The Lack Thereof :v_bi:

I would leave you empty inside?

Father of two daughters, survivor of retail turned programmer

Seattle area.

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2026-10-23 04:21:09 UTC

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Hi, backend dev for SEC-compliant enterprise NAT here.
Basically because the record keeping laws in place to guard against financial fraud in major institutions also mandate a level of data redundancy and immutability that incidentally guards against such tampering to a level that approaches the US military. Every file creation, update, delete is revision controlled.
Imagine a fictional financial institution, let's call them Jigglypuff's Professional Money Cabal. First, they don't even have root-user access on their own storage. They can't override the legally mandated retention policy -- even in the off-site backup systems -- without a kernel patch that can't be installed unless it's signed with their storage manufacturer's private key. And at the first sign of compromise, the Cabal runbook is to just immediately flatten the whole thing, reinstall a clean system, and restore from the nearest geo.
Even if you go full Fight Club and physically destroy the buildings, in multiple cities, they've got another fully redundant and air gapped disaster recovery storage system literally in a bunker underneath a Colorado mountain.

2026-10-22 20:15:33 UTC

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At work, sales has had to roll out a new "we'll review your site for you" service, because apparently so many customers have been buying our iron, taking delivery, racking and stacking it, then realizing they can't actually turn it on because they don't have the electricity infrastructure to run it.
Like literally, 8 and 9-digit dollar values of servers purchased with no way for the customer to run them.

2026-08-16 20:21:18 UTC

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I think the 0 point on the Fahrenheit scale was set based on the freezing point of some salt solution, right?
@npub14u3…ud9v

2026-06-19 20:49:43 UTC

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Curious the breakdown for merch sales. Does the artist get more money if I buy a CD or if I buy a T-shirt

2026-04-17 15:21:36 UTC

Spotted in the elementary school drop-off line
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2026-02-06 05:28:03 UTC

Starfleet Academy continues to win me over.
A show about a rebuilding era for a franchises's rebuilding era.
Going in I was worried it would end up being a show about Caleb the Marty Stu and generally reprising a bunch of the mistakes of Disco.
But no! The whole ensemble is getting used and all with their own focus featured and it's good. It's good.
I know that there's complaints asserting the characters talk like terminally online zoomers or something. But, like, I think that's just old men yelling at clouds. The main characters are all literally college freshman in their first semester. Like, do you expect them to act like Picard and McCoy? That would be so much weirder. Remember that episode of TNG where Picard gets Q'd back in time to when he was a cadet? Imagine a whole university of grandpas pretending to be teenagers. Yeah.

2026-02-05 06:03:44 UTC

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Ghoulish

2026-01-17 22:21:30 UTC

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There are a few triggers sitting on the mantelpiece right now, and most of them pivot around the regime refusing to seat a state's duly elected representatives.
A military revolt against illegal orders / domestic deployments would be interesting too, but we don't have a good model for that in living history in the US. Vietnam-era fragging is something only remembered by a generation who are well removed from the current volunteer force.

2026-01-17 22:09:34 UTC

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Yes and no.
The regime has threatened large scale violence and military rule many times before, but this is a regime that talks big. Militarization of civilian federal law enforcement services will escalate, but I do not see armed conflict between federal and state power in our near future.
For it to happen, the US state governments will have to, at some point, put their money where their mouth is with regards to resistance. For now they've been content to wage a war of words and court papers.
When the regime's puppet Republican supreme court finally issues a ruling that enables full federal military rule over the country, only then will we know if our opposition/state level leaders have the stones to defy it with force.
Otherwise it's just waiting for them to try and overturn another election.

2025-12-14 18:46:42 UTC

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Yes. Maneuver when the risk is too high, and that threshold, at least by their own calculation, is being reached on average every 1.8 minutes.

2025-12-05 02:04:02 UTC

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No, he has perfect memory. Man, woman, camera, TV and so forth. He wouldn't forget.
Seriously, though, I doubt he knows enough random medical jargon to mix the scans up.
Plus, he said it wasn't on his head, so it was DEFINITELY on his head. Which would be a totally routine scan to do as part of an annual physical on a patient who certain neurological events in their history.
Like, for example, a stroke. Maybe one that happened around labor day 2025...

2025-11-18 03:33:25 UTC

Hey #feditechsupport would it be possible/practical to purchase a cheap android tablet and, with the parental settings available by default, lock it down to only run one or two apps and no browser?
I could probably spend 5 minutes looking this up but search engines suck now.

2025-09-13 14:56:50 UTC

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I want to tell this to all the parents at my kids school who spend half their time on the group chat obsessing over having the correct constellation of corporate boycotts because Instagram/Tiktok told them this was how to Do Activism.

2025-08-24 02:08:18 UTC

I am a 42 year old man who apparently does not own a circular saw.
Does this make me genderfluid?

2025-07-31 00:40:06 UTC

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... but are they actually making money? I was under the impression basically every AI company/service was only staying afloat by burning piles of venture capital money in the hopes of some future pivot to profitability.
My understanding is the only segment of this field actually turning a profit right now are the physical infrastructure vendors selling GPUs and servers, or contracted to build the data centers to house them.

2025-07-06 03:57:30 UTC

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Grapevine said there was a raid at Castillo's, not sure if this is the same event or two separate moves.

2025-07-03 05:39:42 UTC

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There's a reason I subscribe only to their West Coast counterpart.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website
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