Notices by Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)

Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 08:45:06 JST Ross Grady

Our grandparents saved important newspaper front pages in cedar chests in their attics. We take screenshots, I guess.
In conversation 8 days ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. A screenshot of the top headline on Reuters on June 9, 2025: US deploys Marines to Los Angeles as Trump backs arrest of California governor
  https://dood.net/media/4f96ff1629c1d54b45e93b06e3c1a193e5c8627029631581cec5294172390d53.jpeg
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-May-2025 20:20:53 JST Ross Grady

I recognize that time isn’t linear, and also I’m just old, but it still disconcerts me to be at some big arena event and hear, say, “Master of Puppets,” which came out 40 ago (and was decidedly *not* mainstream at the time.)

It’s like if they were playing, I dunno, Bing Crosby at basketball games when I was in high school.

In conversation about a month ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 03:08:05 JST Ross Grady
- Flash Mob Of One
@FlashMobOfOne Funniest thing about those is that if you look closer, it's just a fuckin Corvette.

In conversation 2 months ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 09:16:37 JST Ross Grady
in reply to
- Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte see now I’m sitting here wondering if things have gotten so dire that they’ll consider letting in a stinky American like me . . .

In conversation 3 months ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 01:57:19 JST Ross Grady
in reply to
- Sam Whited
@sam I live in Durham, NC, which is about 100x more compact geographically than Atlanta. Here we have a thriving Bicycle Co-op which has a physical space full of donated bikes/parts, and tools and repair stands, and the mutual aid part comes via training people to do maintenance and repair, and in exchange for time, they get to build a bike for themselves.

https://www.durhambikecoop.org/

It’s a great model that has been really successful, and my primary concern would be how to replicate it in a city as huge and sprawling as ATL.
In conversation 5 months ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Durham Bike Co-op
  
  The Durham Bike Co-op is an all-volunteer, non-profit community bicycle project. We refurbish donated bikes, teach bike repair skills, & more!
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 08:30:35 JST Ross Grady
in reply to
- Christopher
@LittleTokyo And I feel like, given its construction, it may outlive us

In conversation 9 months ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 07:55:50 JST Ross Grady
in reply to
- Christopher
@LittleTokyo I replaced my beloved Panasonic Plasma with an LG OLED so now we are one of those weird families with a plasma TV mounted on the wall of the garage/workout room . . .

In conversation 9 months ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 04:55:26 JST Ross Grady

Oh hey look the NC DHHS finally got caught up to their normal "1 week behind" Covid-19 wastewater surveillance data status. Now to run my Jupyter notebook . . . I'm sure this is fine . . .
In conversation 11 months ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. A multi-colored bar chart showing the Covid-19 wastewater surveillance data for Orange, Durham, and Wake counties in central NC. The current time period is on the far right. The lines on the far right are very tall. Taller than any of the other lines going back around 14 months.
  https://dood.net/media/3b77fd6c1bc9e92bbe7c70b139beaa59035f9b28f34d8846abac34e03dc05a9d.png
2. A multi-colored line graph showing the Covid-19 wastewater surveillance data for Orange, Durham, and Wake counties in central NC for the past 4 years. 2024 is in hot pink. It shows the current data as the highest concentration of Covid-19 particles in regional wastewater for the entire 4-year period.
  https://dood.net/media/8f302e7974801ce77d08cae8b7bb24876a756f9b902c878d87ad11de9392bfde.png
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 00:17:05 JST Ross Grady

I had an interesting conversation with some #Docker executives on Friday, in which they highlighted some changes to their terms of service / business model. TL;DR: enterprises are now expected to pay for a full Docker subscription for *any* access to any "Docker Platform" features, including Docker Hub, regardless of pull rate.

So, for example, if you're a company with > 250 employees or > $10M revenue, and you have a Linux box pulling one open source image a week from Docker Hub, you must buy a Docker subscription for that box. And any others.

Previously, their website verbiage was focused solely on usage of Docker Desktop by enterprises.

If you are an #OpenSource maintainer and you're publishing container images on Docker Hub, they are monetizing your images, and they're doing so via a flat monthly rate regardless of consumption level. (IMHO that rate is too high, but YMMV, I guess)

This is obviously their prerogative. Really my only request/suggestion to Open Source maintainers who publish container images would be to consider also publishing them on GitHub's container registry (aka GitHub Packages) or any other registry, rather than single-sourcing with Docker Hub.

In conversation 11 months ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 15:02:04 JST Ross Grady
- emilygorcenski
@emilygorcenski holy shit that was quite a game. Hope the Sens tomorrow goes your way!

In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 22:02:13 JST Ross Grady
- emilygorcenski
@emilygorcenski we’re Caps fans (sorry! long story) and the past three weeks have been . . . exciting.

In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 08:16:05 JST Ross Grady

There's some good context & info in this piece once you get past the ridiculous editorializing of its author, e.g. "undermining the ability of Americans to live where they choose."

TL;DR: centuries of short-sightedness on the part of Americans (draining coastal wetlands; suppressing natural fire cycles) have finally resulted in risks so high & expensive that the actuaries at insurance companies are walking away entirely.

RE: https://social.coop/users/derek/statuses/112208034656895186
In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Derek Caelin 🌱 (@derek@social.coop)
  
  from Derek Caelin 🌱
  
  Insurance trends are deciding where Americans will live as planet heats | https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4570956-insurance-trends-are-deciding-where-americans-will-live-as-planet-heats/
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:23:31 JST Ross Grady
- Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs Literally: At least somewhat more cinematic than the other options, i.e. printing text on the screen or having a character sit there & read it out loud.

In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 18:59:40 JST Ross Grady

Saved you a click: “ Admins, if you decide beforehand that you don’t want your instance to federate with Bluesky over the bridge, the domain to limit or block is bsky.brid.gy”

Also, fuck that guy. I’m not an idiot. If I want to federate with Bluesky I can do it myself.

RE: https://ieji.de/users/mitsunee/statuses/111921106647548087
In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: fed.brid.gy
  
  Bridgy Fed
2. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Mitsunee | 光音 (@mitsunee@ieji.de)
  
  from Mitsunee | 光音
  
  PSA: There is apparently a fedi-to-bluesky bridge project that is opt-out by default. https://ieji.de/@snarfed.org@snarfed.org/111919380001285500 I have opened an issue on github as asked by the original poster @snarfed.org@snarfed.org: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835 Opt-out mechanisms include domain blocking at an instance level or adding yet another hashtag to a profile, which I personally find inadequate and insufficient.
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 08:42:21 JST Ross Grady
- Craig Maloney ☕
@craigmaloney Wasn't the lore about the Apple II that you were instructed to drop it on the desk when you unboxed it to be sure all the cards were seated right?

In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 03:12:04 JST Ross Grady

I just don't even know what else needs to be said about a bunch of people who are presumably pretty good at what they do -- the glibc maintainers -- still managing to introduce a *new* buffer overflow bug (new circa 2022) into one of the most important codebases anywhere, which in turn leads to multiple CVEs.

Like, if you're still writing C of any kind in the 21st century, you have to ask yourself "am I better at manual memory safety than the glibc team?" And if the answer is no, then you're probably also writing these kinds of bugs.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/BleepingComputer/statuses/111847408179020212
In conversation about a year ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  BleepingComputer (@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange)
  
  from BleepingComputer
  
  Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 06:00:48 JST Ross Grady
in reply to
- CJ Bellwether
@siege Still gold nowadays vs, like, iridium or palladium or cobalt or manganese or some other 21st-century shit?

Also TIL that these weirdos are attempting to fulfill my heretofore unknown need to purchase random metals in bullion form: https://www.luciteria.com/bullion
In conversation 2 years ago from dood.net permalink
Attachments
1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  Bullion — Luciteria
Embed this notice
Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 04:07:31 JST Ross Grady
- Thomas 🔭🕹️
@thomasfuchs I felt like Jamie's point, which probably makes perfect sense from his POV (commenters coattailing on the "reach" of the OP) really *only* makes sense if you have a shitload of followers. Maybe such ppl need a different AP platform that figures out how to give them additional controls within the parameters of the protocol.

In conversation 2 years ago from dood.net permalink

Public

Notices by Ross Grady (rossgrady@dood.net)

User actions

Following 0

Followers 0

Groups 0

Statistics

Feeds