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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · 6d ago

Replying to @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org @LPerry2@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org my grandma knew the cost of everything and would hit like six stores to get everything. And when she died had an enormous bag of wrapping paper we could we use. Also she taught me how to (and to) get all the toothpaste and peanut butter used instead of tossing some out with the container.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @DeliaChristina@sfba.social

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social thanks for the clarification - yeah I don't even care that much about data centers (compared to firing all the black women they can and stopping people and ICE gestapo and preventing solar power and stopping science and medicine) but it is a great example of citizens organizing and showing who ultimately has the power, so a good practice for people.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @DeliaChristina@sfba.social

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social I can't even understand what your point is precisely but damn I laughed out loud at "the golf course."

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org and particularly nice the total energy is up and the total carbon burn down. Sometimes I can believe if we can stop the dumb money we are on the brink of prosperity, with enough to care for all our responsibilities, human, environmental, animal, etc., allowing this planet and solar system to live up to our potential.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @LabSpokane@mas.to @mlanger@mastodon.world @user47@m.ai6yr.org I feel like I used to have a record player where you could stack three or four LP at a time and some clicky mechanism would drop them down one at a time. I had some multi disk albums that were arranged so that you could listen to the whole piece this way in the proper order (and proper order of long compositions is not solved universally for digital).

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @geraldew@fosstodon.org

@geraldew@fosstodon.org @vampiress@eigenmagic.net all software done right is solving novel problems. If you are repeating yourself you want to genericize or framework it. Code gen. Whatever. The novel solution endures without decay over time and is able to be reproduced into other contexts.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @EdTheDev@infosec.exchange

@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe and it is coinciding with a sort of engineering collapse of trying for the high availability systems. Companies just aren't embarrassed enough by 2 9s reliability. It is doable, but does take discipline and wanting to be reliable.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @wronglang@bayes.club

@wronglang@bayes.club @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange adding complexity. And the high scale system is complex enough that you only get reliability if top executives consistently value it year over year. Source: I worked at a place that was 5 9s for many years and a place that went from 2 1/2 nines to to about 4 1/2 nines over fifteen years or so. Someone responsible for reliability has to be able to say roll back to teams with bad code and it has to stick. Plus honest incident review and continuous improvement.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 02, 2026

Replying to @bruce@darkmoon.social

@bruce@darkmoon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org a difference that I hadn't heard about constantlyfor 30 years: the scientists have newly realized about human's ability to adapt to hotter weather; our brain-centric metabolism depends on being able to shed heat as fast as we generate it; evaporation is a crucial part of that; when air is too hot to absorb our heat and too full of water to allow for evaporative cooling, we die @ lower temps than in dry deserts. warming atmosphere will hit that limit in years or decades in places.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 02, 2026

Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I think sustained 95 F is fatal for normal healthy folks. Probably kill off older people and some small children at 90.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @Illudium_Q36@woof.group

@Illudium_Q36@woof.group @aphyr@woof.group not to mention drawing nudes with pencil and paper. I think it is safe to say, even outside of sexist roles, people, of all kinds if not all individuals, as a group are interested in human bodies, nude or kind of revealingly dressed. And moreso at fifteen or 20 than later, in general, at least based on my trajectory.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jun 03, 2026

Replying to @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @lina@vt.social if you are anti-corporate power and anti-corporate control of the internet, Tridgell is someone whose work you may admire-he preserved the server side of the internet for open software/standards - fighting and successfully stopping MS's attempt to turn desktop monopoly into servers, he enabled people to have Windows PCs and Unix back ends. If u use apps with a server side and don't pay MS for the privilege, his feature for feature reimplementation of netbios is partly why.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 30, 2026

Replying to @imrehg@fosstodon.org

@imrehg@fosstodon.org @JennyFluff@chitter.xyz @aks@scalie.zone I was thinking a tag in the ad space "well, now that we have established the context for the problem, the issue is that this ad space is extremely valuable and your bid will need to be farther along the cost curve than normal, in order to lock in the highly valuable consumers visiting this pro-high spending web site".

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 29, 2026

Replying to @imrehg@fosstodon.org

@imrehg@fosstodon.org @JennyFluff@chitter.xyz @aks@scalie.zone this time gap illustrates the gap between adversarial use cases and delight the user use cases, which use case was the norm back before September. Putting money into the internet has attracted adversaries. Someone that has a website with ads on it should put in hidden text to influence the ad auctions, get some money from the poor security companies.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 24, 2026

Replying to @amydiehl@mstdn.social

@amydiehl@mstdn.social I changed my name to get married and again in a divorce and yeah our supposed modern electronic systems are appallingly bad. It's not just the documents but the requirements are vague and not published in one coherent place. Each system has weird requirements that you can't learn ahead of time.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 17, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social I felt so strongly when a feature I implemented was featured in the risks digest! (We emailed forgotten password in plaintext back to the user; it was the 90s!) I loved reading that and his authoritative assessment of it all.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 07, 2026

Replying to @jameshowell@fediscience.org

@jameshowell@fediscience.org @Illuminatus@mstdn.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io @blogdiva@mastodon.social oOMG that is the funniest meme I have been exposed to recently. So many people do this, unconsciously. On the prompting thing, the point of a prompt is mostly to shift the model into the section of the linguistic universe where the answers you want lie. So he is asking for text patterns from blunt, un-analytical folks, truisms or sloganeering, rather than finely wrought, careful reasoning that incorporates the world/concept fuzziness continuously.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · May 07, 2026

Replying to @ItsTheManOnTheMoon@timeloop.cafe

@ItsTheManOnTheMoon@timeloop.cafe @MarthaCrimson@mastodon.art my wife is an artists so we always go direct either to their own web site or like paypal or whatever manual thing they have.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @ZenHeathen@beige.party

@ZenHeathen @rwsoft @lifewithtrees haha that's a good one. I had t read it before unless memory fails. I find other people embody pieces of reality in a concrete way that I genuinely would never come up with - for all the good things to be given a voice we need multiplicity. But who knows.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @jayalane@mastodon.online

@rwsoft @lifewithtrees @ZenHeathen Even very orthodox religion says our little brains cannot expect to know our "ultimate purpose" - we just do what we can and don't worry about the rest. 2/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @rwsoft@mastodon.social

@rwsoft @lifewithtrees @ZenHeathen to find meaning in living tho is certainly commonplace especially once you stop pinning everything to some idea of a purpose that your brain created. Meaning isn't some separate thing from experience but living Zen is not meaningless as people usually mean that term. In my experience of course. A walk outside is a walk outside - quite satisfactory when free from strongly held opinions. 1/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 19, 2026

@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com yeah we are lucky to live about 50 meters from a light rail station and in a town where bicycling is faster than driving for anything less than a couple of miles. And the cats are pretty indifferent to us :) and out of five or so people there is usually some body home.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 19, 2026

@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com yeah my family has two old leafs and a (carvana sourced) model three; with our combination of transit, biking and work from home we charge off the solar panels during the day for 90%+ of the driving. Would be 100% but the boys are young and dating and energetic so not quite. I occasionally go to a gas station for the car wash machine.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 05, 2026

Replying to @torgo@mastodon.social

@torgo because, like in 1930s Germany, the “industrialists” think they can control fascism and are funding it to get economic policies that disempower the working folks. So 5ey buy a lot of disinformation to help the cause.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @WataruTenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net

@WataruTenkawa_1 @Colman maybe but I find a mind set of trying to rank order experiences deflates the experience and causes me to miss the juicy core of the experience. Still an interesting survey.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @bodil@social.treehouse.systems

@bodil the problems here are capitalism not AI. In particular too much capital seeking new areas to extract unreasonable returns from. Very similar to dot com and real estate bubbles but made worse by the increased amount of capital sitting around since Covid bubble. Almost impossible for our economy to resist hype and just develop interesting new techniques for the betterment of humanity.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @Namnatulco@sueden.social

@Namnatulco @tante software engineers are in general excellent at criticism - the fast iterative work flow makes this skill more useful than in say surgery. But asking them about code their group wrote will get the answer that it is terrible. But IME the problems are more often with conditions than code itself. A lot of times management won't pay for the right way, and a lot of times years of tech debt is hard to maintain, but quality is higher than the people say.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @jayalane@mastodon.online

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot It shifted my default for talking about religion to seeking to understand the good people experience from their path to the ultimate, away from arguing over the differences from my path. (As a confirmed Episoscopalian with liturgical opinions that shift helps every week at church, much less when talking to my neighbors or traveling). 2/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @petealexharris@mastodon.scot

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot when I was a kid I happened to read The Religions of Man by Huston Smith. As the title indicates it was typical mid 20th c Western academic writing, but he had a gift for sharing something of the interior reason why people value their religions as a practitioner. After each religion was covered I would feel a bit of regret that I hadn’t been brought up in the covered religion. 1/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @alexwild@mastodon.online

@alexwild@mastodon.online @futurebird@sauropods.win FYI

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @dianea__dup_39677@lgbtqia.space

@dianea@lgbtqia.space what kind of ink are you using? I may wish to replicate this experiment :)

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @jayalane@mastodon.online

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Even global warming, while it was a fair degree of currency in the info market, many people keep thinking it "might be too late" as if stopping it at 3 meters of ocean rise is not different than stopping it at 10 or 70 meters of rise. But everyone is aware that in a group chat messages can be seen in a different order. But it is hard for me to perceive the overall group for sure. 2/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @pewnack@aus.social

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social sure. Could be the predominant culture now. Not where I travel but that's sure not a large sample. I am Just thinking about explaining functional analysis "functions are really vectors" vs explaining the CAP theorem "if the network is down you don't know what happens on the other side" to non specialists. (Both of which I have done in the past few years). 1/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

Replying to @pewnack@aus.social

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I agree with what you seem to believe; my small point was just I think people do not know as much about science as about computer technology. Science has less visibility than it ought to have. I live in a place where the miraculous mRNA technology is looking like not being used because people are too unaware of how wonderfully useful it is but phones are. And people spend more time worrying about the Car Play software than getting a low or no carbon transport option.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @jayalane@mastodon.online

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social local caches, and the difference being streaming and local data at a pretty intuitive level, due to all the city people wanting phones. Agreed the US is less educated than it ought (which I see as a cause for lack of support for proper units). I see computer science as a tiny subset of proper science, but many of the weird effects of comp Sci are in daily display in a way that gravity waves or quantum superposition or island evolution patterns are not. I could be wrong. 2/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @pewnack@aus.social

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social my point was small: pretty sure one can squeeze off 50 mls of medicine and not really understand SI units and yet that most city kids around the world will understand networks, delayed replication, the idea of eventual consistency, 1/2

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @pewnack@aus.social

@pewnack@aus.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I am all for science and certainly no one can get thru their morning without the fruits of knowledge, but at this time it is difficult to claim that computing is more niche than a solid understanding of SI units (mich less dimensional analysis).

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jan 27, 2026

Replying to @wearenew_public@mastodon.social

@wearenew_public @anneapplebaum between federated tech, like mastodon, email, and web pages, and open source software, like Linux and LibreOffice, the biggest problem with ditching fascist controlled companies is the giant cloud providers. Hardware is more scarce than software.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Dec 13, 2025

Replying to @n0kovo@infosec.exchange

@n0kovo@infosec.exchange I like GCC but really how can anything exceed auto tools for yelling. I mean maybe last five years has been ok. But there are decades of missing the mark before that. (With git, also, you can blame the victim, oneself, for not understanding the semantics of immutable digraphs of content addressable stores).

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2025

Replying to @johentsch@hostux.social

@johentsch@hostux.social @jimbob@aus.social “why is it rewriting it in lisp?” lol. I used Claude code for a thing exploring the distribution of algebraic numbers using 128 bit floats and instructions from a later interaction would make it remove features requested in earlier iterations. Also, it was not good at maintaining its own code. Still, it spit out ok PNG files without me having to learn some PNG libraries. But it couldn’t figure out a way not to run out of memories with algebraic numbers of large heights.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2025

Replying to @yaxu@post.lurk.org

@yaxu@post.lurk.org @henryseg@mathstodon.xyz sure, I wasn't arguing against banning it. The accessibility alone is a serious flaw (even not being able to reflow with different page dimensions is a pain). But it is more temporally safe than most old formats. I have downloaded very old Tex and rerun it, and have a 17 year old presentation I periodically regenerate. Nothing too fancy tho.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2025

Replying to @yaxu@post.lurk.org

@yaxu@post.lurk.org @henryseg@mathstodon.xyz the chief virtue of LaTeX is that it is portable across time. In forty years it will still be a known format. Papers from 1985 in LaTex are still easy to read and edit; traffic/eqn, PageMaker, word 1.0, etc. or so on are not, in general.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Oct 30, 2024

Replying to @ianrosewrites@scicomm.xyz

@ianrosewrites@scicomm.xyz like Mr Rogers said: look for the people helping others.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jan 01, 2024

Replying to @MHowell@mas.to

@MHowell@mas.to @admin@mastodon.brk.io @robpike@hachyderm.io we have gay marriage, supercomputers every where, Wikipedia and arxiv and mathoverflow and less child sexual abuse and less racist violence (thanks cell phones) and the Catholic Church is trying to apologize for that and less crime and while the labor/capital balance needs adjusting and the carbon burn needs to stop, and racists need to again be shamed, we are mostly done with the brutal violence of the 1950s racists, country invasions, and coups. Not that I am not mad.

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Chris L @jayalane@mastodon.online · Jul 02, 2023

Replying to @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social wow up ten x compared to a few days ago.

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