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English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文：走马观花
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@feld that *was* them installing the patch
Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.
Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?
portal: it’s not installed, no.
[Tuesday comes]
Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.
[repost from 2022]
them: so we’re an Italian restaurant
me: yes
them: in a Dutch city
me uh-huh
them: though a lot of people around here speak English
me: with you so far
them: that’s why it says “orange juice” in French
One thing that I like about Amsterdam is that our neighborhood has its own gardener — the same, specific guy, paid by the city to putter around and take care of all the trees, bushes and flowers on public land.
And most land is public land! A lot of green space that would legally be the private property of the nearest building in the US is public in Amsterdam.
#amsterdam
Dog. dog. I love my dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it, you cannot POSSIBLY be vetting all of them to a high standard of trust. Your logs ARE leaking. End-to-end encryption between more people than can fit around a dinner table is pointless.
This article confirms what I already assumed, that “open source [information sense, not code sense] intelligence gathering on social media” includes, for the US government, asking for links to join groups that may *feel* private. My own discord has literally like a thousand idlers. It would be very *lucky* if none of them were logging for potentially nefarious purposes! And I remind the active users of this occasionally.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways
I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
The good news: this hospital does at-home sleep studies! They just wire you up with portable equipment and send you home
The bad news: an hour on public transportation looking like I’m wired to blow