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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(If I don't do anything else today than learn about alkali flies... well, I'm probably still ahead compared to most other days.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Today the 5yo and I learned about the "scuba diving" alkali fly. It's an interesting little extremophile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88hBWlxuMQ

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Does Apple Music's UI suck? Or do all music apps follow a set of conventions I'm unfamiliar with because I just haven't used any before now? (Or both?)

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The Reaganomics trickle down scam has redistributed $50T from bottom 90% to top 1%.

If the minimum wage increased with inflation & corporate productivity it’d be $26/hr today.

Corporations annually steal $15B from workers and face zero meaningful accountability.

Think about these facts next time you hear an exploitative CEO of a blue collar retail store complain “People just don’t want to work anymore.”
#LaborDay

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsV8EI3c48M

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

dneary@mastodon.ie ("Dave Neary") wrote:

On this Labor Day, I want to draw attention to one of the founding moments of the American Labor movement, when hundreds of young women living in a factory town took a huge risk to defend their right to a fair wage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_mill_girls

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nikclayton ("Nik") wrote:

@adnan @bcantrill Absolutely. Back in the day Sun ran a contest, "Try before you buy". Get a machine (an Ultra 60, IIRC), for 60 days shipped to you free.

Blog about something interesting you did with it, enter the contest, and maybe win the machine.

I instrumented Sendmail with DTrace, evaluating different queuing strategies (along with a comparison of Solaris and FreeBSD on the machine). Found a sendmail bug along the way, and won the contest.

https://nikclayton.wordpress.com/2006/07/04/raison-detre/

Thanks Bryan

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I have mixed feelings about the #Foubdation show on #AppleTV. I want to like it, but I'm 1.5 seasons in, and feel like nothing has happened.
They keep introducing new characters, new plotlines, new timelines, without concluding anything.
It's like every episode is a pilot episode for a new show.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

If obscure, inductive ROM technologies are your thing, Kenn Shirriff also has a nice write up on IBM's transformer read-only storage (TROS).

http://www.righto.com/2019/11/tros-how-ibm-mainframes-stored.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TIL about the PCB ROM that HP used for a while in its HP 9100 programmable calculator. At its peak, they were apparently able to get 1,000 bits per square inch.

http://www.hp9825.com/html/the_hp_9100_rom.html

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juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe ("Jürgen Hubert") wrote:

I see a lot of people sharing blanket condemnations of all of those who still remain on #Twitter / #Xitter , and I need you to slow down a bit.

Sure, in some cases this is justified - journalists should really know better. But there are a lot of communities on that platform that are vital to many people's well-being that _haven't_ been replicated on the #Fediverse or elsewhere. Take #BlackTwitter - while #BlackMastodon is growing, it's still minuscule in comparison. The number of Twitter users in #Pakistan is staggering, while they are only a handful on #Mastodon . And so on, and so forth. Twitter was a lifeline to many marginalized people, and it still is - even though it gets worse every day - and we need to recognize this.

As a white European guy, it was easy for me to walk away from Twitter (I still have an account there, but I only post "you should go to Mastodon" stuff these days) - since it is easy to find people of a similar background to interact with. But this is NOT true for everyone!

So I'd like everyone to show a bit less contempt to the remaining Twitter users in general, and put some more effort in how to make the Fediverse friendlier to marginalized voices. Because there is MUCH work to be done here!

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin") wrote:

This needs to happen.

#FlatEarth #conspiracy

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• Screenshot of @EddieSchneider on Twitter (I think) "The 11 year old came up with a TV pitch that is stone cold genius: a reality show, in the vein of The Amazing Race, that follows a group of Flat Earthers trying to travel to the edge of the world." (remote)

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CharlieKruse@tribe.net ("Charlie Kruse") wrote:

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• 3a78ff853e8853c1.jpg (remote)

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Labor Day reminder: If the min wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $26 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $19/hour from working Americans for 60 years.

That’s generational theft from the working class to keep people in poverty.

We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Meringue was today's baking project of my wife and daughter.

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• A round plate of simple meringues, counting a few dozen, in the middle of a table with fall decorations.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Somebody please disrupt the dogs not understanding leashes industry

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Befitting the way we do things now, we're going to celebrate DTrace at 20 with a podcast. @ahl and I are going to be out tomorrow for the US holiday, but we'll be picking this up next Monday at 5p Pacific; join us! 9/9 https://discord.gg/RQCqrb7A?event=1148042453300023317

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

It has been a singular thrill to introduce a new generation of technologists to DTrace; I feel extraordinarily lucky to have been a part of a technology that can still delight after so many years! 8/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

More recently, DTrace has played an essential role for us at Oxide -- enjoying a new relevance thanks to @ahl and Ben Naecker's terrific work on the usdt crate that made it a breeze to instrument Rust: 7/ https://docs.rs/usdt/latest/usdt/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

In 2008, we got the DTrace community together for its first (un)conference. This became an Olympiad cadence, and while we were derailed by the pandemic in 2020, here is the summary for dtrace.conf(16): 6/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2016/07/29/dtrace-conf16-wrap-up/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Ten years ago -- on DTrace's 10th birthday -- I described some of the things that we had added to DTrace over that decade. 5/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2013/09/03/happy-10th-birthday-dtrace/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

That day continues to be memorable; @ahl and I talked about it on a recent episode of Oxide and Friends. 4/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qZJBfHI0Y&t=988s

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I reminisced a bit after the 5th anniversary (15 years ago!), describing in particular the harrowing day before we integrated. 3/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/09/03/happy-5th-birthday-dtrace/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

First, to take you back to 2003, read the mail we sent out after we landed in the gate: 2/ http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/houston.txt

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Two decades ago today, DTrace integrated into the operating system. Much has changed in the last 20 years -- but one thing has remained true: we ourselves still use it on a daily basis. With your forgiveness, a short thread... 1/

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untitaker@woodland.cafe ("Markus Unterwaditzer") wrote:

oglaf is killing it with this one

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• Lion: We take so much from the Gazelle Community, this is our chance to repay that debt. I propose we build this top-tier herbivore school. Lion 2: But... What do Gazelles even need to learn? [Picture of Lion propaganda being taught to Gazelles] Gazelle: Thanks for all you do for us! (remote)

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niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

Q: What do you call a AVX2 instruction that can be exploited in a side-channel attack to leak information?

A: An attack vector.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

An Oglaf that is safe for work? Unless you live in a capitalist society, that is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/03/gazelle-lessons/

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• The "circle of life" as propaganda to benefit carnivores (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

they call computers terminals because they're the end of the line

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

feeling the terrible draw of a new project