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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I nerdsniped myself and accidentally optimized my nginx-access-log-to-postgres bridge to handle ~40k requests per second on one core of the smallest Hetzner VM with dedicated CPU cores, AMA.

whoops.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I really wish they'd all just come at once and not this drip drop bs. You're not fooling anyone.

Also, OP wasn't Black. And it's a capital B. Not that it's matters to you.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I can't stress enough that this behavior—the gaslighting, the derailing conversations, being pedantic on irrelevant specifics, making it about yourself, placing the blame squarely on the messenger—this is how white supremacy is upheld.

It's not a group of guys in white robes in the streets. It's not the trolls using racial slurs. It's the everyday people who, when presented with a fixable problem, convinces themselves it's not a problem at all.

This is it. It's really that simple and boring.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Conversely, by pretending diversity is not an issue because there are small servers with a notch more brown folks, by coming up with another exercise year after year, at some point we just have to assume that #FediverseSoWhite is a feature, not a bug.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Literally nothing happens by admitting this is a problem. No one is calling the diversity police. You're not gonna burst into flames. Life continues. The world still spins.

jwz wrote:

Never change, Yelp.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's seems every year or so, a new narrative takes hold that tries to diminish the #FediverseSoWhite observation. This time it's "actually the Fediverse is diverse you just don't see it"

Seems to me that effort would be better spent thinking of ways to fix it rather than trying to intellectualize it away.

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

That's an uncomfortable accusation. But accurate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/14/ive-been-distracted-lately/

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lolennui.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Amy Ash") wrote:

when u see a book about a penguin with two dads

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115720247151025906

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

"POC" isn't a magical term you can just wave around so you can insert your ignorant worldview in place of decades of work and guidance from Black and brown activists. That's not how that works

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The weaponization of social justice language to shut down conversations on white supremacy, or anything about race, is commonplace in communities that don't have conversations about white supremacy.

They want a reaction out of me so they have an excuse.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm writing a sequel to The Whiteness of Mastodon called:

The white, white, white, whitey white-white-white, white / white, whiteness of Mastodon (part 2) (white)

It's 20,000 words. It'll be my masterpiece.

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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

New post: "The element should actually do something" https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/14/the-time-element-should-actually-do-something/

A modest proposal for a forgotten HTML element.

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

All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist that was in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

It's a little known fact that the predator in Predator isn't actually arming a bomb on its wrist computer near the end, but is calling The Police.

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evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@reiver @ezeno789 we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.

Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.

Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.

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Rhodium103 ("Schrödinger's Prat") wrote:

INT OFFICE, THE YEAR 2027

Interviewer: "What's 2+2?"

Candidate with suspiciously thick rimmed glasses: [pauses for a second] "That's a great question! First, we should define addition and the concept of numbers, but since you asked a direct question it's likely you just need the answer. The answer to 2+2 should be 5. Thinking is that starting on two and progressing over the number line three more times will land on four. Would you like me to show you how to make a generic method of addiction?"

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft?

A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget

jwz wrote:

RIP John Varley.

Michael Swanwick: John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025. A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But this misses his moment. In the mid-1970s, Varley exploded into science fiction...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0b

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brennanbrown@me.dm ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

As the old joke goes, there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don’t. If you don’t, but you always wanted to know how to read and count in binary, you’re in luck! I just dusted off this old project (after it failed to survive several site moves): https://www.neatnik.net/binary/

(I originally made this for my kids around 10 years ago, and it helped them a ton!)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

@fromjason
I see the same things around feminism in discussions.

My mental model when it comes to programmers doing this is that people that are told they are smart because of performance in one area think that means they are smart in other areas too, when we're all not smart at some stuff, no matter how great we are at programming.

Turns out understanding society & humans can be way more difficult than code (they certainly are for me!).

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Talking about race on #Mastodon, one can expect a flood of folks trying every trick in the book to shut the conversation down.

When Dr. Flowers spoke about race on Mastodon, some users demanded he use content warnings.

Three years later, I was told I was "whitewashing" by pointing out Mastodon is disproportionately white.

Of all the derailment tactics, subtly leveraging a social justice veneer is the most dangerous because it gives people a mandate to be racist.

https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon

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silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

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distrowatch ("DistroWatch") wrote:

I think it is telling that we are about three years into the AI craze and, still, every single time someone says to me "I asked ChatGPT ___ " or "The chatbot told me ____" I know they are about to say something completed stupid and devoid of facts. Every single time.

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Stopped to charge the car and…

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

Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

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#covpeek #codecoverage #devops #coverage #testing #ci #rust #golang

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

- Whiteness isn't real so it doesn't matter
- The Fediverse is just a protocol so it doesn't matter
- I'm "whitewashing" the existence of POCs by pointing out that mastodon is disproportionately white
- the problem is I don't know how to use mastodon
- being racist doesn't "erase the good people do"
- saying "white" is racist
- I'm hostile
- I need to be on time out
- I'm MAGA
- I'm uneducated
- I'm racist

Just can't figure out why #Mastodon can't make progress on matters of race. 🫠🙃