Dustin Black

@booker.senate.gov I choose you!

I've published a new blog post on real-time Linux CPU throttling. These are the results of a very interesting study done with one of our Automotive partners where we worked through some inter-process communication latency concerns. developers.redhat.com/articles/202...

I've been using Linux recently and the smugness it makes me feel is divine. You guys raved about everything except the smugness. You should lead with that next time you sell it to the mainstream

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Ich habe eine Nacktschnecke in meinem Handschuh neben der Schildkröte gefunden.

👇🏻👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿 They were so concerned about people taking the Christ out of Christmas that they went and took the Christ out of Christianity.

An interesting hypothetical if you’re wondering if Elon Musk is a genius or not is to compare his behaviour in any situation to what a complete moron would do in the same situation

"Alpha male" implies to me that you're barely better than a prototype and we should expect significant bugs in your programming. It also means you aren't yet ready for the public and still need time to mature.

Today's headline: Felon pardoned by another felon.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Is there a shame big enough to get Christian conservatives to go, "You know what, this guy really doesn't align with my morals" 'cause nothing seems to be working.

It's an absolute miracle that anyone learns German fluently besides native speakers. This language is a train wreck.

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

President Donald Trump blamed his predecessors’ diversity hiring policies for possibly causing the deadly Jan. 29 Washington, D.C., plane crash. Here’s what he got wrong.

Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!

It's nice that we HAVE found a limit: Matt Gaetz is too fucked up for a cabinet position. Now we just need to dial that shit in.

I've been proud to be part of building an #opensource software project to be excellent at orchestrating container -based composable workflows on #linux and #kubernetes environments. Check it out. arcalot.io/arcaflow

The government collected $82m annually from Trump's washing machine tariff (paid by the importers), and consumers paid $1.5b more. Americans paid $815k per job created. Tariffs are garbage and don't work the way you may think.

There are years where nothing happens; and there are decades where centuries happen.

This is some very good recession risk analysis by JP Morgan, especially for data nerds like me. My immediate concern is evaluating this alongside the risks of hasty and ill-conceived policies from the current administration, as well as global political turmoil.

i keep saying these people hate the american system of government because it is true. “sovereign over the executive branch?” get the fuck outta here. he is a servant of the constitution and those “rogue judges” are doing their jobs!

I'm calling them Twitter and the Gulf of Mexico in this house and anyone who says different is cordially invited to eat my ass. Forever.

The older I get, the more gratification I find in *physical* engineering and crafting. Writing code is super fun, but there is something really great about accomplishments in physical space.

ICE enforcement at schools and churches is simply inhuman.

Running CI performance test automations on 4 Linux platform variants and generating about 1.5 million lines of data nightly. Just flexing.

I love when people say stuff like "the biopic about this administration is going to be SCATHING" brother at this rate the biopic is going to be called "The Great Patriot: Rise Of A Ruler" and they'll make our kids watch it in school

It turns out the Linux real-time scheduler actually cares if you set CPU affinity or FIFO priority first. That explains some things.

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Bots and trolls are two of the worst things to happen to the internet. Complete waste of time.

Perhaps it is worth saying that the difference between $5M and $500B is $500B.

Retirement homes in 30 years is gonna be endless office reruns in the background and daily Magic the Gathering nights and honestly doesn’t sound so bad ☠️

After having been a parent with a lot of "rules" about media, I now kind of wish we had just force-fed them Dumb and Dumber. So much of our family joy now comes from escapist absurdity and I love it!

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

It's been a week. The shock part is over; the awe part never happened. Time to be throwing sand into the fascist gears, y'all.

German pickles are utter garbage.

A beautiful view in one of my least favorite places on Earth. Remember to find the good in the bad whenever you can.

January 2025 as a meme