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ernie, 8 months ago to random

I saved my boss from boarding a hijacked flight on 9/11. You won't believe what he did next

Post See new posts Conversation Bill Ellmore 𝕏 @BillEllmore · Sep 11 I was booked on United Flight 93 on 9/11, 2001, flying nonstop from Newark NJ to San Francisco CA. Around midnight the night before, a coworker called me urging me to change my flight to fly into San Jose instead. This meant I had to give up my 1st class seat and move to a flight… Show more Bill Ellmore 𝕏 @BillEllmore The reason my coworker told me to change my flight was she took the same flight on 9/10 and the commute from San Francisco to Mountain View would make me late for my meeting whereas traveling from San Jose to Mountain View would be faster in the morning. 11:42 AM · Sep 11, 2023 · 921.5K Views Mark (Elsa's Dad) Davis, Man of Leisure @MarkDavis8919 · Sep 11 she saved your life with advice, which you followed. what ever happened to your coworker? Bill Ellmore 𝕏 @BillEllmore · Sep 11 Sad to say, I ultimately had to fire her for poor performance. It was difficult

ernie, 11 months ago to random

I have waited three months to share this with y’all.

In the fall of 2022, literally thousands of computers flooded eBay, with a brand name few knew, at a rock-bottom price of $59.99 plus shipping. A YouTuber did a video about them and the machines—2,200 in all—went viral.

Where did they come from? Why were there so many? I spent the last few months determining this answer. And well, it’s a story.

For @Motherboard, the story of the NABU Network: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

ernie, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Linus Torvalds, in his way, defends trans rights and speaks out against the anti-woke politics.

(Trigger warning: This server does not appear to fediblock very much, so there is some nasty stuff on it.)

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm

ernie, 3 months ago to random

It’s confirmed. The Vice website is shutting down.

My God.

via @willsommer

ernie, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

So let me break down how things are going on the internet today:

• Twitter: Rate-limited
• Reddit: Third-party apps dead
• Pornhub: Effectively just got banned in my state because of a bad law
• Bluesky: Slow as molasses because everyone’s on a single server
• Twitch: Hear they’re having problems, too
• YouTube: Working OK but sudden questions about them, too
• Mastodon: Running perfectly

We can make this work.

ernie, 9 months ago to random

A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing.

Reader-supported tech media. Support them here: https://www.404media.co/welcome-to-404-media/

ernie, 11 months ago to random

Reminder that if people come here from Twitter right now, they want to join a community, not get lectured on their posting style. Let’s be as welcoming as we can be.

ernie, 17 days ago to random

It’s alive. https://udm14.com

ernie, 1 year ago to random

A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

ernie, 2 months ago to random

This high schooler is a total badass. She caught the Virginia government extending a tax exemption to an org that glorifies the confederacy, called it out, and now the legislature is working to fix that.

https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/20/virginia-beach-teen-inspired-bill-that-would-end-tax-exemption-for-daughters-of-the-confederacy/

ernie, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

How I fixed Google so it doesn’t shove AI into my face anymore.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

new @tedium

EDIT: Nobody cares if you use DuckDuckGo, you do you

ernie, 6 months ago to random

The Onion spitting fire https://www.theonion.com/iconic-napalm-rights-advocate-dead-at-100-1851061936

ernie, 1 year ago to random

One of Linus Tech Tips’ most popular hosts just came out as trans. The clip is supremely heartwarming. https://youtu.be/b-owBhLGaH4

ernie, 8 months ago to random

Wow, this feels like a big deal.

ernie, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Twitter is straight up recommending a space hosted by Richard Spencer. I can't remove this. It's stuck at the top of my timeline

EDIT: I have determined this was because a journalist I was following decided to listen in. (This is a situation where, if you’re reporting, you might want to pull out your secondary.)

ernie, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Cypress Hill, nearly 30 years after taking part in a joke on The Simpsons where a symphony orchestra joined them on stage, did that in real life recently.

Yes, it was inspired by the joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQ4lzjR5Tk

ernie, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/

(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)

ernie, 7 months ago to random

It is goddamn depressing that one of the most famous amateur athletes in American history could find herself fighting for her life in a hospital with no health insurance.

Mary Lou Retton needs the public’s help.

https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/10/olympic-gold-medalist-mary-lou-retton-fighting-for-life-illness-fundraiser/

ernie, 5 months ago to random

If you are forcing people who usually write about food to write about their opposition to Nazis, you are not the champions of discourse you think you are.

ernie, 8 months ago to random

Self-promote the hell out of yourself because honestly, who else is going to do it?

It someone hates it, fuck ’em.

ernie, 7 months ago to random

Why pay Elon $1 a year to use his cruddy service when you can pay a Mastodon host who actually knows your name $5 a month to support a community that actually meets your needs?

ernie, 3 months ago to random

What is happening with Yuzu and Citra is a travesty. It will have a chilling effect on future console development. Tomorrow’s developers are today’s emulator hackers.

ernie, 2 months ago to random

The power of great reporting right here https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/gm-onstar-driver-data.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

ernie, 2 months ago to random

Reminder: own your own shit, and it won’t randomly change on you like this. https://www.thewrap.com/substack-follow-feature-problems-subscriptions-down/

ernie, 1 month ago to random

The Gaming Historian just dropped a feature-length documentary on The Oregon Trail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QbjlHeoLdc