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/

Yesterday we saw someone we love. She has Alzheimer's.

This is why they can demonize science and scientists as much as they fucking want and we won't stop caring about science and fighting for science to exist, and continue, and serve all of us, and to protect the scientists who can give us breakthroughs.

It is the only thing that has ever given us more time with the people we love.

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess

The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess

I forgot to mention the worst part here, which is that if your interface name is long enough, and your vlan number is high enough... you can't create a vlan interface named enp8s0f0npf0vf1.1024 because it exceeds IFNAMSZ, glibc's maximum buffer size for an interface name.

...there's an entire subreddit for this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SnakesWithHats/

subsequent thoughts:

- should we offer them an AirTag collar like the one we put on Miso?

- wait, can you even put a collar on a snake?

- ...of course that exists: https://www.inverse.com/article/3305-this-patent-for-a-snake-leash-didn-t-let-logic-get-in-the-way-of-cool

This Patent For a Snake Leash Didn't Let Logic Get In the Way of Cool

Who wants to go for a slither?

Inverse

currently attempting to use an ethernet interface called "enp8s0f0npf0vf1" and cannot help but think

STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

Just saw a post from someone in my neighborhood asking for help finding their "BIG lost python" that may have escaped into the park.

This is not the first time.

I don't think it's even the same neighbor who lost a giant python before.

Do you ever think about how pixel art predates pixels? Like, people have been doing images using little squares and stitches and stuff in mosaics and textile arts like quilting and cross stitch since forever.

Continuing from yesterday in sharing interesting cat names from my album of 453 Mastodon cats.

Today: Cats with techie names

Meet Pixel, Patch, 0day and ascii. (You might not think of Patch as a techie name unless you knew it came from the same person as 0day.)

Courtesy of @dan, @ian and @serge.

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

We can learn a few things from frogs

#Frogs #Nature #Science

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Our #cats are just catting. But some of them are better at catting than others. #catsofmastodon
@irene the duality of cat
@irene counterpoint: they're all perfect at catting