ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

If layoffs are about over hiring, why am I seeing so many 15+ year Googler friends let go? They’re the ones who built it into a business with $100 billion in cash.

It’s not about over hiring.

“If the World were 100 People”

25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)

60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans

31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other

Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other

86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water

Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data

#SilentSunday

@kd9cpb

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.

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.

how to talk to your child about hosting a fediverse instance

This is so cute

Happy 89th birthday to my Doctor, Tom Baker!

#DoctorWho

#HappyBirthday to #TomBaker!🎂 🦉 ❤️

#DoctorWho #4thDoctor #BarnOwl

Chagall’s stained glass window with piano reflections.
Marc Chagall National Museum, #Nice, #France.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #PhotographyOnMastodon #photography #art #stainedglass

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. 😍

#C64 #C64Maxi #Commodore64 #Commodore

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

@Bigthinkingcap

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.

Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-19-000-end-of-life-cisco-routers-exposed-to-rce-attacks/

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?

#IoT

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.