Jèf Uphoff

Jèf Uphoff

@juphoff.bsky.social

Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy. Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke. Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Crazy cat gentleman. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

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Would love to talk with editors from 1998 and ask them: If Congress dropped a 50-page report detailing, with witnesses on the record, that President Clinton raped women, would you put it on the front page?

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There is exactly zero innovation in business these days. Its all investor manipulation bullshit.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

David Ellison and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz sent out an email to Skydance employees today offering up voluntary buyouts and also implementing a five-day-a-week in-office work policy. And so it begins...

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Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

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Replying to @explaintrade.com

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

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FWIW if I ever become President the White House will look like Lego Batman opened a Cat Café

Boo London@cmdrsue.bsky.social

FWIW if I ever become President the White House will look like Angela Merkel opened a House of Blues.

Name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring.

Boo London@cmdrsue.bsky.social

name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring

If only…

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

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all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

If you're an enterprise customer *still* running CentOS 7 and paying for extended support, I've adapted the security-fix back-ports across *two entire major versions* of PHP and released the package updates. (Can't believe I'm saying something like this in polite company...)

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Hegseth’s staff broke Eisenhower’s globe. The symbolism is too much to bear. (And of course, they ignored the TRAINED EXPERTS WHO HANDLE HISTORICAL ITEMS. Because EDUCATION? EXPERTISE? WHO NEEDS IT?….im going to get some coffee…)

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

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an outdated system in a salmon farm using PHP was found to have been breached, allowing the attackers to perform remote cod execution

Fun Fall Flying! A couple of good sights today during my return from Ontario in gorgeous weather--Niagara Falls and NRAO Green Bank.

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Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

“The borrowing let Ellison keep his stock and avoid locking in taxable gains, and highlighted how billionaires often employ a strategy called ‘buy, borrow and die’ to retain their wealth without selling assets.”

Because Sharia Law is a thing you can simply pack into a suitcase, walk across a border, and then let loose and it just...becomes law! (Sneaky stuff--I think it's some form of aerosol?)

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