David Dick @granitecoder

polyglot software developer, specialty: s/w migration; tsundoku sufferer; sci/tech fan; political spinoff: @granitevoter; hardcore s/w dev: @granitedev Nashua, New Hampshire, USA Joined January 2012

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Janine di Giovanni @janinedigi

4 weeks ago

I’ve reported 18 wars over 35 years. I’ve been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I’ve lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen. #GazaGenocide #WarCrimes

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David Dick @granitecoder

4 weeks ago

Trumpf is an uncouth barbarian time.com/7309114/ufc-fi…

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Science Friday @scifri

4 weeks ago

Former astronaut James Lovell died last week at 97. Today on the podcast, we revisit a 1995 conversation with him about what it took to bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after an explosion damaged their spacecraft while en route to the moon.…

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David Dick @granitecoder

4 weeks ago

(Training) content is king. osnews.com/story/143034/g… via Linux News ( goo.gl/Xa2mzf )

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David Dick @granitecoder

4 weeks ago

#Gryfto

Defect The Empire @US_Defector

4 weeks ago

#Gryfto

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Defect The Empire @US_Defector

4 weeks ago

@TheGaloisCxn @doctorow I still can't see crypto as anything more than a glorified gambling system posing as a glorified investment system that can on occasion be used as a monetary system for the dupes giving it value for the actual shareholders.

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NASA Watch @NASAWatch

4 weeks ago

‘Unacceptable’: Lawmakers shocked to hear about reported NASA Wallops visitor center closure pilotonline.com/2025/08/11/wal… @NASA @NASAGoddard @NASAWallops

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David Dick @granitecoder

4 weeks ago

We live in brutal times.

Fast Company @FastCompany

4 weeks ago

We live in brutal times.

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4 weeks ago

"Life, uh, finds a way" cnn.com/2025/08/11/sci…

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David Dick @granitecoder

a month ago

Should we be calling it "systemd/GNU/Linux?

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Rarely Tolerable. @RarelyTolerated

7 months ago

Trump administration cuts environmental justice programs at EPA, DOJ -EPA places 168 environmental justice staff on leave, DOJ cuts similar programs -Environmental groups warn cuts put minority and lower-income families near polluting sites at risk - DOJ rescinds Biden-era…

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Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales

2 years ago

I forgot my bank password and lost my entire net worth. No, actually, that didn't happen, because banks work and bitcoin doesn't.

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David Dick @granitecoder

a year ago

All you webcoders out there: When getting name for creditcard verification, please note: many people's accounts don't have only first and a last name. I (foolishly, apparently) included a middle initial in my acct name. A website requested first and last, so can't match bank info

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Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social @woodmally1979

2 years ago

One of the best intros I have read.

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David Dick @granitecoder

2 years ago

Help Ace of Diamonds: gofund.me/d6f7ac02

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David Dick @granitecoder

2 years ago

Once transformed into "X", expecting social media on Twitter will be like expecting music on MTV.

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David Dick @granitecoder

2 years ago

If proof-of-work goes away (🤞) in cryptocurrency, will AI/LLM training be the new mass computation task?

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AnneWith 🐝 @indigoace

2 years ago

@UrsulaV I found out I had it when I went to sleep in my hospital bed post-hysterectomy & woke up in ICU & was told I had stopped breathing. I love my CPAP: I can sleep with the covers over my head if needed.

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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress

2 years ago

“The amazing fact is that the War on Poverty did not fail. It was just declared a failure from the start by people who resented its blunt imposition of racial equality.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-war-on-pov…