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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 21m

I love that story

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 21m

I have a very large list of incomplete requirements that lead to exploits. Not sure what a baseline means in this case. Android is just a linux distro for little things, but it'll take any little thing (which is great!) but doesn't have to pay as much attention.

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 21m

and how large the tent actually is. The world is plenty large to have crap humans in the margins; but small businesses... no no noo no no

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

"may" is doing a lot of work there. But I hope the EU takes this as the challenge it is. Let's do this

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 3h

On this, from a recent IISS analysis:

"Russia’s summer offensive has failed at enormous cost in troops. Its diplomatic strategy for America has fallen short. It faces a slow tsunami of European defence spending (...)
In short, time may no longer be on Russia’s side."

The Russia–Ukraine war has entered a new phase

Recent policy choices by America, Europe and China, and domestic economic strains, are reshaping Russia’s calculus. Since time may no longer be on its side, it is challenging Western resolve in more risky and aggressive ways. This is certain to escalate unless Europe responds.

www.iiss.org

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

Good enough to run with, for sure

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

A world with a very small number of nazis is not, however, a nazi world... So there's some room in there for slop

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

What are others? Are those Swiss Francs, mainly?

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BooSlice👻🔪 @twosense.bsky.social · 11h

the sexual tension between my spaghetti and meatballs tho

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20h

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

WELL SHIT

Barchart @barchart.com · 4h

91% of Fund Managers believe U.S. Stocks are overvalued, the most in history 🤯👀

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

My - fucking phone

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 3h

Me apologies! You are indeed, and so am I at home for sure.

However, as I work for a megacorp, I mean that we cannot run something at incomplete and insecure for our customers - yet. I expect that it will get there!

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

if you're RTing rightists, you're not right-adjacent, I note....

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

highly abstract... incomprehensible... Yup, it's Beckett. Sounds like a good production.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

this is way, way cool @graalvm.org work here

Alina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social · 6h

Memory efficiency of @graalvm.org Native Image: a Spring Boot application serving 100000 requests with high peak performance using only 80 MB of RAM 🚀
By @starbuxman.joshlong.com and @thomaswue.dev at @devoxx.com

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

RISC-V is still in the far distance for serious things. I'm rooting for them to make it prior to my death, however.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

politics are now out in the open. I like big tents that included people who have the sense enough to not argue people aren't as good as others and something should be done about that.

When they DO say that, however.... big tents are bullshit.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 4h

sigh. So are they planning to sponsor ALL distros? Because if not, then they're making **choices**, which bums me out because I had been thinking of Framework for my next one, but it's easily replaced by another option.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 5h

when the entire story is that MS is paying for two different infrastructures to do the same thing AND GH is hitting capacity limits.

Some journalists have missed the boat by not noticing that even NAT the CEO reported NOT to Satya but to DevDiv the entire time. Sheesh.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 5h

There's lots to say about Microsoft, but this: "Microsoft has long been a good steward of GitHub’s fortunes, but in the end, no good service can escape the internal politics[...]where executives will always want to increase the size of their fiefdoms."

Is pure BS. thenewstack.io/github-will-...

GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development

GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.

thenewstack.io

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 17h

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 18h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrC...