Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I am laboring in the wilderness of "I don't know, all I have are cross-site comparisons of the last three years of longitudinal data measuring dramatic change in how people have forged novel computational skill learning pathways, I'm not sure if I'm really an expert" pls lord, let's invite scientists and experts from outside of software fields into our fields. It will be such a good time. Plus I need friends out there.

If I had a talk called "How to Fight Dirty for Good Culture" and it's about lessons learned from doing evidence & action research work with groups (nonprofits, health, community groups, queer collectives, kids out of school) engaged in incredibly tough circumstances and battles -- and helping them win -- is there a home for this at a tech conference somewhere??

Open to suggestions! Virtual especially appreciated. I've been noodling on this talk for a while and I think it's here :D

I am enormously NOT a fan of tool-based thinking or tool-based gatekeeping or fixating on tools, but I DO think there's something super interesting about the problems you're able to solve and the shape of the thinking allowed to you BY the technology you have at hand.

Measurement (verb not noun) IS a form of thinking, and tools built to do measurement carry that with them.

People over on LinkedIn are debating whether it is insider trading when people who were on the flight shorted Boeing stock immediately after the door was ripped out mid-air 😂

Neuer Beitrag von @adfichter in der @republik_magazin in der dreiteiligen Serie zum Schweizer Überwachungsstaat. Untaugliches, überteuertes System aus Israel welches gesetzlich nicht erlaubte Funktionen bietet, welche über fragwürdige Wege im Nachhinein legalisiert werden.

https://www.republik.ch/2024/01/15/die-irrwege-der-ueberwacher

I also got to use all our expired Covid tests and, well, they still seem to work. Show very positive too. Problem is the test fluid evaporates? But there was barely enough to make it work.

Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

@carnage4life I see people in your replies thinking this is really gross, but … this is a big part of our art culture. A hundred years ago we had classical music composers conducting their own symphonies’ openings. Today modern composers’ works are very hard to hear: from your local orchestra to the New York Philharmonic, it’s all Beethoven &co., because that’s all what audiences want.

Similarly you go to the Met or National Art Gallery: sure there’s a tiny bit of modern stuff and some big artists are new-ish (Salvador Dalí) but the vast majority of space is for Rafael to Monet, plus ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. People love the old stuff and it’s really hard to compete against it

I as an omnivorous art lover have the surreal experience of leaving the art museum and seeing tons of street art outside that could just as easily belong inside the museum I just left (https://octodon.social/@22/110143692983629265)

People are having a kneejerk reaction to this story because of AI without thinking a minute about why Rossini’s operas or Stravinsky’s ballets are much more available than modern works in the same medium

With another round of tech layoffs happening, and other companies using RTO to cull their ranks:

Elastic has open positions in fully distributed teams in many countries:

https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/department/engineering?#/

i love verilog. every time i interact with the language it gives me more brain damage

@spoltier
It is Mother of Invention I believe, a great story. Also excellently read by LeVar Burton on his podcast.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html

thinking about how much software would suddenly go unmaintained if a stray bullet put us in the hospital tomorrow (e.g.)

@mweagle @SteveBellovin @edavies @norootcause

I’ll also flagrantly self-promote by mentioning that my book on software resilience is fully aligned with the OP quote.

One of my goals was to banish “human error” as a “root cause” of cybersecurity incidents.

It’s an entirely unserious practice, and also reveals how ill-equipped the industry is to tackle more fundamental contributing factors, like system design.

book link: https://www.securitychaoseng.com/

If you haven't checked in a while, Firefox is good. Like really good. If you're tired of Chrome taking literally all of your ram and CPU, you should try switching.

My relationship with the Threads app so far:
- scroll instagram
- get baited with a juicy thread
- click, download, use anonymously
- view thread
- realize it's shit actually
- uninstall
- repeat about twice a week

So there's this thing called systemd-sysext. It allows you to put "overlays" on your filesystem that cause additional files to appear alongside the regular ones, intermeshed with the regular file hierarchy. I was super happy when I learned about this! That is a neat and useful feature!

What I did not know is the moment you engage it, any "meshed" top-level directories are set readonly. So the sysext I installed put files in /usr/bin. This made /usr readonly. I did not notice this for two weeks.

this remains one of my favourite joke ever told

Para que necessita Jack Sparrow mucha harina?

Para pan pan, para pan pan, para pan pan para pan

@stavvers