@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThe first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab
@JSkier@social.linux.pizzaI used to think this was a great example of working in production. Now, it's more like day-to-day living with #longcovid
Lumbar puncture was today, so no exercise or working too hard for 48 hours. Not a bad thing, I suppose 🤔
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 16
Just published a deep dive into building a secure login page with Next.js, NestJS, JWT, and PostgreSQL.
- Email verification
- Role-based access control
- Subscription enforcement
- Token decoding in frontend
- SQL-level inserts for system roles
Includes full code snippets and explanation of the entire flow.
Perfect if you're working on full-stack apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialProtesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-08…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Today is World Population Day, established by United Nations as a result of the massive interest people had in Five Billion Day in 1987. It's a good day to get an update on Canada’s population growth, which was aggressive in 2023 when we hit 40M, and then hit 41M just a few months into 2024. The #StatsCan Real Time Tracker is not working for some reason, but we still have their Quarterly Estimates data. At the end of June, there were 41,548,787 of us strolling around Canada, with every province and territory showing growth.
#CanadaIsAwesome #INeedMySpace
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000901
@colgrave@social.linux.pizzaI'm sad..
I been follow them basically since day one. And they been the most exciting stories in my rss feed
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-need-for-speed-devs-working-on-battlefi…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNow, one thing i truly hate about #GrapheneOS updates is the Microsoft-like approach where you can't "just" disable automatic updates.
Yeah, I get it. The updates are important. The updates have been rock solid so far. And anyway, I need to reboot manually for them to actually start applying.
Still, it's so damn disrespectful for developers to make this decision for me, and have the phone start automatically updating just as I'm about to leave for the whole day, and turn my phone into a potential time bomb where a reboot could leave me without a working phone until I can get home and reflash it.
Yes, there's a bunch of options to disable updates based on Internet connection type, battery state and whether the phone is charging. Still, why should I need to explain myself to my phone?! Really, this isn't what we dumped Microsoft for.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgTook a day off work to get ready for holiday tomorrow. Predictably I have spent the whole day working. 🙄
Must get on actually packing, cleaning, and other essentials now...
#AcademicChatter
@muz4now@mastodon.worldA day in the life of a working musician
https://muz4now.com/web-stories/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-working-musician/
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaProgress today. I got ansible working with the vmware inventory, and managed to solve the old (v8) machines complaints about python. New update script completed that takes snapshots, checks RHEL or Debian base and does update/reboot. All in all, successful day. And during all that, I got XCP-ng working. No VMs on it yet, but the system is ready for messing with finally. #ansible
@cdarwin@c.imThey Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th.
ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids,
as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
Bell Gardens, where more than 96 percent of residents are Hispanic, is one of more than two dozen so-called Gateway Cities that make up a hub of largely Latino working-class communities.
In recent days, the mayor of …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caFirst Union Contract for the Alberni Golf Club groundskeepers. They had a 10 day strike.
"“I’ve been working here for 38 years,” said Ak Manhas, a groundskeeper. “I was only getting 17.5 days of vacation pay a year and no benefits. Now thanks to the union I get six weeks’ vacation pay and benefits, which will finally give me more time to spend with my wife and kids and pay for medical bills.””
#Unionize #Union #PortAlberni #Organize #Labour #WorkersRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/sports/alberni-golf-club-groundskeepers-end-strike-ratify-first-contract-8181591
@pre@boing.worldSo fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialNow this is uncool: Today morning it rained slightly and I only did a walk instead of a cycling loop.
During the day it was amazingly great weather.
Now as I finished working I see a thunderstorm outside ... this doesn't feel fair
@publicvoit@graz.socialPlease do say or write some nice things to your administrators, as today it's System Administrator Appreciation Day
https://sysadminday.com/
Most of the time, you won't notice, that there is somebody working very hard so that you don't notice.
@scott@carfree.citylovely thread and poem by Muni bus operator @…!
https://bsky.app/profile/thatmc.bsky.social/post/3lqoirslm2k23
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 5
TL;DR: Continued work on backend security — role-based access is now fully wired up.
✅ Got fine-grained role-based access control fully working today.
• Roles loaded from PostgreSQL
• Injected into JWT during login
• Validated via custom `@Roles()` `RolesGuard`
• Authenticated via `@UseGuards(JwtAuthGuard)` globally
• Introduced `@Public()` decorator to bypass guards for public endpoints
• Swagger supports Bearer token for testing …
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaA 'digital stamp', for which no paper, printing cost, or paid human labour is involved, costs 1.35x the price of a paper stamp, because fuck logic
@nelson@tech.lgbtSometimes Gay Pride means working 8am Saturday to take down the Pride flags, then put them back up again 8am Sunday. (Saturday is flag day, so we fly the US flag for one day in June.)
Sometimes Gay Pride also means swapping flags while random locals yell nasty things out their pickup truck windows. I always call them neighbor and wish them a good day.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWorking on my new home (#blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.
M…
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis morning I have a meeting with a PhD student who's working on the history of media coverage of the royals in Canada at exactly the same time as the throne speech. Maybe that's the least interesting part of the day?
@adrianco@mastodon.socialI’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.
@frankel@mastodon.topTime wasting of the day: I'm working on an #Ansible playbook to configure my NAS. I just want to create a few tasks and test it. I get "no route to host", even though it works perfectly well with plain SSH.
I tweak a few parameters. I Google Search. I ask GitHub Copilot. Zilch.
@joe@toot.worksI'm taking a mental health day and I am working on installing #Watchtower on the home server while drinking a fucking lovely v60. I guess this is what the heart wants?
@raiders@darktundra.xyz'Every day is about proving yourself': Geno Smith changing the dynamic of Raiders offense https://www.raiders.com/news/geno-smith-changing-dynamic-raiders-offense-nfl-training-camp-2025
@jason123santa@fosstodon.orgDay 1 of the #oldcomputerchallenge is over and I been using OpneBSD.
Its been going well except for the fact I can't get audio working.
Well I put my notes up on gemini at
gemini://ge…
@muz4now@mastodon.worldA day in the life of a working musician #composing #homestudio #music #recording
@jtk@infosec.exchangeWeekend Reads
* IPv6 adoption measurement https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678
* Starlink capacity analysis https://
@servelan@newsie.social"Musk — who amplified conspiracy theories surrounding the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi — again waded into the fray.
“**The far left is murderously violent,” he wrote on X the same day he said he was working to reprogram X’s AI program Grok because it was spreading “leftist indoctrination.**”
How the ‘politically motivated’ shooting of Minnesota lawmakers unleashed right-wing conspiracy theories | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/conspiracy-theories-minnesota-shooting-suspect-b2770561.html
@cdarwin@c.imThis piece was written by a UK blogger, Carolyn Gallaher is an excellent read.
It was written back in February about the pardons of all the J6 criminals and others associated with the militia movement.
“Trump’s pardons suggest he will run a far-right government with paramilitary backing.”
https://
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve realized I actually enjoy working. What really frustrates me is that the big decisions about my day are made by people who have never even been on my shop floor. On top of that, the things I help make don’t even go to my own community, which just makes it feel even more disconnected.
Honestly, I’d get a lot more satisfaction from my job if we could run things democratically and see our work benefit the people around us. There’s a real sense of pride in building something for your …
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaHappy SysAdmin Day everyone! Here is a head scratcher. Website kept serving the default new site page. Even when I made a new index.html file. So I made a test.html and got Forbidden. Error log says "client denied by server configuration: /var/www/newwebsite/test.html" Not directory permissions and not selinux. So I made /var/www/newweb2 and moved the files over. Voila, working. Both test.htnl and new index.html. I'm leaving it alone because it's working and it's Friday…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialMy bike&hike yesterday 🙂
This is when I talk about mountainbiking: not fierce downhills - but uphills 😄 Including an evil ramp of 23% incline (regarding my cycling computer - and my legs) on gravel that I didn't expect.
(especially as I was carrying a backpack including camera and tele-lens)
Still working on the photos from the day before. Today is a rest-day for me.
My legs still feel a bit sore. My back is fine already
@cjhearn@mastodonapp.ukI've been getting notifications from #HomeAssistant throughout the day as National Grid are doing work on our local substation. Even though I haven't been working from home today, it's good to see my little UPS would've let me carry on as usual throughout the power cuts.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Otoboke Beaver:
🎵 6 Day Working Week Is a Pain
#OtobokeBeaver
https://music.otobokebeaver.com/track/6-day-working-week-is-a-pain
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lwbOrPwUFynQK2dnvZrOa
@raiders@darktundra.xyz'Every day is about proving yourself': Geno Smith changing the dynamic of Raiders offense https://www.raiders.com/news/geno-smith-changing-dynamic-raiders-offense-nfl-training-camp-2025
@muz4now@mastodon.worldA day in the life of a working musician #creativity #inspiration #music #recording
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 9
TL;DR: Forgejo
Installed Forgejo and configured its native runner from scratch on Debian. Started with Woodpecker, but it turned out unnecessary. Everything now works locally with Docker integration and a working CI workflow.
Edit: added a GitHub backup workflow — every push to main now syncs code and tags to a private mirror repo.
https://
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 18
Today I debugged an issue with accessing backend endpoints from a Next.js frontend talking to a NestJS API.
The browser was blocking requests due to a CORS error — the Authorization header was not allowed in the preflight response. Even though frontend domains were correctly set, I forgot to include Authorization in allowedHeaders.
After updating enableCors() to:
`allowedHeaders: 'Authorization, Content-Type, Accept'`
…the issue disappeared, and t…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI
![screenshot transluce.org
What is the primary cause of the significant increase in cognitive decline, neurological disorders, and other health issues reported in the general population over the past few decades and how does it affect people in different age groups?
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Another factor is the increased exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and radiofrequency radiation (RF) from devices such as smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and cell towers. Some research suggests that prolonged e…](https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/114/635/856/342/578/212/original/78c8cb39f2fe06d3.png)
