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Father, tattooed Python and Go geek, surfer, lover of *BSDs, Linux, heavy barbells, and Soccer nut! More at https://petersanchez.com

petersanchez honked 18 Jul 2025 13:53 +0000

When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history," Fuentes said. "And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were.
  • Nick Fuentes (ex MAGA moron and still full time racist ahole)

https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-influencer-denounces-trump-epstein-liberals-were-right-2100489

They're slowly coming around to the what a con man their big orange god actually is.

#us #politics #trump

petersanchez honked back 18 Jul 2025 13:50 +0000
in reply to: https://fosstodon.org/users/codingjoe/statuses/114874302097670743

@codingjoe Nice to meet you as well. I'm not surprised, I sort of disappeared from the Python/Django community quite a while ago (time constraints), I don't use Github and I don't promote much.

The cool part is getting emails from dev's in big companies (small ones too) thanking me for the tool and how it helps them with their responsibilities, etc.

hijack looks nice! I've never actually used it. There used to be django-masquerade which was similar as well but I think it's been abandoned.

petersanchez honked 16 Jul 2025 13:26 +0000

For those of you who add animations to your website when moving the mouse (or whatever). I have one question for you...

WHY?!?!?!?!?!

petersanchez honked 16 Jul 2025 01:18 +0000

Ever accidentally downgraded FreeBSD? I have. Surprisingly not too difficult to recover from.

petersanchez bonked 15 Jul 2025 19:23 +0000
original: remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

"China has performed this miracle many times over. The world’s largest and most innovative producers of EVs (BYD), EV batteries (CATL), drones (DJI) and solar wafers (LONGi) are all Chinese start-ups, none more than 30 years old. They attained commanding technological and price leadership not because President Xi Jinping decreed it, but because they emerged triumphant from the economic Darwinism that is Chinese industrial policy. The rest of the world is ill prepared to compete with these apex predators. When U.S. policymakers deride China’s industrial policy, they are imagining something akin to the lumbering takeoff of Airbus or the lights going out on Solyndra. They should instead be gazing up at the nimble swarms of DJI drones buzzing over Ukraine.

China Shock 1.0 was bound to ebb when China ran out of low-cost labor, as it now has. Its growth is already falling behind Vietnam’s in industries such as clothing and commodity furniture. But unlike the United States, China is not looking back and mourning its lost manufacturing prowess. It is focusing instead on the key technologies of the 21st century. Contrary to a strategy built on cheap labor, China Shock 2.0 will last for as long as China has the resources, patience and discipline to compete fiercely.

And if you doubt China’s capability or determination, the evidence is not on your side. According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an independent think tank funded by the Australian Department of Defense, the United States led China in 60 of 64 frontier technologies, such as A.I. and cryptography, between 2003 and 2007, while China led the United States in just three. In the most recent report, covering 2019 through 2023, the rankings were flipped on their head. China led in 57 of 64 key technologies, and the United States held the lead in only seven."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html

#USA #Trump #TradeWar #Tariffs #China #Manufacturing #Protectionism #PoliticalEconomy

petersanchez bonked 08 Jul 2025 19:25 +0000
original: rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

petersanchez bonked 08 Jul 2025 13:31 +0000
original: tedu@honk.tedunangst.com

A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.

petersanchez honked 01 Jul 2025 19:53 +0000

Dear United Airlines: I really want to respond to your quality surveys but you continue to send me down huge lists of questions and don't let me skip.

A few questions, a comment box, and that's it. I'm not going to spend 5+ minutes answering your million questions.

petersanchez bonked 27 Jun 2025 14:59 +0000
original: hailey@hails.org

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

petersanchez bonked 27 Jun 2025 14:55 +0000
original: ptd@social.peterdebelak.com

I know Paul Graham is not someone you generally want to take any advice from, but it's hard to not see truth in this:

By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.

And it certainly seems like it all applies if you replace "the Internet" with "AI" and "Yahoo" with "OpenAI".

petersanchez honked 20 Jun 2025 02:05 +0000

I switched to @alpinelinux as my daily driver a couple of years ago. It's such a solid and simple distro. Just updated from 3.21 to 3.22. Took all of 5 minutes and zero issues.

petersanchez bonked 20 Jun 2025 01:43 +0000
original: osslate@mastodon.ie

Technical Writer looking for work!

Previously worked at Red Hat on OpenShift and Ceph, and at various startups. Been contracting the past year, but it's a tough market out there, and I'm very much in need of work.

I come from a technical background (software engineer). Open to contract work and FTE.

Reach out here or fionn@kelleher.email. Happy with solo work, or joining a team of writers.

Boosts appreciated.

petersanchez honked 19 Jun 2025 00:15 +0000

Yup. The new #Nicaragua national speed limit is now 50 kmh (or 31 mph)!!!!!

This is not the way to stop the rise in accidents or crash fatalities. I mean wtf!!!!

Thank god I'm flying home to LA tomorrow where I can have some normalcy (riots, etc.) for a while. It'll feel good to be home.

US Embassy in Nicaragua posting a message about the new national speed limit (31 mph!!!)

petersanchez honked 16 Jun 2025 23:23 +0000

I gripe about this basically every time I need to do anything official but the bureaucracy is so god damn slow and inefficient here in #Nicaragua. Three days I've now wasted.

petersanchez honked 05 Jun 2025 17:29 +0000

Anyone out there now of a #postfix compat #greylist filter that checks if the connecting server is part of the SPF configured senders? So annoying when big senders send email from various IP's and my system keeps re-greylisting them.

petersanchez honked 02 Jun 2025 19:17 +0000

"Hey bro, I've got a great idea! Let's destroy our city that we're so proud of!!!"

  • Every teams fan base after they've won a big championship

#idiots #paris

petersanchez honked 29 May 2025 17:03 +0000

Seems like the SEO experts have found LinkTaco and are adding back links. Realizing I didn't place "nofollow" on the links. I'll get that fixed today.

petersanchez honked 13 May 2025 13:17 +0000

Updated my Samsung to One UI 7.0. That was a mistake.

petersanchez honked 12 May 2025 13:34 +0000

Woke up at 5am yesterday to watch Chelsea lose 2-0. (this is a sad)

Stayed awake to watch Barcelona beat Real Madrid for the 4th El Clasico in a row this year. (this is a happy)

So in the end, things evened out. (Not gonna mention the LA Galaxy because I'll just begin to tear up)

#football #futbol

petersanchez honked back 09 May 2025 18:40 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.online/users/matthewbadger/statuses/114473058497565893

@matthewbadger Yea, it must have been a muscle injury because I'm already feeling better (not 100% but I was able to train today).

That sounds terrible. I'm sorry that happened to you. How was the recovery?

Late last year my knees were aching (actually the area right below my knee, like between my shin and knee, no clue what it's called). I ended up resting for about 5 weeks until the pain went away, bought some good sleeves, and really focused on my form until I was able to squat normal weights again and thankfully the pain hasn't returned.

petersanchez honked 07 May 2025 20:41 +0000

I'm about 12 minutes away from harassing every Arsenal fan I know with:

"'Champions of Europe', you'll never sing that! You'll never sing that! You'll never sing that!"

Like most fans of English clubs, we're all PSG fans today!

I love it.

#championsleague #uecl #arsenal #psg

petersanchez honked back 07 May 2025 20:22 +0000
in reply to: https://vickerson.me/users/josh/statuses/114457260138712561

@whynothugo @josh We also try to pitch this (including hosting) but it's a very hard sell.

Especially moving off of Google Apps or Office 365. It's just too convenient, even with the many draw backs. Smaller organizations seem to be more open to it but obviously a much smaller budget, which is probably OK.

We've had some success in convincing companies to at least add Mastodon to their social presence by using examples of Twitter/FB removing accounts who've done nothing against TOS and how that can affect their presence.

One thing we like to do is point out sketchy, or just plain terrible, clauses or sentences in the TOS of some services.

petersanchez honked 07 May 2025 20:11 +0000

I've been exhausted from training as I reached the end of the current block. I told myself that my back is tired. Feels tight/sore. Don't push myself today. I even said I wasn't gonna being my belt or chalk so I'm not tempted to push.

I didn't listen. I brought my belt. My chalk. I pushed. I hurt my god damn back. Now I'm walking around like Quasimodo over here.

Hope it's not too bad. Feels like I'll be fine in a couple of days. Luckily I'm going on vacation next week so I'll be resting for a bit.

#powerlifting