that whole #typescript #golang rewrite discussion here and on other networks is kinda funny 🤡
i mean, let people use the language they want??
the “yOu ShOuLd HaVe UsEd #RuSt" gang is strong, but it’s far from perfect and you can literally use almost anything to run almost anything on almost anything
often times (not always!) people have put some decent thought behind their decisions 💡
reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
Jay Graber ❤️❤️❤️
they can't use Eloquence either, but people are hoping you can sideload.
Does a basic media player need an octa-core processor in 2025?
Will it be any less pricy than the competition?
People do die on the hill of their preferred audiobook player, I suppose.
It is effectively impossible for democracy and billionaires to co-exist.
➡️ jacobin.com/2021/06/billionair…
➡️ inthesetimes.com/article/democ…
➡️ inequality.org/article/billion…
#USA #Government #Politics #History #Economics #Capitalism
The Billionaire Class Is a Threat to Democracy
Since the pandemic began, America’s billionaires have seen their wealth skyrocket to an amount almost equal to a fifth of US GDP. This concentration of wealth is morally unacceptable — but it also represents a mortal threat to democracy.jacobin.com
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Revealed: the scammers who conned savers out of $35m using fake celebrity ads
Georgia-based group used deepfake videos and false news featuring Martin Lewis, Zoe Ball and Ben Fogle used to promote fraudulent crypto schemesSimon Goodley (The Guardian)
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"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
– George Carlin
“Oh shit, I left my laptop at home”.
“Dang, if you get an Uber out you’d probably be back in time for the planning meeting. Or maybe IT can get you a loaner. Waitaminnit why do synthetics need laptops, can’t you just, I dunno…wiggle your silicon.”
“Yeah nah, I am NOT putting work spyware on my core systems. I got this; I’ll remote in to my backup body at home and work from there, then call into the meeting”
“You came to the office…to work from home…to call the office. This is the stupidest timeline.”
“Hey, I’m not the one running consciousness on soup”
The comments are joking that this is Kiara's most Yuripean streams, and she literally had a call-in stream where girls tried to flirt with her. A very European HoloEU stream
Timestamp 1:19:59 or open link:
youtube.com/watch?v=0oDpzkGN-T…
#hololive #RaoraPanthera #TakanashiKiara
【OFF COLLAB】LET' TRY EU SNACKS WITH @TakanashiKiara !!! 🩷🧡
『 X formely Twitter 』https://x.com/raorapanthera『 Hashtags 』╰┈➤ Live #CiaoRaora╰┈➤ Fanarts #RaorArt‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ ˗ˏˋ ꒰New Year Merch ꒱ ˎˊ˗ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐...YouTube
[01:40 PM] 50% of young people face inappropriate behavior at work; Especially women in hospitality
Half of young people who have or had a part-time job experienced inappropriate behavior like sexual comments, threats, or bullying at work.
nltimes.nl/2025/03/12/50-young…
#Half
Inflation eased a touch in February -- but Trump's tariffs cloud outlook
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325264/inflation-consumer-prices-economy-trump-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-npr
Wrote and deleted several passive-aggressive email responses to an 'urgent' project request (minutes).
Ended up going with "Got it! No problem!"
Kill me.
[13:42] Six mouse carcasses and rodent droppings among reasons seven food businesses served with enforcement orders last month
Seven enforcement orders were served on businesses last month for breaches of food safety legislation, including the discovery of six mouse carcasses on a warehouse floor in one premises.
[13:56] Man arrested in Sweden for Rotterdam murder in 2003
A 51-year-old man has been arrested in Sweden in connection with a cold case in Rotterdam dating back to 2003....
dutchnews.nl/2025/03/man-arres…
#51_year_old #Sweden #Rotterdam #2003
Man arrested in Sweden for Rotterdam murder in 2003 - DutchNews.nl
A 51-year-old man has been arrested in Sweden in connection with a cold case in Rotterdam dating back to 2003. The suspect is a Libyan national, and his alleged victim was from Tunisia.Robin Pascoe (DutchNews.nl)
Question/ask!
Some locals are organizing a community skillshare and I offered to help folks get set up with secure text messaging using Signal. Are there any tutorials/guides that you particularly recommend, or known issues with setup, maybe with other kinds of phones? (I've had no issues setting up on Android)
Also: is there anything else you'd recommend I share with folks in terms of communication security? Other helpful apps or tools? Looking for things I can quickly learn, then teach.
lools like the signal suggestions are covered.
github.com/Gedsh/InviZible is an excellent privacy tool, only for android.
@torproject browser is both ios and droid, and should be on every phone.
@getgrid is a cross platform privacy focused live location sharing app. It's under heavy development(maybe alpha/beta) and doesn't always work me.
There's a lot of "more advanced" privacy projects, but these are all ones you could learn easily and teach quickly.
If you want more ideas...
GitHub - Gedsh/InviZible: Android application for online privacy and security
Android application for online privacy and security - Gedsh/InviZibleGitHub
This is a hybrid event offering both in-person and online experiences.
Florida Pastor & Educator Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Felonies
julieroys.com/florida-pastor-e…
To read about a weird twist on this story, see also:
baptistnews(dot com)/article/jimmy-carter-s-pastor-moving/
#CriminalClergy #PredatoryPastors
Florida Pastor & Educator Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Felonies
Jeffery Summers, a Florida pastor and support staff member at an elementary school has been arrested on charges of 2 child sex abuse feloniesJosh Shepherd (The Roys Report)
[13:37] Bus met aanhanger knalt op N33 bij Veendam tegen auto Rijkswaterstaat. 'Collega is enorm geschrokken'
Op de N33, ter hoogte van de afrit Veendam-Noord, is woensdagmiddag een auto van Rijkswaterstaat aangereden. De medewerker van Rijkswaterstaat bleef ongedeerd, de andere bestuurder is uit voorzorg naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision
Encryption is saved, but "we must keep fighting for privacy"
techradar.com/computing/cyber-…
#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #politics #france
Transcript of Special Briefing by MEA on Prime Minister's State Visit to Mauritius (March 12, 2025)
[13:49] Acteur Sanne den Hartogh (43) vertrekt na ‘Nachtwacht’ naar ITA: ‘Het was een geweldige tijd in Groningen’
‘Nachtwacht’, dat zaterdag in première gaat, is de laatste voorstelling van Sanne den Hartogh bij het Groningse NITE. Hij stapt over naar ITA in Amsterdam. Ook geen beroerd gezelschap. En praktischer, met vriendin en zoontje daar.
dvhn.nl/cultuur/Acteur-Sanne-d…
#Nachtwacht’ #zaterdag #SannedenHartogh #Groningse #NITE #ITA #Amsterdam
That's not a giant meteor. It's SPHEREx and PUNCH, two @nasa missions, being sent up into space via a Falcon 9 @spacex rocket!! SPHEREx is a mission that'll survey over 450 million galaxies to uncover the history of the universe and how it evolved. The PUNCH mission will study the outer atmosphere of the sun.
I am VERY EXCITED about SPHEREx and what it'll find about the period of cosmic inflation, a period when the universe grew by ~10³⁰ in size in a tiny fraction of a second!
Weekly Prayers | Find Joy Every Day | The Cradle of Prayer
Incorporate the word of the Lord into your routine with our weekly prayers. We post new prayers each week so you can find joy every day. Find them here.The Cradle of Prayer
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for a Self-Guided City and Murals Tour of Belfast - Northern Ireland Purple Travel Guide
Belfast is a fascinating city. Today we will explore the downtown area on a Self-Guided City and Murals Tour of Belfast. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
[13:46] Brexit rules risk leaving 'gaps on shelves' in NI by July
New post-Brexit labelling rules could see "gaps on shelves" in Northern Ireland by July, a British parliamentary committee has heard.
Charlie quote of the day:
From elbows up, we are transformed into arms linked. And that creates a force that can’t be beaten.
#CharlieAngus #elbowsupcanada #standthegaff
open.substack.com/pub/charliea…
MEMORY AND RESISTANCE: LESSONS FROM MY GRANNY
“Memory produces hope in the same way that amnesia produces despair.” - Walter Brueggemann, Hope in the DarkCharlie Angus / The Resistance
What are the alternatives to Cloudflare's free CDN plan (preferably not US-based)? So far, I've only found Gcore:
gcore.com/pricing/edge-network
Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud Services | Gcore
Gcore provides powerful solutions that will help your business grow globally. Try our superior performance for free!gcore.com
European alternatives to Cloudflare | European Alternatives
Cloudflare provides CDN and DDOS protection services.European Alternatives
Rising mental ill health behind higher welfare bill - report
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Worsening mental ill health behind rising welfare bill, report says
Rising levels of mental ill health are causing the UK welfare bill to balloon, new research suggests.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
KHNP, Samsung C&T team up for global nuclear projects
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has signed an agreement with South Korean construction firm Samsung C&T to establish a strategic partnership for the co-development of overseas nuclear power plant projects. ;World Nuclear News
A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
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St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
propublica.org/article/st-luke…
#News #Idaho #Abortion #Health #Healthcare #Hospital #Medicine #Law
Idaho’s Largest Health System Is Taking on the State’s Abortion Ban
It’s not the first controversial stance for St. Luke’s, which was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines during the pandemic.ProPublica
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#WritersCoffeeClub for March 12:
Happy Plant a Flower Day! What role does nature take in your stories?
Depends where we're going. If we're talking about The Voyageur, it's a key theme. If we're looking at something set in the Jovian Lunar Empire, it couldn't matter less.
In general, when nature does show up it tends to be aberrant from the actual condition. The bigger role nature plays in my stories is the role it plays in my creative process; the way the seasons govern my ratio of indoor to outdoor activity, the way the best ideas come to me directly from the sun, as filtered down through elm-leaves on my favourite trail down by the river.
To All USians who are angry when Canadians push back at your "just joking" about joining or annexing Canada, or when you say, "Invasion of Canada will never happen" think about this...
Obviously we are not the only country to feel justified with defending ourselves because NATO military chiefs had a closed door security summit in Paris and the US was not invited. Japan and Australia were there.
#USA
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Dan ⁂
in reply to Dan ⁂ • • •i run some ~1.5 billion+ requests on a colorful mix of TS, JS, Go, Rust across serverless, vm, k8s.
of course we could gain <insert any metric here> rewriting some services to <insert hype language here>, but we’d 100% loose some flexibility and momentum.
you can always argue for any language and unless you're at the very highest end of the chain critical performance like with rust becomes a must. our scale isn't even remotely near that.
but again, every team usually has their reasons 😉
Dan ⁂
in reply to Dan ⁂ • • •however, that's not the hall pass to never change anything.
sunk cost fallacy is a real thing 🙃
FandaSin
in reply to Dan ⁂ • • •I started with C (because of low level HW I've programmed that time), than moved to C++, than done almost anything from Python, JS, PHP some Java.
Programming language is just way to achieve something, real development is in algorithmization and connecting different interfaces. (I would say)
I am not saying you doing it wrong (far from it, just being curious), but how do you keep everything runing?
When some framework is updated sometimes something broke.
When you have to keep track of 3-4 frameworks / lot of libraries / run environments, it might get messy quite fast.
So you keep everything on some version and upgrade with new version of your application or you just update environment and hope nothing will break?
Admiral Snackbär
in reply to FandaSin • • •@FandaSin
Usually a mixture of automated updates+tests using renovate/dependabot, occasional upgrade tasks in Jira, and simply instant-legacy approach.
A ton of software in the real world is just horribly outdated and insecure. I'm currently working on a project that was started in 2018 with a postgres version EOL in 2016 or so and the entire stack was never updated. It's a fixed price contract, no budget for updates. Sad, but normal.
FandaSin
in reply to Admiral Snackbär • • •@AdmSnackbar
Thanks for answer, really just being curious.👍
Never heard "instant legacy SW", but I know exactly what you mean.🤦
"It's a fixed price contract, no budget for updates. Sad, but normal."
Sadly, I am programming for about 2 decades and I KNOW EXACTLY what you mean by that.🤬
It's better if you just have to give them product and never look back on it, but if you have to keep that code working with occasional change, yeah, that's best way to lunatic asylum.
@FRYTG
Admiral Snackbär
in reply to FandaSin • • •@FandaSin
Not only keeping it updated, but figuring out the requirements alone is absolute insanity.
Large orgs develop so much internal data lore, it's almost impossible to cover everything.
Often enough, the initial draft and the final product have next to nothing in common.
Dan ⁂
in reply to Admiral Snackbär • • •@AdmSnackbar @FandaSin fully agree. we have the near-luxury to be a fairly self-sustained team inside a large org. we therefore created our own set of principles (public here github.com/swrlab/swrlab/blob/…) which also include a section à la “if it's not maintained any more, we'll turn it off”.
We use dependabot on github and speedy ci/cd processes to quickly update and deploy things without too much overhead. this really helps keeping things rather up-to-date and secure (so far)
swrlab/PRINCIPLES.md at main · swrlab/swrlab
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