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Nithya Raman filing papers on Saturday morning to
⭐️challenge Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the
👉 June 2 election
hit like a political bombshell.
Text chains blew up with stunned variations of,
"I didn't see that coming!"
Everyone sought to determine what a run from someone on Bass' left will mean when election day arrives in, gulp, 💥 less than four months.
How this plays out remains to be seen.
But here are some initial t…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-24 11:47:46

So last week I asked people to share their blog URLs, and I got a whole bunch of them! And I’ve been trying to go through them, and some go back to 2015… So there’s a lot to do. I did find a really interesting one about GPX files and Python, but it uses Google maps, and I’m not sure I want to do that since I prefer OpenStreetMap. Nice to find interesting gems though, in the 1,500 (gulp!) blog posts I’m going through.

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-02-18 00:24:20

Oh dear, I've just registered another domain. That makes **checks notes** 19... Gulp. **quick mental arithmetic** That's about $700/year in renewals. Damn.

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-02-04 01:45:53

New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

Generative AI and Computing Education for Novices

Generative AI (GenAI) has sowed havoc in computing education, especially introductory computing. As AI models grow in sophistication, it is increasingly difficult to find problems that cannot be comprehensively solved by AI. Even "defeat devices" like obscure programming languages have limited viability, due to technical reasons like one-shot learning, temporal reasons such as training, and basic educational considerations like what we want stu…
@petaqui@masto.es
2026-01-08 10:12:15

Una lectura mšs que obligatoria para entender lo que conlleva “la nube”
cloudwards.net/deep-dives/the-
@…

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-02-04 11:00:32

Wow, just managed to fix a problem that has hounded me the last few days: after a reboot, one of my home servers (Ubuntu 24.04, 2 NVMEs with XFS filesystems) couldn't find its RAID 1 boot volume, claiming 'duplicate MD device names in conf file were found'. Gulp. Managed to find the solution here: