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synlogic

@synlogic@toot.io

#software engineer
#gamedesign -er
#writer

topics:
#programming, perf & #scalability, #latency, #Golang, #climate, #democracy, #wargaming, #scifi, #utopian, #comedy

consulting:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-MikeKramlich.md

"Slartboz"
education & political game on topics of democracy & climate. style: sci-fi, #postapoc, funny, real-time Terminal-based #Roguelike

To encourage work on my projects PLEASE send a tip or donation. Best upboat!

Alt text: profile icon & banner are screenshots from Slartboz prototype

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synlogic, to UI
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I've never understood the need for a formal #UI / #UX #designer. I've been doing it since a kid, anyway. and have not been impressed by the output of professionals

#artists, yes

synlogic, to Russia
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David Rothkopf "goes there"

pointing boldly at The Elephant in the Room

he says and the party are actively working to do the bidding of

I've been saying that about Trump for like 6+ years now

glad to see more people realizing it and having the courage to say it

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-vote-for-trump-is-a-vote-for-putinand-a-world-in-danger

Americans are in DIRE DANGER

The urgency is growing each day...

TAKE ACTION








CmdrTaco, to random
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This evening I am watching “Hackers” and just as I was about to muse aloud that Zerocool & Lord Nikon are pretty dumb sounding names I remembered…

synlogic,
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@CmdrTaco at least you did not make yourself Admiral Taco

RickiTarr, to random
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Can I just say that Homer Hickman is a gatekeeping fuck, and he can suck my dick and balls?

Imagine taking someone's dream job over a curse.

synlogic,
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@RickiTarr she directly insulted and cussed at a senior engineer out in public. has nothing to do with social media or with gender. its poor ethics, judgment and its rude.

cstross, to random
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I notice that the Odysseus commercial lander a US company just plonked on the Moon cost NASA a little over $100M.

By way of comparison, the Indian government's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the lander of which touched down in 2023, cost roughly $90M.

So private space can be more expensive than 100% government agency-run missions.

synlogic,
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@cstross you're prob joking. but Americans are overall more expensive than Indian. cost-of-living in India lower than US

jake4480, to science
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Whale songs are so powerful (traveling up to thousands of miles/kilometers) because of a specialized voice box that no other animal has

https://apnews.com/article/whales-song-ocean-voice-box-humpback-baleen-afc3b4c42606c09782bc8e77e46d1923

synlogic,
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@jake4480 whale propaganda! covers my dolphins ears

synlogic,
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@jake4480 there really should be some kind of playoff hierarchy between all the species. whoever wins has to go against either the orca or the cockroaches in the final round

synlogic,
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@jake4480 The Beast Bowl

cstross, to random
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Apple wouldn't be doing this—at considerable expense—if they didn't consider such attacks to be plausible within the relevant lifetime of currently intercepted and retained messages (ie. not necessarily today, but within the statute of limitations of any crime you might be confessing to in an iMessage).

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079081/apple-imessage-pq3-post-quantum-cryptography

synlogic,
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@cstross agreed. also the MINOR detail that in about 11 months Trump may become President again. if he does is good chance he tries to become dictator. and/or give "evil" directives to the NSA, CIA, FBI, military etc. in that kind of world we'll want the strongest crypto & privacy/anon protections we can get out in the hands of the masses. esp if a de facto civil war / rebellion-by-patriots situation arises. sounds nuts but pattern of facts and history says its possible

synlogic, to random
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The #US is in dire danger of collapsing into #dictatorship. If #Trump becomes #President again

I want to build, launch & operate a web app which will try convincing more folks to NOT #vote for him. I MUST try!

However it would require me to put a LOT of time and work into it. And I CANNOT afford to do that for ZERO pay. I got bills to pay: need to eat, keep roof over my head, etc

You can HELP me do that by sending me a donation

I can take #donations via CashApp here:

https://cash.app/$mk2022akmar/

synlogic,
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^----

@cstross

Mr. Stross, please consider boosting a toot of mine (upthread from this one)

for credentials/credibility, in my profile there is link to my resume & portfolio on GitHub. I have worked for the US State Department in the past on issues adjacent to what I'm proposing now for me to work on

just looking for amplification

thank you!

@cstross

synlogic,
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@starman real coding under real conditions is king

blainsmith, to random
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Was the whole selling point of kanban boards just to mimic sticky notes in columns rather than just grouped veritcal todo lists? Does one make folks more productive than the other? Does one convey the information better?

synlogic,
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@blainsmith it was the fad of that stickyboard look

it was a fad

ITS ALWALYS A FAD

(like the saying about DNS haha)

I've seen dozens come and go over decades

cstross, to random
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Current mood: regretting the existence of February 18th, 2024.

synlogic,
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@cstross why?

otheorange_tag, to random
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I keep falling asleep on the couch like some old guy... oh, right.

synlogic,
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@otheorange_tag to be fair, dogs and cats do it too. so it cant be ALL bad

synlogic, to random
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I wanted to give a shoutout to & strong recommendation for the Mastodon account run by @Nonilex

it has a strong "signal-to-noise" ratio and its always about things important to the US

I love it!

I do hope she/they are getting some kind of compensation behind the scenes to provide it. but if not, if its truly just a work of passion, I have even greater respect and appreciation for it

highly recommended! especially for those who like to stay on top of all things Trump

#Trump
#recommendations

Nonilex, to Law
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walked unaccompanied through the front door of a courtroom on Thurs afternoon in a bright magenta dress & announced she was ready to testify. She was interrupting her lawyer, who at that very moment was trying to convince a judge that she should not have to testify at all.

synlogic,
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@Nonilex the problem is that in the US at least anyone can accuse anyone else of sexual assault, true or false, and use that as leverage to blackmail the target. even paying money to shut the accuser up does not itself mean the accused is guilty, only that they are hoping to min damage to their rep and reduce hassle. anyone in politics or public eye is a target anymore

jake4480, to Godzilla
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Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire trailer 2! And the poster! March 29..

🦍💥➡️ https://youtu.be/qqrpMRDuPfc

synlogic,
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@jake4480 looks fun. I need to catchup tho. think I saw one modern Godzilla v Kong film but not sequel. this trailer looks like a 3rd or 4th?

danjac, to random
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I had a dream last night I wrote a completely new Linux command that did literally anything with just 100+ different flags.

No I don't remember it

synlogic,
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@danjac its called sudo. lol

dcjohnson, to random
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People don't understand what money is. Some people gain advantage by tricking those people into thinking governments "borrow."

Government debt is simply a measure of how much money is circulating. Govts spend money into the economy, taxes take it out.

Taxes do not "fund" spending. Taxes are not "revenue." Taxes remove currency from circulation.

In the USA "paying off the national debt" would mean taxing $30 trillion out of the economy. How do you think that would work out?

#mmt

synlogic,
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@dcjohnson here is an issue, however: each year the % of its budget the Fed gov must spend to service its "debt" increases. and it crowds out alternate uses that money could have been put toward. every dollar spent on paying interest or buying back tbills is a dollar that cannot be spent on a bridge or a paycheck or a 155mm shell for allies like Ukraine. with no significant change in this trend the math tells us the gov will reach a point where most/all gov spending must be spent on debt service

drewdevault, to random
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I wanted to know how the setpgid syscall was implemented on Linux, and it turns out that the author of this syscall implementation also wanted to know how setpgid worked, in 1991

synlogic,
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@drewdevault Linus?

emarktaylor, to NFL
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🏈 @nfl #NFL

SF 10-3

Our commentators, and I agree with them, think KC is thanking its lucky stars it's only down a TD at the half.

synlogic,
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@cwgrody @emarktaylor @nfl yep SF lost a star LB and playmaker Greenlaw. and Mahomes is a freakshow of talent

SergKoren, to music
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What’s the last good music (good singing, playing, etc), not performer/dancer/cavorter that you have discovered? Yes, I know I’m late to the party, but John Coltrane for me.

Anyone replying Taylor Swift/Beyonce/Usher will be excised from my timeline. I’m not kidding.

#music

synlogic,
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@SergKoren Arctic Monkeys. The Weeknd. OutKast

jake4480, to Xbox
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It's 2024, and I still play a ton of Wolfenstein 3D every year. It's just a perfect game. My memory's not great though, and it's weird I STILL don't have much memorized even after playing these maps SO MANY times.

Right now I have the Xbox 360 version paused on my Series X in the living room and it's been sitting like that for a day or two, so Wolf 3D music is just quietly playing in the background. I realized I'm cool with this. My brain's always in Castle Wolfenstein killing digital Nazis anyway, why not have it as background music for daily life. 🤣😂🤣

Got a funny screenshot the other day. Not sure I've ever spotted when I've been exactly at 1% life but it happened and I caught it!

#Wolfenstein3D #Wolf3D #Xbox #Xbox360 #SeriesX #XboxSeriesX #90sGames #RetroGaming #KillingNazis #DeadNazis

synlogic,
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@jake4480 I have a whole "killing Nazis" scenario/plot in Slartboz. as my homage to og Castle Wolfenstein and film genre in general. complete with speech audio clips like Nein! Aufspice!Schweinhund! and a zombie-lich Hitler in hiding in Brazil guarded by a small army of big busted blonde Aryan fembots. BECAUSE REASONS

The Gurls From Brazil

chas, to golang
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Continuing my #golang USB adventure. I am successfully "reading" from the device I'm playing with, after finding some variable alternates on the configured interface. I'm not getting any data, at any packet size. Assume this is because I have to tell the device to start sending data with a control request, however I can't get any to work. I even tried GET_STATUS which should be all zeros, but that gives me a libusb pipe error. The device is old, so USB1.1 spec is likely. reverse eng with 0 docs

synlogic,
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@chas JFIF sounds meaningful

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