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IDK, call me old-fashioned, but maybe laying off thousands of your experienced and loyal employees is NOT the way to succeed....
Meanwhile, I'll take a small amount of delight in seeing them fall without me...
#oracle #oracleLayoffs

I’ve been trying to set up a Pixelfed instance and I’m finding it incredibly frustrating. The available tutorials really drive home the value of technical writing.
#pixelfed

I have spent most of the time since Labor Day out across the country,
campaigning, knocking on doors, speaking at rallies ahead of the midterms.
I’ve been in upstate New York and eastern Pennsylvania, in northern Montana and the Central Valley of California, on the Kansas-Missouri line and southern Maine, in eastern Iowa and south-central Michigan, in Austin and in Dallas.
And I’ve been online more nights than not, helping with phone banks into every part of America.

I Knocked on Hundreds of Doors Ahead of the Midterms. Here’s What I Learned
After knocking on several hundreds doors across America ahead of the 2026 midterms, I came away with four basic reminders on where we are as a nation.

MN voters - if you're thinking of voting in midterms, here's another reason to show up. If you don't show up to vote for the amendment, your non-vote will count as a no vote. If you don't feel like showing up to vote for any candidate, you could just show up to vote for this. :)
"Part of the way Minnesota pays for its public schools is through something called a Permanent School Fund that has been in place for nearly 170 years ... schools only receive interest and dividends, not capital gains, which means that the more than 500 schools and districts getting payouts from the fund are seeing only 2.5 percent of the fund’s value."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/10/07/minnesota-school-funding-on-the-november-ballot-amendment-and-referendums-explained

The beauty of #selfhosted is that you don't have to abide by "Defaults"
(Self-hosted #Fluxer, an alternative to #discord)

Final call for proposals to the Alpaca Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts!
Alpaca is a festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts comprised of live performances, workshops and conference talks. We aim to bring people together who value deep, human curiosity into patterns. We hope this call excites you whether you are exploring patterns in heritage crafts or contemporary algorithmic art (but not AI).

Pretty interesting approach to config distribution by door dash
https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/overhauling-doordashs-runtime-configuration-value-distribution-with-squashfs/

Dafür dass die neue 3D-Drucker Software vom WokINGlab "SimplePrint" heißt, hab ich jetzt viel mehr Zeit da verbracht als bei der alten Software (gefühlt) insgesamt. Hm, na mal sehen, ob Montag was rauskommt.

This is a really good summary of code generation vs. review. Understanding and system complexity are key, not the lines of code.
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316-every-layer-of-review-makes-you-10x-slower
> We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

This Silicon Valley satire follows a CEO in trouble after the collapse of an acquisition deal.
Created by Succession writer Jonathan Glatzer,
each character is more hideous than the next
– and it is stuffed with twists and treacheries
https://www.

The Audacity review – cracking TV packed with even more gloriously awful people than Succession
This Silicon Valley satire follows a CEO in trouble after the collapse of an acquisition deal. Created by Succession writer Jonathan Glatzer, each character is more hideous than the next – and it is stuffed with twists and treacheries