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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Any upward communication that reports on latency at P50/P75, but not P90+, is marketing, not engineering. And folks that do engineering are right to judge it harshly.

jwz wrote:

"Thank you, Simone."
https://jwz.org/b/ykmk

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yosh@toot.yosh.is ("yosh is out of office") wrote:

"BEST CROISSANT IN PARIS" is probably still one of my favorite modern art pieces from the past few years:

https://youtu.be/wp84sRpM1Js

jwz wrote:

Keep your finger off of that zeitgeist, you don't know where it's been.

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davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

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IsMitchMcConnellDeadYet@kolektiva.social ("Is Mitch McConnell dead yet?") wrote:

No.

jwz wrote:

Often I'll be scrolling through the Explore tab and there will be some cringingly banal headline like "5 Great Tips For Salad!" and 100% of the time it is Pinboard.

"Pinboard, The Supermarket Checkout Line of the Fediverse"™

The sad thing here is that the reason I'm seeing it is that people are reading it. WTAF.

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

This isn't the flex you think it is; it's poor management for sure. You don't want engineers pushing changes while suffering from sleep deprivation psychosis.

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.

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CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

Today, Donald Trump made it clear that he intends to have people deported to El Salvador without due process, including United States citizens.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has something to say to us about this moment.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

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dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

@alice saw this quote recently and have been thinking about it a lot:

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

-Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

I thought you all needed to see this Canada Linx with her baby.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

What if C isn't portable, only non-C-compatible architectures went extinct?

I'm half joking, but:

VLIW/EPIC architectures are dead, despite CPUs desperately needing instruction-level parallelism.
Instead of SIMT we have hyperthreading at home, and bug-prone threads with context switching in software.
Instead of hierarchical memory, we waste 8 bytes on all pointers & emulate thread-local memory in software. Larabee was DOA & SIMD barely exists. MOS6502-style stack+registers are only on GPUs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

We are a group of 4th, 5th and 6th grade students that enjoy Amateur Radio as an elementary school club. We meet twice a month on Tuesdays.

Our equipment consists of donated radios (ICOM and YAESU) for HF and VHF; antennas (Cushcraft R7, Comet and ICOM dipole); and assorted keyers and accessories including a donated 600W MFJ amplifier.

If you hear us on please give us a call! Our members enjoy QSL "mail" and will QSL back with an SASE!

Dresden Elementary Amateur Radio Station club

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

But acc/to an official #whistleblower disclosure shared w/ #Congress & other federal overseers…, subsequent whistleblower interviews & records of internal comms, technical staff were alarmed about what #DOGE engineers did when granted access, particularly when staffers noticed a spike in #data LEAVING the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive info on #unions, ongoing #legal cases & #CorporateSecrets — data that 4 #labor #law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB….

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

& data has nothing to do w/making the govt more efficient or cutting spending.

Meanwhile, acc/to the disclosure & records of internal comms, members of the #DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system & then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools & manually deleting records of their access—evasive behavior several #cybersecurity experts compared to what #criminal or #StateSponsored #hackers might do.

#law #Trump #Musk #InfoSec

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pseudonym@mastodon.online ("Pseudo Nym") wrote:

Asked for pay range for position. Got a lot of words back, not a pay range.

Resets sign to 0 days since I had to send a recruiter...

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1162/id/2605820

Section 432.3

Quote:

(3) An employer with 15 or more employees shall include the pay scale for a position in any job posting.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

"One acting commissioner — one with 38 years experience — has already resigned because of the DHS’s desire to use tax records as a migrant-hunting database. What began as a request for 'only' 700,000 records has ballooned to a demand for seven million tax records — a number that would encompass nearly two-thirds of the eleven million [undocumented] immigrants currently living in the United States."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/15/another-irs-commissioner-steps-down-after-being-forced-to-share-immigrant-tax-records-with-the-dhs/

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Senator Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to try to aid Abrego Garcia. I reiterate my suggestion that people send a few bucks to Van Hollen’s campaign to make it clear that this the sort of bravery and action we expect and and reward.
[adding donation link https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/vanhollen]

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you think ‘not funding CVE is crazy, this should be a major news story!’ - just know, it won’t be, and almost every profession in the US is going through the same journey.

From scientists to public health to weather to everything else.. essential services people rely on, sometimes which are the difference between life and death, are being defunded. Every profession thinks their situation is unique. It sadly isn’t. We’re in the vibe based bonfire endgame.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s even easier to use them to lie to yourself.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

❝ In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino communities.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

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dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

Calling people who joyride into space "astronauts" feels a lot like calling LLM prompters "artists". Even using the term "crew" is insulting.

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

From this morning: 4chan got hacked hard, UnitedHealth demands doctors ‘immediately repay’ after brutal breach, hacked Bay Area crosswalks mock tech billionaires, academics shun US conferences, a robotaxi trapped in Chick-fil-A drive-through, and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-126689368 #Cybersecurity

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

I am just now imagining how "the birds and the bees" would go down if we LITERALLY explained avian and hymenopteran sex to kids:

"Most bird boys don't have a pee-pee, they just kind of shit their sperm onto their girlfriend's backside. But they're better off than bee boys, because when a bee boy finally gets together with his lady love HE EJACULATES SO HARD HIS BALLS LITERALLY EXPLODE THEN SHE PULLS HIS PEE-PEE OFF and all his intestines fall out and he dies."
https://mstdn.social/@grickle/114342826912805229

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anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

Today I learned that "De Efteling", my favorite theme park in the world, is actually wholly owned by a non-profit.

This must be part of why it feels so special, as even though it's a business it is not wholly focused on commercializing every last bit of the experience. It also values beauty and joy for their own sake.

If you're ever in Western Europe I can recommend a visit. It's a cool place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dm0bCrdFCY

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Yes, in fact, I'm probably referring to you here.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the new toilets are installed, the new toilets are installed!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/04/15.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma