Alright, it's been fun but I'm done with the Fediverse. Find me where the skies are blue.
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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Systems programmer. FreeBSD developer. Cyborg. Every single day, you use a computer, device or service that runs my code. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇴
I've never listened to Planet Money but only ever heard good things about them. Today I listened to their episode on the xz hack (May 17th, 2024) and it's truly impressive how they managed to string together a bunch of mostly true sentences into a completely false narrative. Makes me wonder if all their other material is equally wrong.
The Norwegian Unix User Group is celebrating its 40th anniversary on August 10. I was invited to speak at the event and initially accepted, but after learning of the schedule for the event, which was not communicated to me at the time, I have decided to withdraw.
ltningSo I've been working on a major migration from #MySQL and #Galera Cluster to #MariaDB over the past few weeks, obviously on #FreeBSD (duh!). This has been a wild ride, and while it ain't over yet, I think it's story time.
The new cluster has been crashing, seemingly randomly. If you want to know why, and how, watch this thread...
The new cluster has been crashing, seemingly randomly. If you want to know why, and how, watch this thread...
scy #GPN23 📞 7299every typography nerd loves a good keming joke
Lauren GawneIt's worth patiently and persistently pushing back against AI hype in your worksplace to try and counter the bubble evangelists
- Generative AI can't do facts
- Generative AI can't reason
- Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history
- No incremental improves are going to change this
- Generative AI can't do facts
- Generative AI can't reason
- Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history
- No incremental improves are going to change this
Kate Temkinimportant life lessons: a multimillion dollar company can, in years, *almost* approach the output of a ragtag group of lesbians working for two weeks
GeofCoxWho killed Britain?
This Danish article has the correct answer: Thatcher.
"Around two-thirds of Britons believe the country is in decline, and it's not hard to see why. Real wages are lower than 15 years ago. A third of British children grow up in poverty, many millions have to skip meals every single week. The UK is not just significantly poorer than France, let alone Germany or Denmark. The poorest 10% of Britons now also earn less than the poorest 10% in Slovenia...
"A particular story of decay still plagues the country... and it goes something like this: the 1960s and 70s were a dark time... Then Thatcher came and saved it all with economic common sense, tax cuts and a necessary showdown with unions... But that narrative is fundamentally wrong... Margaret Thatcher did not increase the growth of the British economy... The post-war period, including the 1970s, was the time of high growth and major transformations... an economic model reminiscent of the one found in the rest of Western Europe was established... In the 1980s many countries lowered taxes, removed regulation, encouraged deindustrialization and privatized public enterprises. But Britain took exceptionally radical action. Today, it is Europe's most financialized economy, with very high inequality - and a very low level of both public and private investment in the economy.
"Four criminal acts have destroyed the economy.... Monetarism in the 1980s, deregulation in the 80s, the austerity policy of the 2010s and Brexit. All motivated by the same economic thinking... free market fundamentalism."
