Posts by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AtjjKC0OTToQnp8knQ by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-05-04T02:38:06Z
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@futurebird No benefits, no unions, no back talk. Rent is way cheaper than fully-loaded salaries.
(DIR) Post #AtjjTcVRJZeHbE9nGa by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-05-04T02:39:49Z
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@futurebird Maybe they don’t care about long term. Maybe they just want to boost their short term numbers, cash out, and leave somebody else holding the bag.
(DIR) Post #Au4Bx2J59P91tXOGhc by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-05-13T23:33:05Z
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@futurebird A rare instrumental track from ELO in the 1970s.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOCExv3QQP8If you like that one, you might also like Synergy (aka Larry Fast) and Philip Glass, who were both early electronic music pioneers.Vangelis’ soundtrack for the movie “Blade Runner” has some beautiful, atmospheric electronic music. Joyful? Not so sure about that.I also love this instrumental entry from Dire Straits—wait for the payoff…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CcIAkP7SFyI
(DIR) Post #AuBYvfIcjo0Lwt0q7E by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-05-17T12:53:31Z
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@futurebird No kid is going to resonate with every teacher, but since you are making the effort to meet them where they are on a regular basis, I bet they would generally rank you among their favorites. I applaud your confidence and skills in teaching as you do.
(DIR) Post #Aud5ZYo7T3VNHmZiDY by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-05-30T19:36:31Z
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@futurebird Math is a game with weird rules that happens to apply to things happening in the physical universe.
(DIR) Post #Av6RIA938WU4Gj2IrY by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13T23:26:30Z
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@futurebird Take video and put them up on YouTube.
(DIR) Post #AvQ05Ay707OPpygr3Y by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-06-23T02:25:37Z
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You are not an “influencer”. You are an untrained freelance marketing consultant working on spec for corporations who are monetizing your content and paying you a minuscule fraction of what you are bringing in. Good luck with that.
(DIR) Post #AvYh2xxtoadNDRITJo by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-06-27T12:01:04Z
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@claudiom The perspective of this article is so funny to me. It seems to be saying that X terminals were somehow the “killer app” for X Windows and the only technology to truly take advantage of X Windows’ display transparency.Having come of age in the X10 days, I can assure you that X Windows was designed for running on workstations. X Terminals were frankly a solution in search of a problem and never achieved a fraction of the penetration of X Windows on workstations.The best use of remote display was a virtual wind tunnel project I worked on at NASA in the early 90s. Run your fluid dynamics simulation on a supercomputer and display real-time airflow over a surface on an SGI Indy workstation. Neat stuff for the time. Now my kids’ video game console can render a thousand times faster than what we were doing back then.
(DIR) Post #AvecaHXciayIfEpi6q by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-06-30T11:13:14Z
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@futurebird I remember being mystified by front-end parsing in my compiler design class. I was really not getting it, so I went and talked to my prof during office hours. And during that conversation it just “clicked” into focus for me.So while I agree that persistence and effort pay off, don’t be afraid to reach out for help from experts when you are stuck.
(DIR) Post #AwaHC263h9xJ06OhpQ by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-07-27T23:16:10Z
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I used to really enjoy the old “Plants vs Zombies” game so I downloaded it. It’s now completely unplayable due to ads and there isn’t even a “pay money to turn off ads” feature. Sad.Deleted that app real quick.
(DIR) Post #AxYte8T4yTY9G1gNNI by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-08-26T12:40:20Z
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@futurebird The democrats have been gleefully enabling the police and surveillance state along with the prison industry—at both the national and state level.
(DIR) Post #Ay9bwW7PAj0PUhg2jo by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-09-11T20:21:13Z
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@ErickaSimone And yet we now have six HBCUs on lockdown due to death threats from Kirk supporters. Racism: it’s as American as apple pie.
(DIR) Post #Ayh9L7y4l65OBKoZRQ by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-09-29T10:05:59Z
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@futurebird Like any good con, the crypto con needs a distraction to bamboozle the marks. The math is the distraction. Just like “artificial intelligence” is a distraction in that other ongoing shell game.
(DIR) Post #Az3U6ISxoi82ue9Mzg by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-10-09T21:27:26Z
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Ten years ago today I found a tiny feral kitten, nearly dead from hookworms, in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. I was unable to leave her, and unable to have her put down. We named her Maddie (after the hurricane) and she is living her best life with us.#CatsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AzNSu9RlJLFefiQnnE by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-10-19T20:03:04Z
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@futurebird I’m actually a fan of butter for sautéing cabbage. I like to include a little onion in the mix too.
(DIR) Post #AzNTbxfqRYJettuOoq by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-10-19T20:11:01Z
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@futurebird Yes, nothing tastes good when cooked with burned oils—butter or otherwise.
(DIR) Post #AzOpTZkHuu32WNLxke by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-10-20T11:50:43Z
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@futurebird Put me down in the “over 1500 kWh” category, but there are reasons.We own a 3500 sq ft home in Florida—air conditioning is a major factor in our power budget. Also we work from home and have to keep the house comfortable even in the hottest part of the day. Plus I have servers running constantly for my home lab and IT consulting business.I recently invested in rooftop solar to offset my consumption. I have enough panels on my roof to offset my average power consumption for the year, using credits for the excess production that I feed back into the grid. My home is actually classified as a “Level 2” power generation facility. I calculate it will take roughly 8-10 years to recoup my investment on a system designed to last 20-25 years.Our next car purchase is going to be a (used) EV. I’ll install a fast charger in the garage and charge the car off my solar array. Because we work from home, fuel charges aren’t as big a factor in our budget. But gotta do what we can to save the planet.And that’s all great, but it only works because I had the time and disposable income to do it (and because I live in a place where solar is incredibly efficient). It really brings home to me just how much political willpower and substantial investment will be required to make renewable energy viable for an entire country, much less the world. And that’s assuming we can break the back of the fossil fuel industry and their lobbyists.
(DIR) Post #B0qYzxSnE8t8EqBbFY by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-12-02T18:49:23Z
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Million dollar idea: a new telephone signaling protocol so that when I'm put on hold, it signals the music app on my local phone to play my tunes rather than whatever random junk has been badly recorded into their PBX.
(DIR) Post #B1XYyquqhu97uJoVZg by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-12-23T12:42:29Z
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@futurebird I had not heard this lovely story before.King Solomon and insects is apparently a popular theme. Kipling wrote “The Butterfly Who Stamped” which concerns some overly proud butterflies and wise old King Solomon pranking them.
(DIR) Post #B2hu4aoFhx3cDUpjVY by hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
2025-12-11T00:17:18Z
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@mycrowgirl Wish I knew the original artist to creditEDIT - Artist is @MrLovenstein Thanks to @dank for the info