Amy (she/her/hers)

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Hello there! I'm Amy. I'm a #trans #lesbian #programmer focusing in systems programming and optimization. I'm interested in #mathematics, #linux, #opensource, #computerscience (got my associate's degree in May 2023), and more.

I also do community advocacy, particularly for more equitable multi-modal (publlic transit and cycling) transportation and for LGBTQ+ rights.

I'll follow profiles which are interesting and regularly make their own posts (boosts are great but i just prefer not to have my homepage made entirely of boosts).

I'm a student at California State University, Fullerton, pursuing my B.S. in CS (class of 2025).
Ninth Circuit Avoids Ruling on Transgender Student Rights in Roe v. Critchfield

Faced with whether to uphold the District of Idaho's denial of a preliminary injunction against S.B. 1100, the Ninth Circuit avoided making any ruling on transgender rights.

The Parker Report
please sign this and retoot, trying to get an initial BDS W at my university as we fight for divestment overall

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-csuf-it-to-stop-supporting-genocide-and-drop-duo-mobile
Tell CSUF IT to Stop Supporting Genocide and Drop Duo Mobile!

CSUF pays Cisco for Duo Mobile, which in turn supports and finances the genocide in Palestine. CSUF IT has a moral and legal obligation to stop supporting Cisco until Cisco stops supporting the genocide.

I want a collar because they mean i mean something to someone
Let me state this more clearly: If Dems can't make a stink out of fact that Aileen Cannon is preventing Dick Durbin from learning info directly relevant to Kash Patel's suitability to be FBI Director, they wouldn't make use of any report that gets released anyway. www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...

Kash Patel Also Lied about Tru...
Kash Patel Also Lied about Trump's Personalization of US Intelligence - emptywheel

The lies Kash Patel has told are likely to be aired at his confirmation hearing, but at unlikely to dissuade Republicans to vote against his confirmation to be FBI Director. The most important lies pertain to Trump's efforts to put information obtained by US intelligence to his own personal use.

emptywheel
Girls kissing
When Mark Zuckerberg recently released his video announcing the policy changes that specifically allow minority groups (and only minority groups) to be targeted for abuse, he was wearing a $1m watch.

The Verge has a breakdown of the policy changes at Facebook, Instagram and Threads yesterday.

It is, in my opinion, deeply uncomfortable.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation

Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook

Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.

The Verge
Boosting Cross-Architectural Emulation Performance by Foregoing the Intermediate Representation Model

As more applications utilize virtualization and emulation to run mission-critical tasks, the performance requirements of emulated and virtualized platforms continue to rise. Hardware virtualization is not universally available for all systems, and is incapable of emulating CPU architectures, requiring software emulation to be used. QEMU, the premier cross-architecture emulator for Linux and some BSD systems, currently uses dynamic binary translation (DBT) through intermediate representations using its Tiny Code Generator (TCG) model. While using intermediate representations of translated code allows QEMU to quickly add new host and guest architectures, it creates additional steps in the emulation pipeline which decrease performance. We construct a proof of concept emulator to demonstrate the slowdown caused by the usage of intermediate representations in TCG; this emulator performed up to 35x faster than QEMU with TCG, indicating substantial room for improvement in QEMU's design. We propose an expansion of QEMU's two-tier engine system (Linux KVM versus TCG) to include a middle tier using direct binary translation for commonly paired architectures such as RISC-V, x86, and ARM. This approach provides a slidable trade-off between development effort and performance depending on the needs of end users.

arXiv.org

the makerspace printer has been jamming a lot lately, so we decided to print a reusable sign for when it's not working. it jammed at the perfect point while printing the sign so we laminated it and now have the best out of order sign ever made

#makerspace

submitted to both conferences i'm targeting (usenix sec'25 and icecet), wish me luck