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Matthew Miller

mattdm@hachyderm.io

<p>Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. Linux distro and free and open source software thought follower. Currently: open source / upstream strategy for Lightwell. Former Fedora Project Leader.</p><p>Open source means we are building better software that belongs to *everyone* — including _you_.</p><p>he/him</p>

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    I know &amp;quot;inside of you, there are two wolves&amp;quot; is thoroughly silly, but, also, it pretty much completely describes the history and present of the United States. One wolf is slavery, Manifest Destiny, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, ICE, &amp;quot;replacement theory&amp;quot;. The other is the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, birthright citizenship, Composite Nation, Civil Disobedience, the melting pot, the Shining City on the Hill.

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    Wait, are &amp;quot;bels&amp;quot; metric? Like, decibels implies centibels and kilobels? Megabels? Petabels? *does not go to look this up*

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    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/117503034421357127 Ok so I did look it up, and found https://blog.coredump.cx/p/decibels-are-ridiculous, and now I know _less than I did before_.

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    @GossiTheDog Counterpoint: this documentary from the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1 Oh wait.

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    @mcc No, but they will send a sternly-worded letter and hold up signs with cringy slogans at the State of the Union.

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    Ancestry dot com has updated my DNA results, and somehow I am now a _lot_ more Swiss. 67%, in fact.

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    Hail Mary is excellent. Went in prepared to be disappointed, but the opposite happened. AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE.

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    God, Mission of Burma is so good. https://youtu.be/F6z0Cv4PYvs?is=oNih4n081pG4YgBO

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    Oh no I think the new breadbox is bigger than a breadbox.

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    There is a correct solution to the trolley problem. 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. I&#39;ve been told that this is cheating, a cop-out, or avoiding the &quot;interesting&quot; aspects of the question. I don&#39;t think it is. Framing the world as a series of individual can&#39;t-win situations and lose-lose deci...

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    @jzb@hachyderm.io Would you rather

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    Job news! Starting this week I’m switching back to an individual contributor role to work on Lightwell. (https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell) 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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    My kid can make my Grandma&#39;s cinnamon roll recipe objectively and decisively better than my Grandma ever did, so... I guess my work here is done.

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    Thanks to the amazing power of compound interest, if you invested the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $1000 100 years ago, in a savings account at 3%, today you&amp;#39;d have $1080!

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    WAIT. Dr. Cassie McKay is BART FROM DIRK GENTLY? This explains some things... but raises many, many more questions.

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    I have the LEDs on this switch by our front door connected to a script that gets COVID rna concentration levels from the Boston-area sewage system. It&amp;#39;s _never_ been down to just one dot like this before!

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    Fedora Linux 42 is now official! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/