Diane Bruce @Dianora@octodon.social
I live in Ottawa Canada. Atheist, Programmer, FreeBSD dev. ham radio, musician.
Facebook: brands and people manipulator for hire
Twitter: Influencers, brands, cynicism and anger
Instagram: selfies, food and brands
Snapchat: ...
Mastodon: strangers discussing strange things
None of these offer what social networks promised: staying in touch with friends.
A: i no longer trust traditional news media to inform me about politics
B: oh yea? where do you get your news then?
A: i read teen vogue online
On the sad state of "modern" software...
Portland stabbing and the bullshit excuse of "free speech" Show more
systemd is my favorite
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen / Robin Hood, Robin Hood, and his Not All Men. / They need to explain / Again and again / Not all men / Not all men / Not all men.
What Does Wonder Woman Actually Represent?
– Her long journey from feminist icon to damsel in distress, and back again.
#Cartoons by Lucy Bellwood and Sarah Mirk
https://thenib.com/what-does-wonder-woman-actually-represent
#FreeBSD Just paid my fees for BSDCan. It has come up quicker than I expected. So busy here in May!
"troff was orginally written by the late Joe Ossanna in about 1973, in assembly language for the PDP-11, to"
Hah I remember that code!
Prevent yourself from eating stuff off your foot with aesthetic GNU socks: https://shop.fsf.org/tshirts-hoodies/gnu-socks
https://mstdn.io/media/TSgNpqVgNiU-h8nb7MY
I happened across an IoT device once that validated new firmware in-browser with javascript. You could trivially bypass the verification and upload a firmware with a backdoor. Also default hardcoded credentials to access the firmware upload page. It's like they're not even trying. Contact the vendor? "We no longer support that model, you should upgrade to the newest and shiniest hardware."
I planted 16 tomato plants tonight whie it was cooler. 8 of those are cherry tomato plants. It's cooler, but more mosquitoes. ugh.
The horrifying truth about the internet revealed (again).
https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4
Telling a senior developer to read Oppenheim/Shaffer to understand more about the Fourier theory they’re implementing for you is (maybe?) like telling a mechanic who wants to build an engine from scratch to read a book on differential equations… lazy answer.
I was asked thoughtful question: why *not* read Oppenheim/Schaffer? Long-winded answer: we teach DSP the same *wrong* way we teach calculus: remember limits→derivatives→integrals? Well, Newton &co did integrals, then Cauchy &co did derivatives, and only then did Weierstrass &co nail down limits. High school calc reverses the history order and the usefulness order because it turns out that for integrals and derivatives to be rigorous, you need limits. This took us centuries to understand.
