Mastodon Feed
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I managed to actually get the water chip and get back to vault 13! I know this doesn't technically count as beating the game but it feels like I beat the game. Having the explicit time limit removed gives everything that comes after a definite post-game feel
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
TerribleMaps@en.osm.town ("Terrible Maps") wrote:
Map of The Americas
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
TerribleMaps@en.osm.town ("Terrible Maps") wrote:
Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_PDF_7.svg
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhh, the Queen...
Baltimore by Nina Simone
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
drskyskull ("Skulls in the Stars") wrote:
“Elon must be destroying the site on purpose he can’t be that stupid!” Last week a billionaire imploded, literally, because he thought he could outsmart the laws of physics. Never being told “no” makes a person stupid.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Who would have thought that Elon Musk's next executive action would be to commit a denial of service attack on his own web site. That'll make the shareholders happy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/01/twitter-the-end/
Mastodon FeedToday we've released a delightful new update to our official Android app! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/mastodon-for-android-update/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
sysop408@sfba.social ("Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸") wrote:
This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.
#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
kevinbowrin@ottawa.place ("Kevin Bowrin ☕") wrote:
@adr @oxidecomputer So let's say you're running a small-ish IT dept at a university. You have some aging Dell (maybe even Sun/Oracle) hardware that needs a refresh. And you probably need a new SAN, maybe a new switch, your existing Hypervisor software has reached end-of-life...
You look at moving to the cloud, but the monthly costs are very high, you're worried about vendor lock in, and the systems you need to talk to are all on-campus. Most likely you have cap ex funding (one-time, big money) but very little on-going funding. You'll probably buy some on-prem hardware instead. You have a lot of decisions you have to make about capacity, compatibility, reliability...
You know you need to handle a really wide range of services. Some of those are commodity software like Drupal or Jira, with relatively good security stories. Some are research or community projects with no commercial support and a less than rosy security story. That's exactly the kind of thing VMs are good at. Maybe you want containers on top of that, but you probably want VMs underneath anyway. You need a new hypervisor, and you need fail-over, live migration, snapshots, backups, cloning. Do you go with VMware, which is a pretty expensive monthly fee, Proxmox, maybe OpenStack if you have the staff? Do the features you need actually work? (Looking at you, oVirt...).
Now, all of a sudden, Oxide comes along. Your just buy A Big Rack. It has storage, networking, compute, and a hypervisor. You don't need to run many small RFPs and wade through marketing copy. You don't need to worry about jumbo frames or Ceph configuration or delivery timelines or competing interface fail-over standards and multiple support contracts and on and on. It works with the funding model. And the people behind it actually seem to care about the software.
For overburdened, underpaid sysadmins in higher-ed, anything on the infra side that gets out of the way and let's them concentrate on their day to day problems is a huge win. If they pull off the software, they'll be a compelling alternative to Dell/VMware.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn't the first time.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
Can any #fediverse / #ActivityPub devs take a look at a proposal I submitted to #kbin and #lemmy?
Since the lemmy issue is getting overrun with people talking about other proposals, I'm thinking about submitting this as a #FEP. Is that still a useful process? I don't know how many projects look to FEPs for implementation guidance.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
standing was based on a lie:
'Stewart told The Associated Press he never submitted the request and didn't know his name was invoked in the lawsuit until he was contacted this week by a reporter from The New Republic, which first reported his denial.
"I was incredibly surprised given the fact that I've been happily married to a woman for the last 15 years," said Stewart, who declined to give his last name for fear of harassment and threats.'
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
'Taranto showed up at Obama's residence on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted screenshots on his Truth Social platform that featured a purported address for Obama's home in Washington. Taranto's account reposted Trump's post.
"We got these losers surrounded!" Taranto wrote on Telegram yesterday. "See you in hell, Podesta's and Obama's!"'
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"And a deeper look at the red-state exodus that followed — eight states and counting have now pulled out of ERIC — shows a policy blueprint for an election denial movement, spearheaded by a key Trump ally, eager to change virtually every aspect of how Americans vote.
Even if it means making voter fraud easier to get away with."
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity
Mastodon Feednikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
bonan matenon
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a good piece to read
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda”
yup
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/01/asian-americans-affirmative-action-supreme-court
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Truth
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:
You can now look over the virtual shoulder of the Library of Congress Prints and Photos Division to see what they’ve just digitized—among the work currently in progress is their entire collection of stereographs. https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2023/06/explore-newly-digitized-images/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
davidpierce ("David Pierce") wrote:
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the end of Google Reader. So I tried to figure out what went wrong, and wound up with a story about a better social internet we could have had and instead threw into the trash https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
Mastodon FeedWhen someone says they don't watch Deep Space Nine because it's so dark and depressing... :ablobdundundun:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I posted two tweets and one retweet today, and now I'm throttled or "rate-limited". I don't even get to see new tweets by other people.
I guess I can't complain if I'm only allowed ten minutes per day on the bird site.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:
ChatGPT apologists going “so what if it wastes potable water to an obscene degree, I might be able to get in on the grift and that’s the important thing here!”
…sometimes* I fucking despair of humanity.
* Daily. Hourly, when crypto or AI bros show up.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Virginia law requires you to upload an official ID to see porn online. Here, kids, use mine.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/01/no-porn-for-you-virginia/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I finally started a serious playthrough of Fallout 1 yesterday. It was slow going until I got the hang of the battle system but now I'm having a pretty good time with it
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Seriously, JFK Jr? You're going to claim all infectious diseases are caused by Igor dropping a test tube in a research lab?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
eevee@queer.party ("eevee 🦊") wrote:
You can't UN-invent a technology. You can't put the genie back in the bottle once it's in the hands of the people. Laserdisc WILL have its day
Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
danicheg@indieweb.social ("Daniel Esik") wrote:
Not bragging, just stating a fact, almost every http4s release gets new contributors. To my considerations, this highlights a few things:
1. http4s is a nice project to contribute to;
2. the community is marvellous.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:
Insights from Google's #RustLang journey
