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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
jan@kcore.org ("Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️") wrote:

What do people use to #monitor their #homelab hardware/vms/containers?

Preferably selfhosted, and something that doesn't create more work than it monitors ;)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@gleick "These leopards sure seem to be eating all the right faces!"

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Remember: Unlike Soylent Green, "AI" is not people

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Walker@infosec.exchange wrote:

Software Supply Chain npm package compromise.

July 18, reported eslint-config-prettier npm package was modified to include info stealing node-gyp.dll (c68e42f416f482d43653f36cd14384270b54b68d6496a8e34ce887687de5b441)

Highlighting the ongoing threat to package security and software development.

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-eslint-config-prettier-package-shows-signs-of-compromise

#python #SoftwareSupplyChains #softwaredevelopment #secdevops #malware

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

Adding the Moynihan Hall was a welcome improvement to Penn Station, but didn't address the main problem, which is insufficient capacity for the number of trains that run through it. There aren't enough tracks, the platforms are too narrow, and the tunnels entering and leaving the station have too limited capacity. These more fundamental constraints will be much harder to solve, because the underground area around the station is already heavily crowded.

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

Moynihan Hall occupies part of what had been New York's main post office building, a block west of the original Penn Station. It was situated over the tracks, with access to platforms, to facilitate Railway Post Office mail delivery, which was common into the 1970's. After the post office moved its sorting operations elsewhere, it was relatively straightforward to repurpose it as an extension of the adjacent railroad station, which is why it only took the better part of 50 years.

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

Many of the design elements of the new hall pay deliberate homage to the original, befittingly grand, Penn Station, including especially the prominently exposed steel beams.

There are no seats in the main hall, though there are smaller ticketed waiting areas to the side, as well as a substantial food court. The lack of a "big board" is deliberate, to discourage crowding in any particular area (there is instead a collection of smaller train status monitors spread throughout the hall).

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens and the Phase One IQ4-150 XT camera. The 23mm Digaron is a sharp wide lens, but doesn't really have a large enough image circle to support extensive movements (which weren't required here). Captured from the balcony on the south side of the station.

The Moynihan Train Hall is a recently-opened annex (repurposed from the Post Office) to the otherwise dungeon-like remnants of the old Penn Station, buried under Madison Square Garden since 1963.

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

Moynihan Train Hall, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, before rush hour, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362

#photography

Boosted by Mastodon:
andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

I had a chat about Mastodon and our organisation and goals with @gfsc https://gfsc.community/community-spotlight-mastodon/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I disliked flying Southwest because of the open seating thing, it always gave me middle seat anxiety, so I can't say that I will mourn its exit

https://qz.com/southwest-airlines-announces-select-seating-policy

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I hope this bozo is drinking lots of cod liver oil.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/21/its-like-raaaain-on-your-wedding-day/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:

bro that’s too many multitudes. you gotta start cutting back on multitudes bro

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

Other than figuring out the best ways to share them, skill and knowledge are not problems to solve necessarily. But since we can't learn everything ourselves, and can't do everything ourselves, we find ourselves in relationship with others. At that point, who has power and how they use it are the questions to ask.

And although those are not strictly "technical" questions, those are interesting questions to ask as you design your computing systems, pick employers, form your unions, etc.

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

Tasks that require skills and knowledge to perform are not gate kept. Gate keeping occurs at the point that one person actively tries to prevent another person from gaining those skills and knowledge. Gate keeping is something people do to each other.

There's nothing wrong with requiring skills and knowledge to do a task. So many tasks in life do, and we can't learn them all in our short lives. We should respect that, and welcome as many people into those skills and knowledge as who wants in.

Boosted by jwz:
MarcAbrahams@mstdn.science ("Marc Abrahams") wrote:

We are looking for a new Miss Sweetie Poo, for this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Miss Sweetie Poo is our time enforcer — she helps the speakers keep their speeches brief and delightful. She informs them: “Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop…” If you know of a truly good candidate for the role... https://improbable.com/2025/07/02/looking-for-the-new-miss-sweetie-poo-2025/

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

thinking a little about my brother today, on the anniversary of his death. RIP Maj Larry Sonstein, VMI ‘66.

you always tried to take care of your people, and you are sorely missed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Are you in #pdx? do you like #coop s? We are lucky enough to have a regular local coop meetup, in person.

Our next meeting is the evening of Friday, August 1
https://lu.ma/i4shfnxm?tk=idjcOz

Join us in person at https://symbiop.com to hang out with fellow coop nerds and learn about how SymbiOp is organized.

boosts very welcome!

Edit: i am a regular visitor of the coop meetup, but not the organizer. I did get the real organizer (JT) to make a non facebook link so i could share here!

jwz wrote:

"Meet The INCOMM Scientology Keyboard made by Cherry. Quite possibly the most insane keyboard of all time." The Xenu-Speak in these ads is amazing: "The datum here is that power is proportional to the speed of particle flow. This is the real secret behind
https://jwz.org/b/ykrl

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

Fine, I'm gonna write this up later, I basically have to, but I'll show you why I'm spitting fire this morning:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

Yeah - I'm angry. No apologies for that.

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

link to and overview of Human Rights Watch report

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Weather radars are not weather control devices, no matter what the conspiracy theorists say.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/21/the-perils-of-listening-to-marjorie-taylor-greene/

Boosted by jwz:
oldbookillustrations ("Old Book Illustrations") wrote:

The dragon behind the door.
From "Folk and Fairy Tales" by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, New York: [1883?] #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dragon-door/

Boosted by jwz:
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Should the United States have Secret Police (Gestapo), operating without warrants or judicial oversight, seizing people of color and political dissidents and disappearing them to camps?

Depends who you ask, says the New York Times.

https://bsky.app/profile/owillis.bsky.social/post/3luhsx3m4kc2p

Boosted by jwz:
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

4. Because it's not part of standard Git, some git tools may not work with it well. (ex: #jjvcs)
5. Your git repository is no longer the single canonical source of your project's history. If your LFS store goes away, you now have a partially broken repo.

If you're worried about having too many large files on disk, consider shallow clones instead.
#Git

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I realize git-lfs has its uses. But man does it complicate working with a repo. Please consider whether you really need it before you introduce it as a dependency.

1. git-lfs is not part of standard Git.
2. Every developer will have to install git-lfs onto their machine, and remember to initialize it for your particular repo(s) every time they clone them.
3. Builds/tests may fail if someone has forgotten. So you might have to write special handling to warn users to go init git-lfs.

#Git

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
annie@social.lol wrote:

-----IMPORTANT POLL-----
If I am describing a dog do you know what I mean when I say "peanut-butter eyebrows" please answer honestly

Also please boost for science. And dogs.

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

Today in History: Vietnam temporarily divided at 17th parallel, 1954

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

Today in History: First Train Robbery... Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873