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Phi Φ 5d ago

entropealabs 5d ago

Hey everyone, we're hiring a Fullstack #Elixirlang engineer at Frontline Wildfire Defense. Come work with me.

https://elixirforum.com/t/full-stack-software-engineer-frontline-wildfire-defense-us-remote/75745

#Elixir #functionalprogramming #myelixirstatus #erlang

Full Stack Software Engineer - Frontline Wildfire Defense, US, Remote

Introduction Founded in 2017 by landscape ecologist and fire mitigation expert Harry Statter, Frontline developed the first fully integrated wildfire defense system to stop the leading cause of home loss in wildfires: ember-driven ignition. The system combines exterior sprinklers, full-coverage design, and connected software for remote monitoring and response, allowing homes to protect themselves long after families evacuate or infrastructure fails. Proven effective during the 2025 Los Angeles ...

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Phi Φ Jun 20

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Phi Φ Jun 16

Eye Jun 16

On the 16th June 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on board Vostok 6.

She is the first woman to orbit Earth (48 orbits), the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and the youngest woman to go into space at 26 yrs old, a title she still holds to this day.

#WomenInSpace #WomenInSTEM #Space

Phi Φ Jun 12

Fesshole 🧻Jun 12

Office has a censor filter in internal comms to replace swear words with other terms. Added a rule changing "AI" to "my cat", so we get "According to my cat..." and "I asked my cat and it said..."

Phi Φ Jun 4

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Gabriele Svelto Jun 4

Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

2/4

Phi Φ May 29

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Michael Westergaard May 22

English:

Hello,

Recently, the US NASDAQ exchange has changed their rules to allow IPOs like SpaceX and OpenAI to steal pension funds.

Concretely, they have changed the period from a listing to inclusion in the index (NASDAQ100) from 3 months to just 3 weeks, removed the 10% free float requirement, and changed the weighting of companies with under 20% float to have triple the weight they normally would.

These changes aim to force the hand of passive investment products based on indices to invest in them to generate demand faster, before price can settle, and pump up the price by reducing supply, allowing the current private owners to sell out to passive funds who are unwilling forced buyers.

SpaceX is intending to IPO with only around 5% of the company available for trading at the peak of a bubble, and OpenAI is expected to follow soon after. Furthermore, SpaceX is unable to sell to institutional investors, "reserving" an unprecedented 30% of the offering for less sophisticated retail investors, 3-5 times as much as normal, a huge red flag.

These Youtube videos all outline the problems in more detail
- youtube.com/watch?v=8rS3fTbC7TE
- youtube.com/watch?v=iOyFja87uyw
- youtube.com/watch?v=-X6YzlY_8tM

All of this adds together to form a grim picture of the financials of these IPOs, ignoring the moral issues with sending money to the owners of these companies, and I do not wish to fund this.

I therefore have three questions I would appreciate if you could answer:

1) does any of your pension products rely on passive funds tracking the NASDAQ100? If so, which percentage (range) does each of your products allocate to this?

2) are you planning to participate in these IPOs designed to steal pension funds, whether passively or actively, during IPO or in the months following? If so, which percentage (range) does each of your products allocate to this?

3) will you be offering a way to opt out of these morally questionable products?

I am collecting answers to this from all pension funds I have funds with and will be publishing the information gathered from each online to allow others to draw their conclusions as well.

Thanks in advance for your reply,

SpaceX IPO Scandal

YouTube

Phi Φ May 20

CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH May 19

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

The Virtual OS Museum

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

The Virtual OS Museum

Phi Φ May 16

obrhoff May 15

Can’t stop laughing. It’s so good.
#trump #maga
https://www.epicfurious.com/

Operation Epic Furious

Play Operation Epic Furious, from The Secret Handshake.

Phi Φ May 11

Fesshole 🧻May 11

On the train to work. Guy sitting opposite left his breakfast bar wrapper on the table when we got to the station. I was able to slip it back into his coat pocket while he was waiting for the doors to open. It was a great moment.

Phi Φ May 9

Some age old wisdom I was just reminded of:

"Love the work you do and it will love you back."

Well, except, for some of us that tried this, we may have loved the craft side of the profession more than the goal-side, likely as that was the one we were empowered over.

And Now.

Now we find the craft has been made worthless, and only the goal, over which power is harder to come by, is all that will honored.

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