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mkjM

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  • What the actual fuck.
    mkjM mkj

    @nev Or when you're reading science fiction which was intended to be a warning, and treating it as something that should be done because it's Cool™!

    "I have read Do Not Build The Torment Nexus and decided to dedicate the rest of my life to ensuring that we *never* have a Torment Nexus" said no billionaire ever.

    @sundogplanets

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  • What the actual fuck.
    mkjM mkj

    I really can't help but feel that someone, somewhere, saw the term "megaconstellation" and said "let's have an *actual* mega-constellation!"

    @sundogplanets

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  • What the actual fuck.
    mkjM mkj

    @kwayk42 Nudge one a kilometer off position and hello our old friend Kessler.

    @sundogplanets

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  • What the actual fuck.
    mkjM mkj

    @sundogplanets One… million… satellites!? 🤯

    Even ignoring all the *other* issues…

    I imagine those wouldn't exactly be tiny cubesats. So how does 30 per launch sound? Build enough of those satellites and launchers to maintain a launch cadence of one launch per day, and that kind of a constellation is *90 years off* per my calculator. Assuming no failed launches and no failures in-orbit and no replacements needed for that time, naturally. And they'll cram all that into sun-synch orbits? WTAF?

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  • Whenever I ask for technical assistance on the Fediverse, I get multiple offers of help within a minute.
    mkjM mkj

    @_elena Yeah, the delay can be intolerable at times. But we do what we can! 😉

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  • The highest ever official temperature in Victoria, Australia of 48.9 C appears to have been recorded this afternoon at Walpeup.
    mkjM mkj

    @coolandnormal Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the world: "it's snowing today, so global warming is clearly a big hoax!"

    🤦‍♂️

    Take care!

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  • We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running.
    mkjM mkj

    @tdr @independentpen Besides, tit-for-tat international relations rarely works.

    If the EU should do anything in response to something like this, make it a reminder that sharing that information without the explicit and informed consent of the data subject is strictly prohibited under the GDPR. And that that includes a third country resident sharing such data as relates to EU data subjects.

    @arrakeen_urbanite @briankrebs

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  • We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running.
    mkjM mkj

    @CaptMorgan How in the world would using a burner phone help with any of this?

    @briankrebs

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  • I was inspired by @mntmn 's "using AI wastes a lot of energy" email signature idea.
    mkjM mkj

    @jaredwhite And if you get a short, cryptic email that makes no sense, at least you *know* that it makes no sense and can act accordingly. As opposed to something where a LLM has taken the same nonsensical input and extruded something that *appears* to make sense but which might very well not be at all what the person who sent it intended! (Or it might be. It's just impossible to know.)

    @vkc

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  • Hey folks, when you come across a cool blog post, please- link it in your blog if you have one- Post a link here
    mkjM mkj

    @hikingdude I have been doing monthly link roundup posts on my blog for a little over a year now. https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/tag/links/

    Also of course links in other blog posts when relevant too.

    #blogging #LinkShare #PersonalBlog

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  • My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
    mkjM mkj

    @draeand I have no idea whatsoever.

    @vkc

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  • My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
    mkjM mkj

    @draeand Yes, *choosing* to share something is always a different matter from not being able to not share it.

    There's that pesky "consent" thing again… 🙂

    @vkc

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  • Reintroduction post!
    mkjM mkj

    @clemens We can only know about what the situation is like now. Signal's greatest asset IMO is their broad adoption (network effects are real) and wide trust, and the latter comes in no small part from their openness and firmness to their principles, alongside strong cryptographic privacy guarantees and the ability of third parties to verify those claims. If the Signal Foundation would start backtracking on that, they can and probably would very quickly lose much of that.

    @mattburgess

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  • Reintroduction post!
    mkjM mkj

    @clemens My take at least is something like that Signal, yes, is out of the US; but it's designed such that *this fact is largely inconsequential*. Strong end-to-end encryption without plaintext fallback, reproducible builds, source code available for review and heavily scrutinized by a large variety of people. Yes they do gain access to (fairly minimal) metadata, but so do pretty much all alternatives which are *much* less thorough in their security and privacy stance.

    @mattburgess

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  • Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?
    mkjM mkj

    @Purple @kitcat To say nothing of when you've faced a problem, figured out a fix, and can *actually explain why that fix is correct*, and *apply the same reasoning in other situations*. Not just the same fix, but the same *reasoning*.

    Maybe I'm old-fashioned like that, but actually having figured something out brings me joy. Even if it is stuff that lots of other people know. Learning how the pieces fit together to bring the result I get out of the thing I made.

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  • A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight.
    mkjM mkj

    @stefano Please do make it one!

    @toxy

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  • A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight.
    mkjM mkj

    @stefano @ricardo So in either case, layers of redundancy saved the day.

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  • A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight.
    mkjM mkj

    @stefano Sounds like a case of either good design or *very* good luck too that the UPS took the brunt of it.

    We can't protect against everything, but we *can* have an idea for what to do when the unimagined happens.

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