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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:
The same folks who were criminally investigating Jerome Powell for a $600M cost overrun on the new Fed headquarters are now telling us that the White House ballroom will cost taxpayers a billion dollars instead of being completely paid for by bribes.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
this is why we're seeing so much performative slop from those working at big tech
if you ain't in, you're out
Mastodon FeedBoosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ryanhodnett@mastodon.world ("Ryan Hodnett") wrote:
#Sandnessundet #Tromsø #Norway #Troms #Norge #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Mountains #Panorama #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
Mastodon FeedEmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Ah, but you see if I never let anyone get close to me, then I can’t disappointment them when they realize they’ve wasted their time and energy on a useless loaf.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
aredridel@better.boston ("Aria Stewart") wrote:
I'm really proud of this little restaurant map I made https://salem.community/restaurants/
The reason I made it is on the main page, but in short: the extremely obvious algorithmic racism of Google Maps made me realize I was missing so many little spots in my city, and consulting Google was just going to make me see the same twenty places over and over and miss the richness that this city has.
Look at this difference.
This is how much the world gets curated for us, and often quite invisibly.
Mastodon FeedFWIW Apple's bookstore does family sharing exactly as one would expect and their app will also happily side-load whatever non-DRM'd epub you care to throw at it. so if I'm going to choose a gilded digital prison, from now on, I guess I'll buy from the one that's actually at least gilded and not just a squalid disaster of a digital prison.
will SOMEONE please just do something competitive with whispersync literally anywhere outside kindle though
Mastodon FeedIn general we've preferred physical books for the kid, mostly from the library, a few purchased, for obvious reasons. but planning to be in some situations where the extra weight from objects such as books & superfluous devices (we do have an old kindle that we've used a *little*) would actually be a big problem, so we were trying to consolidate down to the iOS app, not to mention selectively share mom & dad's decades-old back catalog of various ebooks. and it just doesn't work at all
Mastodon Feedluckily they have closed the "teen" loophole and you can't even manually age out of being a tween any more. "As of April 7, 2025, Amazon is no longer accepting new teen additions to Amazon Family". children from 13-18 are simply not allowed to exist https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TKIuvQP53YxG8kughB
Mastodon Feedthe "you are a child forever" thing is just WILD https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q00008wthPISAY/change-from-child-to-teen
Mastodon Feed4. you can't log in to a child profile on anything but a physical Amazon device (Fire tablet, a physical Kindle). there's no way to view your content on a device from another vendor without just granting them full access to an adult's account. and of course you can't, like, export the books
Mastodon Feedsome highlights:
1. a "family" can contain only 2 adults. or at least, you can have a bunch of adults, but the first 2 adults are special and they are the only ones that can share "content" (books)
2. any account created with an email address is an "adult"
3. a "child profile" family member remains a "child" forever. you must supply an accurate birthday but when they turn 13, they're still restricted as if they're under 12
Mastodon FeedThis might finally give me the push I need to get out of the Amazon ecosystem: amazon "kids" family sharing is completely and totally broken https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000E3vpU4SQI/kids-profile-on-kindle-ios
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Viss wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116535812794756896
TIL: anthropic does not consider "I can get arbitrary text into your internal slack chatrooms via this injection method" a security risk.
its 'informative'.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:
Gimme the s n a c k s
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
snowstormbat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("SnowyBark 🔞") wrote:
May-B
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A point excerpted from a talk I gave earlier this week at Microsoft's internal performance symposium (alt talk title: "CSS-in-JS: Frontend's Worst Idea"):
Browsers are virtual machines tuned to efficiently turn *markup* into *pixels*.
If your system tries to generate pixels from not-markup, you'll be working against the grain of the system, and should expect to suffer massive performance penalties -- both in CPU and memory use -- as a result.
For deep reasons, this is not going to change.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
(Also if you think this is your cue to say the Democrats are just as bad in their own way, please go fuck yourself behind the dumpster of your local gas station, you pathetic equivocating weasel)
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I don't imagine this will come as a surprise to anyone at this point, but I will say it anyway: The chances of me ever voting Republican for the rest of my life is substantially less than the chance of me willingly running my tongue over a cheese grater, and would cause me more actual pain
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
And then, develop your skill for being oriented, for harnessing chaos into something going a particular direction. You can only do this once you've developed taste and skill and gone the wrong direction a bunch. You cannot shortcut this experience, but as someone told me at a time I was not quite ready to hear it, the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity.
Decisions get made so fast, before we're really ready for them, and in conflict. The results are mediocre to bad. It's up to us to sort through the mess and say "this way" out of it. Not as dictators or authorities, but as people who understand the territory. And who can spot when their teams are going in circles and pick a path out.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Building credibility this way is awkward, even painful for some people, but there is no substitute for being known.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116536115292248636
This is going to leave a lot of big craters.
Institutional knowledge is the key driver of success.
Destroying the knowledge by destroying the human fabric is going to be devastating
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Ask why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.
Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831
The quoted toot is dismal and true
But know that if you want to learn, people are willing to show you. You have to bring the will to learn because the temptation to skip learning will be everywhere. But if you're curious when the curmudgeonly old techie who's holding the system together says something surprising, ask them about it. We will tell you.
If you want to learn and you're not employed, I cannot state this enough, _build something_. Start with AI, that's fine, but _get under the hood_. Get your hands dirty. Understand what's going on. Your curiosity is the ONLY thing that will get you that experience now.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
flamingspork@tacobelllabs.net ("spork (pathetic girlfailure)") wrote:
does anyone need a sysadmin, SRE, or cybersecurity person with experience with cell and radio networks? i'm looking for a job to end my five month streak of unemployment
i have a BSc and MSc in Computing Security and 4 years job experience (resume upon request)
i can work in the Boston area or remote in the US
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:
This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.
The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - James Garrick
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116536115292248636
This. It's roughly this.
And know that if you leave the table, what gets built will not be built for you :/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Scheduled? What kind of dufus would plan to shut down our courseware during the last weeks of the term?
