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CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician

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computersandblues, (edited ) to random
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i'm really excited to show https://compost.party to the world! it's a web server running on an old, broken phone, getting energy from the sun using one of those portable solar chargers that you may also have lying around.

it's a real oddity and a real beauty

hyc,
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@computersandblues that was basically my setup for the monerodirect . com server (domain now defunct) back in 2017. Old mobile phones on small solar chargers are a super convenient alternative to a server with a UPS and other fallback gear.

Neverfadingwood, to random
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hyc,
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@Neverfadingwood and if you drew some notes coming from the little guy's mouth, as if he were whistling, it could be Calvin Klein Nachtmusik

futurebird, to random
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The verdict may not matter to Trump's base, but I do think there is a group of people it matters to who are being overlooked: the people who were already likely to vote for Biden.

A Trump acquittal would have sapped trust in legal systems and government further. It would fueled apathy. Hopelessness and apathy can reelect Trump.

hyc,
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@futurebird meanwhile, in right-wing world

RustyBertrand, to random
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If spellcheck doesn't work, how do I turn it off completely?

It should suggest words with the correct spelling, but it doesn’t. I'm having to google words I know how to spell, because it's offering ridiculous spellings.

Kicking me right in the

I've never had problems with spelling like this.

It's prompting dubious words. Making me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

hyc,
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@RustyBertrand On my phone keyboard app, you can just turn it all off in the settings.

dabeaz, to random
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If you're not writing bad code, you're not learning anything.

hyc,
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@dabeaz not everything needs to be a lesson. Sometimes all you need is to apply previous lessons, solve a current problem, and move on to the next challenge.

evacide, to random
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As a person who enjoys live music, this is the kind of action I love to see.

“It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163083/live-nation-ticketmaster-doj-monopoly-lawsuit-break-up

hyc,
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@evacide burn them to the ground...

hyc, to random
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2.6.8, 2.5.18 released. 0.9.33 released. https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-announce@openldap.org/thread/4OLTKWDAXYSHJFDGCV3E2LAWKC5SH7Q4/

archaeohistories, to history
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The London Hammer, discovered in 1936 in Texas, is a controversial out-of-place artifact that appears to be a 19th Century CE, tool encased in rock purportedly dating to the Cretaceous period, sparking debate.

This intriguing find challenges established geological timelines and has generated significant discussion regarding its origin and the processes that led to its encasement in rock supposedly millions of years old.

hyc,
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@archaeohistories H.G. Wells dropped it by accident

hyc, to firefox
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"Architecture

The scripts in this self-hosting guide will create 9 containers: one TLS-offloading proxy, 6 services which run on various ports, and two supporting ones, which are not publically accessible:" Geeze, all I want is to setup my own #Firefox account server, what is this 9 service containers nonsense? https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting

And no, I'm not installing node.js natively on any of my machines. https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-fxa.html

ElleGray, to random
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Saw this and immediately wondered if the sound a parent made stepping on it in the dark in ancient times is the same noise we'd make today

hyc, (edited )
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@ElleGray hmm. Curse words wear out with usage, but I wonder if they recover their potency after a long enough dormancy. https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-of-why-swearing-physically-reduces-pain/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22078790/

waldoj, to random
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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

hyc,
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@virtuous_sloth @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot one step at a time. You can't fix everything overnight. Replacing ICE vehicles with EVs is still an improvement in terms of air and noise pollution, CO2 emissions, and energy efficiency.

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@virtuous_sloth @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot yes, that's another battle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

hyc,
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@virtuous_sloth @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot public transport has been eviscerated in most places around the US https://mastodon.social/@petergleick@fediscience.org/112462935001554853

hyc, (edited )
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@virtuous_sloth @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot the same happened in Ireland as well (animation created by https://twitter.com/Conor435_ )

mastosalo, to Dog
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I know it's caturday, but I helped my sister's dog snap a selfie.

hyc,
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@DrGeof @JSharp1436 @mastosalo I'd start with Thursday and just call it Fursday

hyc, (edited ) to random
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Isn't it wonderful how IDEs like VSCode are so intuitive and make developers more productive... https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112457365765555161

/me exits shell, back into vim ...

snickerbockers, to StarTrek
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the breen primarch from discovery's new season sounds way too similar to Lord Zedd from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Although somehow he's an even shallower and more one-dimensional villain than anything the power rangers have ever faced.

hyc,
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@snickerbockers hey, not all villains have depth. Some of them really just want power.

tedu, to random

Rust is clearly superior to go based on the most obviously objective scientific measure: the number of blog posts about how strings work. Nobody writes blog posts about strings in go, pathetic, but a vast literature has been developed to explain the greatness of rust strings.

hyc,
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@tedu either go strings are so self-intuitive that nobody bothers to write about them, or they're so incomprehensible that nobody tries to write about them?

hyc, to random
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Apparently, writing efficient and portable C code is elitist.

hyc,
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@wednesday sounds like this one https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

pervognsen, to random
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PSA: If you construct a B-tree with splitting-based inserts then constructing the tree from items in key-sorted order is actually the worst case for packing efficiency. Every node/leaf ends up exactly 50% full except for the right spine. When you bulk-construct a tree from scratch from sorted items, you want to do the construction bottom up and you don't want to use splits. That's linear time and yields an optimally packed tree (everything full excerpt for a partially packed right spine).

hyc,
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@pervognsen but optimal packing isn't necessarily ideal, particularly if the data is non-consecutive and will have inserts interspersed in the future. LMDB addresses this too.

hyc,
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@pervognsen if we see that new records are coming in-order, but MDB_APPEND wasn't specified, we bias the split 70/30 instead of 50/50. So the new page has more room, and the old page can still accept inserts in the future.

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@pervognsen yeah, the textbook description of B+tree behavior leaves a lot to be desired (and discovered, for a new implementor!) when tossed into the real world. I touched on this in the "Dark Underside" section of my Databaseology talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa5sAh-kVk

sue, to random
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The hardest problem in computer science is being born into generational wealth

hyc,
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@sue I have a couple non-computer-related hobbies, so it's at most 33% of my personality.

tomw, to random
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People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and add them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

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