Merde stunder nugget @stunder@mastodon.sdf.org

Every time I feel good about tech I wind up doing something like writing an app so I can move my data from one big tech silo to another. Ugh

some concepts for different "pirate" hats

#art #mastoart #traditionalart
#fedionly
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@judgedread @TrevorGoodchild @coin A lot of engineers fall for the pre-dilution nonsense. The deal you get is usually something like you take a 30% haircut on salary and they give you whatever that is in options, like $0.01 to exercise $1 worth at the current valuation. You give up the money now, but in five years if the company is still around, maybe you can exercise the options and they'll be worth...oh, no, that last Series C made them worth less than the cost of exercising them. When they start talking about it, if you ask how many shares have been issued, you usually don't get the call back.

That's fine; you don't want the call back. The reward for convincing them you're a culture fit and offering your services at a $40k discount is to listen to some MBA yammer at you about valuation while you're busting your ass 100 hours a week for peanuts and sleeping under your desk because you can't keep your eyes open long enough to drive home, and your shares will be worth, in the event of a $1 billion IPO, about $20k, minus taxes, five or ten years later.

There's a good reason everyone in Silicon Valley is so credulous. Nobody that does the math ends up moving to the shitty part of Oakland to commute two hours by bus to Palo Alto to forego a big pile of money now in exchange for a smaller pile of money later.

Added another architecture to my Linux-libre APT repository at https://jxself.org/linux-libre - 64-bit SPARC processors. There are freely-licensed designs like the OpenSPARC at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC which has been placed under the GPL. Why should RISC-V get all of the love for that? :) This brings the number of supported architectures up to either 12 or 13, depending on how you count. What next?

amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, m68k, or1k, powerpc, ppc64, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x, sparc64
#gnu #linux

@rek

UPDATE: Local officials in Musanze district #Rwanda fine elderly woman Ayinkamiye Emmerance Rwf 50,000 ($51) for allegedly "stealing" two maize cobs. Incident took place today in Karuruma village, Murandi cell, Remera sector. After failing to pay fine, Ayinkamiye's land was confiscated

From Chronicles

Great White Pelicans around Lake Nakuru #Kenya.

📸 Yash Mahadik
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RT @Cyber_Cox
I've been doing network sniffing for years, and I've perfected it.

Cat5 cables smell slightly plasticky. If they're plenum-rated, more so. Cat6, I've found, has a somewhat sweeter smell. Any shielded cable smells like pumpkins, I believe due to the material used.
https://twitter.com/Cyber_Cox/status/1352485205131583492

RT @erocdrahs@twitter.com

when memes collide

[sound on]

(blame @christt@twitter.com for giving me the idea)