the scope of their design is far outside the experience of any one participant. It just looks like "the system" until you decide that it can and should change.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"The Royal Scam", end-to-end...is better than its parts. But "The Fez" is still the underrated standout.
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pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct") wrote:
i knew that distance per cubic second, or rate-of-change of acceleration, is the funny but aptly-named SI unit "jerk"
TIL higher-order derivatives of position with respect to time -- those that could be expressed as distance per quartic, quintic, or sextic second -- are called "snap," "crackle," and "pop," respectively
"snap" is also called "jounce" which surely means either "jerk bounce" or "jean flounce"
"a device that measures jerk is called a 'jerkmeter'"
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fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:
Apple: We take utmost care to ensure that every aspect of the user experience is exquisitely polished
Also Apple: It takes 30 minutes for your computer to wake up from a routine security update
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Is 'beef the same Atom as 'beef?
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was looking at The Little Typer again and it's a good example of how maybe over-simplified language can be as difficult to get through as overly convoluted prose.
The book is kinda interesting but I have to be at the absolute peak of my day's wakefulness to be able to survive more than 15 minutes of:
- Is 'beef the same Atom as 'beef?
That is believable, yes.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was experimenting with dexnav chaining in pokemon alpha sapphire because it's supposed to give you pretty high shiny odds & my few-dozen chain just broke, probably because the mon spawned next to an NPC, who then walked into it
so what I'm saying is that they should let you permakill npcs in pokemon like they do in the old ultima games
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I believe this is called ‘preparation of the battlefield’
ISW: “Unknown actors, possibly Ukrainian partisans, attacked a Russian rail line in Crimea.”
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SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:
FYI if your girlfriend isn't replying to texts right now
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Justice Kagan:
“The majority does not see it… And I mean that literally. There is precious little evidence in today’s opinion that the majority has actually looked at these images, much less that it has engaged with expert views of their aesthetics and meaning.”
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profcarroll@federate.social ("David Carroll") wrote:
Fascinating to read how Justice Kagan eviscerates Sotomayor and majority in dissent on the Warhol Prince photo copyright decision that is expected to stifle creativity at a time when it’s undergoing profound transformation. Kagan basically calls her peers a bunch of chuds on the question of art, aesthetics, apparently unable to contemplate anything other than business mechanisms. #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/supreme-court-warhol-copyright.html?unlocked_article_code=aQ4ZaAooMhzGrfyDfuPlyZDFcfj1RnPWftBYDoYBIk1JDXP8zeQorBRDYgWDBCNHLIsmZlB4s6m6Ah0eMcFpd3HMKQwC4tgkRjQcRbW3BnxYxQ57nWDDF0AyYriXRD4nbOHYqWJsziR1myN14-lD8kzsjaNLzwGJ__xikAPGiAG5YwSRFyAcfsUYpRc9P1jU046EPE8SuS5xnIXOY3FQ2UK4uClnIQ26zuLPwac_1F5HxTf-VJrj9m8b67xObGm8r_Q1WP2JdDqOoah8kBmmJu2zsho__koNxancek9Rv2Dwoo8Lwf-oXH4DXg3KdYZWYHp4v0LKZZq870xg5EoB3v3HPw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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uncle6@sfba.social ("Uncle 6 🌁") wrote:
@smitty Waffle House is more diner-y, smaller scale. It is also neutral ground for every substrate of Southern society. The reason it is neutral ground is because every single Waffle House employee has got those hands. Waffle House employees have disarmed people with assault rifles with their bare hands. Rule #1: You do not ever want that smoke in a Waffle House. Rule #2: You do not EVER want that smoke in a Waffle House.
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red@blimpof.evil.red ("__red__") wrote:
I did that because my highest rated talk I've ever done was titled: "Everything I learned about concurrency and reliability I learned at the Waffle House".
I think it's worth 30 minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xty-gzzIkBc
… it talks about how every layer of abstraction in the company is designed for concurrency, resilience, and graceful degradation.
3/4
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
key ISW takeaway today:
“Ukrainian forces have seized the tactical initiative and made tactically significant gains around Bakhmut in counter-attack operations on May 18.
[they may have] have seized the battlefield initiative in the Bakhmut area.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted on May 18 that Wagner mercenaries are unable to encircle the Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut due to the loss of stable flanks north and south of Bakhmut.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"nearly all the money went to pay the firms making the calls and the operatives themselves" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/14/us/politics/scam-robocalls-donations-policing-veterans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
My cat has been given an appetite stimulant to get him to eat more over the long weekend. I know it's a medical treatment, but it does sound like he's living his best life, doesn't it?
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drskyskull ("Skulls in the Stars") wrote:
Next Disney should announce that they were gonna open an entirely new Star Wars theme park in Florida but because of Ron DeSantis they won't. Imagine having every Star Wars fan on the planet pissed off at you.
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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
“It’s not surprising to me that the corporate-funded APF would push for more police in attempt to protect their property interests, and encourage more corporations moving in to take over Atlanta at the expense of so many being pushed out of a city they could no longer afford to live in. Rather than putting money into solving the causes of criminal behavior, most of which clearly revolve around the growing income inequality in our country, and poverty.” - Lorraine Fontana
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing a Stones album (Beggars Banquet) turned up to 11, because it is that kind of evening
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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:
This doesn't look good in APPLE-SA-2023-05-18:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213765
"An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges"
"An app may be able to gain root privileges"
"An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system"
...and last, but not least...
"Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited."
Seems like a good time to update your Apple devices
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
She's been a streamer for quite some time, though in the ones I've caught, generally more casually attired.
But anyway, I bet "Leigh Bowery becomes a Minecraft youtuber" would be a good seed for some kind of skit
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Avant drag personality Hungry, who was responsible for Bjork's makeup on the cover of Utopia, is doing a twitch stream for her birthday where she's playing a random point and click adventure game https://www.twitch.tv/hungxiety
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Too many doctors at my house.
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a0dbxza ("Midnight Eye") wrote:
The Passerine Bird 1962 ‘Con chim vành khuyên’ Directed by Van Thong Nguyen, Vu Tran (1/2)
Story of an innocent and carefree little girl whose father is a member of the anti-French resistance. #Vietnam #Cinema #War #Asiencinema #Classicfilm
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BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:
"Gender-affirming care isn’t surgery any more than contraception is abortion. Not that any of those decisions should be made by politicians for other people. But the #Texas Legislature isn’t trying to get at any kind of truth here." @TexasObserver untangles the latest anti- #trans nonsense.
https://www.texasobserver.org/fast-furious-xi-texas-transgender-youth/
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macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:
PSA: Make Sure to Update, iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, and macOS 13.4 Address These Three Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/18/ios-16-5-macos-13-4-vulnerabilty-fixes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
