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Simon Frankau

sgf@mastodon.xyz

<p>SRE manager on Google Compute Engine (only speak for me), ex-quant dev. Fan of maths, Haskell, Rust and retrocomputing. London, UK. CS PhD. Fuck cancer. </p><p>Available on Twitter while stocks last.</p>

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  • Post #2638713

    I&amp;#39;ve been retro-gaming, playing the Metal Slug series on Neo Geo. Metal Slug has two distinguishing features: An abysmal name, and the most kick-ass pixel art. I&amp;#39;ve a fondness for the Bitmap Brothers &amp;amp; Amiga/SNES/Megadrive graphics in general, and too many &amp;quot;retro&amp;quot; games ape an ugly NES style, but Metal Slug&amp;#39;s graphics are hands down the best. So, yeah, I recommend playing the series, which also boast fun gameplay and a sense of humour. That,...

  • Post #2638712

    https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2024/8/woman-arrested-in-connection-with-inaccurate-social-media-post/ How the fascist state works: A woman (allegedly) exercises her first amendment rights by spreading misinformation intended to encourage racist riots. She&amp;#39;s then arrested because we don&amp;#39;t have a first amendment, but do take a strong line on hate speech. From here, it&amp;#39;s a slippery slope to an authoritarian nightmare. Just remember, this could...

  • Post #2638711

    https://mastodon.social/@Viss/113001079780138078 feels like security maintaining its old, macho image. In any other modern software development wotsit, the response to a competitor having a major visible public outage is &amp;quot;There, but for the grace of God, go I&amp;quot;. CrowdStrike&amp;#39;s screw-up was very visible and in many ways embarrassingly basic, but most competitors a) dream of that market share b) will have an embarrassing killer bug embedded in them *somewhere*.

  • Post #2638710

    I&amp;#39;m back! I&amp;#39;m not yet back on social media - I&amp;#39;m not yet reading my feeds - but I am at least back home after two months in hospital, on and off. It&amp;#39;s so good to be home! (I\m happy to answer questions from curious friends in DMs, but probably don&amp;#39;t want to spam detailed medical stuff to my feed.)

  • Post #2638709

    I&amp;#39;ve been back reading Fedi for about 5 minutes when I see a post about how the trolley problem is completely unrepresentative of anything that might happen in real life, about 30 seconds after wondering whether they could possibly vote for Harris. Some things just never change!