ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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The Google layoffs remind me: When I considered starting my first company I worried about "job security".
My then-girlfriend said:
"Big companies do not provide job security. They provide the service that you are the last person to know when the job is gone."
Wisdom.
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It's amazing (or maybe not given current events) that only 400 years ago the Church imprisoned Galileo for daring to declare that the planets orbited the sun.
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how to talk to your child about hosting a fediverse instance
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RT @LavanyaSunder@twitter.com
To be clear, you can get up to $7500 for the "electric vehicle" on the left - a car that is worse for the environment than many ICE cars, 3x more dangerous, and weighs 9,000 lbs.
But you will get $0 for the electric vehicle on the right. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1616148486285627392
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LavanyaSunder/status/1616515782539874305
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Happy 89th birthday to my Doctor, Tom Baker!
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Chagall’s stained glass window with piano reflections.
Marc Chagall National Museum, #Nice, #France.
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #PhotographyOnMastodon #photography #art #stainedglass
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I'm staying at a hotel for a couple days while a particularly nasty weather front comes through my city. Of course, I packed the essentials. 😍
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trying to categorize what kinds of data exist in your computer's memory / on its hard drive. so far I have:
* numbers (floats, ints)
* strings (various encodings)
* machine code
* C arrays/structs
is there something else I'm missing? I'm looking for very basic fundamental things (like "strings"), not like images/video. Data structures like hashmaps seem tricky because there are so many different implementations
@b0rk it’s all arrays of bytes
@evan I think most people are answering this incorrectly. Most fish are ‘in the wild’. I doubt the majority of people have fish only annually.
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i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.
the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.
so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:
it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.
@daihard okay - now I feel I have to go for a bike ride ... ciao!
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Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain.
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Okay, I got my shit together and blogged about this thing.
I want a fridge that won't join a botnet
https://rys.io/en/164.html
> I could put such devices on a special VLAN, or behind a Pi Hole, but 99% of people can’t. Plus, it’s work. Plus, most importantly, you can bet that “smart” devices will start coming with SIM cards and 4g/5g modems very soon — cars already do. Why does my fridge need Internet connectivity in the first place?
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New on #FOSSAcademic: my first post about the Social Web Working Group, the group that gave us #ActivityPub (among many other things). I've read *all* their meeting minutes and am sharing notes on them in a series of posts:
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/01/20/ActivityPub1.html
Comments welcome! Responses to this post will appear as comments on the blog unless you set them to "Followers Only" or DM. CWs will work.
Joined Nov 2022
