ethanjstark

flexghost, 1 day ago to random

“[Trump] certainly looks pretty while he sleeps…

“Maybe it’s an endearing moment of prayer, though.”
-Nobel laureate and congresswoman (somehow) Lauren Boebert

I just…

I can’t…

…why does she…

🤷🏻‍♀️

Outcalls only Lauren Boebert representing her district.

ethanjstark, 7 days ago to random

The latest Plura-List newsletter from @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/

dives into the economic concept of the Ulysses pact: “when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness.”

In the excellent book Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke dives into the Ulysses pact on the individual behavioral level, calling it “self-binding”.

#AskFedi Curious to hear your self-binding strategies? I’ll share mine (in reply)

skinnylatte, 12 days ago to SanFrancisco

On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:

“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/city-campus-san-francisco-tech-diversity-19435406.php

#SanFrancisco

evacide, 13 days ago to random

The saddest thing about meeting other high-profile women and enbys in infosec is the part where you compare your lists of stalkers and chronic harassers.

ethanjstark, 13 days ago to retrocomputing

This chap is positively chuffed to be heading to work with his PBC. Top comment: "I'll bet this thing sounds like a dehumidifier when it's plugged in."

#RetroComputing

shanselman, 15 days ago to random

Showing a young person my arcade cabinet and they said 'ohh, I like the bathroom buttons.' Sigh

fuzzychef, 17 days ago to design

I present to you: a case study in bad #graphic #design. One could teach a whole week of design class using this.

angiebaby, 18 days ago to random

The Democratic Party is right-wing.

cstross, 1 month ago to random

I swear, in the long term the most useful part of my tech education—which includes a master's degree in computer science from 1990—has turned out to be reading comp.risks religiously since the late 80s and watching every new grift and scam and dark design pattern and type of malware on the internet emerge in realtime.

I hate that in this century everyone needs the paranoia and skill set of a 90s network security administrator.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Rooting for Positive Chaos in 2024!!!

BrianJopek, 1 month ago to random

Another take on Elon Musk’s brilliant solution to the Key bridge disaster in Baltimore.
#KentuckyFriedElectrician

dgar, 1 month ago to random

It’s that time again!
Show me some memes!!

thomasfuchs, 1 month ago to random

The enshittification will continue until morale has six fingers and three elbows

ethanjstark, 1 month ago to random

WOW hat tip to @yhancik (boosted by @mcc ) for turning me onto "One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age", a Tumblr + Research project digging through the torrent of The Entirety of #Geocities.

An early gem I found: a collection of "before[x]",
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/7358

e.g. pictures are "before_instagram" and "before_twitter"

#EarlyWeb

A Geocities site with large text: "cheese is the best thing I have ever eaten wow"

ethanjstark, 1 month ago to random

Dear @matdevdug ,

I sent your IAM Is The Worst article to my eng manager, and it showed this delightful image as its preview.

I searched under the hood on your site, and had to learn about Unfurling + meta tags to figure out how this image was being selected for preview, while not being visible on the page.

https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-unfurling-but-were-afraid-to-ask-or-how-to-make-your-e64b4bb9254

Thanks for writing good stuff. I also really enjoyed "Tech and the end of Democracy" https://matduggan.com/tech-and-the-end-of-democracy/

I hope this mention does not find you. #Mosstodon

ethanjstark, 2 months ago to ukteachers

US Remote: Senior Data Engineer role $100k - $140k

:1up: Boost for reach! 📈 Come work with me at Nearpod (EdTech), a genuinely great spot to work. Certified via Fortune + Great Place To Work as one of the Best Workplaces for Women. Staff Eng, a :trans_flag: woman on my team shared it's the workplace where they feel the most comfortable being themselves.

Hit me up with any questions! Happy to refer you.

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Renaissance/743999973418610-senior-data-engineer

#getFediHired #FediHire #SWE #Data #Job #JobOpening #EdTech

fasterthanlime, 2 months ago to random

☕️ POV: I'm on my third coffee and you just asked me how the internet works

(new video!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKFXlFNR4E

tzimmer_history, 2 months ago to random

What “Project 2025” Would Do to America

Re-posting this in light of tonight’s State of the Union, in which Biden is apparently going to draw attention to “Project 2025.” Good! Because in a very real sense, this is what’s on the ballot in November:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-project-2025-would-do-to-america

NanoRaptor, 2 months ago to random

Microsoft Excel

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

This is your reminder that people who really love you, treat you well every day, not just on special occasions.

ethanjstark, 3 months ago to Starwars

My kid’s out here creating a Jawa sandcrawler from first principles. He’s 4, and hasn’t had any exposure to anything Star Wars. Feeling proud.

#StarWars #parenting #MagnaTiles

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to web3

chris dixon's new #web3 book is off to a strong start

lauren, 3 months ago to random

By the way, the one time in my career that I've ever pressed "The big red button that shall never be pressed!" was at RAND.

It is standard for computer room facilities to have a way to kill all power to the equipment quickly in cases of emergency. Traditionally this is a very large red button that can be pressed for this purpose, often just inside an entry door. Typically it's under some sort of plastic shield or such to avoid it being pressed accidentally.

This button is never to be used in the course of normal events. Because it abruptly terminates all power to associated equipment, the risk of data loss and even equipment damage is very significant.

So one day, I walk down the stairs to my basement computer room at RAND where the PDP-11s and ARPANET interfaces lived. I open the door ... and there's nothing there but a wall of white.

When faced with something like that, it takes a couple of seconds to figure out what the hell is going on -- it's not in your brain's expected scenarios for opening that door.

The room was full of white smoke.

Within a few seconds I reached up under the shield just inside the door and slammed down the "never to be pressed" red button.

Instantly power was cut to the UNIX PDP-11s, the ARPANET equipment, a bunch of peripherals, and even a number of disk drives that were in an adjacent room that serviced the big IBM mainframe on the ground floor above.

As it turned out, the Halon fire suppression system was within a few seconds of firing when I killed the power -- management was pretty happy about that since recharging the Halon was expensive.

I got a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) CE (Customer Engineer) out to RAND within a couple of hours. He quickly found the source of the problem.

A PDP-11/70 power supply had dramatically failed. It was partly molten slag. Very impressive. I tried to get the RAND photographer down to take a photo of it (this was long before cell phone cameras or even cell phones), but the CE grabbed the power supply, hid it under his coat, and ran out to his car with it.

Apparently he wasn't thrilled with the prospect of photographic evidence of the failure.

Interesting day.

anderseknert, 3 months ago to random

I’ve seen a lot of wrong takes on test driven development, or #TDD, lately. Surprising, given that it’s just 3 simple steps to remember:

1. Write a unit test before writing code
2. Write the code to be tested
3. Tell everyone you’re doing TDD. Tell your friends, your family and your colleagues. Most importantly, tell the internet. Everyone must know you’re doing TDD. This is the most important step, and in fact, you can probably skip the first two steps and go straight to this one.