Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller

@mattdm.org

Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. Former Fedora Project Leader. Currently: open source / upstream strategy for Lightwell. Many things are not my fault, but some of them are. he/him

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Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

I've been told that this is cheating, a cop-out, or avoiding the "interesting" aspects of the question. I don't think it is. Framing the world as a series of individual can't-win situations and lose-lose decisions _is_ the problem.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

It is this: you design the system with positive train control. You make it so the trolley cannot enter a section where there are people, and you make it so the trolley can be stopped quickly if something goes wrong.

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Framework
@frame.work

The Fedora version is outselling the Windows version by >10:1. It’s the year of the Linux desktop.

Framework@frame.work

The Framework Laptop 12, updated. Up to 70% longer battery life. Fingerprint reader in the power button. Backlit keyboard with open source ZMK. Intel® Core™ Series 3 (Wildcat Lake), now with Core 7. Thunderbolt 4 for eGPU. And a Fedora Linux pre-built configuration. Pre-orders open now: frame.work

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

The new onboard fare collection on the #MBTA is a complete failure. At Gilman — the busiest station on the GLX — I see 0% (zero percent) of people tap on.

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Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

The new onboard fare collection on the #MBTA is a complete failure. At Gilman — the busiest station on the GLX — I see 0% (zero percent) of people tap on.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

When I do, my teenage daughter rolls her eyes at me, like I'm an embarrassment to the family. And she is, normally, a _pathological_ rule-follower.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Still working to figure out the shape of the new job, but the essence is: we intend to make this good for upstreams. Not as a “way to give back” or mere marketing claims, but because that’s the only way this works long-term. I’m going to help make that intention into fact.

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Asher HELLbein
@asherelbein.bsky.social

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

I am enjoying Starfleet Academy for: 4) over the top angsty teen drama 3) futuristic take on Prarie Style decor 2) just, relentless optimism about people and possiblites 1) Holly Hunter's complete, absolute inability to sit in a chair like a normal person

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Whenever D'Arcy Carden is in anything, I can't help but note if she is a Good Janet or a Bad Janet. (In _Loot_, she is definitely a Bad Janet.)

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

AirBnB deleted my wife's account because there is a woman in Florida with the same name and birthday but also a meth problem and parole violations.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Also, when she contested, they sent my wife the full list of the poor woman's run-ins with the law, credit history dings, phone number, current and former addresses, the works. US needs a GDPR.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

If Yankee Candle made a candle that smells like the Indian restaurant I just walked past, I would buy that candle. I would buy the hell out of that candle.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Things I have accidentally invented because I don't have a proper CS education: 1. long format data tables 2. k-fold validation 3. simulated annealing To be clear, this is not bragging. Turns out, learning things from others is good, actually. (Notes for 20-year-old-self.)

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Me: You know, this anniversary is a significant milestone! Her: What, because it's a cubic number? *rolls eyes" And that's why we've been married for 27 years.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Anya comes home from her restaurant shift. "Dad — go dish out ice cream. Mom — queue up the video. I'm going to go change into my PJs." *takes a beat* "Now imagine I said that but less bossy."

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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Huh. I did something which made my system load go up to 140 and filled 32gb of ram and 8gb of swap. Desktop wasn't responsive at all, but I could ssh in from another system and ran top and killed some stuff. I expected to have to reboot, but it all just sorted itself out. Good job, modern Linux!

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

(Someone else did the logo. Our kid did the colors. The CSS and HTML is all by hand. The JavaScript and ecommerce is Lightspeed eCom, and annoyingly they make calls to some of _their_ providers that can't be easily avoided. But other than that, no off-site resources or trackers.)

Matthew Miller
@mattdm.org

Boston University IT claims that they intend to retire AFS at the end of August. Good luck with that, BU sysadmins! (They've been trying since at least 2005.)