Notices by Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)

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@Infoseepage

He actually was pretty explicitly against "aggressive" hoovering (that is the non-rate-limited DDoS type) in the comments I read.

Man RIP Cory Doctorow's mentions today 🤣

Most businesses under 100 people have less IT than my household...

I just got finished reconfiguring the wifi to add a kids specific network. The kids say that they're having a hard time self-regulating about not staying up sneaking wifi time at night, so their network shuts off at 10pm... note that they were in favor of this transition.

Also Omada controller caused trouble and I had to reconfigure tagging on a switch port to match its expectations... 🙄

It's funny how my competitive athlete who will play 1.5 hours of soccer and medal in cross country gets so exhausted by push-mowing half the lawn.

Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

@missqarnstein
Everyone must follow the orders of this authority for 5 years is slavery yes.

everyone must contribute to the society in some manner or risk being shunned by others is not slavery no.
@HeavenlyPossum

@rysiek
Its not the Rams themselves its the ram "Chips" which is the dried feces. Used to produce a product incorrectly referred to as Bullshit and they are scaling it up a lot these days.

Everyone in the country whose paying attention understands that ICE is literal Gestapo, that they've been hired to ramp up terrorist tactics and smash any sense that anyone has any constitutional rights that mean anything, plus they are bait for eventually some citizens to protect their community with countervailing violence which will trigger a mobilization of the military at large scale to do all the shit the generals were told at that fucking Hegseth meeting.

I woke up sick. sucks, but probably was inevitable. same symptoms as my older son, probably we got something at the Petersen auto museum trip. i wore a mask some of the time but forgot other times... 😷🤒🤕

He tested negative for Flu and COVID so at least its not those!

@ramin_hal9001 @dan @whitequark

Similar experience, and switched to #Guix for the reproducible stuff... Still using Debian for other stuff.

OK, I was just discussing this idea with my friend at lunch today. Here's the idea. I set up a Peer tube, and do a series of videos that work like this... you, dear readers, who are probably experts in some science or engineering type topic contact me with your projects, and then we do a couple hour video conference session where you tell me about your research and I help you with data analysis topics. Everything from stuff like formulating models to graphical data exploration etc #statistics

@whitequark
I'm not suggesting them, I was intending it as asking for opinions about why and whether or not they qualify. because I'm interested in them. that perhaps wasn't communicated well, relied a little too heavily on the question mark.

@whitequark
i truly haven't used rust or any of these but... Nim? Zig?

I'm hoping I can just stay with Julia for everything I need to program given my areas of interest. one of these days soon its gonna standalone compile small binaries even

@babe

What we like is things that might one day work.

Well after reading this long sarcastic newsletter on the whole NVIDIA and AI grift, I gotta assume we are all screwed. Seems extremely likely that the vast majority of GPUs sold that justify NVIDIA being the biggest company by market cap in the world are not even powered up. Which is a good thing because if they were we'd be destroying resources at an even faster rate.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/

@hellomiakoda
But why wasn't it working? You made it sound like just waiting and it started working randomly.

@hellomiakoda
Link is 404 error for me?

Found this article thanks to a Reddit comment. Every day or so there's someone asking in math reddits what "dy/dx" means or why there's a "dx" in the integral notation, and then an army of people come out of the woodwork to push the orthodoxy of limits like some stockholm syndrome prisoners... And a small number of people point out that nonstandard analysis is actually a real thing and works... Anyway, back before I was born Sullivan did an actual experiment on teaching https://web.archive.org/web/20210506151356/http://academic.brcc.edu/crow/Projects/Calculus%20with%20Infinitesimals/Files/Sullivan%20(1976).pdf