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Garrett Wollman
@wollman@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I fix networks and other stuff with computers inside for MIT CSAIL. Bi cyclist, cis male. More frequency = better mobility. Formerly @garrett_wollman on Twitter, still @gwollman.bsky.social on the other site.
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I use he/him (or il/lui when I try to write French) but they (or iel) is fine too.
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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange Any new car sale is going to obligate the dealer to provide the owner's name and contact information to the manufacturer (for financing in most cases, and to carry out recalls and other consumer safety notification obligations).
Got my Mass. voter information booklet in the mail today!
YES on 1, 2, 4, 7, 9
NO on 3, 5, 6, 8
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I file him next to Dylan in the folder labeled "amazing songwriters with terrible singing voices".
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I believe the former Chief Protocol Architect of the Internet (and my one-time boss) Dave Clark is also on the glide path, although I don't have official word on that. (I remember speaking to him about fifteen years ago, when he was eligible to retire, and he said "Why retire when I'd still be doing the same work but for less money?" He's still officially working atm but he's no longer supervising any students. Not a faculty member so retiring wouldn't open a tenure line.)
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange One by one, the people who built the technologies that got us so excited about computing and networking are moving on. Truly the shoulders of giants.
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @Kugg@infosec.exchange I'm not in this field, but I do regularly read presentations by our electric power industry asking for approval to spend millions of dollars on replacing equipment in their substations, and all too often one of the bullet points is "OEM no longer supports this product". I guess that sounds better than "OEM sold the business to their largest competitor twenty years ago".
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The season after Cohen died it seemed like every figure skater was using Hallelujah for program music... and not one of them used a Cohen recording. (Mostly Buckley and lang, a few weird Christianized ones, some other obscure covers.)
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz There's some good stuff in @graydon@canada.masto.host's books about the necessity of the patient *believing* that they're healed, it's not enough just to replace the lost body (part) they have to actually think it's theirs, and that they are whole. One can imagine how the more traumatic the injury the more difficult that belief might be, even if the patient is raised in a society where this sort of medical treatment is commonplace and known to be effective.
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz I suppose it matters a lot how long it takes. If the mage just makes a ritual gesture and the soldier's arm is restored instantly, that's a different situation from the soldier is invalided for six months while medics working full-time grow their arm back. The army would have more incentive to prevent soldiers from losing arms in the second case.
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@Catvalente@wandering.shop It's also fucking hot out. I do Boston sometimes but not in 98 degree heat.
I can join a bunch of history dweebs celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris in seven years.
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@foolishowl@social.coop Before the 1984 breakup of the Bell System, you were *not allowed* (if you got phone service in a place where the local phone company was a Bell) to have a phone on which the ringer could be disabled. You had to lease your phone from Bell and Bell phones did not allow the ringer to be silenced. (They would, however, lease you an *extra* ringer, for less money than a whole phone would cost, so you could put one in the shop / basement / garage and rush to the kitchen when it rang.)
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz @chiply@fosstodon.org The interesting thing here for me is that it was *London*. Boston times don't count for world records because the course is too straight and downhill, but the record is still 2:01:52 (set in cool temps a couple of weeks ago). The London course is basically flat and has no preferential wind direction, yet they broke the record there first.
It'll be awesome when I can finally buy file servers again.
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@irene@discuss.systems It won't help with your fruit surplus, but Joanne Chang's bittersweet chocolate sorbet is amazing, and incredibly quick and easy to make.
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@cstross @alice @HighlandLawyer Honestly, though, taxes are better than charity. (And lots of things are legally structured as charitable organizations but aren't actually socially beneficial. Although I suppose there is still the social benefit of separating billionaires from their money, but again, taxes do that much more efficiently and don't depend on private whim to fund socially necessary activities.)
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@putney@universeodon.com @mwl@io.mwl.io @encthenet@flyovercountry.social this. I've always used loader.efi, always given it the EFI architecture-default filename on the ESP so no special configuration is required. And of course I use dd(1) to copy the EFI partition to the other boot disk in the mirror pair.
Usually where I get hosed is by forgetting to set the bootfs property on a new zpool.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @fediderps@mas.to @mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @mariusor@metalhead.club People started saying "ML" in earnest during the last AI Winter when nothing could get funded if you called it "AI". This just happened to coincide with the statistical turn when "AI" meant unfashionable symbolic stuff à la Hofstadter and "ML" was the new hotness.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @thomasfuchs It was never "don't do evil". It was "don't *be* evil", which is a very different thing.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org And of course with the ratchet rule (which I think is gone now?) no matter where you built the new site it would almost always have worse coverage than the old one. But these days most AMs exist only as the thing that allows you to put your programming on a translator, where all the measurable listenership is. SFBA used to be a major exception to the "death of AM" because the AMs were full-market and the FMs were not, but nobody listens to the Standard Band any more.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org We've seen a lot of licenses canceled over the past several years as a result of the licensee having a buyer for the real estate and not getting any takers for a bare license. It's nearly impossible to build a new site today (unless it's just a longwire or a Valcom whip) anywhere near a potential market, so the license isn't really worth much unless there's another existing facility to diplex off. (Or triplex, or quadruplex, these days!)
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@norootcause@hachyderm.io Noel Chiappa is the only reference I have but I couldn't explain why.
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@arrjay@tacobelllabs.net IPv6 is twice as old now as IPv4 was when IPv6 was introduced.
The very first thing I did in my career was work on what was then still called "IPng" (it hadn't yet been decided to assign version number 6).
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@paninid@mastodon.world It is necessary to distinguish between when it is good that something is hard, and when it is bad.
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@dev @regehr I'm sorry, *any* mint is too much.
Except peppermint, and then only in sweets. But what they sell as "mint" in the produce aisle is vile.
There are some things that are really parsley-forward that I quite like but I'm struggling to remember them now. It's one of those herbs that I would have more often if it didn't rot in the refrigerator before I can use it, so anything that really needs it is a special purchase.
Apropos of nothing in particular: nobody is out there trying to sell "Let's rewrite the shell in Haskell".
(And yes I do remember scsh. Even worse, I'm on the POSIX committee.)
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io The one thing I'd disagree with is the advice to run ssh on a different port.
It doesn't matter. The scanners will find your ssh on any port you care to stick it on. Even 443. There are more than enough of them, and few enough IPv4 addresses, to just try all 65,535 ports.
Confused by how @graydon@canada.masto.host's SAFELY YOU DELIVER can possibly be ten years old now.
So what I'm hearing is it doesn't matter if the farmers can't afford fertilizer this year, because they weren't going to be able to sell that corn and those beans anyway?
Certainly a great message to push in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, and Ohio this election.
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@newsgoth@infosec.exchange I buy zucchini when it's small enough to be tolerable because my vegetable compatibility list is very limited and I can just about get down tasteless steamed young zucchini (sliced into discs) with some salt and pepper. Asparagus is out of season now, I get bored with broccoli and spinach, and sometimes either or both is either unavailable or bolted. It would be great if I could tolerate something else that can be cooked in 5 minutes and doesn't rot the second you get it home.
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@bms48@mastodon.social It wasn't CSAIL until 2003, and LISP was more popular when it was Project MAC (1963-73) than it was in the 80s and 90s (the Symbolics 3650 head on my then supervisor's desktop notwithstanding).
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@pg@hci.social My car is old enough to still have a CD player... that works by ripping the CD to an integrated SSD. (Theoretically, anyway; I've never tried it.)
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@bms48@mastodon.social Fundamentally, SICP was written in the context of a curriculum where it might be students' first exposure to interactive computer programming, and by the time 6.001 was discontinued (having been offered as an elective for a few years after it was removed from the required sequence) every incoming CS undergrad at MIT was arriving with a decade or more of programming. This was also the time that most CS programs dropped remaining EE requirements, so a lot of the examples had no relevance.
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@alison@burningboard.net The Xerox C230 Just Works, it's a normal PostScript printer. (Never tried a multifunction, I don't really need scanning at home.) Mine is connected via USB to my FreeBSD desktop but macOS clients on wireless didn't even need configuration. It replaced a 10yo Xerox color laser which I only got rid of because the paper feed started jamming constantly.
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@andthisismrspeacock@mas.to Pity that train (serving Worcester, I assume) doesn't actually head up the B&M track to Fitchburg, although I suppose it would have to be on the abandoned northbound platform for that. (I wonder what condition Pan Am left that line in -- class 1 wouldn't surprise me in the least.)
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@bms48@mastodon.social It kinda had to be: Abelson & Sussman were no longer teaching the course, 6.001 was removed from the CS curriculum many years ago, and if it was going to be relevant to a modern curriculum it had to be in a less niche language. JS was conceived as "Lisp with C syntax" so it was much less of a lift than, say, Python or Java. The intro course that replaced 001 was taught mainly in Python.
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@ftg@mastodon.radio Yeah, that's not something our regulatory regime allows for at all here. New low-power FM licenses are only offered during once-a-decade "windows" that take three to five years to sort out the winners among many competing applicants. Commercial FM frequencies go to auction instead (and the only ones left are so limited in potential that they've already failed to meet the reserve bid in previous auctions).
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@regehr @dev I'd never make tabouli myself, too much work when you can just buy it. I think salmon burgers are one of the things (at least one of the recipes); meatloaf is another. I have a lentil and onion dish that calls for parsley but I never do because I don't have any on hand, whereas lentils and onions and cumin and chile powder all keep. I'm certain I'm forgetting something else, though.
I have absolutely no expectation of ever using this, but has anyone written, in any language, a good float-to-vulgar-fraction converter? "Good" means "only uses traditional vulgar fractions of the sort represented as single sorts in typesetters' cases and in Unicode" and "falls back to decimal when the rational value would be a 'too far' from the original float".
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@ZDL Well they did gull the English-language media into substituting "Beijing" for "Peking" and likewise for most other major cities and provinces. Funny how it's still "Pékin" in French.
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@bms48@mastodon.social At Hopkins in 1989, 600.140 Programming Techniques was an intermediate-level course that used about half of SICP (because that's all there was time for in a semester). It had just been added to the CS curriculum and so I had to take it as a first-year with a very mixed-expertise group. I still have my copy of the first edition. Even that early I doubt very many schools adopted it as an *intro* CS course. (I took it concurrently with Intro C and after 600.101 in VAX/VMS Pascal.)
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@tstudent@infosec.exchange All of the "New Atheists" were fundamentally *Protestant* atheists; their whole conception of the world and of "religion" and "god" in particular was fundamentally Protestant, right down to their inability to believe that atheistic religions existed or even could exist in principle.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org All of King's stations sold at the end of 2024, after he had threatened to cancel the licenses. WZON (620) is apparently still silent under new owners, because (you guessed it) the real estate was not included in the sale and the old site was demolished. The new owners have applied to move it to Skowhegan, in a different market where they already a station. Apparently this stops the clock that would otherwise have canceled the license after a year of silence.