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Matt
@mmcknett.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Software & Aviation C++, Python, JS, Rust, and C182s he/him

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115848866231431071

Wow, ICE is getting the bank account data for Medicare/Medicaid recipients.
mastodon.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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End of day 4 of writing a complex program in #rustlang

I'm beginning to have a pretty good time. Cargo clippy telling me of better ways to do things, the rust docs are pretty good, starting to get a "feel" for what methods are likely available.

This is the first day where I'm not thinking […]
Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx
mastodon.tmm.cx
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
#connections938
Puzzle 938
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The last one though. What?
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Reposted by Matt
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
#wordle 1,660 4/6

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January 5, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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WTF?

The #trump admin “captured” #venezuela President Nicolás #maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating Trump admin pressure on the #oil-rich #southamerica nation.

The US is now […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I hope #fredmeyer gets this memo: the showy #lp tactics you keep coming up with are doing less for you than just…staffing your operations better.

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/shrink-store-theft-operations-inventory-loss-organized-retail-crime/756573/
The biggest culprit in shrink is in the store — but it’s probably not a criminal
Inefficiencies in store operations cause more inventory loss than organized retail crime, which has been the industry’s focus in recent years.
www.grocerydive.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Matt
Timothy Snyder closed out On Freedom, in part, by talking about how social media algorithms are removing our “unpredictability”, which in his view is a necessary component of #freedom. Free people cannot be predicted, and therefore cannot be controlled. But […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Uh oh, students think pasting an error message into the AI chat window is“#debugging”. 😬
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
How did the cocreator of Go and UTF-8 respond to a thank-you email from AI?
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You can purchase Diversity Sindyrella at your nearest Turkish aquarium.
December 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_(ZR-1)?wprov=sfti1#Inquiry

Huh. About 60 years before the #Challenger disaster rocked #aerospace , there was another #aviation disaster caused by weather conditions, which leaders were warned about but ignored due to political and operational […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
In #america, #freedom looks like Customs and Border Protection showing up to your airline gate to hassle passengers and walk up the jetbridge with a German Shepherd while asking you how much cash you have.
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/115758268668111918

“[…] the designated Analyst:
- Opened the e-black-book (an offline Excel-based inventory file, separate from the primary online inventory system) [...]”

Opened the…what?
mastodon.social
December 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Matt
The Duality of Christmas.

Two neighbours, side by side.
One old house.
One modern, boxy new build.

Inflatable Christmas
Figures adorn their lawns.
Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
A minion, Frosty and the Grinch.

There they all stood
For their values of Christmas

Until last night

The nativity […]
Original post on beige.party
beige.party
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Matt
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Reposted by Matt
Power outage in most of San Francisco, including traffic lights. Autonomous cars going nuts. I shall stay home (in the dark) in case I get run over by a Waymo.
December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some #git things that I would like more software engineers to understand:
1. You can build & test changes while in the middle of a rebase. You probably should if you’re resolving conflicts in the middle of a rebase.
2. Branches reference commits. That means they can move to reference other […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#ai is just autocorrect giving you pareidolia.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Matt
Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115713049885628576

There is no proof you can provide that #ice will believe instead of their app. If we allow this to continue, our laws, our citizenship and our proof of it mean diddly squat. Masked, unidentifiable government agents stop you, decide […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Matt
We also did this calculation for the catalogue of satellites, trackable debris, and rocket bodies from 2018, before megaconstellations, showing just how much less safe megaconstellations like Starlink have made orbit.

The densest part of orbit in 2018 had a […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Matt
We could hear the boulders rolling in the water! This is the Raging River near Preston, WA. #wawx
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM