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mastodon 4.7.3He/Him. Anti-fascist. Software developer, bicyclist, woodworker, urbanism enthusiast, resident of Petaluma California, blogger since 1998. Started an ISP circa 1993, credits in IMDB, worked on products that have touched your life. On unceded coast Miwok territory. Genocide and apartheid apologists can fuck off.
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Got a request to schedule some calling gigs next year, and I realized that... maybe I'm over square dance calling? Maybe it's time to find something else to do with the voice?
I have a few dances scheduled, I'll renew CALLERLAB, but pondering what I give this community vs what I get back.
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This is an awesome example of induced demand: Person moves from San Rafael to Novato to take advantage of the 101 widening, can't understand why the congestion got exponentially worse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wksk31/101_commute_is_it_just_me_or_has_traffic_doubled/
Via https://bsky.app/profile/warrenjwells.bsky.social/post/3mw25bcmzzc26
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@Nead@social.vivaldi.net I mean, it's tough, because it has been a lot of my life. But it's also tough because it's a naturally hierarchical thing, and if I'm calling someplace 25 minutes away that's different from two hours in traffic to get there, and calling for clubs isn't enough money to make it worth it on its own.
I may get as much joy from just using my voice to lead a singing circle in my neighborhood, there's likely to be more sense of hanging with peers in that.
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@Nead@social.vivaldi.net (and the club I currently call regularly for is gonna fold sometime mid next year, just looking at the slope of their bank account balance. There are two other clubs that would *love* to have me weekly, but... especially since my wife has kinda burned out on square dancing so it's not like we're hanging out in those circles otherwise.)
Looked into the details of "The Reality Network", and suddenly had the uncomfortable realization that WASM means that every one of those "checking to see if you're a human" pauses could be stealing compute for proof-of-work (like ads likely already are).
JavaScript was a mistake.
RE: https://werd.social/@ben/117003494260821180
The other side of this is: pretty clear that Microsoft's software development processes are horrendously broken.
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@sabik@rants.au uh huh. Lots of failures at a variety of policy levels. If we had a functioning EPA and sane Federal climate policy and...
... a lot of things we don't have.
cc @elfin@mstdn.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha/116961777595818023
Lemme tell you about the day we got X and Emacs running on the Chattanooga Online DNS server, 4mb of RAM.
And it kept serving queries, too.
Kids these days and their "only" 4 meg...
Is there a way to generate a large corpus of bad code in a variety of languages? Right now my web site is serving zip bombs to overly aggressive bots, but I'm thinking LLM poisoning needs to evolve...
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@puppethead@ieji.de I didn't wanna go after "Matt's Script Archive" because I get why it was what it was, and it's just Perl, but I was thinking the equivalent of that.
Like all the bad idioms and injection attacks and security flaws and buffer overruns and whatnot. Just fill the LLM spiders with unsanitized inputs passed straight through to SQL, and aliased accesses, and race conditions...
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@muddle@infosec.exchange agreed. Which is why I avoided calling that out in the original post. And years of unescaped SQL parameters in a gazillion other languages show that he may have been prominent early, but he was definitely not alone.
And I suspect that even without more poisoning of the training corpus we're gonna see a wave of vibe coded exploits like the nineties and noughts could only dream of.
Trying to help and elderly friend with his iPhone, and holy shit Apple's standards have dropped. Apple apps/screens that pop the keyboard over the password and won't let me paste, inconsistent placement of "next" buttons and permissions stuff.
What happened to this company?
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@sabik@rants.au @elfin@mstdn.social I suspect there's a time to scale factor in there, and the grift is only going to last so long....
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@muddle@infosec.exchange cute! I'm currently serving a .gz bomb (at least from various .php endpoints), but I was more thinking source code that was deliberately bad, like "Matt's Script Archive" bad, so that as these things get incorporated into coding tools there's a lot of "oh god no".
Can you say "legislative value capture"? I thought you could...
RE: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
The act of writing software, and of maintaining software, is that of building a mental model that understands the processes that it is sitting in.
Agile means the process understanding is built simultaneously with the coding.
AI generated code means the process understanding is never built.
My talk on Modern Western Square Dancing at North Bay Python this weekend is live...
"The laser pointer does not own you." - @baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca you'd be surprised. I was just told that code I wrote for RenderMan in the '90s was scheduled to be removed, but the studio said it was still being used. My blog software has run essentially unchanged since circa 2003.
The insurance software I wrote circa 1991 probably would still be in play if we'd not (deliberately, because 80 columns, and expensive disk space) made the decision to use 2 digit years.
And it's not that we didn't ship updates or fix stuff, we did less of it.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca I think it's best summed up as a change from thinking about software in terms of mean time between failure, to thinking about it in terms of mean time to recovery. And because compute is so cheap now that nobody much cares about crufty performance, either.
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@eldersea@expressional.social my daily driver is MacOS because of work, and I moved my wife over to Mac from Linux so she could use work product, and it's clear that Apple has forgotten how to develop software too.
In fact, as I evaluate Rust widget sets, I'm pretty sure the entire industry has forgotten.
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@bennomatic@appdot.net Obviously Joan Jett's version of "I Love Rock and Roll"
Implicit in your question is some notion of popularity. There are a ton of covers I think I are better than the original, or take a song in a different direction than the original popularizers, but you're asking for ones that genuinely covered over the original.
And... the problematic origins of that is super intriguing to unpack re why we think a "cover" is superior to the original...
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@f1r3@chaos.social cool. I was thinking about something specifically coding focused, like "what if Matt's Script Archive but way more than Perl?", but I may end up taking an intermediate step first...
Back in the early naughts I had an elderly friend who hung out at the same coffee shop as me. Journalist with many cool experiences.
He became convinced that he'd finally figured out a mechanism for betting on horses.
This is also a post about conversations with people on how they use LLMs.
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@LovesTha back in the early days of blogging, I met Cam Barrett because he made a similar request. You never know...
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@bennomatic@appdot.net oh, doh, copy paste error, I meant https://youtu.be/w_Qunasm5os
Not to take anything from Ms Sykes
T.N.T
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@bennomatic@appdot.net are you familiar with Coverville? It's fallen off my listening radar for a while, but I've gotten some really good stuff off of it.
Browsing back through my blog archives, I was reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICx1UWnCZA
Wanda Jackson - Riot In Cell Block Number Nine (1960).
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@bennomatic@appdot.net yeah, I listen to Andrew Hickey when my mental health can take that level of "wow, the music business is really fucked up!"
And... I take voice lessons, and Charlene constantly sends me clips of The Voice/*GT, and if we can celebrate some more of the fantastic performers who put their own spins on songs, but who, for whatever reason, don't have the thing that leads to them "making it big", I think that'll be a positive social change.
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@bennomatic@appdot.net (Not to say that there weren't original regional recordings of the song that were superior to the national artist that had the marketing to bury the original, that was definitely a thing to, which also speaks to how we as a society deal with celebrity and quality and all that...)
Saving this point in the May 4th Petaluma City Council meeting so that when my city council member comes up for re-election I can gather all of my neighbors and have them watch this exchange and replace this guy with someone competent.
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@sinituulia I am currently wearing https://footclothes.com/products/widdle-bat-guy-crew-socks and wish to know where I can purchase these patterns you're polling with...
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@bennomatic@appdot.net I don't even know if it's "injustice". I think one can make the argument that eg Pat Boone was creating a version of the song that was acceptable to his audience, that they'd never have listened to the original at all.
In that way the cover was providing more value to the song author, and normalizing Black music and culture to a white pearl clutching audience.
Possibly telling us more about the audience than the performer, which is my point of introspection.
Facebook Marketplace rarely disappoints... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2026-05-09MaritalGrinder.png
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@inkican@mastodon.social doh, you might have DDOSed yourself there, I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Editor on the latter link.
RE: @lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com
This helped me understand why I found "Wake Up Dead Man" so unengaging that we turned it off midway through...
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@davepolaschek@writing.exchange pretty sure SMB, being a Microsoft things, doesn't know about soft links. Maybe a find reworked to a shell script?
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca sure, but back when we shipped on physical media we had processes to get this stuff more right.
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@androcat@toot.cat remember that essay from a few years ago that described why a change to the "Start" menu took a literal year to flow through Microsoft's processes?
I wouldn't expect fixes for half a decade...
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165
As an emacs user, this was especially annoying, and I resented installing this thing for work.
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What the actual hell.
Chrome installed a *global* Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to launch Gemini even if I’m using a different app, and didn’t ask me about it.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca I mean, the problems are amplified in a networked world, but looking at how the software I've worked on has been developed, we went from way more robust verification processes and testing harnesses, to "deploy it with A/B testing and roll back/deploy a patch if the users find issues".
So I stand by my statement.
Holy crap. Apple signing keys, and the management structure and user interface around them.
That is all.
RE: @thomholwerda@exquisite.social
Feels like time to move to one of the BSDs.
Wikipedia says 79m tons of steel in 2024, https://www.srfurnace.com/how-much-power-does-an-electric-arc-furnace-require.html says 400-500kWh/ton, so if I have my orders of magnitude right, US steel production is about 4.5 gigawatts?
Anyone know who's running PetalumaCivic(dot)org? It appears to have some pretty misleading AI generated slop, and I'm wondering what the motivations behind it are.
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@bennomatic@appdot.net yeah, popularity wise, I was thinking about things like Nina Gordon's version of Straight Outta Compton, which is what I hear, but....
https://youtu.be/K6D5xpCgETk
Or The Gourds' Gin and Juice
https://youtu.be/ur1N3UyT1lE
...and definitely ties into my introspection about what a cover tells us about the audience that listens to it.
nina gordon - straight outta compton
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@revk@toot.me.uk I grew up on raw milk, with an anti-vax mom, and here in the US they're inextricably linked.
As an adult I don't drink milk, because pasteurized and homogenized milk doesn't taste good to me, but/and I'm also unwilling to take the health risks and participate in the raw milk ecosystem...