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hrefna

@hrefna@hachyderm.io

SRE at Google. Queer. Poly :potion_polyamory: Trans :verified_trans: :nonbinary_potion: Engineer. Ace :flag_ace: Member of AWU-CWA. #ActuallyAutistic :rainbowinfinity: #UnionStrong

Opinions my own. Does not suffer fools gladly.

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ChanceyFleet, to random

If you had told my 10-year-old Blind girl self that in 30 years iโ€™d be taking pictures of a touchscreen with another touchscreen to find out from a conversational AI down on land how much longer the flight is; and that this is somehow easier than making the airline fix their website so i can read the damn time for myself; she would have been mad, but maybe not entirely surprised

thisismissem, to random
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Was really impressed by what I saw from Tall Poppy and the resources they provided for keeping moderators and administrators of fediverse servers safe!

If you want to learn more about this, see @iftas's posts!

compost, (edited ) to climate
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What is fantastic about composting worms is that not only they are able to process an insane amount of waste and help us limit greenhouse gasses from landfills, but we often forget that they produce one of the most powerful manure that can be made at home.

If you apply the worm castings in your garden, you will boost the biology in your soils and provide a lot of nutrients for your plants.

If you want to do something for the #climate a worm bin is a very good start.

YOU ARE THE CHANGE
#gardening #growyourown #climatecrisis #climatechange

juliaserano, to queer
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I see we're rehashing #Pride discourse about #bisexual women & their male partners (despite many men being at Pride). so I'm re-upping "Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & #LGBTQ+ Purity Politics" โ€“ which gets to the root of this antagonism (no paywall): https://juliaserano.medium.com/penises-privilege-and-feminist-lgbtq-purity-politics-bafd1f25fe3e

GoodAaron, to random
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If you like Star Trek, live action, animated, television or filmโ€ฆ now is a great time to show your support when #StarTrekProdigy Season Two drops on Netflix this July 1st! ๐Ÿ––

video/mp4

hrefna, to random
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"Greater than 200x compression rate is required. It also must be lossless compression, work under low power and be able to compress data in real time"

I'm partial to blue dragons, personally. Though the gem ones are awesome if we can break out of the chromatics for our dragon choices.

jenniferplusplus, to random
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I'm making sure that Letterbook runs both as a self contained single binary and as a horizontally distributed system for high availability and capacity. This is going to be worth it, but at the same time I've created an incredibly obnoxious packaging problem for myself and I'm really sick of it.

Like, really sick of it.

jenniferplusplus,
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Basically, the plan is to support any of these configurations. Letterbook is designed to scale both up and down, in a highly cost conscious way.

In terms of software development, this isn't even hard. What makes it hard is packaging. And what makes packaging hard(er) is that most people don't even conceive of it as something to be done.

Box and arrow diagram of multiple instances of a simple service, behind a load balancer. Modules are the same as the simple deployment. There is an added RabbitMQ message broker, and the Bus module passes messages to that, which are then sent to the Worker modules. SSL termination is handled by the load balancer. It anticipates serving 10s of thousands of users and devices. Labeled as a simple load-balanced deployment of Letterbook
Box and arrow diagram of a moderately complex distributed system. The API, Web, and Worker modules are broken out as isolated services, and scaled independently. The load balancer distributes requests to the Web and API services. The message broker distributes messages only to the Worker services. SSL termination is handled by the load balancer. It anticipates serving a million users and devices. Labelled as a distributed, scaled, high-availability deployment of Letterbook

seatek, to random
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This has taken me way, way too long to learn.

mjd, to random
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I loved this:

  1. How many photons does Voyager send per bit transmitted?
  2. Many photons are received per bit received?
  3. How close are we to the theoretic lower limit of what we need to receive

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/816710/9062

WorkingFamilies, to random
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Fun fact: unions help ALL workers, whether theyโ€™re part of a union or not.

More unions means higher wages for everyone.

solient, to random
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My story "Corner Cases" made the 2024 BattleTech Pride Anthology!

https://prideanthology.itch.io/2024

GossiTheDog, to random
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Very big cyber incident playing out at Snowflake, who describe themselves as โ€œAI Data Cloudโ€. They have a free trial where anybody can sign up and upload dataโ€ฆ and they have.

Threat actors have been scraping customer data using a tool called rapeflake, for about a month.

GossiTheDog,
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The tl;dr of the Snowflake thing is mass scraping has been happening, but nobody noticed.. and they're pointing at customers for having poor credentials. It appears a lot of data has gone walkies from a bunch of orgs.

Snowflake is a big AI data company with a conference in the US next week, chances of that going ahead are interesting.

anderseknert, to testing
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New blog post on โ€œAdvanced Rego Testing Techniquesโ€ by Nicholaos Mouzourakis from Gusto. Deep technical content. Love it!

https://www.styra.com/blog/advanced-rego-testing-techniques/

#OPA #Rego #Testing #DevOps

ProPublica, to Texas
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Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Targets

Paxton has repeatedly used that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including , pharmaceutical companies and + groups.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-consumer-protection-laws-political-targets

18+ hrefna, to random
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Like, seriously now. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF HARM REDUCTION IS?

"Harm reduction" is providing clean needles. It's making sure they don't trip while walking through the fire. It's providing a less harmful drug so that they don't self medicate with the more harmful drug.

It is not generally "putting out the fire."

Now. Again. Harm reduction is not sufficient, but it's not meant to be sufficient. It is a way of reducing harm in the meantime.
https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112526283353648297

shoq, to random
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Not thrilled with how Biden is handling the crisis in the Middle East? Think you might not vote for him in โ€œprotest.โ€ Wellโ€ฆ

PLEASE CONSIDER THE FUCKING ALTERNATIVE (while you still can)โต

โ€œTrump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators.โ€

Gift article: https://wapo.st/4bywzh1

NealAStidham,
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@shoq I'm amazed how many purported left-leaning people don't understand the concept of harm reduction. Adhering slavishly to an abstract standard of purity when doing so would lead to quantifiable negative consequences isn't praxis, it's privilege.

The_Icarian, to random
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srtcd424, to random
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I have pretty much minimal sympathy for a casino, but this is still utterly horrifying

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

tillybridges, to random
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HOLD UP WAIT A SEC

The Acolyte not only has a trans woman in the cast (Abigail Thorn), but it has a trans woman writer/producer (Jen Richards)?!

dare i hope this means they will actually ACKNOWLEDGE the character is a trans woman????

I AM SO HYPED

U CAN DO IT STAR WARS I BELIEVE IN U

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Radcliffe Institute: "There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried. โ€ฆ There have been those days. And there are likely to be more."

pluralistic, to random
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It's the start of a long weekend and I've found myself with a backlog of links, so it's time for another linkdump - the eighteenth in the (occasional) series. Here's the previous installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/#lol-no

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weaselx86,
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@pluralistic

โ€œ[t]he LAPD is not expected to like the existence of โ€˜Fck the LAPDโ€™ merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear โ€˜Fck the LAPDโ€™ merchandise.โ€ That may be difficult, he conceded, โ€œ[b]ut I promise you it would still be easier than trying to get a court to ruleโ€ that these shirts are infringing.

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2024/05/lol-no-explained.html

Seirdy, to random
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Hereโ€™s something that annoys me a bit when I reference a blocklist. I say this with the understanding that large instancesโ€™ block-reasons visible to non-members should serve as reference for non-members (other mods, prospective users, etc.):

Intentionally vague terms such as โ€œbad vibesโ€ make for a great reason to block on a user level, or even a small tight-knit instance. Without further elaboration, they make for terrible reasons to attach to moderation decisions for large more-open instances. Such vagueness seems like a rhetorical tool to launder a lack of block reason. Seeing โ€œVibesโ€ used this often on something thatโ€™s supposed to give transparency has weird vibes tells me something about how weโ€™ve normalized rhetorically deceptive language in moderation transparency. Just be honest and leave the reason blank instead of exposing the fact that you canโ€™t actually name whatโ€™s wrong with an instance.

A lack of explanation is fine. Itโ€™s honest: it means โ€œwe arenโ€™t making this reason publicโ€. It still gives prospective users useful information about which instances they can expect to connect to. But providing the appearance of a reason is something else. If I donโ€™t know why you blocked an instance with no block-reason, I can ask. Then Iโ€™ll know if I should act on it too. If the reason is โ€œvibesโ€ then it gives the impression that Iโ€™m supposed to just โ€œknowโ€, and that I shouldnโ€™t ask for receipts since it should be self-evident. It might be self-evident (a brief scroll through e.g. Poast makes its block-worthiness obvious), so say that instead to make it clear.

โ€œVibesโ€ isnโ€™t the only intentionally-vague term Iโ€™m aware of, and Iโ€™m guilty of propagating some in the past.

Again, this doesnโ€™t apply on small tight-knit instances whose users know what their mods meant. Do whatever your members want on those. โ€œVibesโ€ is also fine if you elaborate with specific reasons.

Oops, this got wordy. I think the length exaggerates how strongly I feel about this. TLDR: moderation transparency shouldnโ€™t select vague terms to hide a lack of reasons. It invites more questions while also discouraging people from asking them. Be honest about your unwillingness to give a public reason by not providing one.

smolwaffle, to random
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There aren't many engineering tool opinions that will hurt my respect for someone's engineering ability, even if I think that the other tools are better. You like RTags over clangd? Okay, so long as you don't make me use it.

But when your opinion is "doing work to make clang-tidy happy isn't worth it", and the work you're referring to is things like respecting bugprone-unused-return-value, then my respect for your engineering decisions goes down.

smolwaffle,
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If you're an engineering leader and you're telling the team, repeatedly, through word and action, that code quality isn't important, don't then be surprised when you get a lot of hard to fix bugs and very low development velocity.

You can't say "all these code quality tools are useless", and personally commit a bunch of half working untested code, and then expect good results.

bitterkarella, to random
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1
James H Longmore: after yesterday's incident, I'd like to offer a full and complete apology to the humorless scolds of the woke mob
Franz Kafka:
Kafka: well, good
Kafka: see that it doesn't happen again!

bitterkarella,
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4
Poe: wow, these stories are kinda problematic!
Poe: you're really kinda othering to trans and fat people
Longmore: well, i am originally English
Poe: oh yeah ok, that scans

pluralistic, to random
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Depending on how you look at it, I either grew up in the periphery of the labor movement, or atop it, or surrounded by it. For a kid, labor issues don't really hold a lot of urgency - in places with mature labor movements, kids don't really have jobs, and the part-time jobs I had as a kid (paper route, cleaning a dance studio) were pretty benign.

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pluralistic,
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/#the-multinational-playbook

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