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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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simon, to random
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I got a good quote in this story about that dumb Zoom Idea to have "digital twins" attend meetings in your place https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

timbray, to random
@timbray@cosocial.ca avatar

Wow, there’s a rare burst of good news: Modi's ethnofascist election campaign fails to secure a majority government in India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

ProfLouiseL, to random
@ProfLouiseL@mastodon.social avatar

Genuinely quite surprised at the number of people coming out to say throwing a milkshake at Farage was 'assault' and must never happen to politicians. I absolutely agree politicians should not be subject to violence, but there is a long, proud history of throwing foodstuffs at people as a form of protest. Intended to humiliate and ridicule, not to injure. Pleased to see Mastodon mostly agrees.

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/05/24/a-short-history-of-throwing-food-at-fascists/

selzero, to random
@selzero@syzito.xyz avatar

THIS MILKSHAKE FIGHTS FASCISTS

The fascist is covered in milkshake!!

mjg59, to random
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

mekkaokereke, to random
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Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

mekkaokereke,
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Shout out to all the people just now learning that a US Sheriff, whose job is statistically safer than being a gardener, carpenter, or taxi driver, and that barely graduated high school, and whose job is mainly harassing and beating unarmed Black and Brown people... gets paid between 3X and 6X the salary of an active duty Navy Seal with 2 Masters degrees, on deployment in an active war zone.🙂🙃

6X. Not a typo.

Many of those sheriffs took time off of work to go act out at Jan 6. No SEALs did. 🤷🏿‍♂️

sarahjamielewis, to random
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social avatar

After writing this note on Recall (https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/112482021770758791) a few weeks back, I've received many messages under the assumption that I don't understand how DRM / OS interaction works.

As if the integration of a broken, backwards technology into the core of our computing systems happened by accident.

"No, you see the OS doesn't get to see those bits of the screen, so it totally makes sense why the system scraps your financial documents and passwords but not netflix" - utterly unhinged worldview

gwynnion, to random
@gwynnion@mastodon.social avatar

Companies that bought a metric shit load of Nvidia processors want you to know how very badly you need a virtual assistant who spies on you and makes stuff up in order to justify it.

AkaSci, to random
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org avatar

"Know your role" on a road trip.
Cute 🤣
Source: Iowa GTSB (Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau).

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org avatar

Trump making no bones about his vindictive slash and burn plans in a 2nd term.
"Wouldn't it be terrible to throw the president's wife and the former secretary of state into jail? Wouldn't that be a terrible thing? It's a terrible, terrible, path that they're leading us to. And it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them."
1/n

ancient_catbus, to random
@ancient_catbus@jorts.horse avatar

the 👑 who milkshaked Nigel Farage only gets better

ghorwood, to random
@ghorwood@mastodon.social avatar

the people who think letting people drown is totally cool want you to know that throwing a milkshake crosses a red line.

angiebaby, to random
@angiebaby@mas.to avatar

Joe Biden had better pack the Supreme Court and he had better doing it really fucking soon, or they will install Donald Trump as President, regardless of the outcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-x62_c7ZM

yurnidiot, to random
@yurnidiot@mstdn.social avatar

a wallet that holds cash, cards, and unfolds like a secret map to financial freedom

a large wallet made of paper that has multiple layers of containers ranging from small to large capacity that open to reveal money inside

mjg59, to random
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

Current discourse is that it would have been wrong to throw a milkshake at Hitler, is it?

ScienceCommunicator, to uk
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The UK politician Nigel Farage is stirring up hate speech__whilst looking rather jolly & proud about it

“What do I have to offer you? Well I can promise you that I do know one thing. That a woman can’t have a penis! You won’t get any woke PC nonsense from me!” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/04/red-meat-and-milk-clacton-voters-on-nigel-farage-and-his-button-pushing-rhetoric

So the "one thing" Farage knows is how to stir up the "mob"

What an X investment banker.

#UK #politicians #politics

Lazarou, to UKpolitics
@Lazarou@mastodon.social avatar

This woman is a hero, not a criminal

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/62780/1/woman-threw-milkshake-at-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-uk

polotek, to random
@polotek@social.polotek.net avatar

I wrote up a bunch of the lessons I learned while trying to get the official mastodon image running in docker. It ended up being quite long. Sorry.

I think the audience for this post is mostly the mastodon devs. Maybe they can help answer why some of this stuff is the way it is. But if you're a person who is interested in errata around docker, rails and mastodon, it's for you too!
https://polotek.net/posts/local-mastodon-in-docker/

lemay, to gardening
@lemay@mastodon.social avatar

This year these California poppies came up right in the middle of the garden path, 100% in my way, but am I going to pull them up? ABSOLUTELY NOT

mhoye, to random
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Watching myself talk is always agonizing, but Carol is such a great speaker and her team's research on code review anxiety and what you can do about it is so good.

Anxiety around code review is an absolutely pervasive part of the experience of being a developer on a team, for people of any degree of experience, and it doesn't need to be that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGQIdFJRtc

jalcine, to random
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Glad I found this photo in Nextcloud because the use of the term "racism" gets confused as "ouchie, my feelings" and it's not that at all.

andybaio, to random
@andybaio@xoxo.zone avatar

Here’s a thread of some good stuff I found on the internet recently, starting with Louie Zong’s latest, “a song about perception?? and messing around with content aware scaling lmao” https://youtu.be/D9JKCoj8BJc

andybaio,
@andybaio@xoxo.zone avatar

View source on this page to have your mind blown, a seven-segment digital quine clock made out of its own 321 bytes of JavaScript. https://aem1k.com/qlock/

alan, (edited ) to saltlakecity
@alan@subdued.social avatar

Getting ready to head to Salt Lake City for a conference, checking What3Words before I go so I don't get lost:

https://what3words.com/salt.lake.city

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