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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay i am in a fair amount of pain and i deserve sympathy

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p Pacific/5p Eastern!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1488196531852152873

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

jfc

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay apparently it's totally normal to feel like you've got a chest infection when you give up smoking.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
rebeccanagle.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rebecca Nagle") wrote:

Mullin is not “part” Native American, he is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. Saying “part” comes from blood quantum, in which the US government tried to legislate Native people out of existence by measuring what percent Native we are.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

@glyph @dreid @ceejbot Same with a caveat: everyone is staring at 'supply chain risk' and thinking 'nope nope nope don't want to touch that'

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

She left at 7am to go teach the hands on labs that she teaches where they handle cells, where they've increased class sizes and reduced TAs, she spends more contact hours with students in lab basements than any other class on the campus. She created a program for community college transfer students to get funded jobs in labs, opening up STEM pathways for those who never would've gotten the chance. For all her above and beyond work she's demonized as "doing DEI in science" which they call illegal

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It must be absolutely humiliating to be building this shit. Imagine telling your friends this is what you work on.

https://hachyderm.io/@maxine/116318066263021416

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mcc wrote:

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality

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

The Republicans are shaping the future of the Republican party, and it's not looking good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/30/they-never-learn-2/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh yeah i have half a CI system from that time i was going to make a CI and then gave up because github actions happened and you can't compete with microsoft.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

tfw your brain fills in the rest of the toot before you've stopped reading.

except your brain was wrong. your brain was funnier.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

aren't my lungs supposed to feel better though? cause i still feel bunged up with some sort of cold-shaped device

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

well i have been frightfully productive in terms of housework (displacement activity) while giving up smoking (~48h).

i have written 0 code though.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

if you think safety's expensive, try having an accident

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Sideshow Bob by Marquitos Corvalán. <3 When Nature Become Art (17 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/30/nature-made-in-to-street-art/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

Just passed my driving test!!

#LearnerDriver #DrivingTest

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
lunareclipse@snug.moe ("luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian:") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, serious questions. I keep seeing people in tech talk as if they don’t see the difference between indexing media to aid in the discovery of said media and indexing it all to replace it and deprive the creators of revenue.

Is it really not obvious to people in tech why people in the arts and creative industries might be fine with the former but extraordinarily furious about the latter? Or that the legal framework surrounding the two might actually be different?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

me: why are all these times in the middle of the night?

oh they're in australia

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

how does one get endorsed for idris crimes?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

first interview this year, mind. that's how well the market's going.

it's... it's because i'm an idris liker.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

holy crap i've got an interview

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:

I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:

🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻‍♂️

The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy

If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

the Wikipedia article on the light pen is pathetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%5Fpen

we will be expanding this

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

does archive.org really need a 4800 dpi scan of all sides of the box?

no, probably not.

is it getting a 4800 dpi scan of all sides of the box? yes. yes it is.

#retrocomputing

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
seanwbruno@infosec.exchange ("Sean 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷") wrote:

@gloriouscow hard disagree.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

i am sorry i am making the fediverse worse