Carl T. Bergstrom
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Sometimes founder, sometimes CTO. Always curious.
Graydon HoareComputers are often presented as general purpose tools for thought, creativity, communication or other sorts of human flourishing. And for many of us who work with them, computers are intrinsically interesting puzzle boxes.
But it's important to remember their historical origins and continuing role as practical tools of control. Specifically in two domains: financial and military. Computers aren't being misused or corrupted when you see them employed by accountants and generals. Those are the people who paid for the very first models. Those have always been the primary customers. The rest of us are the strangers misusing their tools.
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i think the difference is that, previously, before IBM, leadership understood the need for the clones to exist (despite hating their existence), and that ultimately the clones did drive tangible value (and sales as I outlined above) for RH.
now IBM wishes to manage RH licensing as if it were software for a mainframe. this mentality will kill whatever is left in the product.
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Mark Ingalls 
US government officials have relied too heavily on social media to pass along emergency alerts rather than improving what were once robust stand-alone systems.
These systems still exist and reach the vast majority of Americans (NOAA weather radio is the main one), but the technology is severely outdated because they’ve just twiddled their thumbs and were comfortable with social media because it was easy.
Mike ShewardI do feel for the engineers working on whatever is going on over there btw. I worked on a "Self-DDoS" incident about a decade ago. It sucked. I wrote about it in my book "Hands-on Digital Forensics and Incident Response".
TechmemeA developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits (Andy Baio/Waxy.org)
https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
http://www.techmeme.com/230701/p13#a230701p13
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
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@mcmullin I lived in and around Boston for several years. My experience is it is the most overtly hostile toward POCs of the 5+ major US cities where I have lived. Anecdotally, many other POC can relate to my experiences there.
One quick bit: Boston is the only US city where I have been told Black people absolutely should not visit a part of the city at any time of day (Southie, obviously). It’s a huge outlier in expressed personal racism of the kind that each POC will encounter.
There’s a stat going around that the median net worth of a Black household in Boston is something like $20. Think for a moment how bad structural conditions have to be for that to be a plausible outcome.
And don’t get me started on the police forces there.
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