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mhoye

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Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin, messenger. Ludonarrative dissident, liminal space mercenary, lapsed pragmatist.

Hobbies include weaponized semiotics, operational hauntology, ambient symmetrism.

He, him. Co-chair, department of last resort.

Protect the person behind you.

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dangillmor, to random
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Wow, the Times' Tom Friedman had to reach a long, long way to find the required "balance" -- in this case totally false equivalence -- re Supreme Court extremist judges.

Thomas and Alito are corrupt in their acts and words, but Ginsburg said something true but (arguably) mean about candidate Trump.

Identical, right?

mhoye,
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@dangillmor The moustache of understanding is still with us, apparently.

mhoye, to random
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Eyes up, developers, a new social engineering attack just dropped: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware/

mhoye, to random
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Gave a reasonably well received talk today at the IEEE conference on software testing and validation.

“If software is just an idea that we’ve turned into a machine, then validating the software is validating the idea” seemed to land like I’d hoped.

mhoye, to random
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An old haunt. Neat to see the shadows left of the letters, years of downwind and dust.

mhoye, to random
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Love it. One stray bracket and it all falls apart.

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

mhoye,
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average EV sales in collapse factoid actualy just statistical error. average EV sales increasing big. Fuckups Georg, who lives on a jet and eats over 10,000 ketamines each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

mhoye,
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@ShredderFeeder Speaking as somebody who did that, the number of thousands of dollars it costs to install a decent charger in your garage is "0.7" and it pays for itself in a few weeks.

mhoye, to random
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Rummaging through old 302 slides, found this gem:

mhoye, to random
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There is only one thing that I disagree with in @baldur 's excellent article on "the deskilling of webdev" - https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/ - but I feel like it is a significant omission.

Baldur even touches on it here, earlier in the year, but doesn't explicitly connect the dots: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

It's the passive voice of the title.

Development isn't mysteriously becoming deskilled. It is actively being directed, to manage the employment market, by the largest players in that market.

mhoye,
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I mean, consider the mcrib:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200303060851/https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/

Consider, in particular, this sentence:

"Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of. What makes the McRib different from this everyday horror is that a) McDonald’s is huge to the point that it’s more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants b) it is made of pork [...]"

(@baldur)

mhoye,
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... Except instead of pig meat and bbq sauce it's your skillset and identity.

I think about this every day.

What am I subjecting myself to, what machine am I really putting my arm in, if I start to build a skillset around React, or Kubernetes, or AWS or GCP or any other skills that exist only in service of corporate infrastructure and will have me existing only in service of that infrastructure's owners until they get too bored or their shareholders get too greedy or I get too expensive.

mhoye,
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My pleas for the open software world to remember that one person in front of one computer is a constituency that matters are as much about that seemingly forgotten constituency as it is about the negative space around it, all the agency over how we grow and value ourselves that's handed off to machines churning out limited-liability slurry, made of the interchangeable molded parts we've unknowingly die-cast ourselves into.

mhoye, to random
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Getting an "unknown item compatible with the Find My network is with you" notification when I'm at home, at three AM, is... curious.

mhoye,
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Time to start working on the active drone shielding maybe?

mcc, to random
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I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".

But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it

mhoye,
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@mcc "SSL Added And Removed Here", 2013.

mhoye,
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@mcc

mhoye, to random
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I thought this was widely known, but I suppose not:

https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112507818857555419

There's also code built into printers, scanners and close-source image editors programs that recognizes currency and prevents you from scanning, printing or manipulating images of money.

Remember, there's no such thing as "printers" or "scanners". There are only computers, often network-connected, that happen to have printing and scanning features.

https://youtu.be/1c-jBfZPVv4

mhoye, to random
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If I say "kittens and pop tarts" and your mind goes here instead of nyan then you owe @jonrosenberg a few bucks of brain rent: https://www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

danyork, to random
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Anyone use a Blackstone griddle for barbecuing? If so, what do you think about it? Our 27-year-old Weber BBQ grill has finally died, and I have recently been cooking on a Blackstone griddle when I volunteer at the Snack Shack at our local baseball fields. We don’t honestly cook enough red meat where I might want the direct flame of a grill. I feel like the griddle might be better for some of the vegetables and other things we cook - and would also still work fine for hamburgers and hot dogs.

mhoye,
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@danyork Geez, if I had a grill last me 27 years, I would have a hard time convincing myself to do anything except buy that brand again immediately, probably the model up.

mhoye, to random
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!!??

mhoye, to random
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Incredible: https://newatlas.com/materials/concrete-steel-recycle-cambridge-zero-carbon-cement/

mhoye, to random
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Question: is there a linux installer out there that makes some effort to save or recover data from the target system?

I feel like an installer that branched off into something like, "backup one or more user accounts", "take a drive snapshot" or "please run PhotoRec" would be extremely welcome by people nervous about their first Linux install, I've just never seen anything like that. It's always "yup we're gonna just burn this to the ground and pave over it."

jonrosenberg, to random
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Please, if you have ever liked my comics and would like to support me in continuing to make them, throw a couple of bucks at my Patreon. I need your help.
www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

mhoye,
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@jonrosenberg The phrasing, though? I just wanted to give you a few bucks, this feels like a lot of commitment.

mhoye,
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@jrconlin @jonrosenberg

The new kids think that kittens and poptarts are a nyan thing but the old school knows what's up.

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