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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a good night to listen to Mr Prine
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"They" don't deliver your service, *you* deliver your service. "They" aren't going to be in the room after the contract is over, *you* will be. And any procurement plan that doesn't provide simple-to-execute change of vendor at *any point* in procurement is TBTF, and should be verboten.
Residual capacity to change systems comes from owning systems in a "can we make changes and deploy them?" sense. And that requires control and continuing technical capacity.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A good (the best?) first step is to build a mandate and a budget for in-house service development and delivery, then prevent omnibus contracting in any form. Hire in-house talent to integrate and run services that will be continuously delivered, then start small and iterate. Success breeds success.
From there, tools like OSS can have a big impact on breaking up this sort of boondoggle contracting.
Procurement *is* policy; treat it that way.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I wrote a series a couple of weeks ago [1] that highlighted the destructive role of too-big-too-fail govt software procurement practices in the US, saddling the state of California with a benefits portal so slow that many struggle to use it.
This sort of thing is everywhere when you start looking; monopsony requires solutions that don't allow predatory vendors to treat each municipality as prey:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Wouldn't it be cool if we had an annual blog awards?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Can't wait for sweaty-boy autumn.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me: *in the wilderness alone and scared*
CVS: *from behind a tree* you want me to ask your doctor to refill your Adderall subscription?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The funniest thing my mother ever said to me happened after I trapped a spider in her house and let it free outside.
She said to me, as a stranger would, "oh you're one of those."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:
@bendelarre @slightlyoff @jensimmons And we have an update: François Beaufort, DevRel for WebGPU, just let me know: "It's actually shipping in chrome 129: https://github.com/blurbusters/testufo-public/issues/4#issuecomment-2333689442".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A friend tipped me off that a Major American Sporting League's website had, from a low, low point (which I had traced in years prior due to a partnership engagement with the Chrome team) descended to the depths of JS excess. The names have been obfuscated to protect the guilty.
Folks, this is how you break a digital business: a legacy site teetering on the edge of usability, suddenly sunk by hundreds of KB of Reactor overconfidence and "works fine on my $3K laptop and $1K phone"
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mia@front-end.social ("Mia (CSS workshops available)") wrote:
"Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents."
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"So what did GAMM do? They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away."
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
This post is making the rounds but I can't pinpoint from where. Anyone know where the traffic is coming from?
Anyway, I'm never not excited when I notice someone is reading something I wrote. No better feeling, truly. So, thank you. It makes my day.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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RecoveredExpert ("Recovered Expert") wrote:
»The old sync-and-share business model wasn’t working for them anymore, so they turned the internet into a network of expensive, gas-guzzling computing power.
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The reason why GAMM … are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate.«It’s essentially taking old IBM concepts and applying it in today’s world.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
#AI #Blockchain #Cloud
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:
“The reason why [the Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Meta oligopoly] and all its little digirati minions on social media are pushing things like crypto, then the blockchain, and now virtual reality and artificial intelligence is because those technologies require a metric fuckton of computing power to operate. That fact may be devastating for the earth, indeed it is for our mental health, but it’s wonderful news for the four storefronts selling all the juice.”
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:
Next Friday, @lewis is getting an omg.lol Prami tattoo, and he’s letting *you* choose where. For real!
1. Visit https://stjude.omg.lol
2. Click "Donate now!"
3. Click the "Polls" tab and choose a body part.
4. After you click “Checkout”, you can change the amount if you’d like.How often do you get to help end childhood cancer *and* influence where someone gets an adorable smiling heart tattooed onto his body? This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, folks! 😄
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Our definition of violence is too narrow. We reserve the phrase "violence is never the answer," for when poor people act out, but never for the state-sanctioned violence they're acting out against.
I wonder why that is.
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Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:
Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.
Source: https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en #art #socialmedia
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:
✏️ New post: Remember when the code in your editor was exactly the same code delivered to the browser? Now there's usually a build process in between, and that can get ... complicated.
Do we still need that? Can we do modern web development completely #buildless?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh well, we all make these little mistakes @CARROT
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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
perfection doesn’t exist, but better does
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Y'all know JS doesn't get cheaper by the MB, right?
There's no bulk discount.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
A perfect loaf of bread.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
Top 10 Binary Numbers!
> 0
> 1
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Still discovering new shell tricks.
TIL: Substitutions.
`cmd <(cat file)` invokes `cmd` with the first parameter being a named pipe (e.g. `/dev/fd/22`) which contains the contents of `file`.
Example use-case: You wanna diff two files, but they are binary so need disassembling
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Professional at work
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:
Ppl like to believe programming is unconstrained by physics.
Unfortunately this is an illusion which completely melts away in a distributed system*.
* (eg. pretty much anything running in the cloud that has availability requirements)
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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:
#blueteamcon2024 pals, career village opens right after keynote! Come get a resume review or 1:1 career mentorship! All levels accepted, and we can post job reqs or cards for hiring managers!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:
Good Kitty ☺️ #caturday
