Almost a full yearly cycle since my first post. The leaves are starting to get colorful again. 🍂 ⌘ Read more
The Eternal Cycle of Software Bloat
Listen now (15 mins) | Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - October 6th, 2023 ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-09-12-05-32-02.fit: 8.79 miles, 00:05:58 average pace, 00:52:25 duration
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Might cycle to town to get some wine and ciabatta
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How Kinsta Improved the End-to-End Development Experience by Dockerizing Every Step of the Production Cycle
Kinsta relies heavily on Docker for this consistent experience at every step, from development to production. This article shows to leverage Docker Desktop to increase developers’ productivity. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-07-10-05-21-43.fit: 6.55 miles, 00:07:19 average pace, 00:47:55 duration
Full-Stack Reproducibility for AI/ML with Docker & Kaskada
Learn how Docker and Kaskada improve and accelerate the machine learning development cycle. ⌘ Read more
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Russia blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam is an incomprehensible war crime. Among other things, it drains water from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, water that is needed for cooling. They are trying to generate a widespread disaster.
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@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t agree. I think he’s a thug who benefits a lot if everybody thinks he’s a madman.
All through this war, there has been a repeated cycle:
- We can’t give Ukraine weapon X; that will provoke Putin and he’ll drop a nuke!
- Russian propagandists threaten they’re about to drop nukes
- After lots of hand wringing, some country gives weapon X to Ukraine
- No nukes are dropped
We’re on like the 5th iteration of this. Now it’s about F-16 fighter jets. In the meantime, a lot of Ukrainians AND Russians are dying en masse.
user/bmallred/data/2023-06-01-05-37-12.fit: 7.41 miles, 00:06:05 average pace, 00:45:04 duration
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@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net
There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.
Exactly prologic, and that’s why I’m negative about these sorts of things. I’m almost 50, I’ve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don’t trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It’s a societal cancer.
All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They’ll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won’t stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.
That’s a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn’t make sense. It’s insane.
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-20-05-26-53.fit: 10.16 miles, 00:06:26 average pace, 01:05:25 duration
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GitHub Galaxy 2023: your guide to building a more flexible and productive software development cycle
Join us virtually on March 28-31 for GitHub Galaxy, a global enterprise event focused on improving efficiency, security, and developer productivity. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-02-28-08-15-30.fit: 0.95 miles, 00:24:59 average pace, 00:23:48 duration
Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases. ⌘ Read more
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Sam Whited: Places to Go
This is a love letter to many places, among them:
- Triple Step Studios,
- Smyrna, and Cobb County public libraries and parks,
- Sopo Bicycle Co-op and the Austin Yellow Bike Project,
- and AtlantaCritical Mass.
Dear comra … ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-01-25-16-24-10.fit: 2.17 miles, 00:06:30 average pace, 00:14:06 duration
Sunspot Cycle
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Why did we sign an agreement at #COP27 that is a watering down on had been agreed at #COP26, and counter-cycle with what science proves to be needed, is beyond my comprehension.
Why did we sign an agreement at #COP27 that is a watering down on had been agreed at #COP26, and counter-cycle with what science proves to be needed, is beyond my comprehension.
[nitter.net/joeloyo/status/1594212589046669313#m](https://nitter.net/ … ⌘ Read more
I’m trying to switch from Konversation to irssi. Let’s see how that goes. Any irssiers out there who can recommend specific settings or scripts? I already got myself trackbar.pl and nickcolor.pl as super-essentials. Also trying window_switcher.pl. Somehow my custom binds for Ctrl+1/2/3/etc. to switch to window 1/2/3/etc. doesn’t do anything: { key = "^1"; id = "change_window"; data = "1"; } (I cannot use the default with Alt as this is handled by my window manager). Currently, I’m just cycling with Ctrl+N/P. Other things to solve in the near future:
- better, more colorful and compact theme (just removed clock from statusbar so far)
- getting bell/urgency hints working on arriving messages
- nicer tabs in status bar, maybe even just channel names and no indexes
- decluster status bar with user and channel modes (I never cared about those in the last decade)
With my non-electric bike I did today a 30 km tour through an area where I have not cycled often. I rode mainly along two canals. Fortunately, there was plenty of sun shade, even though I was prepared and well creamed with suntan lotion. ⌘ Read more
Why do Some Minorities Support the US Republican Party?
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In contemporary US politics, the Democratic Party is often regarded as the most welcoming to racial minority groups. Even so, each election cycle sees many members of these groups cast their vote for the Republican Party. In 2016, for example, Chinese Americans from the East Coast to Silicon Valley organised rallies for Republican candidates. Even thoug … ⌘ Read more
Consensus Time
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I probably spend more CPU cycles optimizing the program than the program optimization will save in CPU cycles. 🤔 ⌘ Read more
Ugh. Trying to turn my sleeping cycle back to normal. I feel jet lagged af.