Notices by maswan (maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se)

@webhat @quinn Same.

As I noted, we're currently deporting gay atheists to Afghanistan because their asylum applications did not have "sufficient cause to be granted asylum".

The bar has been set almost impossibly high by racists, and the discourse is rather about ending the right of seeking asylum altogether.

We can hope (and vote) for improvements, but I don't see that happening on a useful scale in the next few years.

@quinn Unfortunately, the political direction the last decade or so has lead to an extremely harsh asylum environment. If we're sending gay men back to Afghanistan, I would not hold much hope that any Americans would be considered having "credible" claims by the people doing the deportations.

@pettter Så svarar jag härifrån.

@jimcarroll
The only poll that actually matters is the polling booth.

@whitequark
The mobile app I'm using has a single click button to fetch replies as they are seen from the original post's server.

I am guessing that this isn't a priority from the mastodon team because it is a competitive advantage for their mega-instance.

@inthehands

Don't forget the old Nokia management style:

or ❌ The goal was designed to harm some individual / faction within the company, not benefit the mission

@kissane

@VeroniqueB99 No picture, but the english version of a sign in a sandwich shop in Beijing was "sanity is very important". We assume they meant "sanitation", but...

@malwaretech
I read from @mjg59 that after crowdstrike broke linux clients with their buggy kernel hacks a few months ago, they got an eBPF implementation contributed to be less shit, but I can't seem to find the reference right now. Maybe he could fill in? @gunstick

@nextcloud Relevant to your interests, @pettter ?

@ddlyh
No, no recording of this, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

We'll work on making a better simulation tool (the spreadsheet model is getting rather messy, and is full of sharp corners) as well as writing this up in a paper.
@wim_v12e

@ddlyh Oh, and adding to this, this was a 20 minute talk, so there wasn't all that much that isn't covered by text in the slides. In this community we consider the published slides to also work as notes for the audience and the institutional record of what was presented. @wim_v12e

Gave an updated talk at #HEPiX on carbon lifecycle analysis for scientific computing exploring how long you should run compute nodes when optimizing for minimizing carbon emissions.

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1377701/contributions/5894041/attachments/2839432/4962697/20240418-lca.pdf

We use real numbers from four data centers, and a couple of hypothetical cases, to explore how the local electricity generation emissions impact how sensible it is to run old hardware until it breaks.

Also tagging my co-author @wim_v12e who has done most of the model design.

@GossiTheDog If only the Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea had had an opportunity to listen to that episode, maybe they would have been better off!

@ckure Much like SQL, the footgun way is the easiest and most well-documented way of doing things. "Teach better" isn't likely to start working now when it hasn't for 20+ years.

But execvp instead of exec, however that's done in your current favourite language today, is exactly how you avoid wrapping a shell, just like you suggested.

The rest is just avoiding shell for scripting as well?

@ckure The whole point being that you do not invoke a shell. At all. It is a way to avoid accidentally putting in a shell where you didn't think there was one.

@ckure Very related: This is why you always should exec a list, not a string (which gets interpreted by a shell). Same basic hygiene as parametrized SQL.

Swishade förbi denna goding i hög fart i slutet av en backe. Hade nog inte varit helt bra att cykla på den.

Bilden är från när jag vände för att felanmäla.

#cykel #umea

@linus Svetsa plast snett kan ge fosgenutslag i detektorer plus rök som gör folk illamående, och samtidigt vara ett tekniskt fel och inte en attack?

@GossiTheDog
Denying foreign actors access to UK companies secrets isn't in under economic advantage?

Ours actually has that in there (especially for govt entities and suppliers), as does (theoretically) NSA.

@GossiTheDog
One could argue that your tax money should also be spent by GCHQ to happen to look into increased CPU usage after some weird lib update in all the places where they didn't plant anything.