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Dan Sugalski
@Dan Sugalski

Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

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Currently not in France. Dammit. But retired, so that’s something.

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It’s kind of surprising how fast doing dead hangs improves your posture. (Well, my posture, at least)

Also, #protip, don’t do dead hangs with an elbow injury. Not that you’d do that, of course, you’d have to be some kind of idiot to do dead hangs with tennis elbow or something like that.
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This is something I've been low-key concerned about with my own solar setup, because these Enphase gadgets have built in cellular so I can't take it entirely out of their control even if I wanted to.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 · 1w
Currently, hundreds of GW of residential solar power are controlled by terribly insecure & unregulated clouds owned by companies continents away. This problem is well known & could take down the whole European energy grid. We just had a conference about it, and still nothing is h Show more
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hbs · 1w
which devices have cellular? My understanding was that the common micro inverters from the IQ series were communicating with the gateway via PLC and that the gateway needed WiFi or Ethernet connection, not that they were autonomous.
myrmepropagandist · 10w
And I get it, it's hard to feel sorry for "influencers" but what makes them "influencers" rather than just creative people with something that becomes popular is the potential pressure from these plat...
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@nprofile1q... they are absolutely captured, and the system is set up to basically force abuse and abusive behavior. And, while no excuse, the pressure the system puts on people is partly what drove the AI hellhole that Hank Greene fell into. Being an influencer is mostly unsustainable as a career and deceptively abusive.
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Can we get some produce with norovirus too? We can get a gastrointestinal trifecta that way. (Though we’re currently in the seventh global cholera epidemic, maybe that counts)

Ars Technica @Ars Technica · 10w
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/taylor-farms-recalls-jalapeno-products-for-salmonella-amid-cyclospora-outbrea Show more
Lili Saintcrow · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt5922r5qgg5w3vcr94uf3kahcm43c77tc3t0u3utklq0dvgau2nq9ja8rk I dunno. The false equivalencies, strawmen, and goalpost-moving from the pearl-clutche...
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@nprofile1q... when everything you do is right and what everyone else does is wrong it’s really easy to discount and discard everything bad happening to other people while freaking out about what might happen to you.

I suspect some of the people involved are cynically using it but most of them are as genuine as all the MAGA people freaking out when the leopard eats their face even when it’s clear that’s the obvious result of their actions and choices.
Lili Saintcrow · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt5922r5qgg5w3vcr94uf3kahcm43c77tc3t0u3utklq0dvgau2nq9ja8rk I dunno. The false equivalencies, strawmen, and goalpost-moving from the pearl-clutchers seem very... deliberate. I suppose I could believe them reflexive, though.
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Seeing another round of “it turns out that WFH has serious downsides because employees get all their social interaction at work and are getting unhealthy without that” stories and my first thought is “maybe we should fix that bit where people are forced to rely on their jobs for social interaction” rather than “let’s go back to the office”
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Dan Sugalski · 11w
I mean, the problem is ultimately that we’ve killed all the healthy non-work social systems and maybe we should fix that rather than go back into the office.