Alexandre Bissessur

I wrote down my thoughts on the ongoing push for censorship by the western governments. Read it while it's up-to-date! Apologies for the less-than-professional tone and expressions used 😁 alexbissessur.dev/censorship-aga…

Which, by the way, is a decision made simply because I don't want to hand over my ID to use Twitter 😂

On the way to Europe for KubeCon EU. As usual, all the posting will go to Mastodon, on @AlexB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">moris.social/@AlexB :)

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@JKirstaetter @MSCraftsman me and my four microservices are offended >:/

Ahh, this right there speaks to me. Speaking about startups during the monthly meeting by MSCC @MSCraftsman Quite refreshing and different to the usual tech talk. Loving it.

@sjdvda I've bought my music on Bandcamp, and host it on a local Navidrome instance. It supports artists better, and I have the convenience of streaming and syncing offline copies on my phone.

@atech5122 Interesting question. I doubt the Xeons have powerful integrated graphics, since it's mainly server use anyways. Though the server has 2 PCIE slots, so I could connect a graphics card, then I'm sure it would run Crysis well

@Alex_with_a_B Can it run Crysis 🤔

Crossposting off Mastodon for a minute. I setup a server today with 2 E5 2697v2s for 24c and 48t paired with 128GB of RAM. I intend on getting it ready for running KRaft, possibly for KubeCon and/or DevCon. This bad boy can fit so many virtual clusters😆

I won't even say "wow what a coincidence to have predicted this"; it was plain as day. Yet some people will still tell me that "it's just X" or "the US is the greatest country in the world"

Im so tired of not speaking on this. It feels wrong and irresponsible, regardless of the repercussions. ICE is murdering people. They’re untrained and unstable.

@tesh1224 In fact, if he didn't want to end up in jail again, all he had to do was make a sign and go show it in front of Westminster, rather than trespass and harass people. But he keeps doing that, so he keeps going to prison, which is funny imo.

@tesh1224 At risk of "uhm ackshually", he's not being arrested for holding transphobic views (which are anyways shared by the UK government). He's actually being arrested for trespassing and harassing people on school property and thus being a danger to the safety of staff and students.

what is their goal? what is to be received from enforcing that everyone agrees with a certain ideology? is it pure power over people to comply or its something more?

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this is for everyone, but especially everyone who has ever looked at my posts & thought “wow, i wish i could work on a rocket!”, or your head is in the sand and you’re disappointed because i stopped posting tech content recently. you know me as a rocket network engineer, so this is me speaking as one. everyone who works at my company is either a US citizen or a legal permanent resident. this is a LEGAL REQUIREMENT that the company follows by law and ensures via passport & background checks. but many of my coworkers are nonwhite. some are disabled, some are LGBTQ+. as we’ve plainly seen across the U.S., but especially in Minnesota recently, simply not being white, or being subjectively perceived as “disrespectful”, is all that it takes for someone to be abducted, beaten—in some cases tortured and humiliated or killed—and detained indefinitely by ICE.  ICE have complete legal immunity & it no longer matters to them if you are legally here or not, if you can prove it or not. they are tearing up legal residency papers in Minnesota right now. i am speaking out extra loudly now because, first and foremost, this is NOT MORALLY RIGHT. we shouldn’t be treating any human beings like ICE is treating people right now, documented status notwithstanding. i am also thinking of what’s happening in Minnesota and the consequences for any of my coworkers if the same thing were to start happening in the Seattle area. if any of my colleagues or friends disappeared like this, it would not in any universe be because they did anything wrong. it would be because some violent ICE mouthbreather decided that’s what was going to happen.  they’re clearly doing this to instill fear in nonwhite people of living in America. they’re trying to discourage diversity here, thereby ensuring we stay white. not only is it morally repugnant but it’s also objectively bad for our country in every possible way.  i work with some of the smartest people on the planet. their nationality or the color of their skin doesn’t change that fact.  if fascist leadership is allowed to continue making this country hostile to all other people from around the world, this will weaken us economically, socially, and intellectually on the world stage. it is complete and absolute nonsense.  not to mention it will weaken my company and all others like it. we will not be able to make scientific progress as we have in the past. we will fail, and fall behind.  the U.S. has a bloody, awful history but it has always been unique because it’s been a melting pot of people from all over the world, making homes here and bringing in their culture to strengthen ours. America is nothing without immigrants. it is already stolen land.  what ICE and this administration are doing is wholly and completely against the America that we have all worked so hard for in the modern era. do not let them take that away. stand up, speak out, and fight them.

@osdotsystem @marlene_zw Correction - the start menu is not Chromium but is React Native, which is still heavier and less responsive than previous start menus.

@osdotsystem @marlene_zw Windows 11 is Windows 10 with more bloat, and instead of rewriting parts to be faster, it's Chromium everywhere (even the start menu!!) and with AI shoved in your face in every part of the OS. Hence, Microslop.

Did not know it was hated to this point!

@osdotsystem @marlene_zw Well, when you rewrite file explorer in web tech, and need to cache files in the background to avoid a 10 second loading time... No offense to the people working there ofc.

@marlene_zw Why not improve windows using Ai and give a stable, performant and sleek experience?

Not sure your chatbot generating child porn is particularly funny!

So grok apparently hid their media tab to hide that they're generating all these women and children without their consent??? (It's still all visible if you looo at the replies) Idk if there has ever been something THIS bad on twitter before. Like I can't even give justice how disgusting this is. Actually who can we report this too?? Are there any resources I can look into to help??

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I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that I'll be talking at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam next year about my "cloud platform" KRaft! It's going to be a fun conference :D