Rocky G
@rockygrober.bsky.social
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"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper." […]
Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon.bsd.cafe
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper." […]
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Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions by OpenSSF. Worth reading, and worth contributing 😉
best.openssf.org/Security-Foc...
best.openssf.org/Security-Foc...
Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions
The Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.
best.openssf.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions by OpenSSF. Worth reading, and worth contributing 😉
best.openssf.org/Security-Foc...
best.openssf.org/Security-Foc...
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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Update to our Terms and data use | LinkedIn Help
Update to our Terms and data use
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Didn't have that on my bingo card....
Not now truckload of aggressive rhesus monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Didn't have that on my bingo card....
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"When one of the man's broken ribs punctured his skin and scratched an ICE agent's skin, he was charged with assault."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"When one of the man's broken ribs punctured his skin and scratched an ICE agent's skin, he was charged with assault."
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Australia says NO! to American AI companies STEALING copyright protected content!!!
"Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI. Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down copyright exemption for AI models.."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI. Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down copyright exemption for AI models.."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Australia says NO! to American AI companies STEALING copyright protected content!!!
"Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI. Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down copyright exemption for AI models.."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI. Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down copyright exemption for AI models.."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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#OSPORADAR, to develop the technical tooling to enable Academic Open-Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) to efficiently archive, manage, and showcase their institutions' software productions.
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
D1.1 OSPO-RADAR Stakeholder Requirements and Specifications-community-review
D1.1 OSPO-RADAR Stakeholder Requirements and Specifications Project Title Open Source Program Office Research Assets Dashboard and Archival Resource Project Acronym OSPO-RADAR Grant Agreement No. ...
docs.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
#OSPORADAR, to develop the technical tooling to enable Academic Open-Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) to efficiently archive, manage, and showcase their institutions' software productions.
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
October 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.
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"Composed of neighbors, parents, and community members, school boards are modern-day town halls where self-government is not just discussed but enacted."
Author Scott Levy writes on how school boards are emerging as one of the most vital arenas in American democracy for @time.com:
Author Scott Levy writes on how school boards are emerging as one of the most vital arenas in American democracy for @time.com:
Can School Boards Save Our Democracy?
School boards, not Washington, are our best hope for civil discourse, writes Scott Levy.
time.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Composed of neighbors, parents, and community members, school boards are modern-day town halls where self-government is not just discussed but enacted."
Author Scott Levy writes on how school boards are emerging as one of the most vital arenas in American democracy for @time.com:
Author Scott Levy writes on how school boards are emerging as one of the most vital arenas in American democracy for @time.com:
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October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Research labs disappeared "when the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that it was legal for companies to buy their own stock."
notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/14/2...
notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/14/2...
- Bruno Pedro
Stock repurchase was the reason for research labs to close
notes.brunopedro.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Research labs disappeared "when the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that it was legal for companies to buy their own stock."
notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/14/2...
notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/14/2...
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Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!
Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...
#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia
Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...
#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia
Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills
TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...
transfamilysos.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar
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Do you maintain one or more public APIs? I do.
I'd love to share some thoughts with other API producers so we can learn what works and what doesn't. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
I'd love to share some thoughts with other API producers so we can learn what works and what doesn't. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
September 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Do you maintain one or more public APIs? I do.
I'd love to share some thoughts with other API producers so we can learn what works and what doesn't. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
I'd love to share some thoughts with other API producers so we can learn what works and what doesn't. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
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it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness
September 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness
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Classic failure mode: integration tests for our Terraform Module IaC created what were supposed to be ephemeral cattle but became very expensive pets when terraform destroy silently failed. No monitoring (sandbox account), no alerts, no monthly cost reviews detailed enough to catch steady $250/month
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Classic failure mode: integration tests for our Terraform Module IaC created what were supposed to be ephemeral cattle but became very expensive pets when terraform destroy silently failed. No monitoring (sandbox account), no alerts, no monthly cost reviews detailed enough to catch steady $250/month
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I stumbled into it while digging into which account was provisioning real RDS instances for tests, making the CI sluggish. Curiosity leads to unexpected places, so instrument your infrastructure lifecycle, not just applications. Tonight's team dinner (and then some) was earned the hard way! [AIL 3]
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I stumbled into it while digging into which account was provisioning real RDS instances for tests, making the CI sluggish. Curiosity leads to unexpected places, so instrument your infrastructure lifecycle, not just applications. Tonight's team dinner (and then some) was earned the hard way! [AIL 3]
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OSI's Deep Dive: Data Governance virtual event is happening October 1-3. Sal Kimmich will share "Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for Federated, Consent-Based AI Systems". Register for free at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf
September 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OSI's Deep Dive: Data Governance virtual event is happening October 1-3. Sal Kimmich will share "Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for Federated, Consent-Based AI Systems". Register for free at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf
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The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
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Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.
August 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.
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Know how to code and want to do some good? Join us live tomorrow to find out how you can get involved with building tools for online investigations. Have a project already and stuck on something? Come along and ask your questions! discord.gg/HH3GHDhj?eve...
Ever wondered how to build a dependable and useful tool for online research? Bellingcat's @galen.reich.me.uk is coming into our Discord Server next week to share his tips and tricks for building just that. Join us live on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT. discord.gg/HH3GHDhj?eve...
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Know how to code and want to do some good? Join us live tomorrow to find out how you can get involved with building tools for online investigations. Have a project already and stuck on something? Come along and ask your questions! discord.gg/HH3GHDhj?eve...