Light a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a night. Light a man afire, he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.
In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.
Kubrick’s first movie, downloadable free from Wikipedia or watchable on YouTube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Desire
ICE and police in San Diego deployed flash bang grenades against community members who surrounded them and blocked ICE vans, when they attempted to arrest several workers at an Italian restaurant.
From Pedro Rios on BlueSky:
"ICE discharged 3 flash-bang grenades. The people, even more determined, then pushed ICE agents out of their neighborhood with anti-fascist slogans forcing them to retreat. This is the way it should be everywhere."
From a report:
"A large crowd began to gather and witnessed one individual being placed into a federal vehicle. Cody said agents then started taking people out through the back of the restaurant to avoid the crowd.
The crowd surrounded the agents, yelling profanities and calling them fascists. Many people recorded the agents and the license plates of their vehicles.
At one point, a group blocked an unmarked vehicle carrying agents from leaving the intersection at 30th and Beech Streets. After activating the sirens multiple times without success, agents used what appeared to be a smoke device to disperse the crowd."
Read more here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/05/30/ice-arrests-several-workers-from-south-park-restaurant
So just a heads up for people who aren’t queer, this Pride eve; Pride is around the corner and it’s probably going to feel a little different than usual.
• Expect it to feel angrier. We joke that July is Wrath month, but don’t be surprised if people at Pride events are a bit more on edge, our signs punchier, and our jokes sharper.
• Allies: more than ever before, be aware that you are guests in a queer space. Many of us are going to need the space to feel safe and comfortable for us now, more than ever.
• We have a gay agenda (see the above quote), don’t try to distract from it with platitudes. With trans people under an organized, legislative attack and nearly 60% of Republicans being against same-sex marriage, none of us are safe this year.
• Let’s not do the “Pride events need to be family friendly”. They generally are, but our family is angry.
@thorne @samiamsam @cstross @lilithsaintcrow The AI Centipede
At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.
Happy World Goth Day to those who don't celebrate.
I keep typing and deleting and typing and deleting but what it all boils down to is this:
Trans people deserve to have good lives. By necessity, this means that trans people deserve access to easy, affordable healthcare.
#Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "#Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person eliminating everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules & celebrated "Monopoly".
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/
Thank you, @MarkHoltom.
@calcifer@masto.hackers.town
Young man, there's no need to have RAM
I said young man, you can simply program
I said young man, logic gates are my jam
There's no need for a CPU
It's fun to program the FPGA
It's fun to program the FPGA
It has everything
For a Turing machine
You can write out all your routines
I just learned that there was a cult 70s movie starring Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, with Alec Guinness ("Murder by Death"), that NEVER gained a following among Elstree Studios horror fans! Even though it eventually spawned a sequel that starred Christopher Lee!
Lee, Price, and Cushing alone should make it an all-stars horror movie, even before you add Guinness in a supporting role. What is WRONG with you people?!?
Good enough!
In which we discuss experience, and what's needed for real change.
@deafferret yeah, this is “normal”. I feel like it could be so much better but who can keep up with the rate of change? It’s crazy.
EDIT: hired!
Well I guess now's the time: It's time for me to #getFediHired
I'm a software engineer with 29 years of experience. In more technologies than one person usually encounters. I've been working in Javascript and Typescript for a while, but don't let that fool you: I do rust for fun and I'm down in the guts of the runtime in C++ if I have to. I’m fixing include paths in C header files and managing deployments and doing system level tracing. I do embedded programming for fun, and I've picked at the system level APIs of everything from MacOS to Android. I can cleverly hack my way past problems, and isolate the resulting tech debt with a good explanation and the conditions under which it can be fixed.
I leave every codebase neater than I found it. I can manage awkward technology transitions, and I can bring a fair bit of open source know-how to bear on things.
I'm a team-oriented, consensus-focused person, but confident executing on my own and iterating from there. I will boldly start and show a prototype if that's what it takes. I'm not easily bored, so if it just needs a heavy lift, I'm here for that too.
I've worked in PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Rust, C, C++, Vala, Scheme, and a dozen more languages (and I'll learn any new one I need to) and have written truly unfortunate amounts of hardened, careful bash.
I've installed and built VoIP platforms with Asterisk integrations, I've built mail servers and custom authentication. I've built FUSE filesystems for fun, and I'm always after ways to make software simple, durable, and reliable.
Working remotely ideal, Boston/Cambridge is possible.
Got a team that could use me? Hit me up. aredridel@dinhe.net. Resume and letters of recommendation available on request (you really don't have to take my word for what I'm capable of.)
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Thank you to everyone who boosted this. A+, would try to get hired via Fediverse social connections again. Y'all came through.
I am really excited by this uptick in #perl activity. Obviously as an author I am biased but I think that there's a lot of appeal to a broad audience for this sort of content. Right now the abstracts are online and you can find the related talks from TPRC 2024 on youtube.
Print copies are on sale via B&N and purchasing them supports further SPJ efforts. (or, as is commonly done, you can always contact an author for a preprint copy)
my tip for the #observability beginner: HAVE something, anything really right NOW (preferably alerts on expiring certs) and THEN design something "real" and think about what you need the observability for, are you needing just a modern version of monitoring, are you a software shop with strong debugging needs, do you in general measure a lot and have "telemetry", are you more kpi-flavoured, do you need an alerting concept off the beaten path, is performance/profiling your thing, advanced testing
Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?
Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!
