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Marco Mastropaolo

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Principal Engineer working on Amazon DCV and related services. Previously I wrote Waking Violet. In love with Rust, QUIC and using GPUs for graphics. Views mine, not my employer. Maybe not even mine. I'm also on Mastodon: @xanathar@hachyderm.io

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Più umano più vero... qui l'atmosfera sa di Pippero

09.08.2025 17:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck football. No, seriously, fuck football.

17.06.2025 06:15 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Might be sample bias, but in my experience the elders are much more attracted by those evil folks than the youngsters

08.06.2025 15:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Above all, our country has a long list of precedents of "siding with the wrong guys on the wrong side of history"

08.06.2025 10:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excel 🤝 Incel

Misinterpreting something as a date

26.05.2025 17:41 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Very dangerous in proximity of your significant other

10.05.2025 12:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where is Gov Healey?? What is she even doing?!?!

09.05.2025 02:50 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

And Paul Graham is not exactly a woke communist.

28.03.2025 09:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Pronouns". I can see elementary schools programs saying "in 3rd grade the student should be able to analyze and understand nouns, verbs, prepositions and particles-that-can-be-used-in-place-of-nouns".

Just kidding, he's cancelling the education department, so no problem.

10.03.2025 18:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nitpick, but is=iceland il=israel

24.02.2025 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having two left feet is the cherry on the AI top

24.02.2025 15:03 👍 82 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

But of course the real reason is simply to make people feel more miserable.

24.02.2025 08:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He doesn't need to process millions, he just needs to have a cursory look at X of them, where X is the number of people he decided upfront to fire that day, with motivations like "the email had a typo" or simply "the government doesn't need unlucky employees".

24.02.2025 08:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You don't need brakes in cars if you are fine with people dying.

15.02.2025 18:26 👍 147 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

07.02.2025 16:45 👍 7538 🔁 4036 💬 51 📌 168

Il piccolo Dvorak vuole ottimizzarti il layout 😍

05.02.2025 18:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ho appena realizzato che St. Mary Mead - il paese dove vive Miss Marple - significa letteralmente "idromele della madonna".

01.02.2025 11:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cose che fanno pagura.

01.02.2025 11:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They probably forced it open. It was not the only box they broke that night (3 different fiber boxes, all of them Fibercop).

11.01.2025 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm officially a "my favorite birthday present has been a warm water bottle" years old.

09.01.2025 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy 2025 to all the vandals who enjoy breaking-in and cutting fiber optics cables! Sincerely hope for all your dental cavities to suddenly become very, very painful.

01.01.2025 14:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Do I know someone at Deliveroo?

I’ve found an issue with the algo which picks the closest restaurant in a chain which is resulting in waste of time / fuel and customer service has been an absolute brick wall for 2 months.

I have a workaround but want someone to look into it.

28.12.2024 10:38 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Best UI award for December 2024.

28.12.2024 09:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why would Advent of Code 2028 be so terrible? 😜

17.12.2024 17:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Posso postarne un secondo? Troppo tardi, l'ho fatto.

12.12.2024 13:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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... ma solo perché Automatic for the People l'ha già postato qualcun altro.

11.12.2024 11:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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