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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

American jews apply for German passports to escape the Trump regime.

Let that sink in.

https://youtu.be/XEkE4BZyu4Y?si=kqd7LvO9eE01gISR

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Every time I see ICE agents dressed in full body armor and covered in guns and wearing masks and driving around in armored vehicles with machine guns on top like they've been deployed to fight the most terrible war in human history, all so they can drive around and kidnap women and children off the street, I'm reminded of how pants-shittingly terrified they are underneath it all.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

This is not an investigation. It’s a cover up.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

“The savagery is a feature, not a bug.”

- Hillary Clinton

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/war-empathy-hillary-clinton/685809/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNCBLb7ir0-kmg9n%5F7FcDMjA

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

All sorts of things can be abandoned. This time around, it's a hatchery.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #winter #grass #moss

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

@jwz I honestly thought you might have been exaggerating, but then I clicked through to the article...and jesus effing christ, the whole board need to be launched into the sun.

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

cherry pie, under construction

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
WiteWulf@cyberplace.social ("Gary :party_porg:") wrote:

It's great to see all this anti-ICE, pro-Minnesota #music coming out.

If you haven't been playing along at home:

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

Billy Bragg - City of Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8

NOFX - Minnesota Nazis
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy%5Fnu9UVJJwKR-LdrbugeC4JIOfmo0782KmY

Waterparks - ICE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hdYepYGHHE0

Jesse Welles - Join ICE
https://youtu.be/61I4hlig78w

Buffalo Nichols - ICE Age Blues
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ehAciON3IdE

Let me know of more in the replies and I'll add them to the list

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

National USA shutdown proposed for Jan 30. I concur. https://nationalshutdown.org/

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

We’re joining the general strike:

"It is clear that something has shifted. Abolish ICE is not just the mainstream position, it is also the only moral one."

I’d consider Garbage Day closer to center than not. Glad they said the thing(tm). https://www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-joining-the-general-strike

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AngryBlackLady@mstdn.social ("Imani Gandy") wrote:

Are ICE agents the type of “soldiers” the slaver-Founders contemplated when they wrote the Third Amendment?

Well when you’ve spent decades outfitting law enforcement with militarized equipment and they’re acting as a paramilitary force being unleashed on cities to kidnap and kill people, any claim that modern law enforcement bears no resemblance to the sort of standing domestic army that the slaver-Founders hated falls flat on its face.

That’s why I wrote about it. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/21/opinion-hotels-have-a-constitutional-right-not-to-house-ice-agents/

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

Still going strong. I’ve gotten so good at making moka pot coffee! I want to open a coffee shop that exclusively sells moka pot coffee. Like two drinks tops. Have like twenty moka pots going at any given time. Moka pot tattoos get 20%. Plus, just like the driest scone you ever had.

jwz wrote:

Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.

Mozilla is cooked.

https://jwz.org/b/yk2n

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

everything else is syntactic sugar, really.

[end_prof_rant]

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

iteration:

leading test

(BEGIN)
|
while (condition)
do this
|
(END)

----------

trailing test

(BEGIN)
|
do this
|
until (condition)
|
(END)

Boosted by jwz:
sysadmin1138@ngmx.com ("SysAdmin1138") wrote:

For your vicarious tech-crash enjoyment, Microsoft is down 11% in trading this morning after earnings yesterday drew a bold underline around how much they're exposed to OpenAI.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
koutropoulos@social.ds106.us ("Apostolos K.") wrote:

😂🧅Man Unrecognizable After Full 8 Hours Of Sleep https://theonion.com/man-unrecognizable-after-full-8-hours-of-sleep/

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

selection:

typically expressed as

(BEGIN)
|
if (condition) do this
else do that
|
(END)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xs4me2 wrote:

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/palestinian-journalist-bisan-owda-with-1-4m-followers-reports-tiktok-ban

It illustrates exactly why commercial platform like this should be avoided. Biased and undemocratic.

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Meanwhile, Schumer’s much-touted list of demands is (oh, shocker) pathetic weak sauce: “a prohibition on [ICE] wearing masks, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of violations.”

…which, like…

(1) Sure, that would be nice — comically insufficient, but nice

(2) DHS already ignore the very clear laws that are on the books; why on earth do you think it would help to have more rules for them to ignore?

(3) ICE+CBP right now are basically the KKK except with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Decimate that budget or GTFO.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill

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

sequence:

(BEGIN)
|
do this
|
do that
|
(END)

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

If you are a US voter, your Senator could perhaps stand to hear — again — that Schumer’s list is insufficient and abolishing ICE now has majority support.

Very soon the electoral stuff will become completely useless again, but for a hot minute here, until this budget fight ends and Schumer caves, those calls do help.

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

algorithms are made by stringing control structures together. there are really only three types of control structure: sequence, selection, and iteration.

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

data structures are just ways to organize stuff, like a list of ingredients at the beginning of a recipe for a chocolate cake. algorithms are just step by step instructions to do stuff, like turn those ingredients into a chocolate cake.

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

[begin_prof_rant]

in the end, all programs are simply data structures and algorithms to do sh*t.

jwz wrote:

Do you have experience implementing recurring payments using authorize.net? Specifically, I'm interested in gotchas with replaying CIM tokens; best practices for retrying declines; expired cards, etc. Email me.

IMPORTANT: If you have never created a "createCustomerProfileFromTransactionRequest" XML node, this question is NOT FOR YOU.

I'm not soliciting advice about what third party intermediary company I should pay rent to, and I don't ever want to hear the word Stripe.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2l

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

in programming, I have learned as a general Rule Of Thumb to prefer >= and <= as the safest way to do selection and iteration tests. [warning: minorly long thread a'coming)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@STPo/115977879479030822

Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blotosmetek@circumstances.run ("Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

Unsolicited Programming Suggestion (UPS)¹:
When you code a condition for executing some action every N days, think what should happen if your system is down at the time of scheduled execution. For example, this #Python example code:

if current_day == previous_day + N:
   action()
   previous_day = current_day

will fail miserably – your action will not happen ever again. Replacing == with >= will solve the problem – assuming you want your action to be executed as soon as possible if the scheduled time was missed. If, however, your preferred solution is to skip the missed event altogether, but execute the next event at correct time, the % (modulo) operator is your friend:

if current_day % N == 0:
   action()

Of course, this holds for intervals expressed in any units, not just days, you just need to calculate your current_whatever accordingly – for example, current_hour = int(time.time()) // 3600 or current_week = int(time.time()) // (7*24*3600) .

Now you may ask "What about cron, isn't it its role to handle such things?"
Well, yes, but cron doesn't allow you to specify, for example, "every other week", and if you think this crontab entry: 0 12 */9 * * something will run something at noon every 9th day, you're in for a surprise, and you haven't read man 5 crontab carefully – at least on Debian it says:

# Run once every 9th day, even across week, month, and year boundaries:
33 22 * * *     expr $(date +\%s) / 60 / 60 / 24 \% 9 > /dev/null || echo Wax the floor.

Yes, this is what is needed to have your action actually performed on every 9th day rather than on 9th, 18th and 27th day of every month.

¹ I'll probably be posting more such #UPS based on my own or my coworkers' real life experiences…

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

As annoyed as I am with the incomprehensible fawning of celebrities like Dean Cain and Nicki Minaj, I am bothered slightly more by the absence of criticism from so-called Libertarians like Kurt Russel and Woody Harrelson.

#USPol