Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.
I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.
I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.
Boosts are appreciated. 🙏
#FediHire #webdev #typescript #backenddevelopment #fullstackdevelopment
AI is making phishing attacks tougher to spot, but 1Password’s new feature helps prevent people and businesses from being victimized.1password.com
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it is 2F out, feels like -18F
well actually i don't know what it feels like because i'm sitting in a bed with a heated mattress pad
Your Thursday night moment of zen: Let it go! from Frozen sung in the native Klingon. 😎🤓😅
“QorDu’ vItlhutlhbe’pu’, vaj jIH vItlhutlhbe’!” ❄️
#StarTrek 🖖
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Right now, if I had to choose a single year to revert back to, it'd probably be 1997.
If I could take a couple of the modern conveniences of now without the stupid bits and just flop back to then...
Oh yeah,
if you're annoyed that the models can't predict where the storm will go,
you can thank Trump, Musk, and the Republican administration for cutting back weather monitoring for the past year.
And yeah, the models aren't going to be more accurate for a few years to come.
(Make sure to remind your red hatted neighbors that are complaining.)
Here we go. The same idiots that tell us they can't do anything about the CSAM generate formerly know as Twitter... where they still post are telling us they want to protect the children by enforcing a ban with age verification.
Federal officials draft plans to ban social media for children under 14 - The Globe and Mail
(paywall bypassed)
The Government of Canada is looking to ban social media services for kids under 14 as part of an upcoming 'online harms bill.'Dean Daley (MobileSyrup)
Today, I installed my first WiFi 7 access point, a Ubiquiti U7 Pro. Though WiFi7 is mostly going to waste here, with the internet only being 200 Mbps symmetric, and not a lot of LAN transfers that require a ton of speed, in this house, I unfortunately can't run Ethernet to most things in the location I want them to be, without having the location of the SFP changed, which I am tempted to do. I was hoping to improve the situation a bit, but this seems to not be happening.
I've been using a U6 Mesh at the far end of the house from this access point to both act as a WiFi extender and Ethernet bridge, because I get better performance going WiFi to Ethernet than WiFi direct, especially in terms of jitter and latency, plus I am connecting a couple of devices that don't have their own WiFi to the network this way.
I have a small 1Gbps PoE switch powering the access point and providing Ethernet ports for those devices.
Previously, I had been meshing the U6 Mesh with a U6 Light, which is only 2x2 on 5 gHz, and is limited to 80 mHz channel bandwidth. Ideally, I'd like to mesh over 6 gHz at 320 mHz, but without buying a second U7 Pro, I can't do that.
I was hoping to use 160 mHz for the link on 5 gHz, at the very least, which I have done successfully before on another Ubiquiti setup, but for whatever reason, the remote AP is stuck at 40 mHz, which is noticeably bottlenecking things, especially in the upstream direction. Channel bandwidth is controlled by the parent, which is set at 160 mHz, so why does it insist on hanging around at 40?
I HATE WIFI! I HATE IT SO MUCH!
I will probably upgrade the two U6 Pro's at home to U7 Pros when I get back, though, because they have 10g/2.5g/1g Ethernet, and I want to get stuff past the 1Gbps cap for local transfers at least. It's far too easy to saturate a 1Gbps connection these days, even over WiFi. WiFi7 can provide significantly more throughput than 1Gbps allows, even to a single client, so time to upgrade the infrastructure to support it.
Using iperf3 on my phone, I get 940 Mb/sec in both directions on either 5 or 6 gHz over the U7 Pro talking to an Ethernet-connected machine. The bottleneck, in this case, is actually the 1Gbps Ethernet on that machine, and the switch it's connected to.
The actual wireless link rate of my phone is currently 2.4 Gbps in both directions, as I am only about 8 feet from the access point, so I should see significantly more throughput than that if not for the 1Gbps Ethernet bottleneck.
And, as I understand it, the WiFi chip on iPhones is not actually capable of 320 mHz channel bandwidth, so I could be linking at 4.8 Gbps, in theory, using something else.
None of this matters given the current network infrastructure here, really.
I still hate WiFi, though.
Starting tomorrow, you will be able (on linux without cross-compilation) to install and use the Rust GCC backend directly from rustup! To do so:
rustup component add rustc-codegen-gcc<br>github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull…
This PR adds the GCC codegen backend, and the GCC (libgccjit) component upon which it depends, to build-manifest, and thus also to (nightly) Rustup. I added both components in a single PR, because ...GitHub
> You arrive at your polling place the same as every election since 2004 with the same precinct, same poll workers, and same ritual of civic participation, but this time the worker scans your driver’s license, frowns, types into the computer, then looks up with an apologetic expression that will replay in nightmares.
> “I’m sorry, but your documents don’t match. Your license says Martinez, but your birth certificate says Chen. I can’t give you a ballot.”
Which states have polling places that use computers? In Wisconsin we have a printout of the registered voters we expect will come to the polling place, that's it. There's no way to look up their birth name. I strongly doubt that the local government has it easily available
Popular password management app 1Password today announced the launch of a new phishing protection feature that's meant to "act as a second...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
new version of Escape the city:
Added fonts and dark/light mode settings,
added difficulty levels,
locked achievements are now hidden.
The unlockable Oregon Trail route has some surprises.
Adjustments to reaching the final checkpoint.
Go play: l-works.net/escape
I am strongly considering shutting down Pomf because the US Department of Justice continues to manufacture outright lies against people who are innocent until proven guilty.
Running the service (despite my best efforts to mitigate risks well beyond what the law would require me to do up to and including full fledged cybersecurity research) exposes me to some level of legal or criminal threat to my livelihood. I knew this going in five and a half years ago, and the calculation at the time was acceptable because even if the feds came knocking at my door, I was confident the evidence would be in my favor and that a reasonable and functional court system would make the right decision. I was also confident that what happened to Les De Ridder almost eight years ago (archive.is/PJTzS) wouldn't happen here in the USA, because Europe was a communist shithole and we had rights over here.
Well, as the US continues to backslide into a fascist regime with a completely captured judicial branch that is utterly subservient to the executive branch, my evaluation of that risk level compared to my maximum tolerance of risk continues to inch closer and closer to parity, and when that risk exceeds it, I am out. If I am not convinced that I can adequately defend myself against potentially spurious claims and threats due to a corrupt and unequal justice system, then my next defense mechanism is to remove any and all ammunition from those who would try to harm me, and the largest weapons cache someone can bring to bear against me at this time is undoubtedly Pomf. I have never considered the government to be part of my overall threat model, but now I do, and I do not have the energy or resources to fight an entire government at this time despite it being morally the right thing to do.
If this does happen, there will be a reasonable and well defined sunset period, with a final archiving of all Pomf content to cold storage in hopes that in the distant future the risk comes down to a level in which I am comfortable bringing it all back online. I would never wipe Pomf - only make it unavailable at worst.
One last thing - if you think I am some big baby or think I have nothing to fear, consider this simple statement:
If they can do it to them, they can do it to you.
I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new …Simon Willison’s Weblog
I see Node.js tries to solve the AI slop issue on hackerone like this:
require a Signal of 1.0 or higher
nodejs.org/en/blog/announcemen…
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.nodejs.org
For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.
But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.
They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!
[JM]ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…
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AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.
“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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In Poésies (1870), Lautréamont goes further:
“A good appreciation of Voltaire’s works is preferable to those works themselves.”
What was once part of a radical refusal of bourgeois ideology would now be music to the ears of big tech.
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Anti-copyright has been fully recuperated, and it feels like only a matter of time before a tech billionaire claims that ingesting copyrighted material into AI is détournement.
However, only when it is an input to production.
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Now imagine what happens if we abolish IP tomorrow. The bubble pops and the empire collapses.
This might be in fact the primary contradiction of the economy. Idealism paired with hoarding as a business model.
interesting thought. I dont think we need much political power to abolish IP. What we need is an angle behind which people form up.
currently, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of people swarming the US streets and thousands in europe protesting against war and oppression.
It is no problem to focus agitation on the contradictions we deem the most important. The issue so far has been lack of both theory and praxis.
I think this is also described in "what is to be done?".
A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.
Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.
Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.
It shouldn't just be us doing the work
Rust 1.93.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
This release includes a new musl version for the *-linux-musl targets, adds support for #[cfg] inside asm!(), and adds [T]::as_array, VecDeque::{pop_front_if, pop_back_if}, Vec/String::into_raw_parts, fmt::form_fn, and more! ✨
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/…
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
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