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Wrote a tiny, thumbor-eque remote-image resizer service in #rustlang.
Pay as-needed, and as little as possible were goals, so it runs on ARM64 Lambda, with lots of caching.
"Batteries included" (devenv, ITs), to make it easy to start hacking on. Includes example TF modules, to show deployment w/ CDN caching in layers etc. PRs welcome.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Spent most of my day on Threads pushing back against disinfo and election fraud conspiracies. 🙃
The conspiracies have spread to X and TikTok now. Bigger, more trustworthy accounts are just spreading baseless claims.
It’s like half of the libs are blue pilled and the other half are just sort of ignoring that it’s happening. I’m at a loss.
Mastodon FeedI'm either blind or this is a really tough one.
[No guessing mode, evil]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
prehensile@assemblag.es ("Henry Cooke") wrote:
in addition to the ‘train wifi test’ (whereby anyone building a complex webapp with a heavy download upfront and a lot of data requests should be forced to use it on train wifi), I propose the ‘spirited children test’, whereby anyone building a kiosk system for public use should be forced to use it while managing two children under 10 with excitingly divergent needs and agendas.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Think of it like this— The right understands that Trump wants to burn it to the ground. That's the whole point. They hate the left so much that Trump is their revenge.
The fatal flaw in their logic is that they think they can control the direction of Trump's destruction.
If we know this, how can we then also believe that our revenge politics would be any different?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Interesting how we've reserved zero vitriol for the moderate conservative who never showed up, but have no problem telling Latinos to have fun when they're deported.
And because there aren't many progressive Latine voices on the web, we'll just ignore it. Because we don't do anything about racism until we're embarrassed by it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We must strongly reject the American predilection for revenge politics, collective punishment, and conditional allyship.
This is from a Democratic strategist. It's almost gleeful.
This is not okay. We are losing ourselves to righteous indignation and justifying our darkest propensities with a false sense of justice.
I don't want to be associated with this type of rhetoric. Revenge is not a gun with a scope. It's a bomb loaded with shrapnel.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
This tech newsletter is very entry level tech stuff so maybe Mastodon is not the target audience per se.
But if you wanted to sign up to offer feedback, suggestions, or to even write a guest post, I would honestly love that.
My goal is to help non-techie folks navigate the internet, and understand the politics of it all, under the current circumstances. I believe, like many of you, a more tech-literate community is valuable.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The United States is anti-Latino. There is no avoiding that fact, and yet, avoiding us is what makes this flavor of American racism so distinct.
This is something I've known for years, but this election cycle has really bubbled the issue to the top. I don't think it stops there.
Mastodon FeedMagnets are witchcraft and I won't accept another explanation.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I will accept no "why this happened" take that fails to acknowledge voters were misled into voting for the exact opposite of what they actually want.
It's utterly pointless to bikeshed policy and messaging when half the population clearly has zero ability to discern truth in the first place.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Politics @politics-CNN
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BeauBoboBonobo ("francefrance7@gmail.com :masto") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
The road ahead will not be easy, and some of it is not yet mapped out, but our work isn't a sprint—it's a marathon. EFF is not merely fighting against individual companies or elected officials or even specific administrations. We are fighting for you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Unfortunately, our current situation is going to need a lot of heroes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/witness-them/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
I worked at this company that had a shitty product. I'm sitting in a meeting with the leadership team and the Director of Engineering is going off on how customers are too stupid to understand the product.
So I interrupted him and gave a demo of our product which could have been titled why this product sucks. It was devastating. Even our own engineers couldn't correctly operate the product.
So you know what they did?
They fired me.
PS this a post about the Democratic party.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
for educational purposes: https://hackerone.com/reports/2823554
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:
#MAGA #TrumpEconomy #TrumpTariffs #InflationIsComing #YouGetWhatYouDeserve
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
A deep dive into a specific example of racialized disinformation I'll seeing a lot of ...
#uspolRE: https://infosec.exchange/users/thenexusofprivacy/statuses/113449041226691510
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I miss when Matt Mullenweg was our biggest villain.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:
Who knew the enshittification of the internet would lead to the enshittification of the entire planet.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social ("Sturm und Drag") wrote:
The stupidest thing about the outburst of liberal racism is that a bunch of them are saying that latinos are too machista to imagine a woman president when most Latin American countries have had women presidents
It's entirely a skill issue, maybe Harris should have tried taking advice from Cristina Kirchner rather than from Keir Starmer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
@julieofthespirits or, you know, you can make it all up in more ways than one. who are those latinos? they wont break them down by country and race and that's by design. now they’ll go after us Black and brown ones while los blanquitos stand by, complicit.
muchos de los resultados de estas elecciones no hacen sentido, pero son los mismos sistemas que nunca cambiaron. y los demócratas han sabido de ello y no hicieron nada cuando lo tenían que hacer 15 años atrás.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social ("Sturm und Drag") wrote:
@blogdiva well since I wrote my post I finally saw some disaggregated data and yeah it seems "white miami cubans" are mostly to blame here
https://www.as-coa.org/articles/poll-tracker-latino-vote-2024-us-presidential-election
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:
echoing some things that @brettbalogh has been posting about, I'm also leaning harder than ever into #othernetworks. that alternative networks and network structures produce different ways of being in the world, with each other, is not a cute idea. it is at the heart of what we need to do next to wrest control away from big tech/billionaires. building yr own mini FM transmitter is also not a cute little time-wasting project. it is fundamental to this work & of taking back a small bit of autonomy over how we learn, relate, communicate w/each other. more on this in the coming years but in the meantime, https://othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/build-your-own-mini-fm-transmitter/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from my other accounts
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am tempted to not bother getting out of bed in the morning anymore.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/if-its-not-one-thing-its-another-4/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"Like many Black women have declared, I’ve washed my hands of this. Don’t look for us to protest or 'save the country.' It’s not our job. It wasn’t Harris’ job, and I’m glad she didn’t get it.
The people have spoken.
The have the president they wanted.
They have the president they deserve…
God, have mercy on us all."
https://rosalynmorris.substack.com/p/an-american-travesty-thoughts-on
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Election fraud conspiracies from the left are spreading like wildfire right now on Threads. Hundreds of posts are flooding my feed, many with search hashtags above promoting more conspiracies.
We are one fake video of someone stuffing ballots in a trunk away from something bad.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
such are the ideologues bringing ‘order’ to his next term of office and ruin to our Republic
