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njoseph

@njoseph@social.masto.host

A software developer going through a mini-retirement phase. Developing some small tech solutions to recover and rediscover the joy of programming.

Might consider doing paid remote work for free software or cooperatives.

Admin of https://social.masto.host

#Privacy #FreeSoftware #FreedomBox #SelfHosting #SmallTech #nobot

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rootwyrm, to random
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"Absolutely no reasonable org will allow this Microsoft Recall shit! It's a security nightmare!"

I just saw an organization that is planning to use it to "measure employee productivity" and search for "policy violations." (Not naming names.)

Remember: there are more than a few large orgs out there that gleefully install keyloggers on the same bogus pretense. (And absolutely will not tell you, the employee.)
They already see Recall as a goldmine for abusing their employees.

puneetsiinghal01, to climate
@puneetsiinghal01@mastodon.social avatar

Billions of people are currently enduring temperatures between 45 and 50°C.

This situation is occurring with just a 1.5°C global temperature increase.

At 2°C, these areas will become uninhabitable for extended periods each year.

The absence of a comprehensive plan to address this is alarming. Immediate mitigation is essential.

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

"In 1635, mining was introduced in Sápmi when a silver mine opened near Árjepluovve in Sweden. The impact on Sámi society was huge. Businessmen and settlers arrived from the south, while local Sámi were driven from their homes and used as coolies. Resistance was met with harsh repression. A special kind of water torture became notorious. Sámi were dragged along a rope underneath the ice of a frozen lake from one hole to another."

https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1051

gerrymcgovern,
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It is sickening to hear boosters of “renewable” energy pretend that it is green and clean and good for Nature. It is not. It is dirty and filthy and devastating to Indigenous, to wildlife, to biodiversity, to the last wildernesses that must be preserved. Enough lies. No to oil, gas and coal. And no to the fraud that is “green” energy.

Address right problem.
We don't have an energy production problem.
We have an energy consumption problem.
We consume vastly too much energy, materials
Slow down

erion, to random

Since a new version has been released 4 days ago, let me take the opportunity to mention that @FeatherWiki is still the best, single-page local wiki ever made. It's minimalistic, extensible, and accessible to software as well.

If you like TiddlyWiki but find yourself confused because of the myriads of expanding sections, you will love FeatherWiki.

Check it out at https://feather.wiki/

baldur, to random
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So Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix (at least here in Iceland) and it's pretty darn good. The Japanese perspective on WW2 always gives me mixed feelings because, y'know, but it didn't annoy me too much in this one.

andreimoment,
@andreimoment@ruby.social avatar

@baldur This is the first Godzilla movie which gave me the visceral experience of facing a destructive force beyond human comprehension. really connected to the monster as a metaphor - or re-living - of the unspeakable human impact of the atomic bombs.

different from all other versions.

Now I know a bit about how it felt.

Hannah, to random
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The other day at work, in an online meeting, a fuckhead said the phrase “Well, it’s probably because she’s a woman and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about”, referring to an external contractor.

I’m not out, but I stopped the meeting and said “You don’t get to talk like that in front of me. Now, I have to call HR.”

There was laughter. To which I replied sternly, “It is not funny. Do better.”

There was no laughter then.

I don’t put up with that shit. Misogyny, any kind of trans- or queer- based phobia, racism. None. That’s how you ally - you speak up. You challenge the notion that these fuckers are in a safe place. You DO have power to create change. Be the voice for the voiceless.

Afterwards, two of the other attendees reached out to me to thank for my courage to stand up to one of the “cool kids”. I don’t need thanks, I need people to be better.

BE BETTER.

OccuWorld, to random
@OccuWorld@syzito.xyz avatar

PRIVATE PROPERTY
is about control. consent is manufactured by conflating it with personal property

scottsantens, to random
@scottsantens@hachyderm.io avatar

The idea that we should earn our survival is a narrative rooted not in freedom, but in control. Universal basic income challenges this by asserting that access to basic needs isn't earned, it's a right. Let's shift the narrative. Survival amidst plenty shouldn't be up for debate.

tek, to random
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"Severance" is like every nightmare I've had rolled into one.

schlink, to random
@schlink@hachyderm.io avatar

OOO a little drama in the KeePassXC Debian package world. Noting here that

> The actual impact will be negligible for users of stable versions of Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-derived distributions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/973782/

wallingf, to random
@wallingf@mastodon.social avatar

Avdi Grimm @avdi wrote recently that a big part of the contribution he makes as a software consultant has little to do with his software development experience. This college professor knows the feeling.

In Loco Parentis
https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2024-05.html#e2024-05-30T17_56_42.htm

knizer, to random
@knizer@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Some loving requests:

Tag your political posts so folks can find and/or filter them
Alt-text your images so one doesn't exclude readers
Consider using the CW feature to let folks opt out of complex topics

baldur, to random
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“Partnering with an AI company means I can no longer trust your output”

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/partnering-with-an-ai-company-means-i-can-no-longer-trust-your-output/

> But, if you're going to leverage AI tools that we all know to hallucinate in the context of journalistic output, I won't be able to trust that input.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"If we assume the same size piece of silicon wafer for a computer chip, the most modern 2nm process technology requires significantly more electricity (x3.5) and ultra-pure water (x2.3) for production compared to the older 28nm technology. Greenhouse gas emissions (in CO2 equivalents) increase 2.5 times (per computer chip)."

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/30/chip-production-in-the-multi-crisis/

simon_brooke,
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot avatar

@gerrymcgovern True, but, functionality of chips with smaller features is much higher and their power consumption is much lower.

So to achieve a given amount of processing work, I would expect the lifetime water and energy cost of the 2nm chip to be very much less -- probably by orders of magnitude.

But

  1. I admit I've not seen research on this; and
  2. 95+% of all the processing work that actually is done this days has no significant real benefit.
GossiTheDog, to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

Things I’ve been asked to produce over the years as a manager in security:

  • Blockchain strategy
  • Metaverse strategy
  • Generative AI strategy

Amount of times this has had any value: 0

Perhaps the reason businesses largely haven’t grown for a decade is because they have failed to concentrate on ensuring good operations and making products customers care about.. but instead they’ve rushed off the latest fad cliff like Lemmings.

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

Since 1970, there has been a:

49% decline in marine life

50% decline in insects

66% decline in wildlife

69% decline in vertebrates

83% decline in freshwater species

Birds: 60% decline in Ireland in 50 years

Lions: 90% decline in Ghana in 40 years

Forest elephant: 60% decline in 12 years

Leatherback turtle: 95% decline in 20 years

SEI whale: 50% decline in 20 years (47 left)

Earthworms: 33% decline in UK in 20 years

Mammals:

3% wildlife

97% humans and livestock

Is this progress?

be4foss, to freesoftware
@be4foss@floss.social avatar

Opt out? Opt in? Opt Green!

50% of consumers buy new devices due to unsupported software, while the "tsunami of " continues to rise.

can keep those devices in use and out of the landfill. Today!

Say hello to the new project ": For Sustainable Hardware".

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-05-29_introducing-ns4nh/

You don't need new hardware for a secure, up-to-date device; you just need the right software!

@kde

stefano, to FreeBSD
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One of the most fundamental yet little-known features of FreeBSD is its ability to be used in read-only mode very easily. By installing the system on a UFS file system, you just need to modify the fstab file, change "rw" to "ro," and reboot. On the next boot, the system will automatically create mount points in RAM for the main directories (/tmp, log, etc.), and it will run perfectly.

This was the main reason why, many years ago, I chose FreeBSD for almost all my embedded systems. Even today, on my Raspberry Pies, I keep the SD cards in read-only mode and use external storage in read-write mode. This ensures that, in case of an unexpected poweroff, the system will come back up, and there will be no wear on the memory card.

#FreeBSD #EmbeddedSystems #RaspberryPi #ReadOnly #SysAdmin #Tech #OpenSource

pvonhellermannn, to random
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#ClimateDiary Delhi recorded highest ever recorded temperature in India at 52.3 °C.

FeatherWiki, to random
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Feather Wiki version 1.8.0 "Skylark" has just been released! It includes several bug fixes and unifies the previous builds into a single download for improved simplicity.

Check out all the details here:
https://codeberg.org/Alamantus/FeatherWiki/releases/tag/1.8.0

The website has also been updated to reflect the changes:
https://feather.wiki

Please let me know if you run into any problems with the new version!

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

So, this guy takes out his new AI phone from Samsung and takes a photo of the table we're sitting at. Then he does some magic stuff with his AI and shows me the picture.

"Look," he says to me. "There are three glasses on the table and in the picture there are five. Isn't AI amazing!" And he laughed.

And all I could think was that this is happening in millions of places every minute of the day. All this energy. All this water. All these materials.

Destroying our environment for this?

mazigazi,
@mazigazi@dobbs.town avatar

@gerrymcgovern yep. All of our computers and phones use toxins, water, energy to do stupid, mindless computations like that all day long. ALL of us.

middleclasstool, to random
@middleclasstool@phire.place avatar

I thought my career had beaten the love of programming out of me. It didn't. It just beat the love of doing professional software development out of me. Every honey harvest, I run a stupid 132-line Java program that I wrote to draw the labels for the jars. I wrote software to generate the labels so I don't have to manually create the hidden message in the labels.

My labels have hidden messages.

I wrote software to delight people, to delight me. No one has ever paid me to do this.

runoutgroover, to random
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Billionaire backlash shows the power of basic income | Al Jazeera

"The success of basic income pilots in the US has been followed by efforts to kill such programmes. The rich are scared."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/27/billionaire-backlash-shows-the-power-of-basic-income

nolan, to random
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Learning Rust after using JavaScript almost exclusively for 10 years is a humbling experience. I feel stupid and unproductive in a way I haven't felt in years.

But it's good! Learning new things is good. Gaining empathy for newer programmers is good. I like the challenge.

moritz,
@moritz@heiber.im avatar

@nolan what I loved about learning Rust was how it took me back to my origins from almost 30 years ago (C/Assembler), where I struggled with ideas like memory management, CPU interactions, race conditions etc yet this language suddenly gave me a way to not just express myself and my ideas safely, it gave me an idea how the computer actually wanted me to express stuff/myself without coddling me with layers upon layers of abstractions..

It was very refreshing and still a delight to this day

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