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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Is this the first domino or did I miss a few?
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Erik Ableson
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mastodon 4.7.3I like solving interesting problems and understanding how things work.
Dual citizenship #Canada/#France.
Independent IT #consultant focused on #infrastructure, with an ongoing hobby horse of #backups, data protection and availability.
Either a dilettante or a polymath - it's hard to tell some days.
Core skills: troubleshooting
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Stupid question: can someone tell me the name of this type of graph? And maybe point me towards a tool for creating them?
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social @tantramar@zeroes.ca I wish they’d just start a podcast. I could continue my life not listening to them with minimal inconvience
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@David@setouchi.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Filed under “boy they haven't been paying attention lately, have they?”
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@Davide_Sandini@mastodon.uno @timnitGebru@dair-community.social I believe the technical term is « Actually Insolvent »
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe This has these vibes all over it. And I feel your pain seeing clients try to apply solutions suitable for Google and Meta scale infrastructures to the most basic problems.
Schools aren't helping either. It's one curriculum for everyone and little or no attempt to contextualize when to use which tool
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@soph@grrl.me Well, someone has to pay for all of the multibillion $ new datacenters to run this stuff…
Guess what? That’s the consumer who was told that “inference is going to zero” and well, … it’s not.
All those managers who thought this was a better bet than negotiating salaries for their developers are now confronted with price hikes where they have zero leverage or negotiation power
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@adub@beige.party @cthulku@zeroes.ca Secondary note: 18B buys a *lot* of renewable power and it pays back for 30+ years…
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange Also, very important to fill out your profile and pin some posts there. XKCD hits this just right with https://xkcd.com/1053/ I get favorites and boosts on my pinned posts from people that just ran across my account
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@tantramar@zeroes.ca @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social I hear @overcastfm@mastodon.social goes to 5x now…
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@fionasboots@tech.lgbt @hailey@hails.org Already done a few years go due to some licencing issues to produce openrsync (https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync)
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@ShimmeringSpectrum@macrofurs.social @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Looking down the barrel at 60, I guess there’s no point in becoming a furry now, despite years of IT experience
Join a union, join a neighborhood group, join an association, whatever it takes to unify decent people to shift the momentum towards purging the parasites from modern society.
Not a uniquely American problem, but further along the curve (not counting Russia) so please show the world it can be done
https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold
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@robparsons@mastodon.social Contrasted with: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/17/australia-nails-it-again-on-large-data-centers-this-time/
To paraphrase Gibson: The intelligence is here, it's just not evenly distributed
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@jbz@indieweb.social I still stand by the idea that we should ban over 50s from using social media.
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@ElPaisaDgo@mstdn.social And those 20 people are all alter egos of @catsalad@infosec.exchange (20? More like 50)
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@malwaretech@infosec.exchange Oh, but before I go crazy here, does it manage to log the source of the packet before crashing? 😜
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@WPalant@infosec.exchange Somewhat related to the people in school that immediately “turn to page 265 for the answer”. You have an answer, which looks obvious in retrospect, but your brain never took the path of looking at the problem space in order to learn *how* to get to that answer
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@0xabad1dea @dalias 😳 so basically Chrome is hacking the filesystem ACLs in order to force download the model file? That's...not good
Note to self: check on the machine with Chrome to see what it is doing (only around because Proxmox consoles don't do extended chars on non-US keyboards on any other browser)
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@samlitzinger @lisamelton Huh. having an industrial energy policy more expansive than "burn more fossil fuels" is paying off. Fancy that
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@benmo@sunny.garden That's a brilliant way to organize and present filament samples. (of course the diskette nostalgia hits me as just right)
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@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl @mattsheffield@mastodon.social Definitely reflects my lived experience. Especially the bilingual part. There’s no “native” language being translated from words to other words.
On the AI front, I think the argument is perhaps backwards as this demonstrates that language is the method for encoding communication (and stored communication as information), but it’s *not* the mechanism for encoding *thought*
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@kaye@cathode.church Although the most amusing thing about this is that a lot of corporations would totally enable this mode to keep their employees on track so 🤷♂️
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@sylvia_ritter@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social That's going to be my desktop picture- beautiful.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange That is twisted. Now to use the bottomless pit version where the middle rows are impassible
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@violet_cybrespace@lesbian.solutions The preview was cropped on the first image so I thought it was 9”x9” cake pan at first. Then I opened it and got the handle for perspective…
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@TheBulletin@social.techreclaimers.club Then there’s those of us so old that we collected CDs (and borrowed from friends), ripped them into our local libraries and just kept on doing that over the years to the point when streaming came along, it was already competing with more music that I could listen to in a year.
Keep up the good work and helping people get out from under YASS (Yet Another Subscription Service)
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @lisamelton@mastodon.social Well, then don’t train your models on dystopian sci-fi?
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online Thank you - I read the first part and my brain jumped immediately to all of your arguments. An effective developer should also be managing security risk, technical debt, performance and maintainability. If a dev organization doesn't empower their employees to solve for these requirements as part of their core responsibility then WTF are you even doing?
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@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud Also, if you're not used to doing TDD, it takes an effort and flexing some mental muscles differently.
Worth it, but like anything that's worth it, there's an effort and an investment to make up front for payoffs over time
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @hailey@hails.org @fionasboots@tech.lgbt True, but in order to massively change the license regime that's the best option
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@idren@mstdn.ca @cthulku@zeroes.ca A good question, but the difference is in the controlled market nature of alcohol where provincial agencies have the monopoly (or near) on the product. There’s one choke point and the federal gov’t can say « it wasn’t me »
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@socketwench@masto.hackers.town @lrhodes@merveilles.town Good point. The market system is based on making bets about how much growth is available. Anything running steady-state isn't interesting other than for vulture capital to buy, extract all the capital and leave it to die while trying to get out the debt-load that was imposed on it.
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@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social Because they didn’t make the connection to the european country named “Spain”? Or did they think Spain was tucked away somewhere in South America?
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@bradr@infosec.exchange @inthehands@hachyderm.io What's the remaining 39%? Hydro and nuclear?
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@i0null@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange Oh, and Palo and Ivanti are getting pwned again… Better off staying in bed
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@0xabad1dea @dalias But you did the right thing in restricting the ACLs and it still managed to redownload? Or it worked in blocking the redownload?
Hoping your ACL mods are a reasonable block strategy...