The chaotic disintegration (in the technical vernacular) of complex, highly integrated systems is frequently misunderstood - until the consequences of apparently small changes (the temporary closure of the Suez Canal being one) are felt.

Predictions is extremely difficult and small changes in highly coupled systems can be catastophic.

I expect the billionaires in their bunkers will end up as bodyguard food.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-global-collapse-wildfires-pandemic-financial-crisis

Stop causing people panic
The virus will never get here
You're making people worry
And causing lots of fear

The wildfire will never to us
Your warnings are all a joke
You are always terribly wrong
Ignore those flames and smoke

The planet is not warming
You're scaring everyone
Things aren't getting warmer here
The climate is not done!

It'll never flood here
The fear has gone too far
We're perfectly safe at home
No hurricane has ever got this far

#cassandra #poem (by a human)

Taken this day, 2010, sleepy puss https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5381628143/

Cassie cat having a nap on her favourite cushion

We're Hiring a Chief Technology Officer (CTO)!

Embark on an extraordinary journey with Software Heritage! Our work supports #OpenScience, #AI, and #Cybersecurity.

Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement the technical strategy
- Oversee technical development and ensure stability
- Drive innovation and manage technical debt

Our Tech Stack: #GNU/#Linux, #Python, #Rust, #Debian, #Puppet, #Kubernetes, #Postgres, #Ceph, #Cassandra, #Kafka.

For more info: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/06/28/chief-technology-officer-cto/

I feel like I should re-read Arthur C. Clarke’s novel about giving Chat GPT control of a spaceship.

#SciFi #Clarke #ArthurCClarke #2001 #AI #Reading #Cassandra

If you have a character in a story called #Cassandra, she makes a prediction, no one believes her, and then it turns out she's wrong, that's a myth-direction.
#writing #shitpost #pun #Sorry #NZTwits #mythology

@peterdutoit
We hit 27°c yesterday, and I'm sure parts of Germany also hit the 30° mark.

Summer is going to be bad. Really bad. Worse that last year...

... and it'll still be the coldest summer for the rest of our lives.

Farewell to Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A

I was really sad and shocked today when I was scrolling through twitter and saw this sudden announcement from Angry Robot:

As you will be aware, Angry Robot Books has a history of innovation and we continue to go from strength to strength. We’re constantly trying out new concepts and...

https://breathesbooks.com/2014/06/20/farewell-to-strange-chem/

#Angry Robot #books #Cassandra Rose Clarke #giveaway #Martha Wells #Rachel Neumeier #Sean Cummings

The company put out a fluff piece about me: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/apache-cassandra-engineer-nominated-for-prestigious-cassandra-catalyst-program/ #cassandra #nosql

Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage.

Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. Ouch.

This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!

read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra

Le projet Software Heritage, l'archive universelle des codes sources de logiciels, recrute un·e nouvel.le developpeur·euse pour contribuer au développement de sa plateforme, et particulièrement pour participer à la maintenance de ses composants #frontend (interface de navigation basée sur #Django et nos APIs #REST et #GraphQL).

On fait du #Python, du #Cassandra, du #BigData, du #LogicielLibre (évidemment), et plein de trucs cool.

L'équipe est rattachée au centre Inria de Paris mais la localisation est possible dans tous les centres Inria en France (Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Rennes, Saclay, Sophia Antipolis, Nancy). Télétravail possible 2-3j / semaine.

Détails et contact:
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/11/13/developpeur%e2%b8%b1se-fullstack-python-django/?lang=fr

Grille de salaire ingénieurs de recherche contractuels Inria, page 9 de https://madada.fr/request/1575/response/1436/attach/6/DGDA%20DRH%20Cadre%20emploi%20contractuels%202016%2012.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

#JeRecrute

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Software Heritage, the universal archive for software source code, is recruiting a new developer to contribute to the development of its platform, and specifically to help maintain our Web components (#Django #Frontend, #REST and #GraphQL APIs).

We do #Python, #Cassandra, #BigData, #FreeSoftware (obviously) and lots of other cool stuff.

This is an on-site recruitment at one of the Inria research centers in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Rennes, Saclay, Sophia Antipolis, Nancy). Open to part-time (2-3 days/week) remote work.

Details and contact: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/11/13/fullstack-python-developer/?lang=en

Salary range on page 9 of https://madada.fr/request/1575/response/1436/attach/6/DGDA%20DRH%20Cadre%20emploi%20contractuels%202016%2012.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

People have been fighting each other in the middle-east since recorded history began, and probably long before.

The desert does strange things to people's minds.

Even more so now that the climate is collapsing, and they can all blame each other's flavor of Flying Spaghetti Monster, and it's a no-win shit show.

Probably gonna escalate into something else entirely, and many people will die.

People are stupid.

But whatchagonnado?

People are stupid.

I was like yikes and then I was like YIKES

Dunno, man.

Does no one remember what happened just 100 short years ago? We have newspapers, books, and movies to help us remember.

You can't sneeze in Germany without spattering a Holocaust Memorial, but even here, people are becoming hateful idiots.

*sigh*

I guess the wheel turns, and fascist religious autocracy's turn is up next in the "western world."

Again.

Because people, in general, are idiots who refuse to learn.

Simon & Schuster to be sold to a private equity firm. Remember when #newspapers were sold to private equity firms? Don’t say I didn’t warn ya. #publishing #Cassandra https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/books/simon-schuster-kkr-sale.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Hi, I’m now doing the Mastodon thing, follow me for all things #apache #cassandra, #kubernetes, #cloudnative, #dataengineering and #platformengineering (amongst others )