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Gaurav Vaidya

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He's just this guy, you know? Semantic web technologist at the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Edits […] [bridged from hachyderm.io/@gaurav on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
Let this sink in: the Roberts Court used the shadow docket to vacate a judgment in a case the Roberts Court just told us it was not overruling. If this sounds nuts, it is because it is. 5/
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/…
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
to be clear i'm not doing this because i love writing cmake syntax that would drive mere mortals mad. i do it because i'm replacing a "simple Makefile" that has perhaps once fit that bill, but eventually turned into a 1200-line (not including *.inc files) monstrosity with a load-bearing rot13 […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
A scary quick calculation: there are 10,375 Starlink satellites in orbit planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.ht…, all coming down within 5 years. That's an *average* of 5 or 6 a day for the next 5 years. And the v2's are bigger than the v1's. v2's are (conservatively) 1000kg and […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026
this painting is probably meant to represent a funeral but I can only read it as the kid is having the worst birthday party ever, and his grampa really regrets hiring this musician. ("Boyan" by Viktor Vasnetsov)
an oil painting: a group of warriors and noblemen have gathered on a hilltop around a spear jammed into the ground. A strangely wizard-like man is strumming a zither overdramatically; the king looks a little annoyed, the young prince in the front looks especially put out, and the old man behind him has his head in his hands.
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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
Applying for this job. I am an award-winning screenwriter and at night my head turns into a burning skull
Online help-wanted ad titled "Ghost Rider for Movie Script"
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
@farbel Being indicted means a great deal. It means a prosecutor brought a case to a grand jury, got them to sign off on it, and filed charges with the court. Come is now the subject of a criminal investigation, and will have to defend himself in a potentially lengthy and expensive process in […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
Several firefighters injured after a collapse in the church. Now a fifth alarm (the maximum pre-determined response). The FDNY "alarm" system addresses an interesting and difficult optimization problem in dispatching additional firefighters to large incidents. And it's largely unchanged from […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
@Ruth_Mottram The engineering challenge that needs to be forced upon SpaceX is how to provide their service with fewer satellites! Why do they need 42,000? They've never been asked to justify that number. With fewer satellites in orbit, all of the problems I've been talking about for years are […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and […]
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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
If all you do in your tech career is: 1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve; 2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
He literally told us that the objective is to “wipe out their whole civilization”. If that isn’t a crime against humanity, the most fundamental of war crimes, nothing is. Virtually no one wants this. It will accomplish nothing. We must stop it.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) appeared to be the first House Republican on Tuesday to publicly break with President Donald Trump’s threat to end the “whole civilization” in Iran if the country doesn’t make a deal by Tuesday night."
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337… I very much appreciate the way they wrote this: "SpaceX, which recently reported two Starlink satellite failures that created new space debris, yesterday accused Amazon and its launch partner Arianespace of negligence that 'needlessly […]
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
Image of Artmeis with the text "there are two outlooks inside of you, neither of them is working"
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Good write-up of what Trump is doing to the U.S. Forest Service. www.hcn.org/articles/forest-service…
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Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern
In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves. The post Forest Service overhaul sows confusion, concern appeared first on High Country News.
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
Trump Live Updates: House and Senate Republicans Reach Deal to End DHS Shutdown - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/01/us/…
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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026
Periodic reminder that if you live in a big city (I am in Wellington) you should download the app Transit. It’s the best app for getting around if you don’t have a car of your own.
The image displays a public transport app interface indicating the arrival time of bus number 3, headed to Rongotai. It shows a countdown timer with 21 seconds until the bus arrives, and additional details like scheduled arrival times and nearby stops.
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
Some climbers put this sign up on one of #Boulder's Flatirons this morning. It was made of fabric so no damage to the rocks. 1. I'm surprised they didn't put it up tomorrow morning, what with all the #NoKings protests planned. 2. Wow those are large letters […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
A photo of the words "ICE OUT" in block letters on the side of Boulder's flatiron rock formation. The letters are a small fraction of the size of the formation, bit when you zoom in you can just barely spot two people near the letters. They indicate the letters are probably 20 feet tall
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Anti-trans visa ruling echoes Nazi regime destroying trans documents www.washingtonblade.com/2026/03/27/…
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Anti-trans visa ruling echoes Nazi regime destroying trans documents
Trump administration escalates attacks on queer community
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Here's the language from the superseding stolen docs indictment describing Trump showing Susie Wiles a classified map (at Bedminster, not on a plane, though some witnesses said it was on a plane). legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/23...
A paragraph describing Trump showing "PAC Representative" a classified map and acknowledging he shouldn't show it to her.A paragraph showing how Susie Wiles vetted De Oliveira before Trump approved paying for his lawyer.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
enjoyed this telnetd analysis. (if you can’t believe anyone has a legitimate operational reason to run telnet, you live in a cozy world indeed) labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bu…
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A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
A long, long time ago, in a land free of binary exploit mitigations, when Unix still roamed the Earth, there lived a pre-authentication Telnetd vulnerability. In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994) that it may even be older than you. To put the timespan
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New tonight: Senators are increasingly optimistic they will soon reach a deal to fund most of DHS including TSA after long lines snarled U.S. airports.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
GOOD. National Academy of Sciences rejects pressure (functionally blackmail) by Republican state attorneys general and refuses to censor its chapter on climate change in a reference manual used by the court system. By @jtimmer.bsky.social
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National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
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Cromley @voiceofduum.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
Fake ad for Aramco (national oil company of Saudi Arabia) in the current Onion. A joyous mom holds her smiling son up in a field of wildflowers on a sunny day. Ad text:
The sun will explode eventually.
Where will your precious solar power be then?
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Carl C @raven.fedi.raventhemaker.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026
There's some irony that a dev's least favorite job is reviewing other devs' code, and dev jobs are being turned into reviewing AI-generated code for a living.
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
Another victory against the vile metric system
Tv weather showing a currency/ball based hail measurement system
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Sam Bowne :donor: @sambowne.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
kubernetes-el Compromised: How a Pwn Request Exploited a Popular Emacs Package - StepSecurity www.stepsecurity.io/blog/kubernetes…
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kubernetes-el Compromised: How a Pwn Request Exploited a Popular Emacs Package - StepSecurity
On March 5, 2026, a threat actor exploited a classic "Pwn Request" vulnerability in the CI workflow of kubernetes-el/kubernetes-el, a popular Emacs package for managing Kubernetes clusters. The attacker stole the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN (with full write permissions), exfiltrated CI/CD secrets, defaced the repository, and injected destructive code.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps". This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026
Looking back at all (now) published vulnerabilities in #curl that were present in code from 2020 until now, at no point in those years was the share of "C mistakes" higher than 15% of all vulns. Through all years, the C mistake share of all vulnerabilities […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
C mistakes among the vulnerabilities in (curl) code
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
Internet Society is hiring a Global Head of Advocacy & Internet Policy internetsociety.bamboohr.com/career… #GetFediHired #Jobs #InternetSociety
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026
On hearing the news that Kristi Noem was fired
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
From @nelson GitHub status mrshu.github.io/github-statuses A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly
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The Missing GitHub Status Page
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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
Published some notes on the situation at Qwen - they released the Qwen 3.5 family (an outstanding family of open weight models) but now their lead researcher and several others all appear to have resigned within the past 24 hours simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen
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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
Prosecutors accused Gray of buying his son an #AR15 style rifle as a Christmas present & allowing him access to that weapon & #ammunition despite #warnings that his son was a #danger to others. #ColtGray, then 14, used that rifle to carry out a #MassShooting at #ApalacheeHighSchool in Winder […]
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
It's official! This Sunday will be the last "leap forward" in BC! As of next November, the Vancouver time zone in British Columbia, Canada will be referred to as "Pacific Time" and will be -7GMT permanently. (same as Yukon Territory which did this 2 years ago) The presser was pretty cute […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Nothing like starting a war when the House has a vote on whether or not it is legal early next week.
NYT headline reporting "US and Israel strike Iran."
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waffle 🔜 eurorust @wffl.im-in.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Give trans kids a chance to be kids.
4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.
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Gaurav Vaidya @gaurav.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
Come work with me! RENCI at the Univ of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill is hiring a Research Software Developer to work on scientific software development, CI pipelines, deployment workflows and secure software development: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312951 #rse #job #fediHire
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Research Software Developer
The Research Software Developer will contribute to the design, development, and operation of cloud-native computing environments that support research and data-driven projects at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). This role focuses on building foundational software components and workflows while developing skills in modern research software engineering practices.Responsibilities include:1. Implementing data structures, algorithms, and research workflows2. Assisting with DevOps and automation practices, including continuous integration pipelines and deployment workflows3. Supporting improvements to security, reliability, and observability, such as automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and performance monitoringThe Research Software Developer will work closely with senior engineers, RENCI management, and research partners to understand requirements, implement features, demonstrate functionality, and incorporate user feedback. This position provides strong opportunities for mentorship, skill development, and professional growth within a collaborative research environment.
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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
Bernie Sanders speaking live in #DurhamNC: www.instagram.com/bullcityanna/live…
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
It is unlikely to have any practical effect given that #Trump almost certainly would #veto it, but the measure’s movement through the #House reflects frustration among some #GOP lawmakers about #Congress continuing to cede its authority over #trade matters to the White House, & concern that […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
You might think, "well if there are discrepancies, shouldn't the be investigated?" The 2020 election in GA HAS been investigated. It's one of the most closely scrutinized elections in US history, and has been the subject of an almost endless stream of litigation and analysis. This case is not […]
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T.M. Baumgartner @tm-baumgartner.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
Mister and his Resting Astonished Face are returning to the shelter tomorrow for surgery and adoption. Such a sweet and gorgeous kitten!
Photo of a medium-hair brown tabby with lovely green eyes crouched on a purple quilt and looking to the left of the camera. He is a beautiful cat, but he looks slightly shocked, a symptom of his Resting Astonished Face. (He may actually be perpetually shocked by everything around him. Though he is very sweet, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed.)
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
It turns out that fungus growing termites sometimes cultivate Termitomyces titanicus. This is an excellent scientific name. It's a fungi farmed by termites (like ants they do not allow it to produce "fruiting bodies" or mushroom caps while the colony is active […] [Original post on sauropods.win]
A man holding a huge mushroom about the size of a small parasol. He also has an ax, possibly to harvest the large mushrooms.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026
List of planned locations for ICE mega-concentration-camps. 2/2
Cities Identified by ICE
These 23 locales were named in plans for warehouse-based jails
Facility City
Hutchins, Texas
Social Circle, Georgia
Socorro Clint, Texas (El Paso)
Byhalia, Mississippi
Salt Lake City, Utah*
Tremont, Pennsylvania
Kansas City, Missouri
Hagerstown, Maryland
Ashland, Virginia
Flowery Branch, Georgia
Orlando, Florida
Surprise, Arizona
Chester, New York
Roxbury, New Jersey
Hamburg, Pennsylvania
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma*
San Antonio, Texas
Shakopee, Minnesota
Port Allen, Louisiana
Merrimack, New Hampshire
McAllen, Texas
Romulus, Michigan
Merrillville, Indiana

Source: Bloomberg reporting
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