Dan Ports

@dan@discuss.systems
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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

webhttps://drkp.net/

I know I asked this a while back, but I'm stubbornly going to keep at it.

There are more than a few entities on fedi that are into standing up old phone networks, ranging from military field comms, business PBXes, even homelab ESS implementations.

But I can't find a dedicated hashtag for the life of me, so I'm going to pick one and run with it.

#OtherNetworks is a great catch-all for the more esoteric, #RetroLab is broad but you get the idea, and #HomeLab is *really* broad.

#Boost maybe? ❤️

#PhoneLab
#VoiceLab
Something Else
Just use #HomeLab and #OtherNetworks
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STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth

MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

Lena's plan for world peace:
1. everyone adopts ISO 8601
2. tbd
How do you do projects?
I start many projects, and rarely finish any.
I start a single project, and finish it.
I have multiple projects going, and finish them al
Projects are not meant to be done.
People have time for projects?!
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Absurdly proud of @notypes for winning one of two SIGPLAN dissertation awards this year! Check out that award-winning thesis: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/dissertation.pdf (photo credit @avanhatt)
norepinephrine suggests xorephinephrine

True story

Happy Pride!

#LGBTQ

such ridiculous cats

#cats #catsofmastodon

I just saw someone tell an actual immigration attorney (all of them are heroes to me in these times), that *they* were being racist for saying deportations and kidnappings happen mostly to brown people

I just

@helldude fool. you do not go "viral" on mastodon. you go "woolly". you simpleton. you absolute station wagon
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@atsuzaki @dan I recently took this series of photos and someone commented that he looks like a Humans of New York subject.
@atsuzaki @dan but his life story is just I have social anxiety