I really wish that more Canadians looked at Carney’s policies more closely that many of us seem to do. Instead, we continue to get distracted by the US president to the exclusion of all else…

“The government under Prime Minister Mark Carney has “repealed or weakened virtually every climate policy and regulation that Canada had developed in the last decade,” a former member of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body told MPs.”
— Carl Meyer, @thenarwhal

#CANpoli #ClimateAction

https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-canada-net-zero-committee/?utm_source=mastodon

more seriously, it feels like power is badly entrenched when "waiting for terrible people to die" is an engine of progress

@devblog One particular drum we beat every day at work, is that the best code is not just readable, but minimises cognitive load. This of course encompasses a lot of things well-known to developers (thoughtfully-considered identifiers, cyclomatic complexity, consistent style), but there are a bunch more that we don't have names for.

One that slows us down a lot is the "hop count" between cause and effect (e.g. "how many places do I need to look until I can figure out which arguments were passed so that the variable foo has the value 'bar' on line 123?"). Every coworker we've mentioned it to has learned it from us.

Starting work on building a home made guitar distortion pedal :) #diy #electronics #guitar

To kill a French vampire one must drive a baguette through its heart.

It is a painstaking process.

RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116901389252207034

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

and let me repeat one of my pet peeves:

YOUR CREDIT CARDS ARE PRIVATIZED WELFARE.

your parents and grandparents didn't want darkies like me to receive any public assistance, so they lied to you about credit cards, credit ratings and creditworthiness and condemned you to a life of debt.

if your bank won't give you a line of credit but you have credit cards? that means you’re paying what would be your welfare benefits to the Visa/Matercard mafia.

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

Update: If you have problems with `archive.is`, Ghost Archive is now available as an alternative redirect as of version 1.2.1.

Some of the conversations I have on this topic are students and other early career researchers asking how they can "keep up" if everyone around them is using LLMs to "speed up" their science.

To that, I want to urge folks to rethink which race they want to compete in. I know it's not that simple, because there are incentive structures that are drastically misaligned with doing deep work in most fields (and anything CS adjacent more than others, I'd guess).

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The Zimbra security team urged customers to patch a critical vulnerability affecting the Classic Web Client used to access the Zimbra Collaboration suite.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zimbra-urges-customers-to-patch-critical-web-client-xss-flaw/

Today I learned about Atkinson Hyperlegible, the fontface commissioned by the Braille Institute to prioritize legibility over conventional design rules about consistency. It's specifically designed to be legible to people with low vision.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Aaron Swartz didn't die so that Sam Fuckin' Altman could get away with this shit.

Did you know you can get a Count #Binface 28mm metal figure? Well, now you do... And yes, I've ordered one! https://www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page/count-binface-1

A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar.

They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.

shit all sorta falling apart at the seams but my only option is optimism, I will keep trying...

was out at a customer site today doing some work because i do like to get out occasionally. anyway, since i was suspiciously hanging around with four phones and a laptop, when i saw one of their employees walk by, i felt inclined to introduce myself, lest they thought i was some sort of criminal.

we exchanged hellos and i said, “i’m mike and i…”

before i could finish the guy said “they don’t pay me enough to care who you are, go nuts”

so #infosec tip of the day, pay people enough to give a shit

The single downside of running a mailserver with a modern CPU and NVMe storage is that sysupgrade blasts through it so fast that it does not allow to fetch a coffee (or whatever).

2m16s from running sysupgrade -s to it being back in production.

What a complete and utter madness.

#OpenBSD #OpenSMTPD

Companies are *already* quietly hiring people to come in and clean up the digital asbestos that is "AI" slop, or re-hiring the same folk (who did the actual work) that managers and CEOs ditched with surpassing cruelty.

Please, if you're a consultant or getting re-hired, MAKE THEM PAY.