Notices by Terra Field (rainofterra@terra.incognita.net)

He is coming for #trans people faster than I thought. Sorry for Twitter link but this is too important: https://fxtwitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1855073216613503228

Alright who’s ready for No NAT November???? #ipv6 #NoNATNovember

@thedoh throw away your NAT oppression! All you have to lose is your chains!*

*assuming your ISP does IPv6 right

Do FEC reporting requirements mandate a physical address be given for donations in excess of $200 or is a PO Box fine? #FEC #uspol

Lynn Conway was remarkable in a number of ways but I think the reason her death hits me so hard even though I didn’t know her personally is the most unremarkable thing about her: One of us got to live her life quietly, grow old, and be remembered fondly as herself in death.

I think that’s all I really want.

Comic via Assigned Male Comics (@sophielabelle)

#LynnConway #TransElders #trans

@grimalkina @mononcqc @CSLee I love any opportunity to point out both that:
- Even for staff/principal/etc. engineers this stuff can still feel bad/be complicated, so it’s very ok for more junior folks to feel that way.
- It doesn’t always have to be terrible, we can make it better - with science! 🧪

@grimalkina @mononcqc @CSLee yeah I feel like only very recently has there been any real guidance for folks above senior at all and we’re just on the cusp of a broader understanding of the ways it can look like. Sometimes it’s “here is this amazingly detailed technical blog post” but a lot of the time it’s going to be what used to be considered “soft skills” like “here is how I’m learning to use my seniority to be comfortable being vulnerable so I can model it for others” - and yes, the cost that comes with that.

@derekalcorn @aral the slow rolling grin across my face as I realized what was going on 😂

I forgot to post this years #daffodils. They’re my favorite flower, these were transplanted from my parents place in South Jersey, which were transplanted from my grandparents house for me to care for when I was little, which were themselves transplanted from my grandmothers childhood home in Pitman, NJ where she would sell them as a little girl (they were her favorite flower too). #BloomScrolling #PlantsOfMastodon #Plantstodon

Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition

So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.

It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.

You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.

But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:

"The network is reliable".

A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻♀️

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars

Heritage Foundation finding out the hard way how many InfoSec people are queer/trans: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/heritage-foundation-cyberattack/ #SoSad #InfoSec

Trans people in the US: Whatever you think about staying and fighting versus living to fight another day, please get an up to date passport with your correct information on it before November if you’re able to. https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/passports #USPol #trans

@chrisisgr8 @thomasfuchs let’s see if this works, I put the alt text in a gist because it was too long: https://gist.github.com/346a413c2fc2c21bf1c7f019053d05a5#chatgpt-quasar-unhinged.txt

Every #trans woman reading about the #Utah anti trans law being used to immediately target a cis kid:

I want to thank CNN for voraciously defending my desire to never, ever read a single thing #CNN publishes by preventing me from accidentally reading their trashy faschy pseudojournalism.

@GreenSkyOverMe because the birds work for the bourgeoisie https://youtu.be/5uaCG2lvE9w?si=7Pp7N2RrCmvgBOll

Me to Ronald Reagan: #duolingo #birds #bourgeoisie

I’m sorry but generative AI is a revolution in shitposting. #DallE #ChatGPT #TidePods #Cooking

I can’t sleep but I can write funny prompts: #Gritty #HenryKissinger #ChatGPT #DALLE

The problem is you order them once and then you get another order every hour.