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vambenepe

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France/California. Water is my happy place (swimming, snorkeling, freediving, scuba...).

Professionally, I'm back to working in the Cloud/data/analytics space after an interesting parenthesis working on a large consumer product for a few years. Not speaking on behalf my employer (you can easily find me on LinkedIn if you want to know specifically which company I'm not speaking for).

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vambenepe, to random
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It's nice how Kristi Noem's ghost writer and PR consultant was able to quickly rebound from the dog-shooting setback and get a job in Apple's marketing department.

Gargron, to random
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The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

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@Gargron @potus Agreed (that it's nice and also that a gov instance would be even better).

Another (minor) benefit of a gov Mastodon instance is that the POTUS account there could have a join date that's not April 1st...

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    vambenepe,
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    @weatherwest for those looking, here is the actual blog post (once again the "&" character breaks Daniel's script which relays tweets to Mastodon)

    https://weatherwest.com/archives/37923

    vambenepe, to random
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    https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/04/40_years_of_turbo_pascal/

    gruber, to random
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    This sort of hyperbole furthers the notion that Nvidia : today :: Cisco : dot-com rush.

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23962497/nvidia-says-generative-ai-will-be-bigger-than-the-internet

    vambenepe,
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    @gruber "we put the tensor in tensorflow" as the new "we put the dot in dot com"?

    (ok, fine, that was Sun not Cisco)

    vambenepe, to random
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    Note to California DMV: Next time, maybe go with "thank you for submitting this form."

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Omegle is shutting down. From the founder:

    “I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.” https://www.omegle.com/

    vambenepe,
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    @taylorlorenz People have been worried about the internet turning into TV forever. This is from a 1996 article about PointCast (anyone remembers PointCast?).
    https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pointcast-pushing-a-paradigm/

    vambenepe,
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    @taylorlorenz (I was one of the Very Concerned people back in 1996; I'm a lot more sanguine about it now.)

    vambenepe,
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    @mattwilcox @taylorlorenz Not sure where "survivorship bias" plays here. Who am I ignoring who failed to survive because they fell into the trap of turning the internet into a passive consumption medium?

    It's perfectly reasonable to remain concerned about it (though for my part it's far from the main concern I have about the future of the internet), but let's not call any attempt to learn from history "survivorship bias".

    eniko, (edited ) to random
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    Periodic reminder that if you're a leftist and you don't wear a mask indoors in public; no you ain't

    vambenepe,
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    @eniko Intertwining politic leanings with rational health decisions is not something I think we should encourage.

    dangoodin, to random

    Identity and Democracy, a far-right political group inside the European parliament, has nominated Elon Musk for the 2023 Sakharov Prize. Identity and Democracy includes members of European Parliament tied to France's Marine Le Pen and Italy's Matteo Salvini. It opposes immigration and the spread of Islam.

    I keep saying that the dead bird site is dangerous. This is one more example. If you're giving your time and engagement to it, you're helping it to remain viable and encourage other rich megalomaniacs to buy public platforms.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/identity-and-democracy-nominate-elon-musk-eu-human-rights-award-sakharov-prize/

    vambenepe,
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    @dangoodin Meanwhile, Twitter/X employees have nominated him for the Stakhanov prize.

    bkeegan, to random Spanish
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    I have bad news everyone.

    The quality and quantity of David Brooks dunk-posting is regrettably low on Mastodon compared to Bluesky.

    If we all can’t get behind mercilessly mocking a dried-out op-ed columnist, what’s even the point of posting?

    vambenepe,
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    @bkeegan Ignoring (the attention-seeking) is caring

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    vambenepe,
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    @idoubtit Craigslist is still a thing, and it works great for me, both as buyer and seller.

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    A friend just sent me this post from Facebook. Who doesn’t love the breathtaking Norwegian landscapes? 243k reactions. 5.7k comments. 20k shares. Lovely!

    vambenepe,
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    @bastianallgeier Hopefully some of these 5.7k comments point out the fact that this is a (very nice) Photoshop job -- as can be verified in a few seconds via a reverse image search... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk0KlBNA8dR/

    briankrebs, to random

    Not sure why my Apple Watch is suddenly barking its usual gentle fitness encouragements. It's like it has decided to give me the actual filename of this message, as well.

    vambenepe,
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    @briankrebs And that's why you should never use offensive terms in variable or file names (even if they're funny). At least this one is innocuous.

    Gargron, to random
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    The search interface has been updated again—you've now got infinite scroll on search results. Want to search for something you've already bookmarked? Add in:library to your search query.

    vambenepe,
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    @Gargron Bookmarking this post, so I can refer to it when I need to remember the "in:library" query parameter. But wait, how will I remember how to find this bookmarked post?

    nixCraft, to linux
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    Did you know? The “ping” command, commonly used to test network connectivity, was developed by Mike Muuss in 1983 for BSD Unix and later became standard in Linux and other operating systems such as Windows and others. Check his Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muuss and my page about ping command https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-ping-command-examples/ examples for more info.

    vambenepe,
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    @nixCraft Reminds me of the time my son was surprised that I knew about "ping" because he thought it was a gaming term and I don't play video games.

    john, to random
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    I have only just recently looked up what the difference is between a federation and a confederation: roughly, in a confederation membership is voluntary, whereas in a federation it is not.

    The Fediverse is actually a confederacy…

    I don’t know why I am telling you this.

    vambenepe,
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    @john

    AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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    vambenepe,
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    @AbandonedAmerica Or as anagram of "Oppenheimer Barbie", "Ripe Bomb Née Harpie"

    evan, to random
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    This is my post during a CBC interview. Everyone say hi!

    vambenepe,
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    @evan Bonjour!

    skepticsbookoflists, to random
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    Why are there any legit businesses still advertising on Twitter?

    vambenepe,
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    @skepticsbookoflists This is how Zuck learns that if you accept dumb challenges when you think you can win them then you can't decline the next dumb challenge without implicitly admitting you'd lose it.

    Once again, the best move would have been to not play.

    janerati, to random

    CalTrans didn't put much thought into this one..

    vambenepe,
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    @janerati No vegetarian option

    vambenepe, to random
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    • Let's make the Fediverse the opposite of Fight Club.

    • You mean a place for civil discourse instead of fights?

    • No, I mean a place where the first rule is that you have to talk about the Fediverse all the time.

    vambenepe, to random
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    I'm still not over my son telling me he's surprised I know the word "ping" because "it's a gaming term."

    vambenepe, to random
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    For years I've been waiting for a chance to buy Trader Joe's "Avocado's Number" guacamole with an expiration date of 6.10.23 and... they skipped it. 😢

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