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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Part 3: Caprock
SPAs and the frameworks built to support them are kryptonite to organisations that are not 110% across the complexity of the infrastructure they own and operate. This is a predictable recipe for disaster in low-maturity teams, both public and private sector.
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Say what you will about Elon Musk...
No, seriously. Whatever you want.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@natogreen (both intellectually and sartorially, to be extremely clear)
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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:
Thanks @mmasnick for the push to make this art
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@natogreen Am I going to vote for @natogreen's preferred candidate as a replacement for local rep? IDK. Just wanted to shout out a fully cromulent neighbour and say sorry for looking like the ghost of Richard Daley in pajamas as we discussed housing policy. You deserved better.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Last weekend I had a surreal experience.
One of my podcast heroes -- the inimitable @natogreen, who you might know from The Bugle, which I was listening to back in '13 when I lived in London; also still too -- showed up on our doorstep to stump for a candidate as I was deep in the unwashed, unshaven, bedraggled throes of writing a 15K word series on the inaccessibility of California public digital services thanks to JavaScript-industrial-complex fuckwittery:
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/
This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
I'm bad at taking compliments, so I've started responding to compliments about my appearance with "This isn't even my final form."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If they did a season of The Bachelorette where instead of trying to woo a woman, all the dudes were ruthlessly competing to prove they loved capitalism the most, it would be pretty much just like a normal day on LinkedIn.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
The real magic of this is that I'm not even signed into Youtube. That's the part that really locks in the flavor.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"During testing […] system began unexpectedly modifying its own code to extend the time it had to work on a problem."
WAT???
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Hello from #ArcTanGent! Connectivity is very intermittent here, but imagine a picture of the stuffed Mastodon toy in front of the #ATG sign.
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alex@cybervillains.com ("Alex Stamos") wrote:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Incredible to think Liz Truss might never go to a Tesco again for fear of being photographed next to her betters.
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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:
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snipe@hackers.town ("snipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ :antiverified:") wrote:
In the Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. Here's what the 600-year-old butt music from hell sounds: https://youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U
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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:
Nobody should have to agree to a commercial entity's terms of service to access state services or participate in democracy
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starwall@wizzzard.online ("ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ") wrote:
thank you China for developing a viable sodium-ion battery as opposed to lithium because we were absolutely going to run out of that shit
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tdverstynen@neuromatch.social ("Tim Verstynen") wrote:
It looks like House Republicans want to:
- reduce the number of NIH institutes from 27 to 15.
- reduce billions of dollars in funding for things like biomedical engineering, aging research, and addiction research (almost entirely).
- increase congressional influence over what gets funded.This is a truly atrocious proposal that will significantly imperil our country's research infrastructure. If you are in the US call your member of congress and tell them to reject the House Committee on Energy and Policy proposal.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That ain't Minnesota.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/14/some-scenery/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You know that AI "roast my GitHub profile" thing that was going around a week or so ago?
A lot of people posted theirs, because they thought the AI roast was funny.
So I tried it. And honestly, mine was just *mean.*
It wasn't funny; it was *cruel.* My feelings were legitimately hurt. I felt genuinely awful after reading it—even though literally nobody else saw it, and I *knew* it was just AI barf.
And all I can think about since then is: *this tool is going to help bullies do so much harm.*
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sadness
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
As immigration angers a Alabama town, residents seek solutions ‘without all the racial slurs’ - https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/as-immigration-angers-a-north-alabama-town-residents-seek-solutions-without-all-the-racial-slurs.html
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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Giuseppe Stromboli Tarr") wrote:
I'm going to be honest, they had me in the first half.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
A person, K, who supported our Ops team in Purchasing confided in one of us that K was undergoing chemo and was at a point where K needed to shave their head. K didn't know what to do about this because we were all onsite workers, and K didn't need the whole building to know that K was going through chemo. And the usual worries that even though Management knew about K's problem, what may happen if that became office gossip.
Ops member said, "Don't worry, just be yourself tomorrow, and if anyone asks, just say 'talk to Ops'."
Our Ops team decided to collectively shave their heads. Ops then came up with a story about Ops & K going out bowling, getting really drunk, and losing a collective bet where we had to shave our heads.
K didn't know this. People kept going into K's office asking what happened, and K just looked mildly embarrassed and said, "Talk to Ops."
Everyone in Ops made up a wilder story than the last. It became a competition. Every anecdote had some kind of praise or regard for K. K eventually walked over to Ops, and found out what we did.
By the end of the day, the following was accomplished:
- K didn't have to tell anyone anything.* Ops developed a reputation for mild insanity and a lack of regard for social consequences.* Nobody was going to cross Ops to gossip about K.* Management had a private aside with an Ops member, who made it really clear where the entire Ops team stood.* K had no issues with any private requests to management, aside from the occasional question about how Ops was doing.
K is doing just fine.
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Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:
Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...
"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."
Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, that’s why he retired from the Guard to run for Congress. good.
‘… in 2006, Mr. Walz ran for Congress.
By now the parents of 3-year-old Hope … both Walzes were upset with the course of the war in Iraq.
“We just asked ourselves, like, What can we do?” Ms. Walz said on the podcast. The rational thing, she said, was for her husband to run for Congress. “We felt the way you stop the war is stop the money, and the way you stop the money is the United States Congress.”’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is good to see
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
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