I expanded a rant I recently wrote here into a larger essay for my blog. It's about the issue of due process and the weaponization of speed itself as a tool to deny it.
Speed Kills
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/speed-kills.html
"In a time of uncertainty, the future doesn’t slow down to give you time to make up your mind!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Uncertainty is not an excuse to stall. It’s a signal to move—strategically, swiftly, and with intent.
And yet, in moments like this, indecision becomes the silent killer. Leaders delay. Organizations drift. People pause, waiting for “clarity” that never comes. And in a moment in history that features relentlessly unpredictable - and some would say insane - levels of uncertainty, indecision becomes aggressive.
But the future doesn’t reward those who hesitate. It penalizes them, punishes them, and hurts them, by setting them further back. It rewards those who know how to pivot, adapt, and accelerate—even when the ground is shifting beneath them. I've said this before: “The biggest risk isn’t moving too fast—it’s moving too slow while the world speeds up.” That reality becomes more pronounced during an era of uncertainty.
In every previous downturn, we’ve seen the same pattern. The companies that acted with agility—who streamlined decision-making, shortened timelines, and empowered their teams—came out ahead. They didn’t rush blindly. But they didn’t wait for permission, either. They were bold, fast, and focused.
What did they do?
- they built cross-functional teams with the authority to decide in real-time.
- they prototyped quickly, then scaled what worked.
-they adopted an iteration mindset: test, learn, refine—then repeat.
- they aligned on mission clarity, so even in chaos, the direction was clear.
And that mindset isn’t just aspirational. It’s proven through research. I summed it up after the last crisis: “Bureaucracy is out. Speed is everything. The future belongs to those who can decide—and move.”
Here's the key thing to think about: agility isn’t recklessness. It’s responsiveness. It’s not about rushing blindly—it’s about having the confidence to move when others are still overanalyzing the map.
The greatest risk right now? It isn’t moving too fast. It’s moving too slowly while the world speeds up. And the greatest mistake? Doing nothing.
So as this new era of global uncertainty accelerates, are you still fine-tuning your plans while others are executing theirs?
Because the future isn’t waiting.
And neither should you.
**#Uncertainty** **#Action** **#Agility** **#Speed** **#Decision** **#Future** **#Leadership** **#Strategy** **#Adaptation** **#Momentum**
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This time the ISP decided to drop the amount of bandwidth that it gives to the clients, the paying clients without any nice warning
Feast yourself on the amount of bandwidth I get for the ridiculously high amount of money in USD
Little know fact?
#manjarolinux has the fastest servers I actually use. When I grab a new #iso I get about 800Mb/s which is not far off my own maximum download #speed.
The point is I can't manage anywhere near that with upload speed. My upload speed is nearer 100Mb/s
So kudos to the #manjaro guys
My ISP gave me an interesting scare a couple of minutes ago. As you know if you do not want to pay them for a permanent IPv4 address, which I consider obsolete networking, they remotely reboot your gateway device and assign it a random IP out of one of their IPv4 pools.
This time it didn't take the usual long 30 to 90 Seconds to reboot the device and transfer credentials to obtain the new IP.
The Gateway got in an infinite loop somewhere and I had to Power it off, then had to wait 90 seconds to power cycle it before it took 180 seconds for the device to finally get the new IP.
Someone screwed up the login sequences for the xDSL devices of which the hashtag is in the toot and now we as the paying customer again have to pay for it in wasted time.
Luckily this power cycling off xDSL devices occurs only once in 6 weeks and usually I do not use the internet at that point in time.
In case you are wondering my Gateway uses obsolete technology, is forcibly assigned by the ISP and it's also cursed with a extremely low transfer speed.
I just included a speedtest after first draft of this toot
As you can see the speeds here are so low the connection is virtually unusable for anything where you have to move a big bites of data. They still manage to extort more than USD 30 a month for this connection
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #422: Bamboo.
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#bamboo #plants #biology #botany #speedrecords #speed #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
It would be great if #mastodon would allow ctrl+enter (or cmd+enter on mac?) to suspend an account when typing in the custom note box.
Linux 6.15’s exFAT file deletion performance boosted
A recent development in the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has been spotted, because there was a big improvement to the exFAT file system implementation in relation to how it deletes the files when the “discard” mount option is used. This improvement significantly saves time as a test file after the merge has been deleted in 1.6 seconds, compared to more than 4 minutes of the total time taken.
This pull request makes sure that, upon file deletion, it discards a group of contiguous clusters (that is, clusters that are next to each other) in batch instead of discarding them one by one. This was because in prior kernels, such as 6.14, “if the discard mount option is enabled, the file’s clusters are discarded when they are freed. Discarding clusters one by one will significantly reduce performance. Poor performance may cause soft lockup when lots of clusters are freed.”
The change has been introduced in commit a36e0ab. Since then, the pull request has been merged to the kernel and it will be integrated to the first release candidate of Linux 6.15. A simple performance benchmark has been verified with the following commands:
# truncate -s 80G /mnt/file# time rm /mnt/fileIn detail, the performance of this filesystem without this commit is poor, totalling about 4 minutes and 46 seconds in real time, with 12 seconds of system time. In contrast to the patched kernel, it totals about 1 second in real time, with 17 milliseconds of system time.
It’s a huge improvement!
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#speed : prosperity in an undertaking
- French: vitesse
- German: die Geschwindigkeit
- Italian: velocità
- Portuguese: velocidade
- Spanish: velocidad
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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past
North Carolina Speeders Beware: Ford Mustang V8 Interceptors Are Lurking
