Simon @spoltier@social.cleverlibre.org

I am just going to say that... this weird art that looks like a T-shirt and my next book about R (#rstats) and Graphics are related. #nospoilers 🤭

This is Dotty, one of the chickens who lives with my parents in Scotland. Dotty doesn't know much, she's just a chicken. But even she knows that toothbrush botnet story is bollocks.

Been getting this sense lately that the fediverse may be thinning out a bit, and in parallel getting a sense people I know are finally jumping to "bluesky" in numbers.

Trying to figure out exactly at what point I decide I'm willing to create a feed over there. My position has been "I'll post there when I don't have to use their servers to do it", but I continue to suspect this will literally never happen because their protocol is designed to look like federation without being ever federatable

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

a CEO can never be held accountable therefore a CEO must never make a management decision

Before you finalize your product, you must fight the final boss: The Scrum Master!

#scrum #agile

#FOSDEM is over for me, the trip back begins. #TrainThread time!

I am going from Brussels to Zurich on the direct way, so of course we start with the Eurostar (Red) to Rotterdam Centraal. Wait what!?

It turns out the Eurostar Café has Duvel, so a little travel beer is in order.

Bit miffed. I tried the Mixtral model and asked it some extremely gnarly molecular biology questions. It came up with answers that surprised me (on archaeal DNA semi-continuous replication without Okazaki fragments), and unlike other models I've tried, Mixtral responded with stuff I didn't know about and that apparently checks out.

This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.

I’m reasonably certain that this is fiction but it’s so good (and unsettling) that I do not plan on ever checking that assumption (via @hazelweakly)
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

It was the revenge of a lifetime to make it to SBB's railsways talk on time and being late to DB's. #fosdem

It was mandatory to recover my mastadon login because no other social media seems to be relevant at #fosdem.

Ok, San Miguel 0,0 is a drinkable alcohol free beer.

Ok, it's Friday afternoon and I'm tired of messing around with Prometheus, so it's time for another paper-reading liveblog!

Today I'm reading "Bigger, Longer, Fewer: what do cluster jobs look like outside Google?" by George Amvrosiadis et al.

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/CloudComputing/CMU-PDL-17-104.pdf

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#distributedsystems #CloudComputing #simulation #liveblogging

I gave #linkedin an honest try, for a year or more, in terms of finding #work.

It's a cesspool of #toxicpositivity and fake job postings.

Now I'm asking, with all urgency -- to anyone who has anything #tech to offer, please consider a guy who has:

- 30 yrs of experience
- out of work for 20 months
- 3 kids, one of who is coming up on her first birthday
- a track record for secure systems
- a month left before being evicted

The Space Cats are ready to rummmmmmble! 😆

tiresome new patient intake forms thanks to that pagliacci incident

"-90x programmer - 10x output and ten other 10x programmers nerdsniped"

"This page looks better in our app"

Then you should probably do something about it and fix your website, shouldn't you ? I don't know why you are telling me, open a ticket and deal with it !

@the_etrain @Alice