Notices by Berkubernetus (fuzzychef@m6n.io)

Kueue seems pretty cool #kubecon

#RedHat is contributing three projects to the #CNCF to help their communities grow.:
- Podman
- Bootc
- Podman Desktop

This contribution will also help the CNCF expand into not just deployment, but desktop container development. #kubecon

2024's Prize for "Most Prescient Dystopia" is awarded to Octavia E Butler, for "Parable of the Sower".

This year's award goes to a truly exceptional work, which was accurate not only in general themes, ideas, and motivational events, but even down to dates and elections.

Congratulations, Ms. Butler.

Hey, #Portland folx, looks like we have some criminals setting ballot drop boxes on fire. Things to do:

1) If possible, drop your ballot at an indoor box in a library. These are supervised by the librarians at all times and nobody is going to set them on fire.

2) If you know anyone who might have used either of the two ballot boxes, please alert them that they might need to get an emergency replacement ballot:

- PDX: Southeast Morrison & 10th ave.
- WA: Vancouver Fisher's Landing

@blogdiva Also, none of that money goes to the people whose data was leaked.

#Portland folks, #grocery worker #strikes this week!

TL;DR: Fred Meyer and New Seasons are having grocery worker strikes soon, shop accordingly.

The following two grocery worker strikes are starting this week:

- Fred Meyer 1-week strike, starting today at 6am and lasting for one week, or until management starts bargaining in good faith, whichever comes first.
- New Seasons 1-day strike, this Sunday ( August 30 ).

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The Fred Meyer strike includes pharmacy, so if you have a prescription there which must be renewed before next Wednesday, you may need to work with your medical provider to get it moved.

Alberstons/Safeway, WinCo, Market of Choice, and local independent grocery stores like Grocers Outlet or La Bouffe are not on strike.

If you don't care about unions, you can stop reading here. If you do, more info on the strike and follow-up in thread. (2)

For Fred Meyer, it's UFCW555 which is on strike, due to management refusing to negotiate with the union at all. This includes all Fred Meyers from the greater Portland region. You can track strike information via their Facebook page and web page, and read more about the strike.
- https://www.facebook.com/UFCWLocal555/
- https://www.ufcw555.org/bargaining-update-8-23/
- https://www.ufcw555.org/ulp-strike-dates/

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@inthehands @daniel Sorry, I don't quite understand your answer.

@inthehands @daniel How are you getting 2 boosters a year? Are you paying cash for one of them?

@inthehands @dalias @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus Well, given corporate performance recently across the industry, you CAN make a strong case for LLMs replacing CEOs.

(Mostly because the average CEO is a platinum-spoon baby who is utterly unqualified for the job.)

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus 100% of arguments of "LLMs can replace job X" are based on the speaker not really having any idea what job X entails, whatever it is. Science, medicine, programming, even customer service. LLMs cannot do any of it.

This is the arrogance of assuming that everyone else's job is easy.

@inthehands There's a far more sinister commentary on this, about the role of True Love romances in suppressing class unrest. But I'll stick to the funny commentary.

@inthehands You've seen this SMBC, yes?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse

@cwebber Good standards get created for bizarre reasons. Like ... SQL is with us because IBM and Oracle wanted to undermine Ingres.

Facebook is starting to remove links to Mastodon as "spam".

I'm sure this is just an accident. Really.

When people ask why it's worthless for #LLMs to write code, show them this:

@inthehands In my (really good) HS economics class, we got to play a citywide stock market game, where econ students pretended to be traders and followed the stock market (this was sponsored by a local newspaper). In deciding positions, I looked at local company Digital Computing and decided that it was tremendously overvalued. So I put all my money into short-selling it.

This was November 1987.

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@inthehands I should have won the game by like $1m. But, given the win, the admins of the game decided that I must have had inside information and disqualified me. There was no appeal.

Coincidentally, the "winner" was the grandson of the president of the school board.

This was also a great education into how US Capitalism and the stock market actually works.

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Lynn Conway, computer hardware pioneer (and genius) has passed away. None of her obits do justice to her accomplishments, so here's wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

She pioneered asyncronous execution, VLSI circuit design, and practically the whole modern field of chip design.

She was also a trans woman who -- having been unfairly terminated by IBM -- never stopped fighting for the rights of trans people.

Rest in power, Lynn.