Software since 1998. Anti-DEI is white supremacy. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits. I block assholes and bigots. He/him. Profile photo credit: Krishna Manda
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Last Notes npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja AMC is selling a whole ass Galactus Head popcorn bowl. #amc #movies #fantastic4Movie https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/650/547/107/438/699/original/584be9deabb48300.jpeg npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Target is selling Energizer Max 9V batteries for $18 *each*? WTF. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja EERRRRBODY WANTS THE CENTIBILLIONAIRE Whatever political party Musk ends up forming will be a right-wing collab yet again. Dems need to stop trying to grovel at his feet, DAMN. “Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party” https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5338781-andrew-yang-reaches-out-to-musk-to-collaborate-on-new-political-party/ npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…6679 I feel like there’s a step function between autocomplete and prompting, don’t you think? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m feeling torn about the use of #AI in coding, especially now that models (especially “reasoning” models) are getting good enough that they can churn out “close-enough” code for a lot of uses. Products like Claude seem to be doing an OK job in rote tasks like churning out code scaffolding, implementing standard patterns, and refactoring; as well as doing the reverse: summarizing and explaining code, and giving examples. Unlike chatbots and image/video generators whose primary output are various forms of harmful bullshit, I can’t reject coding AI the same way I can those other applications. The result of coding AI are *functional* and are in fact code that I would otherwise have written myself in much the same way. It may be because computer code is much more restrictive than human language that this is possible, because the room for *plausible* bullshit is so much less. #softwareEngineering #coding npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m gonna leave this link right here. If you’re Ro Khanna’s constituent, make it abundantly clear that we do NOT want Musk in our camp. https://khanna.house.gov/contact/write-to-ro https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/114644162583603769 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Entry-level CS jobs *are* disappearing, and it’s due to short-term thinking across the industry. The increasing exploitation of CS workers is real, and capital is continually tightening its screws. Most CS workers reject unionization, thinking that the prestige of their positions would be enough to save them from exploitation, and are now reaping the consequence. With #AI, companies are even more incentivized to stop hiring junior engineers, and to instead rely more on their senior engineers (not paid any more, mind you) to review code generated by automation. Of course, that means the pipeline that turns junior engineers into senior ones is cut off, and they’ll eventually run out of senior engineers, but hey, that’s a problem for FUTURE managers, isn’t it? It’s mind-blowing to think that CS jobs are drying up as computer technology reaches unprecedented scales. This should NOT be happening but for the unbounded concentration of capital and exploitation we see today. https://c.im/@cdarwin/114643460882099044 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja The fact that one civilian can deny an entire’s nation access to space is…problematic. This is one key problem with privatization: you take what should be a public good or service, and place it at the whims of a profiteer, while still publicly funding it. It’s perverse, and it should not be done. The US should never have allowed NASA to give up its core technologies, especially not to Elon. #kakistocracy #fuckElon “Elon Musk Declares That He's "Immediately" Cutting Off NASA's Access to Space” https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cutting-off-nasa npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja What goes around, comes around. #ICE #RacialProfiling #kakistocracy #fascism “ICE mistakenly detained deputy US marshal in Tucson” https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_2573f016-3596-4f32-93f7-7e99b6459675.html npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Good. https://mastodon.social/@asymco/114626503354525973 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Trump better hurry up and chicken out soon #cars #kakistocracy #TacoTrump “US auto suppliers say immediate action needed on China rare earths restrictions” https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-auto-suppliers-say-immediate-action-needed-china-rare-earths-restrictions-2025-06-05/ npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…pdh5 Between lag and network connectivity issues, I don’t think full remote control is possible, unless these things crawl around at 25 mph like those remote-controlled delivery boxes. My gut says they will actually launch with FSD, but with a person monitoring a video feed with an “emergency stop” button, and a way to remote control the car at low speeds temporarily. It’s gonna be a shitshow. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…dv7t I always joke that FedEx only has three statuses for their packages: 1. Label printed 2. We have no idea where this thing is 3. Package was delivered yesterday npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…zy37 My theory: kooky people have always existed, but kookiness was hard to spread, because kookiness is not conducive to reality-based survival. But engagement-based media changed that. Kookiness became just another “personal interest” that the algorithm fed you more of. The path from well-adjusted person to full-time kook now had a digital Sherpa: the algorithm. Because the journey happened on a screen, the social cost of descending into kookdom was cheap; you could turn into a kook without anyone knowing. Along the way, con artists discovered that people on their way to kookdom were good marks. They created media specifically to be recommended by pilgrims on the road to kookdom. The more media they generated, the better paved the road became. And finally, we have the political weaponization of kookiness. The GOP made being a kook part of the party’s identity. Not only was kookiness acceptable, it was a membership requirement. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja This ad for a USB cord is wild. #ad #weirdAds https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/594/643/968/761/063/original/29b2e9f4fd167500.jpeg npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…ww6t Indeed. https://www.humancode.us/2023/02/26/separating-art-from-artist.html npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization” https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jegl5qdhv2obobhr326womff/post/3lqbgcfaf322b npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “James Carville wants Dems to split over 'pronoun politics': 'I don't think we can work together'” ““I don't quite understand why you're so anxious to have the word Democrat in the description of what you do. But maybe we can have an amicable split here. And you go your way, we go our way, and after the election, we come together and see how much common ground we can find.” Carville’s latest remarks followed his comments from last week, where he urged the Democratic Party to move away from identity politics and refocus on what he sees as the top priority, winning elections. Carville, famous for helping Bill Clinton win the White House in 1992, rattled off a few names — Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, Democratic Socialists — and suggested they stop calling themselves Democrats altogether.” I think James Carville needs to retire. #establishmentDemocrats #democrats https://news.meaww.com/james-carville-calls-for-democratic-split-over-pronoun-politics-i-dont-think-we-can-work-together npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…zy37 I have insurance too, but it will probably still take a few weeks to diagnose, order parts, and repair it. And with tariffs… We have truly enshittified everything. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja My (laundry) washing machine has suddenly stopped working and it is making me unreasonably upset. It’s probably a UI board that got fried. But this machine is barely two years old. What the hell. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Based Mexican Dad hates the #Cybertruck ha ha #memes #video #cars Warning: swearing Sorry, I don’t know where this video came from. https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/571/846/209/393/539/original/dd26264e497c4870.mp4 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Ignore the news. Call your senators. Kill this bill. WE WANT NO KINGS. https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-politics-mjjjoeffz/-/a-1t5-_5TXSt6a5rd7yki_Yg%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…p353 @nprofile…4y84 @nprofile…x0fx @nprofile…uc38 The “Set up port forwarding” section is what does that. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…4y84 As promised, here are detailed instructions on how to install Deluge and Autobrr on a TrueNAS Scale device! These instructions are likely portable to other Docker-capable appliances as well. With this I have been able to cache and seed 620 GB of SciOp data so far. Go do the same and help archive important scientific research data! #resist #archive #sciOp #docker #truenas #torrents https://www.humancode.us/2025/05/24/guide-to-deluge-autobrr-truenas.html npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone on Etsy is selling a literal 600 g block of copper, stamped with“EA_NASIR 1 MINA FINE Q CU” hahaha https://www.etsy.com/listing/1508125457/ea-nasirs-fine-quality-copper-1-mina npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…4y84 I figured it out. Wow this is hard. How does anyone do this who is not already well-versed in networking stuff? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…4y84 Next problem: Deluge doesn’t seem to be able to connect to any peers. I’m guessing this is a Truenas Docker network configuration issue. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…sgd6 Please remember that the current owner of dasharez0ne, Drew Fairweather, is very likely a deadnaming transphobe who stole the original dasharez0ne account from a trans woman, Jane moon, whom he harrassed until she surrendered the account to him, after which he used the account to raise Kickstarter money which he kept for himself. Jane Moon is still online at https://moon.gay https://web.archive.org/web/20240224150713/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBwTeS3c5v1CJYQys68wBECrexEh4I1yWWtWT93ilWM/preview npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Not sure which syllable in “Emoluments” needs to be stressed more before Republicans give a shit. https://www.threads.com/@newrepublic/post/DJnIqspIJuB npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Hi Fediverse, how are you today? https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/486/041/898/166/138/original/f5e621f27b1c6e4d.png https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/486/041/962/035/694/original/7ccab35f317008d4.png npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Haven’t heard of anything crashing on land, so I assume #Kosmos482 has fallen into the sea. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja An interesting thing I’ve noticed in Chinese product demonstration videos is how roughly they treat their products. As a person growing up with the concept of “mechanical sympathy”, I treat my possesion with gentleness and care, so they look good and work well for as long as possible. I want my product demos to treat the objects with care and respect. But Chinese product selection sensibilities carry a different value: a product is high quality when it can withstand abuse, when it’s tough and sturdy, and doesn’t need a lot of care to continue working. #china #marketing npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I think expecting people to avoid #AI and “do the right thing” on their own is futile. History has shown time and again that *convenience* and *defaults* do more to persuade people to change their behavior than ethics or dire warnings about systemic problems. As long as ChatGPT is free to use (thanks to Softbank and various sovereign funds), and as long as Google’s Gemini “answers” are placed at the top of the search results, people WILL USE THEM, regardless of their quality, efficacy, or long-term consequences. As is the case with most long-term systemically harmful tech, only regulation can rein in this behavior. People weren’t going to give up leaded fuel on their own so their society can stop being poisoned; the government had to intervene and ban the substance. I don’t think such regulation will come any time soon, especially under this administration, so brace yourself for #enshittification of a scale grander than you’ve ever seen. /end npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I bet it was never real; it was just bullshit #vaporware that made buyers feel better (and loan Tesla $2000 at zero interest). #wankpanzer #incelCamino #cybertruck #tesla https://electrek.co/2025/05/07/tesla-never-make-cybertruck-range-extender-achieve-promised-range/ npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Fantastic! #goodNews #resist #lgbtq #humanRights “Salt Lake City and Boise make pride flags official city emblems, skirting flag ban laws” https://apnews.com/article/boise-salt-lake-city-pride-flags-law-13c8f9f7269d1b33daaa7ef041c6c497 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…7j6v I think a “Tea Party” style coopting of the Democratic party by the (actual) left is the only viable way to get out of this mess. There is basically zero chance of displacing the Dems externally, given where their funding typically comes from. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I don’t think an opposition to Trump is possible without addressing the reason that Trump got elected in the first place, which is that Democrats have utterly failed to defend the quality of life for the vast majority of USians, which has been severely eroded for five decades as wealth, public goods and services, and the benefits of automation and productivity have been consistently stolen from the working class and given to the already-rich. Any opposition must sell a message of class solidarity to workers to appeal to the non-voters of 2024, then mobilize the masses to focus on strategic action to resist the destruction of the GOP machine. Any plausible nominees? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja What an interesting way to say “pay cuts across the board”. #Amazon https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-revamps-pay-structure-rewards-high-performing-employees-2025-5 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Make Stock Buybacks Illegal Again npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja https://www.tumblr.com/chaotic-neutral-knitter/781282128199565312/tumblr-leftists-being-surprised-to-see-middle-aged https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/453/271/591/359/462/original/5bd5b1b645a397ce.png npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m so tired. Stayed up til around 4 am last night helping someone in distress. I’m wiped out. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Update: they found it after rummaging around. They haven’t cleaned it. Very sad that they are this sloppy and unapologetic. I was looking forward to shopping there more. I guess I’ll keep looking for a good local camera shop. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja lol Mike’s Camera in Menlo Park lost my Nikon D850 that I put in for sensor cleaning this past Monday. Sigh. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja It’s incredible that a lot of what we call modern living standards in the US absolutely depend on communal enforcement of standards and a pooling of funds to provide public goods and services. The Interstate system and state and local highways. The national air traffic system. GPS. Radio tech, including cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi. Government-run organizations like OSHA, NTSB, and NHTSA keep us safe at a *fraction* of the cost it would take for everyone to lobby for their own improvements. There are *so many services* the government provides that make life cheaper and more efficient for everyone. And a typical USian views them all with utter disdain. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Absolutely wild to see people online telling others to become *more individually responsible* when food safety regulations are dismantled, instead of, you know, fighting to not dismantle food regulations. There is a sickness in the USian psyche, and that sickness is the assumption that everything must be solved through independent effort. We leave so much potential unused when we take communal solutions off the table every goddamn time. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…xsrr Some of the ideas of today’s techbro culture are shared with hacker ideology, sure, but an important distinction to me is that the techbro’s goal is to use them to consolidate power, while the hacker’s goal is to distribute power, and destroy power structures altogether if necessary. Transhumanism, cybernetics, pervasive tech, etc. are part of both cultures, but hackers want them so people become free of the shackles of power structure; techbros want to turn them into the shackles that they control. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…xv9a I agree Woz was (and still is) a hacker. Jobs was…more complicated. He wasn’t a hacker, that’s for sure. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…lyyf A hundred percent agree. Trump has changed his mind on tariffs two or three times in the past TWO MONTHS. Who in their right mind would invest hundreds of millions of dollars over SEVERAL YEARS based on Trump’s words today? Nobody. And you are right: the lack of US staffing and infrastructure isn’t something that a company can solve. The manufacturing cities in Shenzhen and Wuhan did not spring up overnight; they depended on government infrastructure development, including highways and high speed rails that transport workers from far-flung areas to work highly skilled seasonal jobs in manufacturing. It needs consistent, focused government spending to happen. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Graphic images Sad to witness this carnage happen in Vancouver. An SUV apparently plowed through a large crowd along a street with food trucks during a Filipino festival. I think it’s so important for street event organizers to use heavy barriers to block vehicular traffic from any area that has pedestrians. https://mastodon.social/@Ulfh3dnar/114408281180358934 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja This is bad, right? • A Lending Tree survey found 25% of buy now, pay later users are funding grocery purchases with the loans, up from 14% in 2024. • The survey said 41% of respondents said they made a late payment on a BNPL loan in the past year, up from 34% in the year prior. • The figures are the latest evidence that some consumers are having trouble affording essentials such as groceries under the pressure of high prices and interest rates. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/26/americans-groceries-buy-now-pay-later-loans.html npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I hated it when Starbucks started doing this (yes I go to Starbucks, don’t @ me) but over time I think it’s quite forward-looking and genius. https://mstdn.plus/@ov_dragonman/114406467028485088 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I hope Canadians have been watching its southern neighbor closely. https://mastodon.social/@harold/114406774251908290 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…4y84 -xzf and -tzf for me. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Remember that time #PopeFrancis visited Japan and they gave him a robe with an #anime rendition of his likeness, and he wore it. https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/406/001/926/138/254/original/86c52476a2017f3f.jpeg npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja OK now what https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/403/002/681/927/789/original/e2f37d6535e07f59.png npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Or people have been blocking me, I dunno. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I think a lot of the people I follow on the Fediverse have either gone silent, or else left for Bluesky or some other site, because the volume in my feed has dropped precipitously in the past two weeks or so. Time to follow some new folks. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja One problem with #ADHD is that when I decide that something important needs to be done, it occupies every space in my brain until I do it. It doesn’t matter if it only takes five minutes of filling out a web form; I cling to that task for dear life, for fear of forgetting it, and it takes up significant headspace and impairs my executive function until I dispense of it. There are some strategies I use to deal with this, including setting alarms and reminders (which carries the risk that I may not hear my phone ding when the alarm comes on), asking someone I trust to remind me (which carries the risk of them forgetting it), hanging the task off a routine one like “do it after lunch” (this one works well), but nothing works like actually doing the task RIGHT NOW. It will keep gnawing at my brain until I dispense of it. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja True. https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/397/680/683/120/014/original/1c7022a66a0234a8.jpeg npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Companies are still committed to not learning anything from the lockdown days. #remoteWork #flexibleWork https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-62zf3hpjT3SC7IEtaVUCDg%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Tweet by Sen. Bernie Sanders: U.S. Oligarchy - 2025: Elon Musk owns as much wealth as the bottom 53% of U.S households. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%. Real weekly wages are $30 lower than 52 years ago. 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Yes. We can do better than that. #inequality #oligarchy npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…3r43 I dunno. The day that the majority of Trumpers admit they can’t afford anything is around the day the economy is already ashes on the ground. The thirst for vengeance on innocent scapegoats drives the Republican base like I’ve never seen before. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I hate doing legal business. So stressful. I should have lawyer on retainer or something. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja My following timeline has been really sparse these days. I wonder if I’m missing posts, or people I foll aren’t posting much. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Beware of people saying THINK OF THE CHILDREN while stripping away your rights and powers. They don’t give a shit about the children. https://defcon.social/@gtronix/114343281229047862 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Carole Cadwalladr speaks truth to power. Every one of my friends and colleagues in Silicon Valley needs to watch this incredible talk and have a good long think. Ask yourself: what is YOUR part in this story? #morality #kakistocracy #coup #tyranny #oligarchy #SiliconValley #broligarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m really enjoying the music of Men I Trust, a self-published Canadian indie band. Their genre is sort of dreamlike jazz synth, anchored by a syncopating LPF-modulated bass, filled with heavily-flanged synth pads, and relying on a tick-tock of drums playing like a 80s portable Casio keyboard, and topped off by breathy, almost whispering vocals. I find their music oddly melancholic but also unhurried and soothing, and it works super well when heard through high quality headphones. #music #qobuz npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja One thing I like about #Qobuz is that I’m starting to listen to entire albums again, not disembodied songs. It can be quite meditative, almost a spiritual return to a guided musical experience. I remember when all music was delivered like this. #music #albums npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja A reminder that “the wisdom of crodws” does NOT mean that any random collection of ignoramuses will perform better than a small set of experts! It means that a DIVERSE SET OF EXPERTS will do better than one or two. “The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.” —James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds” #expertise #wisdomOfCrowds #diversity #DEI npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…agr4 I suspect he latched on to it because he heard about it from a friend and it made him feel better to take it. He believed it so much that he wasn’t willing to admit that he might have experienced the placebo effect. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #TodayILearned that the massive doses of Vitamin C that my parents made me take (mostly in the form of effervescent tablets) was because a paper by Nobel multi-prizewinner Linus Pauling became immensely popular in the 1970s. The paper suggested taking mega-doses of Vitamin C as a cure-all, and it caused the activity to go viral. There was only one problem: the paper’s finding was rubbish, irreproducable, and/or fraudulent. Later examinations showed that the study was flawed and biased, and that high-dose Vitamin C was no better than placebo. In other words, Vitamin C could not, in fact, cure colds—or indeed cancer—as Pauling claimed. Mega-dosing Vitamic C died out as a trend in the 1990s, but you can still buy the effervescent tablets my parents gave to me. Each tablet contains 1000 mg of Vitamin C, 40× the 25 mg daily recommended dose for a child. Tasted great, though! #vitaminC https://www.dermoeco.com/health/body-resistance/calcium-sandoz-vitamin-c-10-effervescent-tablets.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Dare to decenter billionaires from policy decision discussions challenge! Stop focusing on how billionaires will be affected by a policy change. Start talking about how EVERYONE ELSE will be. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja How many of these #UBI experiments do we need until we believe that UBI does, in fact, improve the human condition, and does not actually turn people into bums? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114333889015062301 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…ersk It’s not common enough to use that way IMO. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…2vr6 ??? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Today I was called out for using the phrase “car guys” because it’s not inclusive of women. I corrected myself of course, but I’m reminded that a lot of my vocabulary (and as a corollary, my thoughts) are still under the influence of traditional patriarchy. It’s really hard to undo decades of upbringing where being a man was the default and neutral state of existence. When I learned (UK) English as a child, teachers taught me to use “he” as a gender-neutral pronoun. While I strive to be more inclusive, I continue to be surprised by how many of these patriarchal words continue to burrow deep inside my unconscious mind. #inclusiveness #diversity #language npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Sigh another night car meet turns into a #sideshow with cops shutting it down. Good thing I didn’t go. #SanJose #sfba #cars npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Whenever a news article prints a rebuttal from a Trump administration employee, my eyes glaze over and I skip the paragraph. Nothing they say seem to be worth the pixels they’re displayed on. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…fq0p Isn’t that the sad truth. Anyone intentionally displaying the flag on their person or vehicle immediately puts me on alert, because they’re likely to be an asshole. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…dajc Honestly I wouldn’t cycle there. The number of drivers going way too fast for their skill is too high these days. I say “HOLY SHIT” way too many times watching other people pull stunts. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja *Another* right-leaning friend of mine is denouncing Trump, because of #tariffs that are now hurting their business. Given my tiny and biased sample size, I’ve heard an unusually large number of people voicing displeasure with Trump in the past week or two. #kakistocracy npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja deal_with_it.gif “Trump Denies FEMA Aid Extension in State He Won Three Times” #kakistocracy #fafo #northCarolina https://www.newsweek.com/trump-denies-fema-aid-extension-state-he-won-three-times-2058906 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja CHP is out in force along #Highway9 in Saratoga, after neighbors complained about reckless driving along that highway. I should have driven Hwy 9 and Skyline more in years past. The route has now been infested by reckless—and frankly unskilled—drivers. People are crossing double-yellows to pass and along blind corners, and it scares the shit out of me. Alice’s has become unbearably crowded at lunchtime on weekends. I think part of the reason for this are Instagram accounts that post videos that glorify risky behavior along the route. #sfba #SanJose #California #cars npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…893r You’re welcome! npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…ahws I’m sure it’s great! npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Yet another piece of news that suggests to me that we are teetering on the brink of something big (and bad) for the US. Things are not historically bad yet, but they can turn pretty quickly. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114325729223515231 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…kjha Of course npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Oh my god, he admit it https://sfba.social/@crozilla/114325646081239619 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Wow, I know this guy. Dan Carpenter was very active in the #sfba car community. Pretty shocking to learn that he led a group of people in scamming insurance companies for commissions. I guess now we know how he afforded all those cars. #crime #fraud “Five defendants charged in multi-million-dollar life insurance fraud case” https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2025/release033-2025.cfm npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…pepf You mean G-SYNC heh heh npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Sounds like a great time for the software devs to take vacations or have difficulties understanding the requirements, etc. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…vx2j Honor system npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja lol they can’t collect tariffs at US ports because of a “technical glitch”, which I think is a weasel word for “nobody planned this so we had no time to implement anything in software”. #kakistocracy #incompetence #chaos “Um, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs” https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja The swastika joystick is a nice touch https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2025/04/11/check-out-pat-bagleys-latest/ https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/320/966/753/306/402/original/a81601d2bac0edad.jpeg npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…pdh5 Sunnyvale, CA npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Establishment Clause be damned #kakistocracy “State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Wait…a #FiveGuys hamburger is now TWELVE DOLLARS? WTF. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…apqw This looks genuine enough to me, down to the steel wheels. Although US police cruisers usually have a spotlight mounted in their A-pillars. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I am begging straight men to talk to their wives. https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114318370771226016 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja This is now a game of (dumb) chicken. https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/114318353771393342