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jrconlin

@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com

Got two Turing tables and some microcode.

I work on back-end server-y type stuff at a place that keeps rockin' the free web. I like rust, python, and horrible puns (not necessarily in that order).

I tend to be nice for selfish reasons (I don't like hanging out with jerks).

#programming #rust #python
#mentoring #DadJokes
#fedi22 #searchable

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ElleGray, to random
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morale in hospitals is currently very low and this is one of the reasons

jrconlin,
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@ElleGray

Hope they rinsed it.

No one wants a Doritos Flamin’ Hot colonoscopy.

krosylight, to random
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Me: Ohh the power efficient ARM processors are becoming generally available for laptops, there will be less standby and idle power usage!

Big techs: Ohhhhh more power to run more things!! Put AI and run it in background!!! Capture screenshots every two seconds!!!

https://godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/112543688397094677

jrconlin,
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@krosylight @Shrigglepuss

Oh god, this.

We would be so damn far ahead on power generation and storage if companies didn’t insist on frittering it all on bullshit buzzword that they think will get them $0.05 more.

Not to be one of Those Guys, but running a minimal Linux on a Framework really underscored to me how much power was being wasted on the dumbest crap.

jrconlin, to random
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Donated a few bucks to
https://chessinstitute.ca/donors/

Because I'm a big fan of nerds in training who could beat my <expletive> in 7 moves.

Might want to consider doing the same if your a fan of
☑ kids
☑ chess
☑ Canadians

jrconlin, to random
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Hang on, just changing every windows terminal title to Terminal'); select ' ''); drop table ' || name || ';' from sqlite_master where type='table'; --

jrconlin, (edited ) to random
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I'm very curious what comes of this.

"""
Today, we are investing in the next generation of GenAI security with the 0Day Investigative Network (0Din) by Mozilla, a bug bounty program for large language models (LLMs) and other deep learning technologies. 0Din expands the scope to identify and fix GenAI security by delving beyond the application layer with a focus on emerging classes of vulnerabilities and weaknesses in these new generations of models.
"""

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/keeping-genai-technologies-secure-is-a-shared-responsibility/

adhdeanasl, to random
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An imperfect administration led by an old guy doing the best they can and actually making progress in the face of overwhelming cheating and pure hate,

or

A convicted felon backed by evil money & power mongers who’s a wannabe fascist dictator who has no compunction about selling America to the highest bidder.

This is hard for you… why?

jrconlin,
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@adhdeanasl

The stunning thing for me is that there are folk on both sides who see their guy in the above description the exact same way.

mhoye, to random
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I've proposed the idea to the Signal community that if tools like Recall go out of their way to recognize and ignore DRM'ed content, then messenger programs that want to avoid being recorded should have a small always-on DRM'ed image on display at all times as a defensive measure.

If the tools are there, we might as well put them to good use.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

Could Signal et al just announce themselves as DRM clients to the OS?

krosylight, to random
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Carbonara
Nitrogenara
Oxygenara

jrconlin, (edited )
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@krosylight

Honestly, Oxygenara kinda scares the hell out of me.

mhoye, to random
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Second attempt at the carbonara today. It’s so good, but my god it’s a heavy meal.

jrconlin,
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@bhearsum @mhoye

I recently introduced my spouse to the trick of slightly undercooking pasta in the pot, and then adding the dripping pasta to a big frying pan where I've got the sauce heating up. You then cook everything until the sauce turns thick and you're able to see the bottom of the pan after you stir.

This is what restaurants do.

Mind you, she grew up in an Italian household and never knew that technique.

AmishSuperModel, to random
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It’s so hard explaining to your kids that their goldfish ran away.

jrconlin,
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@AmishSuperModel

It's playing in a meadow of a farm, upstate.

Honestly, it would have been happier in the pond.

jrconlin, to random
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Headlines from ACM that make me sad today:

jrconlin, to random
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Oh, look.

They detected H5N1 in SF's wastewater.

yay...

orders more N95s

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/h5n1-avian-flu-san-francisco-19489217.php

jrconlin, to random
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Considering starting a service called ChatJRC.

In which people just send me prompts that I respond to.

jrconlin, to random
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I guess "Best of luck to Elena Zhukova. Here's hoping you're the one who kills him and inherits his fortune"?

jrconlin, to random
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<near endless swearing>

poison oak

<remaining endless swearing>

mhoye, to random
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Imagine working for a company that is so well managed, that is so well organized and competently led, that a genuinely felt need for a tool that let you be in three meetings at the same time somehow emerged organically from the working culture as a problem worth solving.

Imagine working somewhere that building a tool that let people be in three meetings at the same time sounded like a good idea.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

They probably had a coordination and planning meeting about it.

It was only attended by AIs.

They thought it was wonderful.

jrconlin, to random
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Space Gallagher Strikes Moon

https://soc.jrconlin.com/@coreyspowell@mastodon.social/112537848355961932

jrconlin, to random
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TIL:
If you send out a meeting invite to a mail list, clicking on the '"Yes" or "No" I will attend' button tries to add the mail list (not you, the mail list recipient) to the meeting, which generally errors out.

If you plan on attending a meeting that's being held a month ago, and you are part of a mail list that got an invite. DO NOT ASSUME CLICKING "YES" MEANS THAT YOU GET A CALENDAR REMINDER! You gotta do that manually, it turns out.

Gmail + Gcalendar is very clever, that way.

jrconlin,
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@bhearsum

This is why I request that all my meeting invites be delivered by a page, ideally having ridden in a horse drawn carriage. Bonus points if the page is wearing a powdered wig and holds a silver platter with the invite.

Those usually get a "maybe" from me.

jrconlin,
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@PeterLudemann @mhoye

I'd argue that members of two teams do, sometimes, have a meeting where they go over some points.

Those meetings then become the origin of big games of corporate telephone where the final product might have the same name, but is now a messaging / social / email platform instead of a build delivery system.

jrconlin, (edited )
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@mhoye @eaton @karenmcgrane

Yeah, it's also fun looking at huge orgs "Mission Statement". The bigger they are, the vaguer the statement.

I fully expect massive organizations to have one like:

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

You know, it's always fun to talk to junior or non-tech folk and explain to them that big companies are really a loose confederacy of smaller ones that all use the same badge to get into the cafeteria.

mhoye, to random
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I feel like the four-day-workweek proposal lacks both ambition and seasonal nuance.

My proposal is this: "The 30 hour work week".

That is: Five shortened 6 hour days in the winter, when sunlight is scarce and we'd probably rather be indoors more often than not anyway, and four 7.5 hour days in the summer, when the sun gets us moving earlier and we'd rather have an extra full day outside.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

I like it in theory, but I can't help finding ways that it could be weaponized against folk.

(Says the guy that tends to work from 07:30 to 17:00 for reasons he still doesn't understand.)

mhoye, to random
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Moving from screen to tmux, this post was very helpful for bootstrapping the experience-tailoring process: https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/

After a quarter century in screen, remapping c-b as the magic prefix key back to c-a, where all my muscle memory wants it, was helpful and pleasant. So are the mouse menus, and the "list the URLs on the screen" function is a nice touch.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

Ah, neat!

I also have a script I run to start tmux. It lets me optionally use named sessions, which can be handy at times.

https://gist.github.com/jrconlin/6e4e3032380aafa9c3bafc97ac9bfa24

mhoye, to random
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I would like to know how many cicadas are involved in the Final Fantasy 7 development process.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

I think that's missing
Final Final Fantasy: The End pt 2

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