Vyvyan Basterd

doer of computer maths on the Internet

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neurobashing_at_mastodon.social@mostr.pub

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2024-09-20 12:00:05

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@npub1e7v…flg9 like this is me rn https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l4lgg52id227

2024-09-20 11:57:25

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@npub1e7v…flg9 idk every seems SUPER spun up on here and bsky, and all in the span of from some time after I went to bed

2024-09-20 11:53:31

why are we yelling about Olivia nuzzi I feel like I have showed up super late to a party

2024-09-06 14:36:19

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah, that's a very good strategy! At least I think it is. I don't think you can hit it with "well the Founders kept a rifle over the hearth, so" or whatever dumb post-Heller shit they try

2024-09-06 11:49:26

if your strategy to stop school shootings (and mass shootings and gun violence) is just “ban the AR” you have probably already lost; the right have been working the courts for decades. They “prepared the battlefield”.
Even if you get something signed, some Federalist asshole judge (probably in Texas) is gonna get in the way, and we already know how SCOTUS feels. It won’t be easy. There has to be a better plan.

2024-09-03 19:27:28

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I love it when marketing comms read as a threat

2024-08-28 00:26:54

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I know someone who thinks they're a cheap, reliable mind-reaching machine. My wife!
(hold for laughter)
Folks,

2024-08-13 12:12:49

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@npub1e7v…flg9 a year or two ago I got it in my head that I should wear less plastic, and it’s both difficult and expensive to find clothes made from 100% actual cloth! But I’m getting there

2024-08-09 14:16:56

I know i'm going to get yelled at about it one day but my entire sprint retro process is "do the retro doc, get your fucking board in order, talk to me if you need anything, dismissed"
We have to have the rituals, there's no rule that says we have to make them horrible

2024-07-24 17:38:16

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@npub1e7v…flg9 the number of nano users is the real buried lede here

2024-06-29 14:48:25

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@npub1e7v…flg9 Garmin is Swiss so that’s like half German

2024-06-29 14:43:04

Finally got my watch tracking my sleep only to learn I suck at it

2024-06-19 13:16:15

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@npub1ywy…cksd I know. My dad spent his life doing construction. I grew up around work trucks! But it sorta skewed my thinking

2024-06-17 18:51:17

I keep having to remind myself that in the modern US, a truck isn’t a vehicle for work or outdoors, it’s an affectation; a pose.
From: @npub1ywy…cksd
https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/112621872033108227

2024-05-31 14:19:56

i guess on reflection I'm actually not happy about trump's conviction. it's a sign of a dying, corrupt empire.

2024-05-24 22:52:04

The only Windows I ever liked was 2k, but it was clear it did not have the right DNA to survive: it was bad at games and didn’t run on a wealth of low-end hardware, among other problems. XP set the course, and I have never wanted to use Windows since https://aftermath.site/microsoft-windows-11-debloat-copilot-ultralite-good-version

2024-05-23 01:51:15

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@npub1e7v…flg9 omg
(Ashburn’s flag is a data center)

2024-05-07 22:46:02

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah I am so spoiled by both macOS (browse the web etc) and ec2 compute (just move to a higher instance!) I can’t imagine buying real silicon with a fan and stuff. I’m totally out of practice

2024-05-07 21:46:13

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@npub1e7v…flg9 a real machine? Like a box in your room?

2024-05-01 17:12:43

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@npub1e7v…flg9 one of the best devs I ever met used Nano, with 0 extra config. Just OOTB.

2024-04-27 17:48:17

i've been playing with Warp (https://www.warp.dev). I don't have a team - my team doesn't use it - but I'm at the point where I would pay to just remove all the team features. Like let me give you $20 to never, ever talk to me about a team again. I get that they probably don't want to do that - team use means growth which means revenue, but also even offering it would probably piss off a ton of people.

2024-04-22 23:26:32

gang maybe MTG *isn't* a Russian "agent". Maybe she's just a terrible, terrible person. Maybe no one's paying her to do this, she just has an affection for bullies. Maybe there's no money to follow, and she's just vile. Sometimes people are just shitbag vermin and not motivated by anything other than stupidity and evil.

2024-04-16 20:53:54

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@npub1e7v…flg9 vendors will scan it before they’ll give you a t-shirt

2024-04-05 17:11:21

I understand the value of keeping prices high, I mean I have been using FruitCo for 25 years, but Tesla deciding to not build an affordable consumer commuter car seems incredibly stupid.

2024-04-03 23:03:59

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@npub1200…aqy2
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/209/784/716/333/530/original/bcfa91062613c409.jpeg

2024-04-02 12:05:24

lots of articles about how Ukraine has significantly improved its drone tech, and all its home-grown anti-drone measures. that's great but until you figure out how to use them to neutralize russian artillery, and stop the meat-wave attacks, it's pissing in the wind

2024-04-01 15:14:38

Ok so like a year ago or something it was there is no Havana Syndrome now we’re back to Russians with the microwave gun? The same Russians who use meat wave attacks and can’t replace their 1st line equipment losses, and will not be able to replace lost armor for years? They have a microwave gun?

2024-03-26 16:09:35

Might call my broker and have him short Truth Social. I’ve never actually done that so it’s a little scary to consider

2024-03-22 21:43:29

Whatever is happening in Moscow right now, you can be sure it was us, or Ukraine, or Russia, or someone else.

2024-03-19 23:28:03

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@npub1e7v…flg9 “only got a little meat in it" is what we call a "midwest vegetarian" after some friends were on a road trip and, somewhere in the nameless depths of the midwest, had dinner at someone’s house and that precise scenario occurred: informing their hosts they were vegan, learning that the gracious meal contained on only "a little" meat (and cheese, and etc etc)

2024-03-17 19:05:05

Do you ever do something for a side project, that you do at work all the time without thinking, and it just …. Fails? Utterly, completely, and totally? And you can’t even figure out why?

2024-03-14 00:11:48

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah but tiktok is destroying the youths so

2024-03-13 23:34:07

oh cool we're doing bills of attainder now

2024-03-02 21:29:05

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@npub1e7v…flg9 i never found an extender that worked work a damn. i ran ethernet.

2024-02-28 23:11:00

Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit https://www.theverge.com/24086056/apple-tv-plus-neuromancer-streaming-series-william-gibson

2024-02-24 22:04:58

i know we should be cautious and thoughtful about the environmental costs of generative AI but like before it became a thing were you thinking about the environmental costs of the Kafka cluster you spun up in the dev sandbox and left running for 3 months until someone found it in an audit? my guess is no

2024-02-20 16:56:44

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@npub1e7v…flg9 ugh all the crossings around there are terrible

2024-01-23 23:52:50

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@npub1e7v…flg9 they harass the families. It’s really fucked up

2024-01-23 16:51:52

TIL there are groups on Telegram that exist to "out" killed foreign fighters in Ukraine, branding them as Nazis and smearing them on social media. Big russian disinfo op.

2024-01-10 23:01:16

Bluesky still feels like the Orange Site ideal of “I could build this in a weekend”. It’s entire juice was it got Good Posters leaving Twitter via its invites, but now it just feels perpetually unfinished and ugly
Idk or I’m just officially old

2024-01-09 14:32:01

If you ever hand me a “network connected wrench” my first step will be to smash you over the head with it until it is no longer “network connected” and you learn your goddamn lesson https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/network-connected-wrenches-used-in-factories-can-be-hacked-for-sabotage-or-ransomware/

2024-01-07 16:07:35

The story that EM is zooted all the time is incredibly funny and also frustrating. It’s another proof that he’s just another “good for me but not for thee” asshole tech bro, but also a proof for our weird need to run to the fainting couches about drugs. The generals that won the Civil War? Drunks. Your 401k is in the hands of guys making what Zappa sang about in “Cocaine Decisions”. Weeds legal in nearly half the country. Everyone calm down

2024-01-07 02:45:29

it's awesome to have a live performance come up on shuffle and think “oh man I was at that show" and then cringe at the crowd noise and think, ugh, that might have been me

2024-01-03 17:39:00

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@npub1e7v…flg9 sorry you’re having a shit time. It sucks to live right and still get it. We’ve managed to avoid it although we have no how.

2023-12-15 22:28:26

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@npub1e7v…flg9 ostensibly it’s about sending a message but like our carceral system generally no one is listening

2023-12-15 17:40:41

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I want the Finnish version of that. “Social Distancing: stay the fuck away from me”

2023-12-14 19:32:25

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@npub15x4…3p3l
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/580/436/161/887/588/original/13a93c03dcbc770f.jpeg

2023-11-23 17:29:00

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@npub1e7v…flg9 not appeasing the machine spirits seems like a sure fire way to have a bad time

2023-11-23 16:14:44

I am no longer allowed to announce prod downtime with a reading from the Bardo Thodol

2023-11-20 17:05:33

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@npub1200…aqy2 when this first broke I was actually a little shocked at how fast it seemed to be memory-holed in real time

2023-11-17 23:52:53

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@npub1e7v…flg9 also there was that thing from his sister that he was a sex pest

2023-11-06 01:02:04

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah but while I am on paper a psycho prepper - former Marine, lots of guns, competitive shooter, outdoor guy, hunter, fisher, the whole 9 yards ... I've spent enough time out there that if you gotta live like that, you're already so fucked. You need a community, and a big, diverse one. You gotta horde toothpaste as much as bullets. That means your food requirements are insane in the toughest part, getting it established.

2023-11-06 00:07:31

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@npub1e7v…flg9 right but what do *I* do. Just sit here and wait for all that to unfold? Keep doing my little chores and my dumb little life and hope everything happens such that I can react?

2023-11-05 23:54:46

I again ask: ok, so, we're fucked. what do *I* do now? We've established that it's too late to buy an EV or go vegan, so ... what now? Buy a bunch of guns and flee north? Articles like this annoy me so much, it's like telling me the ship I'm on is going to sink. Like yeah OK are there lifeboats, flotation devices, what's the plan, here? Just die? That's not very helpful https://grist.org/climate/the-scientist-who-warned-the-us-about-climate-change-says-its-getting-worse-again/

2023-11-04 17:12:28

Oh man it’s so cool that for $16/month I can get access to a racist LLM

2023-10-27 02:51:05

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@npub1e7v…flg9 outsider left checking in

2023-10-17 15:12:36

Having to explain for the zillionth time that this is UAT, I should not write the test plan bc I will write a test that determines if my code works, not if the business goal is met.

2023-10-17 13:40:17

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@npub1e7v…flg9 lately I don’t even bother with them. They’re usually useless and the service restores before they figure out to stop putting the fork into the light socket

2023-09-28 01:35:48

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@npub1e7v…flg9 TIL that you get around the one handgun a month rule in VA by getting a concealed carry permit, and you get one of those quickie from those “US Concealed Carry" scum

2023-09-27 19:32:47

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@npub1e7v…flg9 it still looks like fedora, with dnf and epel and all that stuff. Did they drag that stuff on top of alpine?

2023-09-21 17:12:24

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah my credit is perfect and no law problems (we do that same check now) but as soon as I see “government” I think “time to pee in the little cup”

2023-09-21 16:05:38

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@npub1e7v…flg9 to be clear by “whiz quiz” I mean “piss test”. I use THC as a sleep aid

2023-09-21 14:48:45

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I won’t pass a whiz quiz, is that a problem?

2023-09-21 13:57:16

lol my employer just announced full RTO, 5 days a week. Cool

2023-09-20 20:58:51

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@npub1200…aqy2 our new “talent snapshot” system is almost exactly the same. My 360+manager review went from “4 stars top talent” to “acceptable” bc “calibration”. The “calibration” process remains secret.

2023-09-20 16:25:39

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I think you have to specify the noodle type as a parameter

2023-09-05 23:18:59

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@npub1e7v…flg9 POKE 53280,1

2023-08-15 18:01:33

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@npub1e7v…flg9 untrue. I can easily con junior devs into paying my bar tab

2023-08-15 17:38:41

My feed is very strange rn bc on one side is people pointing out (usually, easily reproducible) flaws in ChatGPT that would make it impossible to trust, and people using it for real work every day and having fantastic results

2023-08-13 20:36:53

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I love Montreal. I’ve been there twice and always had a great time.

2023-08-10 15:01:37

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@npub1efv…4jx2 when I worked construction I got to see the vim-vs-emacs of that world, Milwaukee vs DeWalt. Man those two factions will argue endlessly

2023-08-02 14:47:43

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@npub1e7v…flg9 “Linux is free only if your time has no value”, as the old saying goes. I am very much scared of relies-entirely-on-plugins stuff lately.

2023-07-25 15:56:53

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@npub1e7v…flg9 it’s entirely up to 3rd party clients to implement I think. Ivory on Mac and iOS supports it.

2023-07-18 17:03:11

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@npub1200…aqy2 honestly one of the reasons I got into punk/hardcore was after trying to learn to sing correctly and failing miserably, I was like “oh cool I don’t actually need to know what I’m doing, this is awesome”. I sound almost exactly like the guy from Fucked Up

2023-07-11 20:11:33

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@npub1e7v…flg9 the security briefs we used to get seem positively quaint when compared to today

2023-07-10 14:03:59

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I think the VC and tech press are just happy to see a line go up

2023-07-09 00:04:36

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@npub1e7v…flg9 that's a good pic. I can never get those apps to give me something I like. I assume it's bc I'm just goofy-lookin

2023-07-06 22:15:21

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I spent waaaaaay too much time in zone 5. Absolutely kicked my ass

2023-07-06 22:06:47

Decided to go run at peak heat. I used to have to PT with “racing stripes”, an indicator I was a greater heat casualty risk. Anyway my time was dogshit and I lost like 5 pounds of water-weight. But I did it. Oorah!

2023-06-29 16:43:20

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@npub1e7v…flg9 ours already does. There’s one govt org that hasn’t updated its rotation guidance (the rest are on board w no or less frequent) so not only do they regularly up the complexity we still have to rotate them often

2023-06-26 00:37:58

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@npub1200…aqy2 hah, if you ever do crack, I can hold forth at length about solar arrays, portable power stations, all that stuff. Ask away. Having a teardrop trailer is basically being a prepper

2023-06-21 18:25:30

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@npub1e7v…flg9 not feeds on the psychic pain just … like, their carnism is built into their whole ideology bc they never invented vat-grown meat. They never had the “omnivores dilemma”, choosing to eat different things.

2023-06-21 18:03:25

Imagine you are space travelers and you discover a species of sentient obligate carnivores and you try to explain veganism to them. “We can’t eat salad, we’ll die” ok well there’s this vat-grown stuff “not the same it was never alive in the first place”. That was the plot of an ep of TNG right?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/21/1183484892/no-kill-meat-grown-from-animal-cells-is-now-approved-for-sale-in-the-u-s

2023-06-16 21:14:15

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@npub1e7v…flg9 RETVRN

2023-06-14 19:18:20

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@npub1utv…87lr a good start for Steam would be to have the app itself not run under Rosetta (last updated: 11 days ago)

2023-06-05 18:24:38

Porn producers: AWWWWW YISSSSS

2023-05-30 18:10:53

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@npub1d0s…egda the tweet where he praises Hugo Boss (while minimizing their Third Reich connections) is really peak blue check

2023-05-30 12:06:30

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@npub1e7v…flg9 yeah I know it’s all just PR spin to get regulators to think about world-ending threats and not “this will end up getting used to deny black people home loans” or whatever, I just feel if they get to use all this species-ending rhetoric, I am under no obligation to be polite and deferential in response.

2023-05-30 11:32:19

If your whole deal is running around going “the Torment Nexus will end all life on earth” and you’re the CEO of Torment Nexus, Inc. how is the appropriate response not to Mozambique you. You just said it’s an existential risk and you’re working harder than ever on it.
Like, when a person is an existential risk to a community we have rules for letting them back in we don’t just let them run around freely going “I’m going to rape your kids lol”
Launch these people into the sun

2023-05-02 01:02:40

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@npub1d0s…egda one of my projects this year is moving our entire department to infrastructure-as-code, and that means source control. A whoooole lotta people who have never touched git get to dive in. The bad UX is about to ruin my quarter