S is for #SewingMachine
Share your art of anything starting with S!
#ArtABCs
No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed
I just lost my job today, so here we go..
I'm a ~30 years career Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.
Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")
Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.
I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.
Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.
Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.
I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.
I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.
If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.
Remote only / West Michigan maybe / not willing to relocate
As you may or may not know, I'm involved with a web-archiving effort re noblogs.org
(longer story, suffice it to say: We know what we're doing & why)
Right now, we need more people to help with QA (quality assurance); no technical knowledge required, only patience to click on links in an interactive archive.
If you are interested, please DM me - more details via Signal or Matrix.
penguin drinking delicious coffee at the ideal temperature
A library as a music venue? Yeah, why not!?
"Libraries are usually considered a silent 'third space' in the community. But recently the Central Library in Milwaukee doubled as a concert venue. The event, dubbed 'The Library Show' brought hundreds out to celebrate music and to encourage people to sign up for a library card. As they waited to enter, a line of more than 200 people stretched out the doors..."
https://www.wuwm.com/the-library-show-hypes-milwaukee-music-literacy
i am not overreacting. i am regular reacting to some shit that is overhappening
The first chapter of my comic Ekphrasis is now available on my itch store ~*
I loved LEGO, but I love the rights of trans people more. LEGO is pushing out even more Harry Potter content in sets and games in advance of that new HBO series. LEGO is the most visible merch supplier of JK Rowling. Without LEGO, that series would be much less visible, so I no longer buy LEGO.
🆕 blog! “Put an AV test at the start of your slides”
For years, I've had a test-card at the start of my slides. Before I start my talk, I can immediately see if the aspect ratio is wrong, colours are off, or any other visual issues with the presentation.
A few years ago I was invited to give a talk and was assured that the venue was set up for audio as well as video. I…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/put-an-av-test-at-the-start-of-your-slides/
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#presentations
pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117239484057326836
This stuff is really starting to make me _angry_. Every one of these new "achievements" looks plausible and like Lucy with the football, people I trust keep telling me it actually works and surely this time it's real. And then like clockwork, 3-6 months later, it turns out that the efficacy of this new technique is somewhere between "break even" and "fraud".
They're turning our whole industry, my entire life's work, into a goddamn memecoin pump and dump scam and I just don't know what to do.
My wife started making animations in the spirit of 2000s Flash clips and I couldn't be more proud.
#noai #animation #gif
Soo, sigh, I was dismissed yesterday from a relatively new job just before I could deploy a huge application, citing my lack of AI coding use
It was during my probationary period so it seems like they could have dismissed me for just about anything
Anyway now looking to get #fedihired I'm a senior .NET and JavaScript developer who has worked with almost every popular framework/library in both of those ecosystems in a professional environment
I have also used Python the write simulations of nuclear reactors and have worked with bioinformatics software
I have even once single-handedly and successfully defended a project to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom
I have also done quite a bit of personal and open source work with rust
Free to start immediately, I was thankfully paid 1 month salary in lieu of notice
Lysenkoism is (now) the word we use to describe the process by which science is corrupted by a government which does not want the truth to be discovered, but only wants its prescribed truth to be validated
It's named after the Soviet pseudoscientific political misadventure that said western Darwinism was too individualistic for Marx, famines from collectivism could not be soothed by this fake science.
Now see the new Lysenkosim from RFK, and to an extent Republicans in general. It's Dangerous.
If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first.
VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC."
It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to download a PDF, print it, and mail it in yourself.
Its privacy policy (updated Aug 29, 2026) lets America PAC share your info with "business partners" for targeted marketing, or sell it. That includes whether you're registered to vote and "how you submit your vote." Popular Information found your address going to Facebook and Google, a hashed email to The Trade Desk, your usage to X, and a device fingerprint that survives cookie deletion.
VoteSafe also white-labels voter sites for allied groups, including Sentinel Action Fund and Ready to Register. North Carolina's election board warned in July that Ready to Register mailings used an outdated form, went to deceased voters, and had QR codes that could pre-populate other people's data.
To check your registration, use your state's official portal, https://vote.gov, or https://vote.org. None of them sell your data.
Sources:
https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg
https://votesafe.org/privacy-policy
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00879510/
https://www.ncsbe.gov/news/press-releases/2026/07/01/bulk-voter-registration-mailings-cause-voter-confusion-additional-work-counties
Did You Know: If people are allowed to stop working for the library, but no people are allowed to start working for the library, over time it becomes more difficult to do the library things. You might think libraries are just books, but the books can't get around on their own and rely on their human helpers.
Tech is bleak, time to make some weird shit.
Got my filament dryer and threw in the Flexible PLA. Hopefully this works! Could open up new capabilities for the good ol' Ender 3 (heavily modified)
Closed the other one. Productive day.