Notices by Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)

@irene @keira_reckons @JessTheUnstill yep! I have not had the chance to try any of the smart watch features in any meaningful way because 2025 has been a mess. But despite that, I have still managed to keep it charged... which I would definitely not have done with something that needs to be charged daily

Just in case anyone is considering using the Fediverse for your war planning

Never change, #Seattle.

@skinnylatte every workplace should have an albatross, preferably a non-metaphorical one

@skinnylatte seems like you'd be more likely to find scalies at the aquarium

@skinnylatte wow, I didn't know about that!

@skinnylatte if you're going to have an authoritarian government, at least it's one that's good at math, I guess?

I recently learned about another woman who had left her PhD program because all the men in her lab wouldn't stop hitting on her and harassing her.

This is not the first time I have heard a story like this.

I am not usually prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, but I have been fucking seething.

We need to do better.

kind of in awe at the Girl Scout who set up a stand outside the wine shop with recommended cookie pairings

I sure am glad that UW is so committed to maintaining the anonymity of people in their recent HR investigation report that they did not identify the Principal Researcher in the systems group at Microsoft Research who is an affiliate faculty member and is married to another Principal Researcher in the same group who is a lab alumna and former affiliate faculty member, and also runs the social media platform at https://discuss.systems/about/ and is named Dan.

@skinnylatte oh, glad you made it out to my favorite sushi restaurant!

Miso: if I sit politely at the table, maybe they'll feed me dinner?

#cats #catsofmastodon

The city of Seattle mailed me some Democracy Vouchers today, and, yes, I would like to redeem them for some democracy please.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

-Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986

In an effort to pander to the interests of my audience, here is a cat curled up with a bunch of antique switching hardware.

@paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze I had to look up who owns MapQuest these days and apparently it is a mysterious company that appears to be a portal to 1996. They also operate WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, Dogpile, HowStuffWorks, and answers.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

@paninid @ai6yr @mattblaze Hey, you may make fun of MapQuest, but they're currently the only ones who haven't caved...

@regehr one of the engineers on my team once mentioned that he'd just discovered that vi is a text editor, not just a plugin for vscode, and I felt myself age at least 10 years in that moment

This is the face of a cat who stole six slices of cheddar cheese yesterday and has no regrets.

#cats #catsofmastodon

@regehr my other favorite Therac fact is that one time I was teaching that paper and popped over to the manufacturer's website to see what they were doing nowadays, and this was their actual slogan: