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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I saw a comment on a YouTube video that I want to opine on. The precise video doesn't matter, but it was a US American getting angry about someone's take which painted US Americans with a broad brush. My summary of it would be: "How dare you chastise an oppressed people (non-MAGA US Americans) […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

This badass woman should be all over the news but sadly her accomplishment is under-reported.

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

“I recently read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It was oddly sad to read. The enthusiasm and optimistic view of open source and the future of software and craftsmanship. Looking at it in 2026… incredibly sad. “Forget the bazaar. Back to the cathedral.” —bitbasher on Hacker News […]

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Assoc editor of Frontiers in Systems #Neuro: > Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

When Jason Kenney is the good(er) guy... it just all feels wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0n-enVyss

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/11… This is a very interesting take, but unless I'm missing something it seems to have at least one major flaw. I don't think the "Working Class" and "Democrat" groups share the same definition for many of the words they asked about […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

The barrier to entry was raised, is the point, the internet became five shit websites posting screenshots of the other four because the technical barrier to entry was raised, from "Find a guy outside a computer market and pay him a fiver" to "Learn to code. Also learn to code two websites for […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Though I doubt it will happen, I want #IfyNwadiwe to come down from the host chair and get into the ring for the final episode of the #UmActually Tournament of Champions Finale, with #BrianDavidGilbert taking over the hosting chair and #MikeTrapp coming back to be in the fact-checking booth. It […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Hey developers, don't you love it when you're using a tool that's giving you an error, so you: - create a trivial use case - confirm that it still gives the same error - start writing a bug report - dig in the code to make your bug report better - notice something subtle about your original […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I need a #nebulatv-exclusive episode of #LegalEagle where Devin reviews tonight's episode of #GameChanger. #DropoutTV

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Watching the #artemis2 launch. I want #kerbalspaceprogram orbital trajectory views to see the perogee raise maneuver. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

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Chris Hanson @eschaton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop. Did you know there’s also no technical […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. -Louis D. Brandeis The choice is made. It's not democracy. www.goodreads.com/quotes/10480-we-m…

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We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

RE: sfba.social/@lauerhahn/115987323785… I've been playing Crusader Kings II recently. It has been a useful experience for me to engage with the patriarchy. I find myself having a weird experience of both caring how my sons (particularly) turn out, but also they have to be […]

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Louise Auerhahn :propride: @lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

This is critical to understand. It's how right-wingers can talk about "protecting children" in the same breath when they call for abusing and torturing children. They mean it in the sense of "protecting" one's property, not of supporting and nurturing a fellow human […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is genuinely important. The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald. They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

@TechConnectify just posted his best video ever. It's long, but worth every minute. I started getting bored around minute 45, but after minute 60 I couldn't put it down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Let's say you can't figure out why 3,000 masked, armed goons are harassing people on the streets, banging on doors, "raiding" business, do the math. They don't have anywhere near the warrants for specific individuals they need to keep everybody busy. Yep, harassing citizens is just their way of […]

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Sean Coates @sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

When @pluralistic first proposed this kind of idea, I honestly didn't think it could work. We (Canadians) would have to an unfathomably large change to how we treat our US relationship. We can't just make a short term change to oppose new (stupid) economic policy; we have to commit to being on […]

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now" Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Headline_News_Bot/… Greenland should counter-offer. Given how much more it will cost to live in the US economic system, they should counter with $10MM/person. That would allow everyone there to buy their way into the upper-middle class in the US […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

The UN might be facing an existential test right now. The other week I was listening to Rachel Maddow's podcast episode about the failure of the League of Nations and how it led to WWII. (link below) In 1935, Mussolini's Italy decided it wanted a piece of the African colonizer game, and […]

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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 @dan613.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Yes, if the US can go into Venezuela to remove a dictator, then NATO can go into Ukraine to remove Russia. #Ukraine #Venezuela

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George Lakoff @georgelakoff.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2024

The 'Misunderestimating' Trap: Many progressives think that people who vote conservative are just stupid, especially those who vote against their economic self-interest. Some believe that if we tell them the real economic facts, they will change how they vote. In reality, those who vote […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

This is the number one indicator of a brewing problem in society, in my opinion. Not dealing with this fuels fascists, IMO. "Pay inequality in Canada reaches a record high" — CBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGe71XCCSDY There is no war but the class war. Hire more CRA auditors to focus on […]

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Jeff MOVED > jeffhorton@mstdn.social @jeffhorton.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

As our American friends celebrate Public Domain Day, we in Canada have no such luck, and won't for most of our remaining boomer/genx lifetimes. "Back on January 1, 2022, the copyright-protected works of authors or creators (I will use the term “authors” to cover all creators) who died in 1971 […]

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Ron Dyck @dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

A professor breaks down Russia's negotiating tactics with Ukraine : NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/30/nx-s1-566071…

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

RE: hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/1158133580… I love reading the comments on this poll. Two groups: 1. People who used PHP when it was popular and are traumatized by PHP <= 4 (fair) 2. People who have used PHP >= 7 and know that it's actually a pretty decent language now, albeit […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

A necessary watch. @pluralistic calling on nations to repeal anti-circumvention laws as a response to (US) tariffs. Radical sovereignty as political leverage, hitting where it hurts most. "Lets move fast and break Tim Cooks things. Lets move fast and break kings." […]

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Ryan Marcus @ryanmarcus.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Most database teams optimize what they see in workload logs. But those very optimizations change what users choose to run! In our CIDR paper, we argue that industrial workloads exhibit 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬: logs reflect a negotiation between users and the […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

A four-step cycle diagram showing feedback between database users and engineers.
① User submits their workload to the system: A square grid of colored squares represents the workload (3 green, 2 purple).
② Engineers observe properties of the workload: A database cylinder leads to a chart showing workload composition: purple 30%, green 60%. A speech bubble from an engineer character says, “Most queries are green. I’ll trade lower purple performance for higher green performance.”
③ Engineers identify hotspots and optimize their system.
④ Users optimize their workloads based on their platform: A speech bubble from a user character says, “Our platform is good at green, but bad at purple — send more green!” An arrow shows users adjusting the workload and feeding it back into the system.

Overall, the diagram illustrates a feedback loop where system optimizations influence user behavior, which then shapes the workload engineers observe.

A side-by-side pair of charts.

Left chart: “Repeated Query Rate.”
A scatter plot shows median percentage of weekly repeated queries (y-axis, ranging roughly 57.5%–75%) versus query startup time in milliseconds (x-axis, 0–5500 ms). Eight points form an upward trend: higher startup times are associated with more repeated queries. A red regression line slopes upward across the points, labeled R² = 0.643. A small annotation at the bottom right reads p = 0.017, N = 8.

Right chart: “Feature Usage.”
A line chart shows the percentage of customers using a particular feature (y-axis, 0–10%) over time measured in weeks since an optimization release (x-axis, –15 to +17). Before release (negative weeks), usage fluctuates around ~2%. After week 0, usage gradually rises, reaching around 6% by week 10–15, with small variations.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

There's been much discussion lately on the Fediverse (and the broader Internet) about open-source projects that have developers with questionable ethics in lead roles, or about toxic cultures in projects, or about "takeovers" of projects or their infrastructure. (e.g. RubyGems, Nix, Ladybird […]

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Eric Gerlach @egerlach.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

RE: kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/115… This. This is why I subscribe to everything Mozilla will let me buy, whether or not I use it extensively. I'm also trying to be better about supporting the open-source I use. This stuff is expensive to make and maintain, and […]

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