@jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@SwiftOnSecurity reminds me of the time when Brendan Gregg, who was not working at Sun at the time, got a spiel from a salesperson about new profiling tools. It was his own dtrace scripts they were demoing to him. https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

brendangregg.com

An Unbelievable Demo

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@mattblaze@federate.social @cstross@wandering.shop that’s a lower number than I’d hoped

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 7mo ago

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@bruces@mastodon.social he really doesn’t deserve any other response

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 7mo ago

@tilton @cstross “oh, it’s a matter of habit. You really can’t change tradition…” THIS COUNTRY IS BARELY 250 YEARS OLD

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 7mo ago

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@klausfiend@dcerberus.com @bruces@mastodon.social no, this is the founder of YCombinator, a famous Silicon Valley startup incubator.

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@jguillaumes @lorry @cstross (Obviously the RasPi beats the old laptop in performance-per-watt and -per-price)

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 5mo ago

The Artemis II astronauts are now the only people who can legally say they’re “over the moon” about something

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Incredibly smooth return for Integrity, the human capsule from the Artemis II mission around the moon.

Congratulations to everyone involved

#Artemis #artemis2

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

I was ok, until rather suddenly and unexpectedly, I was not

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Brian David Gilbert is my favorite comedian (?) and his “Tiny Little Lip Balm” ditty hits the moment perfectly.

The comments are on point too.

https://youtu.be/GCmsQeE2bQ8?si=2jJVbDabCV5HtWOE

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 6mo ago

'fun' to remember that "collateral damage" originated as a military war euphemism for "oops we killed our own guys/civilians"

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 9mo ago

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@cloudhop@equestria.social lol I downvoted that comment as soon as I saw it. The fact that it remains so prominent shows that Purity Testing remains prevalent…

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John de Largentaye @jlargentaye@mas.to

· 37mo ago

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For a different angle, the Git Book also talks about some of these internals in its chapter on Git Objects. I recently leveraged that to manually update permissions in a Gerrit setup, which stores its user database in a unusual Git repository. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

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