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be ruthless with systems, be kind to people

politics, cybersecurity, general banality
as a non-football guy: there’s no way pat mahomes sounds like that lmao
February 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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BETAR USA has been on a harassment spree, claiming to have provided the Trump admin with a list of names of students on visas to deport and, more recently, offering cash to anyone who tries intimidating Within Our Lifetime chair Nerdeen Kiswani by harassing her at a vigil for Hind Rajab and—
February 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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trying to explain the OSI model to an american: imagine if a burger had 7 patties
December 8, 2024 at 1:35 PM
it’s always “hey i’ve enjoyed our dates but i think we should just be friends” and never “hey i enjoyed our dates we should build a communist party” 😔
December 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM
for context, UnitedHealth was the victim of one of the largest healthcare hacks in US history earlier this year
December 4, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own
if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic
November 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM
mastodon and bluesky aim to solve the same problems, but with vastly different solutions

mastodon’s future is as “the next generation of email and RSS”, bluesky/ATProto is as “the next generation of identity”
And it's fine for there to be a place like that - I think that Mastodon's future probably lies in creating much more specific spaces that are tailored to specific groups.

The problem there, as I see it, is that style of federation goes pretty strongly against this.
November 26, 2024 at 7:38 PM
ultimately i think bluesky is gonna replace the twitter impulse, and mastodon is gonna replace the reddit impulse
The actual thing though is Bluesky made a real Twitterlike with puppy-zoomies acceleration + algo choice while Mastodon made a thing that looked like a Twitterlike but was built from trap streets and faraday cages, and they’re going to accomplish really different things
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 PM
i’ve had ramen three days in a row, should we go for a fourth?
November 18, 2024 at 8:08 PM
is mark gonna coup trump
Just an FYI. Don’t expect any politics or speculation about what might happen for a while. I’m sure there will be plenty to comment on when the time comes 💯
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 AM
personally i DO know what’s going to happen, i’m just not gonna say it because i just don’t like the spotlight
as i have said i am confident about tomorrow but also i genuinely think that we are in completely unknown territory. there is this big gender gap in early voting and also a good chance turnout will be massive. what does it all mean? no idea.
November 5, 2024 at 2:09 AM
re-education
Even if Harris wins (and I really hope she does) these millions of people with unambiguously fascist politics will still be around. What’s the solution? I’m at a loss tbh.
prri.org PRRI @prri.org · Oct 31
Who favors setting up encampments for undocumented immigrants?

- 47% of Americans
- 79% of Republicans
- 47% of independents
- 22% of Dems
- 82% of Fox News viewers
- 75% of White evangelical Protestants

@axios.com on PRRI/@brookingsinst.bsky.social #AVS2024 data.
www.axios.com/2024/10/22/t...
October 31, 2024 at 11:58 PM
what if the election is on my birthday this year
listen I know nothing about basically anything, but one of the few pieces of categorically iron-clad advice I can offer from my own terrible past choices is: do not do this, do not under any circumstances do this, do not throw an election night party, please just trust me
October 23, 2024 at 12:59 AM
there is a third option: everything should run plain HTML+CSS on apache
Infrastructure as code is complex because infrastructure is complex. You have two choices: automation or abstraction.
October 22, 2024 at 7:12 PM
a lot of times the “optics” discourse comes down to petty personal squabbles

but in this instance, the optics of “jewish students engaging in a religious activity as part of a protest” is incredible optics. much harder to call these groups antisemitic!
“L’Chaim intifada!”

Jewish NYU students launched a Gaza Solidarity Sukkah early this morning on Schwartz Plaza.

“There can be no Sukkot as usual while Israel continues to carry out genocide in Gaza.”
October 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM
please, someone, where can i find more communists on here
October 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
anyone else noticed a precipitous drop-off in pro-israel content on places like Instagram?

three months ago every other story was some IOF propaganda, these days you’re hard pressed to find even those AI “Stand With Israel” images
October 21, 2024 at 7:21 PM
the spirit of Aaron Swartz lives on in every skeet and that’s part of the reason this app is awesome
A common thought by devs is "couldn't you make a social network using RSS" and we basically went... yeah let's try that premise with some tweaks
October 21, 2024 at 1:29 AM
watched the @3b1b.bsky.social video about Manim (his math animation library) and oh boy do i have so many cybersecurity/networking visualization ideas
October 21, 2024 at 1:27 AM
just give me my friend sandwich please
October 19, 2024 at 5:59 PM
finally made them into a folder
October 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
good morning everyone say hi to my cat
October 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM
pick your choice:

my sophomore class trampled our principal

the senior class when i was in 8th staged a riot and caused thousands of $ in damage

janitor murdered two other janitors over summer, bodies weren’t discovered until a week before school started
what was "the incident" at your high school?
October 18, 2024 at 1:12 PM
redownloaded this app

y’all still weird (complimentary)?
August 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM