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rayhayes

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Sr Software Developer: I follow security/config mgmt. ex-MSFT (GP/MDM, DSC, OpenSSH), Security+, MSCE, (he/him), Married Liberal Atheist, from MA now WA.

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taylorlorenz, to random
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Someone should show this piece to editors of The New Republic, NY Mag, Slate & all the other media orgs who have published dangerous and anti scientific conspiracy theories about this disease.

This from @georgemonbiot is what ACTUAL reporting looks like https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-treatments-social-services

rayhayes,
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@taylorlorenz @georgemonbiot It's so strange that this has been going on for so long. Back in the mid 80's my first wife was diagnosed at first with CEBV (Chronic Epstein Barr Virus), then the diagnosis became Fibromyalgia and finally CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). So that was almost 40 years ago.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Is software development a creative job?

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft It could be if you're doing UX design which I am terrible at but my coding is great. So once the app is done, someone with a creative side needs to review it and suggest color changes, position improvements, etc. It's why I didn't become a photographer right out of high school. A pro told me I didn't have an eye for color or framing.

nixCraft, to random
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Without using any numbers, how old are you? ๐Ÿค”

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAbAp0NnqI

drcaberry, to RomanceBooks
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See your romance novels in a way you never have before. See yourself. http://CarlottaArdell.com

video/mp4

rayhayes,
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@drcaberry I was curious and checked my local library, King County, and they don't have any of your novels. Are they through a publisher or a print-on-demand service? I know the latter often aren't on their radar.

nixCraft, to random
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Who taught you how to write program?

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft FORTRAN was required freshman year engineering at UMASS 1978. Learned BASIC at Wentworth 1981 and then COBOL at CCE in Newton, MA 1983. Haven't looked back since.

arstechnica, to random
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775 brand-name drugs saw price hikes this year so far: Report

Meanwhile, Senate to consider subpoenas to force pharma CEOs testify on prices.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/775-brand-name-drugs-saw-price-hikes-this-year-so-far-report/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rayhayes,
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@arstechnica Generics are the way to go unless you have no choice. $2 for a 90 day supply of generic Lipitor.

nixCraft, to random
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What do YOU think makes a good Pull Request? ๐Ÿ‘‡

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft Personally I think if you start to make it a rule-of-thumb that Pull Requests must be big or meaningful or good then it stops the natural breakdown of work into small chunks perhaps even just one line in one file.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Rite Aidโ€™s AI facial recognition system falsely and disproportionately identified women and people of color as likely shoplifters.

Rite Aid employees acting on false alerts from the systems followed customers around stores, searched them, ordered some to leave and, if they refused, called the police to confront or remove them, at times in front of friends and family. By @drewharwell
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ftc-rite-aid-facial-recognition

rayhayes,
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@taylorlorenz @drewharwell I wonder if Apple stores are equipped with the same. Security followed a non-white woman out of the store recently and I happened to be leaving at the same time. About 10 stores later when she realized she was being followed she screamed at him "Are you following me?" and he said no and turned down a convenient escalator. She was pissed!

nixCraft, to random
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Wake me up when AI can cook perfect food for me. I give the machine all the ingredients, and it cooks food for me like a 5-star chef. All this fake text and image generator doesnโ€™t impress me. Imagine machines making healthy and delicious meals for us every day. I will give bounce points if the machine cleans itself after I finish my meals.

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft I'm thinking we're not too far from there.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: What do you want in the new year 2024?

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft No good choices actually. I'm financially secure and as secure in my career as anyone can be these days. A sense of purpose is highly overrated. I just like to get through today. Naps are actually great since a good night's sleep is difficult to come by these days. And I've found that there are a lot of very good Linux desktops around since even the Lindows days.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Sports Illustrated has been making up fake AI authors, claiming they are real, then deleting them when asked and offering no formal comment, editorial note, or other response.

Theyโ€™ve also been publishing AI generated content by people who donโ€™t exist with zero disclosure https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

rayhayes,
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@taylorlorenz The future of sports is all make-believe.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: I've saved money for Christmas so that I can buy the following thing:

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft I'm of the age when I no longer have any need for much stuff. I'm actually trying to give some of it away. So I haven't really saved but a nice bottle of wine as Greg Brown sang, would be nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ISihblE14

nixCraft, to random
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What is the first thing you install on a fresh computer? ๐Ÿค”

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft LastPass

nixCraft, to random
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Software developer hobby ladder

  1. Text editors from the 70s
  2. Pour over coffee
  3. Writing a book
  4. Mechanical keyboards
  5. Endurance sports
  6. Writing resume in LaTex
  7. Dreaming about woodworking or farming once a day

What else is missing?

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft I was just thinking about how EDIT on VAX/VMS was such a good editor.

arstechnica, to random
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Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried โ€œcanโ€™t recallโ€ what he did at FTX

SBF reportedly said he couldn't remember over 100 times in cross-examination.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/facing-110-years-in-prison-sam-bankman-fried-cant-recall-what-he-did-at-ftx/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rayhayes,
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@arstechnica Probably he doesn't since he wasn't in the office all that much and was busy drinking his client's cash.

arstechnica, to random
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CVS ditches useless cold medsโ€”but not bogus homeopathic products

Bogus homeopathic products based on pseudoscience will remain on shelves.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/cvs-ditches-useless-cold-meds-but-not-bogus-homeopathic-products/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rayhayes,
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@arstechnica Mentioned homeopathic products to my local organic food store. The clerk laughed. No way they'll be removed. The profit margin is so high on those products that they just can't justify their removal.

rayhayes,
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@AstralPath @TheInsane42 His DVD with Tal on bass is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdX6ly6ftUM&t=3s

flexghost, to random
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North Carolina is creating a secret police force

The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations, or โ€œGov Opsโ€ or โ€œ gestapoโ€ is chaired by Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger

It gives the state authority to investigate โ€œpossible instances of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, mismanagement, waste, abuse, or illegal conduct.โ€

In a related story: white sheets are sold out at the local Walmart

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986976-2023-appropriations-act-final

rayhayes,
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@flexghost You can tell the real MAGAts; they wear cotton sheets. The white silk is for the posers.

malwaretech, to random

I lived in LA during the first E-Scooter pilot program. Woke up one day and there was just these electric scooters everywhere. You unlock them with an app and can ride them anywhere you want to go. Once you're done, you just leave it wherever. Then someone else can come and take it to wherever they want to go. If you take one home and charge it, you get paid some money.

It solved so many problems. You didn't have to find parking, it was often times faster to travel by bicycle like vehicles due to traffic, you didn't have to worry about getting your vehicle back home if you got drunk, nor worry about having to lock every part of your bike to every other part to stop thieves disassembling it.

Ultimately, it wasn't a good business due to a multitude of reasons. The difference between ride cost and cost of production meant scooters had to do hundreds of hours of rides before people totaled them or threw them in the sea or they couldn't break even. People were force to ride on sidewalks and mow down pedestrians because there's no bike lanes. Residents petitioned and had them banned due to people leaving them blocking driveways or littered across the sidewalk. Literally every single one of those problems would be easily solvable if it were a public service instead of a private business. Some regulation, enforcement, bike lanes, and what you have is an incredible inner-city public transport system.

rayhayes,
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@malwaretech Here in Bothell, it seems a lot of kids are using them probably with their parent's account. It's rare to see a kid wearing a helmet though even though they're on the sidewalks and in the middle of the road and not stopping at stop signs and just plowing through the crosswalks. Most of the adults have helmets and seem to be following the traffic rules for the most part. Right on red/stop signs without stopping seems to be as much a problem on scooters as in cars.

donni, to random
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Cell phones have revolutionized hearing strangers lie in public

rayhayes,
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@donni And scream profanity at various family members while sitting on the beach (Miami Beach, Florida).

nixCraft, to random
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When was the last time you saw this?

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft Seems like yesterday...

taylorlorenz, to random
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There are several Mastodon accounts with variations on my username impersonating me to run scams. Please know I will never ask you to join me on Telegram or ask for you to send me gift cards!

rayhayes,
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@taylorlorenz Got one of those from someone else this morning. Evidently it's going around.

nixCraft, to random
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Are you a localhost:8080 or a localhost:3000 programmer? ๐Ÿค”

rayhayes,
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@nixCraft localhost:8080 since way back when.

malwaretech, to random

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    rayhayes,
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    @malwaretech They're hoping someone reaches out and rescues them from themselves.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    I don't think we should let any of the people who brought this climate catastrophe upon us off the hook. If you can't be held accountable for destroying the planet, wtf can you be held accountable for.

    rayhayes,
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    @FrankFrank @Beachbum @GhostOnTheHalfShell @StillIRise1963

    I read "A People's History of the United States" last year. It was so depressing to read how many of the people we've been taught in school to respect, were either double billing the government for contracts, stealing land, etc. It seems there's no one anymore that is worthy of our respect.

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