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Cloudflare say they are seeing signs of service recovery, but the failed queues are getting worse on my Mastodon server.
frame this modern art
たいへんまたねてました
Explain to me, like I'm 5, what Cloudflare is and why everyone is pointing and laughing. 🖍️
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
when you do something bad, so you hide behind a curtain, but your parents can still see your feet from under the curtain
And now the curtain is on fire and going to burn the house down
oh the relief of realizing my second call today is actually scheduled for tomorrow, instead. it'll be a good call, and I'm glad for some more breathing room today.
"… Planungsgrundlagen, die sofort ins Handeln führen könnten. "
AI-Text, NLP-Kurs, Manager-Sprech Retreat oder alles gemeinsam?
Explain to me, like I'm 5, what Cloudflare is and why everyone is pointing and laughing. 🖍️
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) it's like you gave your lunch to your teacher to keep it safe from the class bully, and your teacher ate it
Net talk at AI #bythebay: "AI For Good: Fighting Health Insurance with AI" by Holden Karau.
Starting with CWs around surgery, hospitals, trans references, and broken bones.
세라복.모에 단 1명 접속중
그게 바로 나야 나
Explain to me, like I'm 5, what Cloudflare is and why everyone is pointing and laughing. 🖍️
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Cloudflare is like mummy, and mummy had a bit too much afternoon juice
일하는 중간에는 뭘 못먹겠어
What I'm listening to today: "Fuji", Nedaj
brainfog drum & bass oversaturated clipping piano wallslam break silence
This particular cohort of zoomer musicians seems to return a lot to the suggestion of being at an electronica event but at the far end of the room, the music filtered through crappy speakers and the acoustics of a room larger than the event needed. This particular cohort of zoomer musicians makes music that seems shot through with a sense of loneliness
What I'm listening to today: "gener1", Preset Liker
Minor key air conditioner and a heartbeat. A message written in clouds on top of other clouds
미니피자나 구워 먹어야겠다
the indignity of putting these people through the tedium and stupidity of modern computing is also really jarring. these are people that imagined a different kind of computing, a kind of future that never got built, that got sidelined in favor of advertisements in the start menu, applications with in-app purchases, the global network as a mall, capital over computing.
and they've lived long enough to see it play out. Joe Armstrong talked about wrestling with grunt and gulp from the JavaScript ecosystem in one of his last talks. I've had the pleasure of working with Larry Cuba and most of our difficulties have been wrangling python package management on Windows. and now Chuck Moore gets his life work sniped to death by a random Windows update.
modern computers are a mess of accidental complexity and these are people that represented something different, living long enough to watch something worse become mainstream.
and beyond just the triumph of capital over any alternative, it really breaks my heart that computers are just objectively worse today than they were in the time of Chuck Moore. I try and not be an old man yelling at the cloud about this but we've given up on stability, soundness, maintainability. these are non-goals of modern computing, sacrificed at the altar of shareholder value.
it is wild that an official update of the operating system could break otherwise working code in a way that is impossible to determine even what is happening, let alone what to do to fix it. but this is what we've come to expect. computers break all the time, software breaks all the time, stuff crashes, you restart, whatever. and this isn't even factoring in the incoming wave of vibe-coded systems which make no attempt at correctness.
this isn't what computing was, there were attempts -- serious attempts! -- at developing theory and practice to build systems that were stable and correct in the face of usage and updates. we put half a century into that. and now we live in a kind of collective surrender. it's really depressing. as someone who has dedicated a life to computing, it's really fucking depressing.
What I'm listening to today: "Fuji", Nedaj
brainfog drum & bass oversaturated clipping piano wallslam break silence
This particular cohort of zoomer musicians seems to return a lot to the suggestion of being at an electronica event but at the far end of the room, the music filtered through crappy speakers and the acoustics of a room larger than the event needed. This particular cohort of zoomer musicians makes music that seems shot through with a sense of loneliness
What I'm listening to today: "gener1", Preset Liker
Minor key air conditioner and a heartbeat. A message written in clouds on top of other clouds
I first ran into Cloudflare's "policy" about passing through abuse reports to the entity performing the abuse using their service when I tried to report a booter service to Cloudflare, some years ago.
I did not enjoy receiving death threats from LizardSquad for having reported them, and was very glad I had obscured my information when I did the reporting.
Cloudflare's pretense to neutrality is - and always has been - horseshit, and demonstrates the catastrophic weakness of centralized infrastructure generally.
NPR to get $36M in settlement to operate US public radio system
Link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-lawsuit-2cc4abfa8cf00fe6f89e387e63eb4a2a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969974
Explain to me, like I'm 5, what Cloudflare is and why everyone is pointing and laughing. 🖍️
알바 끝!
Caramelized onions & beans with a cashew sauce, broccoli and homemade flatbread. It's not the most photogenic dish, but it's delicious, aromatic and unbelievably creamy. 🥦🧅🫘
Karamelisierte Zwiebeln & Bohen mit Chashew - Sauce, Brokkoli und selbstgemachten Fladenbrot. Es ist nicht das fotogenste Gericht, dafür aber köstlich, aromatisch und unglaublich cremig. 🥦🧅🫘
Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do!
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/a-vhf-antenna-for-not-a-lot-this-one-can/
okay finally convinced doctor to give me a lower dose prescription to see if we can get it filled so I have something instead of just nothing. 🤞
Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean
Link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/googles-sundar-pichai-warns-of-irrationality-in-trillion-dollar-ai-investment-boom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969581
I've finished work on a couple of things for #retroforth : implementations of nga in javascript (node), java, kotlin, and haskell. The haskell one is the most interesting I think, though not a good example of Haskell code since this is the first thing I've actually written in it.
The code is in the tree at https://brew.bsd.cafe/crc/retroforth/src/branch/master/vm/minimal or https://git.sr.ht/~crc_/retroforth/tree/master/item/vm/minimal
I need a web app where an admin can upload files and anonymous users can then download it. It should be dead simple and the only important feature would be folders. Of course it must run on #FreeBSD ;). I tried Filegator but it throws weird fatal errors. Any ideas for such a small web app?
Jetzt wirds auch den Fonds-Managern langsam zuviel mit den KI-Investitionen.
An der #Nasdaq heute wieder Rutschpartie. Kommt Börsenschluss, folgt Update.
Weil der Scheißlink von der FT so und anders nicht plattformübergreifend funktioniert hier der Anriss:
Fund managers warn AI investment boom has gone too far
Bank of America survey shows a majority of investors think companies are spending too much on AI infrastructure
“This jump is driven by concerns over the magnitude and financing of the AI capex boom,” said BofA analysts.
CapEx = capital expenditure = Ausgaben für Maschinen, Gebäude etc.
The BastilleBSD team is happy to announce the release of Bastille v1.1.1.251118 with a collection of fixes and improvements.
Big thanks to Victor for authoring this entire release!
Updates to the ports tree and packages is still pending.
See the release notes for more details:
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/1.1.1.251118
The BastilleBSD team is happy to announce the release of Bastille v1.1.1.251118 with a collection of fixes and improvements.
Big thanks to Victor for authoring this entire release!
Updates to the ports tree and packages is still pending.
See the release notes for more details:
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/1.1.1.251118
i’m in my gopher era now and while i still don’t like compiler/package management combinations i do like tis weird little rabbit.
maybe because it makes me romanticise of a world where we actually got to run a OS based on Plan9 mounting remote file systems and operating on them with Go…
I first ran into Cloudflare's "policy" about passing through abuse reports to the entity performing the abuse using their service when I tried to report a booter service to Cloudflare, some years ago.
I did not enjoy receiving death threats from LizardSquad for having reported them, and was very glad I had obscured my information when I did the reporting.
Cloudflare's pretense to neutrality is - and always has been - horseshit, and demonstrates the catastrophic weakness of centralized infrastructure generally.
The results of the "State of (State of Rust Survey) Survey" are in! (1/?)
You mention the time we were together /
So long ago, well, I don't remember /
All I know is that it makes me feel good now
Just a personal reminder for myself: I'm 521 days sober today, and I'll remain sober.
It's probably not great that like half of the internet seems to be crashing out about twice a month, right?
@fasterthanlimeamos Didn't know you use Mastodon, hello, i watch you on yt! :D
An Update on #Rebble's Attempted Collaboration with #CoreDevices
https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html
Sound On: Odin Says Woof For A Carrot #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Heute:
Gipfel zu #digitalesouveränität
- Ausfall von #Cloudflare
- Datenreichtum bei #Whatsapp
- #Microsoft warnt vor der eigenen #AI
Habe ich was vergessen?
Advice for community managers:
Use the Olivia Hill rule.
It's surprisingly easy to enforce:
Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.
You then ban them.
That's it, that's all the work it takes!
anecdote (in agreement) about keeping out fascists
@pathunstromPiper Thunstrom A couple of years ago, I was brought in as a moderator to help de-fascist a community that had practically turned into 4chan, in one of the most fundamentally-abuse-attracting and difficult-to-moderate categories of community (privacy/security-related).
The policy was set as "no fascists, no alt-right, nothing that looks like it" and people would either get banned immediately (if clearly intentionally abusive) or get a warning otherwise that they were expected to take seriously (doubling down would be grounds for a ban). Every ban was permanent but revocable if someone showed genuine reflection and commitment to do better - this sometimes took minutes, sometimes months or even longer, sometimes never.
Randos complained for months. "You just call everyone a nazi", "how do you define fascist then", "you're being unreasonable", "the alt right aren't fascists", and so on, and so forth. Without exception, the ones complaining about it the most were the ones who already had a track prior record of being an asshole in different ways. A lot of the bans were the result of brigading attempts from, well, fascists who objected to being pushed out, pretending to be 'new users' and mysteriously immediately knowing about previous bans that happened before they joined.
It took a while, but they eventually gave up. The result was a pleasant community to be in, unusually pleasant for a privacy/security community. I haven't been around there for quite a while now, but my understanding is that it's still a nice place to this day.
"No fascists allowed" works, even under the worst conditions, and the "no, seriously, this is not up for debate, the moderator decides" is a critical component of making it work.
Hey if you're following along with my toots and you want to gently clown on AI, you're so welcome to do so?
Y'all don't need to delete the toots, I'm just reporting out here, not expressing personal beliefs. 🙇♂️
CI 어렵다잉
“Can I vent? All of the emotions from my now former tech career. : r/womenintech”
The story here is, TBH, more the norm for women in tech than not.
If you want as close to an A/B test in misogyny in industry as you can get, talk to trans women. Legit the same exact person before and after, and many many of us watch our careers stall out. I've seen my raises and bonuses halt entirely for the last 5 years while team members get raises and bonuses. I had a great grand boss directly interfering with my work and bashing my communication styles when I asked many of my colleagues and they said they saw nothing different in how I communicated than a great many of my men colleagues.
Now I daily consider how much longer I'll make it in tech.
@baldurBaldur Bjarnason
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요즈미나 🎄 
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