dreidTherac-25 huh? That shit is wild. I can't believe industry would be so irresponsible.
Anyway time to ask my Markov Waifu to make a list of probable military installations to bomb.
Steve Benting
@sbenting
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Relatively boring geek. Work in tech (managing teams developing security tools, previously worked in web-based video, TV, telecom) and spend free time on a road bike or tracking auto racing (Indycar, F1, IMSA). More focused on listening to interesting people than making noise here.
Mark Dominus“He found, by careful calculations from the ages of the prophets in the Old Testament, that the world had been created on December 31, 1969 at precisely 7 PM eastern standard time.”
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Small hack to find your people.
Instead of saying "I have this idea to do XYZ ..." say "Has anyone thought of doing XYZ and how could I join/help?". The thought here is that everything you can think of has already been thought by someone else. And instead of letting your ego win by hoping you, and only you, are the best leader for this idea, understand the power of ideas that are free to roam and find new friends.
Esteban Küber 
Efficiency is the removal of redundancy. Redundancy is a necessary element of resilient systems. The unbounded search for efficiency has one result: brittleness.
Fi 🏳️⚧️
Matt Linton 
90's / 2000's: If an attacker gets access to my OS it's game over, better protect it.
2010's: If an attacker gets access to my browser it's game over, better sandbox it well.
2020's: I'm going to install this attacker's cool AI agent and give it access to both.
Zed
snow 
new tech warcrime
ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually
so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight
ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually
so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight
Rob NapierRE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816
I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.
And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.
JessamynThe work, such as it is, is different than you think. People may feel dumb not knowing this stuff in 2026. Most of the time they know how much they don't know. Obviously texting "library patrons" is not expected at the job, but making sure your friends and neighbors are not being left behind is part of the job of being human (if you've got the capacity, which I do on some days).
