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synlogic

@synlogic@toot.io

#software engineer
#gamedesign -er
#writer

topics:
#programming, perf & #scalability, #latency, #Golang, #climate, #democracy, #wargaming, #scifi, #utopian, #comedy

consulting:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-MikeKramlich.md

"Slartboz"
education & political game on topics of democracy & climate. style: sci-fi, #postapoc, funny, real-time Terminal-based #Roguelike

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buru5, to random
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synlogic,
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@jake4480 @buru5 I am uncomfortable with the AssBuddy portion of its name. dont want that in my download history

synlogic,
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@jake4480 @buru5 its like when in the 90s some entrepreneur wanted to build a website kinda like Craigslist but for building/home contractors. so they secured the domain name ExpertsExchange. they didnt appreciate fact that DNS is case insensitive and lots of kinky people out there with web queries they might want to keep private who would enter "expert sex change" and end up at their site

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    synlogic,
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    @jake4480 but Biden has forgiven billions in college loans

    TikTok is de facto owned by the Chinese gov, which exercises totalitarian control within their own borders, plus has a known op to try to manipulate American voters and steal American IP. they are an evil actor on the world stage almost right up there with Russia and Iran

    I worked on the problem space for the State Dept, years ago

    synlogic,
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    @jake4480 the law Biden signed does NOT ban Tik-Tok or destroy it. it merely requires that it must change ownership. if an American buyer comes along they can take it over and service continues seemlessly. users who love it or depend on it can continue to do so

    if anything I'd argue the US gov should extend the same approach to other companies and services with Russian ownership or ties. like Telegram, LiveJournal, JetBrains, Kaspersky, others

    hynek, to random
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    “While I’m guessing, the timing of the March 2019 core update, along with the traffic increases to previously-suppressed sites, heavily suggests that Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results.”

    👩‍🍳👌💋

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    synlogic,
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    @hynek it looks like sabotage by a coordinated group of outsiders

    Nonilex, to Law
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    : a little scrambly Ramone for your consideration…

    (yes, w/an “e” at the end; for the band “Ramones” whose members all took the surname … Ramone. 😢 that needs to be said, I guess I’m old.)

    1/3

    for more Ramone, follow

    I will continue [ coverage ~9AM ET Tues]

    Ramone the baby squirrel tumbles from his sock momma but quickly if not coolly recovers

    synlogic,
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    @Nonilex I have no expertise on this at all but (I'll chime in anyway haha) I would guess that if a baby squirrel spends enough time being taken care of by a human it will be hard to impossible for him to transition to life in the wild again. therefore a human parent forever, whether you always or someone else. no matter what you did the right thing by saving him

    isaackuo, to Ukraine
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    Caltrops are back, now dropped by drone.

    They immobilize supply trucks, making them sitting ducks for drone bombers.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/04/12/ukraine-teams-ancient-and-modern-weapons-to-stop-russian-trucks/

    synlogic,
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    @isaackuo super cheap and relatively easy to mass produce and with simple tools

    synlogic,
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    @isaackuo @swope the design shown in the story is imperfect it seems because looks like has one orientation where it presents no spike upwards. an ideal caltrop will always present a pointy thing upwards. I imagine if you know you can always deploy a large enough nunber to an area at once it becomes likely at least some will point up

    synlogic,
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    @isaackuo @swope k. I saw one photo with a flawed design I think, made out of 2 triangle plates

    theres a diff design that has like 4 spike-tipped rods all connected at a single common vertex at center, and all 4 spiky points face outward in perfect symmetry. as a kid I associated that design with ninja haha

    synlogic,
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    @isaackuo @swope ah ok

    nyrath, to random
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    Article about extraterrestrial settlement
    By @ZachWeinersmith

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/

    synlogic,
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    @nyrath @isaackuo @tarheel @ZachWeinersmith and by one of my game design idols, Dan Bunten. who also gave us Command HQ and Seven Cities of Gold. prob a few other classics I forget offhand, he was so prolific

    jake4480, (edited ) to movies
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    FINAL EDIT: THANKS to the hive mind - mysteries solved! The 2nd is All Saints, 3rd is Jane Jensen!

    synlogic,
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    @jake4480 @buru5 last one reminds me of Annie Lennox, or Siouxsie Soux of The Banshees. but I'm not 100% confident of either

    synlogic, to random
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    I dont like to speak negatively about anyone's health in public. But if there is one evil soul on this planet I'd make an exception for its

    I think he's in... bad health. Really bad. Much worse than they've let on. Dementia symptoms worsening perhaps. Heart issues perhaps. I'm no doctor. But look at photos of him recently. Especially his face & eyes. Because thats where you can see it, typically, when someone is Unwell. And when their time is coming SOON.

    I bet he will be gone by Nov

    jake4480, to history
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    A great, brain-melting piece that explains how logic may prove that time doesn't exist 🫠 https://theconversation.com/how-logic-alone-may-prove-that-time-doesnt-exist-227817

    synlogic,
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    @jake4480 dammit, logic!

    ebassi, to random
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    In retrospect, we should have figured out that Jia Tan was a plant from the fact that they showed up to do releases. In 20+ years of contributions to FLOSS projects I haven't found anybody willing to do the same.

    synlogic,
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    @ebassi to be fair he also disabled a test rather than fixing it or deleting it entirely -- gave him an aura of realism

    jake4480, to random
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    Finding myself missing Tenacious D songs. Going to have to remedy that Monday.

    synlogic,
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    @buru5 @jake4480 it doesnt feel very tenacious to wait to Monday. more like tanciouslessness?

    kernellogger, to linux
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    Linus is a bit devious 😬

    "'Kconfig: add some hidden tabs on purpose

    […] showed breakage in some third-party kernel config parsing tool.

    […] let's make sure it gets fixed. Because if you can't parse tabs as whitespace, you should not be parsing the kernel Kconfig files.

    In fact, let's make such breakage more obvious than some esoteric ftrace record size option. If you can't parse tabs, you can't have page sizes."'

    https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e61e7021e3496ddf7fd61e

    synlogic,
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    @kernellogger yeah he generally has good engineering instincts. even if not always the most diplomatic or subtle, haha

    jake4480, to punk
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    Today's , :

    Bad Religion - 1000 More Fools
    https://youtu.be/WGtrDbK0pZI

    Helmet - I Know
    https://youtu.be/YhlXmHzfynw

    Beck - The Information
    https://youtu.be/frzquELSObM

    Dan Vapid and the Cheats - Fact and Fiction
    https://youtu.be/vOFkrDJY9lA

    Bad Religion - New Dark Ages
    https://youtu.be/RGqA1lNXYhg

    @neurothing

    synlogic,
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    @jake4480 @buru5 Klingon bird of prey decloaks off starboard bow did someone say something critical of Prince? heh

    synlogic, to random
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    I prefer vim as my default code & text editor. Emacs does not fit my tastes as much but I respect it

    Both emacs & vim have advantages over, say, VS Code (& any other commercial GUI IDE). Among them? Less screen clutter, less resource use, (often) better reaction latency, no network need/killswitch, always free, open source, and less victim to surveillance capitalism

    (to continue)

    1/2

    analogist, to random
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    How could have been avoided:

    1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used some of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”

    2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers

    synlogic,
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    @analogist sounds wise. they say 2nd best thing to having done something in past (when ideal) is to do it now even when.timing is less so.

    I do think we should create a guild or union in the private sector & implement something like a UBI for programmers and FOSS devs, so we can rebalance out cash more equitably and ensure a kind of income floor, independently of gov

    govs move too slow and are too nosy & bureaucratic. better to err on side of action and initiative then tune things as we go

    synlogic, to random
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    many Russian & Chinese names seen as maintainers or key commiter atributations of xz & liblzma:

    Larhzu (username of "Lasse Collin")
    Jia Tan
    Chan Tsune
    Wei Dai

    Sergey Kosukhin
    Igor Pavlov
    Ilya Kurdyukov
    Dimitri Papadopoulos

    DISCLAIMER: This is NOT exhaustive search, just quick. And having one's name in this list does NOT imply guilt or malfeasance, and its possible its all an innocent coincidence! But given what we know about Chin & Rus gov backed hacking/infiltration attempts...

    tanepiper, to random
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    Has anyone done a SBOM of the internet?

    synlogic,
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    @tanepiper surely Google would have by now

    tef, to random
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    quietly: although state actors have the means and opportunity to slip a back door into open source projects, usually things are a lot more targeted

    it would not surprise me if the motive turned out to be farming crypto, especially since the backdoor was noisy enough to show up in performance tests

    synlogic,
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    @tanepiper @tef to be fair, and speaking in broadstrokes (obvs) I trust Finland more than the US or most of Europe. if theres any one takeaway I've gotten from Finland's history its Dont Fuck With Finland.

    nyrath, to random
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    From Dr. Philip Metzger. The culmination of 27 years’ work.

    How to design a rocket to land on the Lunar surface WITHOUT the damn engine exhaust excavating a big hole and causing a ship-destroying crash.

    Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 1: identifying the rate-limiting physics

    Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 2: benchmarking and predictions

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18583

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18584

    synlogic,
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    @nyrath I hope the SpaceX team is aware of Metzger's work. Elon is a genius sometimes and at others one wants to slap him for being so intentionally ignorant or disrespectful of prior work in a topic area. hope lunar landings for their Starship craft is not the latter kind

    drewdevault, to random
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    7.3.0-rc2 containers now available on the @Codeberg container registry for testing:

    https://codeberg.org/redict/-/packages/container/redict/versions

    synlogic,
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    @drewdevault @Codeberg I think they're images not containers? image is the thing at rest. container in flight

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