Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.
My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Outstanding #StarTrek short fic about the ethics of the #KobayashiMaru.
If this is your jam, I'd also recommend the book Kobayashi Maru by Julia Ecklar, it explores Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov's solutions.
https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e
If the worst does not actually come to pass, I don't think I'm going to be sitting here going "oh noooo I can't believe I strengthened my communities, made sure I'm up to date on my healthcare needs, and volunteered for causes I believe in"
3/3
Scripts for cishet white men who want to be better allies:
- Bro that's really fucked up
- Don't say shit like that around me
- I won't let you talk about them that way
- That's a disgusting opinion to have
- Say that again around me and we're going to have a problem
- Shut the fuck up dude
Let's get this November started!
🎉 ⁽ᴴᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵗᵒ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ʸᵉᵃʳ ᵒⁿ ᴹᵃˢᵗᵒᵈᵒⁿ⁾
I find the League of Women Voters and Ballotpedia absolutely irreplaceable when I'm voting, especially for the important but down-ballot issues (judges, bonds, voter initiatives) -- but I've voted from home at my own pace for a decade.
Nebraska has pretty strong (good, imo) electioneering laws, no signs 200' from a polling place, no candidate apparel in polling places, no discussions in line, etc.
So I wonder if there's a way to get the aids that help me into the hands of in-person voters in a way that is both moral and in compliance with the law. Like a pop-up Little Free Library right at the 200' mark, or something.
If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.
Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.
JJ Celery
Paul Cantrell
Molly White
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
Star Trek Minus Context
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Ian Rose
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼