Notices by Berkubernetus (fuzzychef@m6n.io), page 2

@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.

2/fin

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.

Condolences.

Mike Karels of Berkeley Unix/BSDi died of a heart attack on his way home from BSDCon.

Karels was responsible for implementing TCP/IP on BSD, which was later ported to Linux. Since you're reading this, you are benefitting directly from his work.

RIP, Mike. We won't forget you.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

I hope this message finds you, I hope this message brings you and in the darkness binds you.

Suddenly this meme feels relevant again!

PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash, on Tuesday.

For those who didn't know Simon, he's responsible for PostgreSQL Binary Replication and many big data features. He and I worked together at Greenplum 2006-2008. Postgres would not be the world-leading DB it is today if it weren't for him.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjex992z0wlo

@emilygorcenski Hah!

I was a paid drywall mudder for a while. Took until my 3rd day before I wasn't sanding all my joins to fix them.

@ariadne the world of Cloud Native is a race to the bottom in terrible branding.

@HeatherLeson always happy to chat gov models on this site too, if you want.

For the first time yesterday, I had a Mastodon follower show up at a show and buy something.

I feel like that's some kind of milestone.

One of the major, major benefits of #Mastodon that we don't talk about enough is the ability to choose what you see. I get the people I follow, roughly in the order they posted. Which is what I want and what 99% of social media users want.

Thinking of this because I use #Instagram for my art business (no choice), and Insta's algorithm just glitched *again* and is only showing posts from 2-3 weeks ago. And I have a sale coming up this weekend.

Happy #Caturday! This is our goofball, demonstrating why we bought that vase from a fellow Oregon Pottery Assoc. artist. He loves sleeping on his head!

#CatsOfMastodon

Happy Halloween from Wayne, the spider-cat!

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

@so_treu I mean, you name it, they have it. Racism, homophobia, glorification of violence, rampant objectification, basically if it's offensive to humanity there's an account for it there.

It's "freeze peach" dont'cha know.