Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
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I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.
-- John Cage
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If you're on a big instance with lots of members, you might want to consider moving to a smaller instance.
Smaller instances can give members personal attention, as the admin has more time to deal with messages and feedback. They also tend to have more interesting local timelines if you pick an instance that matches a favourite topic.
Using smaller instances also protects the Fediverse from nasty people or companies, because a spread-out Fediverse is much harder to hack or buy.
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Our Email Self-Defense guide, which teaches you how to encrypt your email with GnuPG, is back and better than ever! Check out the updated version, get your GnuPG set up, and share with absolutely everyone you know with #UserFreedom: https://u.fsf.org/3f5
Descent into the dungeon; new boardgame my wife got; playing with her and daughter.
@rysiek (individual) businesses do not have to. An entrepreneur (eg could be anyone, even you) who gets an advantage will make supranormal profits in the short run. They can sell their product cheaper, and pay workers more. The business who didn't believe will have no workers and no customers and run out of money, then disappear.
Warning. The market works both ways, so if it turns out wrong, the businesses that follow it will run out of money and disappear instead.
@Sandra Cortex (Prime) has a neat mechanic where you roll your pool and pick 2 dice for your total.
Often it is the two highest, but the GM can purposely pick a different two. A kind of fudging while actually following the rules.
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Finally understood why does a 2-port measurement on a network analyzer can reliably find the impedance of a Power Distribution Network. The RF impedance between power and ground is nearly zero on a PCB with many capacitors, diverting 99% current coming out from port 1 to ground, meanwhile port 2 is in parallel, but its 50 Ω input impedance is large and gets almost no current, no voltage drop. Like Kelvin sensing but instead of 1 MΩ, 50 Ω is large enough. And since port 2 receives almost no power, S21 goes to zero and impedance equation simplifies to a straight line Z = 25 Ω x S21, really neat. #electronics
@craigmaloney@octodon.social the company I currently work for (10+ years) didn't have a local office when I joined. Even head office was mostly virtual/remote. It is a consultancy, so a lot of work was at client premises, but I also had some long engagements (up to 12 months at a time) working from home. Now owned by a major telco so has offices available, but rarely a need to go there (a few times a year). At the beginning of the pandemic, before any government rules, they moved to full remote work for all possible staff over a weekend; and are still operating that way. It is nice being mostly back the way it was when I first joined. I prefer it.
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Elasticsearch.Extensions.Logger, a #dotnet #opensource project for #elasticsearch #logging I have been working on for a long time, has finally been released, as part of ECS 1.6 alpha 1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elasticsearch.Extensions.Logging/1.6.0-alpha1
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
