Adam Leventhal
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Vibeless coding enthusiast. Indifferent to antipathy. Opinionated on neutrality.
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Back in April,
@bcantrill.bsky.social
and I talked to Andres Freund on the
@oxide.computer
podcast to discuss the xz fiasco; over on Mastodon I described making the image, and since its starting to be used without attribution, I thought I'd talk about it here...
share.transistor.fm/s/e2538f7d
over 1 year ago
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Molly White
about 15 hours ago
i love the small print ābecause the regulators wonāt let us :(ā
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Bryan Cantrill
about 23 hours ago
Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time!
@ahl.bsky.social
and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p Pacific/5p Eastern!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4928 members
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1488196531852152873
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The Athletic
1 day ago
Braylon Mullins' magical March Madness moment sends UConn to the Final Four šŖ
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Fuck yeah UConn!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 day ago
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"All right. Look, if you're in this demographic, you are going to think that we are belittling you by making other people aware of this..." "All listeners, please write down what large group of people Bryan's about to alienate." (Yes, I'm laughing at my own jokes that I had forgotten about.)
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OxF bonus blather 1/12/2026
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-fXjY3uc-Y
2 days ago
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It took me a very very long time to understand how these were related Iām embarrassed to say. (āOhhhhh itās a bumper sticker not a laptop sticker!ā)
3 days ago
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LinkedIn without Kyle Law... unimaginable.
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My AI Agent āCofounderā Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned
When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?
https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-invited-my-ai-cofounder-to-give-a-corporate-talk-then-banned-it/
3 days ago
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Our latest foster. If youāre in the Bay Area consider adopting this sweet boy. He had literally been sedated to be euthanized when he was rescued
www.instagram.com/reel/DWVIIbo...
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWVIIboSLQc/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
5 days ago
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Fetch is happening? Cc:
@bcantrill.bsky.social
kotrotsos.medium.com/developers-n...
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Developers Now Have a Name for What They Are Feeling .
It Is Called Deep Blue.
https://kotrotsos.medium.com/developers-now-have-a-name-for-what-they-are-feeling-f9fbcb2addd6
7 days ago
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Bryan Cantrill
8 days ago
Our spring break continues for one more week:
@ahl.bsky.social
and I are out for Oxide and Friends today -- but we'll be back next Monday!
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Really interesting, in particular the update where some of the bots/bot owners articulate their setup
glama.ai/blog/2026-03...
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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md ā 50% of PRs are bots
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem
10 days ago
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Absense makes the heart grow fonder? After a couple of weeks away, our most recent episode of Oxide and Friends is the most downloaded ever after 2 days. Check it out! Tell your friends. Smash that like button?
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Oxide and Friends | When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable ...
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/when-nine-nines-isnt-enough
11 days ago
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I guess a slightly nice thing about this tire fire is that we get to see all the worldās leadersā āChrist what an assholeā face
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12 days ago
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Parker Molloy
12 days ago
Masterful gambit, sir
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Jon Cooper
13 days ago
It looks like Senator John Fetterman will end up being the deciding vote for Markwayne Mullinās nomination to lead DHS. Fetterman has said that he would support Mullin. āļø Call his office today at 202-224-4254 and tell him to vote NO.
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We often speak of "Nine nines" of uptime (99.9999999%) as being a goal for a system; on the latest Oxide and Friends we talk about a subsystem that had exactly that uptime for Oxide -- and how that wasn't nearly enough.
youtu.be/zUwmc_-SLFg
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Oxide and Friends 3/2/2026 -- When Nine Nines Isn't Nearly Enough
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://youtu.be/zUwmc_-SLFg
14 days ago
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14 days ago
Iran negotiating with FIFA to move World Cup matches from United States to Mexico, says embassy.
@theathleticfc.bsky.social
- free to read.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...
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Iran negotiating with FIFA to move World Cup matches from United States to Mexico, says embassy (Gift Article)
Last week, President Trump said that he does not believe it is āappropriateā for Iranās menās soccer team to participate in the World Cup.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7124876/2026/03/17/iran-trump-world-cup-news-games-mexico/?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.lr7n.8KJpyoQ2MPnE&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
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Ryan Mac š
15 days ago
Elon Musk was once so mad that a random guy based in Thailand made fun of his failed cave rescue effort that he accused him of pedophilia and hired a private investigator to dig into his life.
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TIL that in baseball 2nd base isn't where I thought it was. All other bases form a diamond connecting the BACK edge of the base; at 2nd that diamond goes through the CENTER of the base. This is also true in little league... though probably within the avg volunteer groundskeeping margin of error...
15 days ago
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Too soon, ChatGPT--WTF!
15 days ago
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Not only have these guys never read a book, but theyāve never spoken with someone who has read a book
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15 days ago
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I eagerly await the day when every obscure minor J.R.R. Tolkien character has a startup named after them and we can move on to some less irritating zeitgeist
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17 days ago
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Love this review. Reminds me of RedEdit, cdevs, and piles of MacUser magazines too precious to trash (recycling being a thing we didnāt do at home yet)
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17 days ago
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Cinephilia & Beyond
18 days ago
āBut, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.ā
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This was cool. Would recommend
19 days ago
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Molly Knight
20 days ago
Arrogant and clueless and facing a shocking crash out, Team USA got the manager it deserves in this cultural moment:
open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...
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Team USA has the manager it deserves
Mark DeRosa mistakenly thought his team had already advanced to the quarterfinals. Then they lost to Italy last night. And now they may be eliminated tonight.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mollyknight/p/team-usa-has-the-manager-it-deserves?r=7dijz&utm_medium=ios
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21 days ago
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Aaron Rupar
21 days ago
EISEN: What do you say to American who are struggling with making ends meet and don't want foreign wars? WITKOFF: If they have children, think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald Trump as the president
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Chris Murphy
21 days ago
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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International baseball in Tokyo
22 days ago
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When AI makes generation of all kinds of content free... ... the review burden on folks with domain expertise increases immeasurably.
27 days ago
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This is fun:
editor.p5js.org/isohedral/fu...
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28 days ago
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
28 days ago
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
28 days ago
Just spent an hour today in our agentic AI coding class showing all the way Claude Code produces *subtly* bad programs for a pretty trivial application. Wrong in some ways, but just bad in other ways. Reading its output is always a sobering experience.
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Bryan Cantrill
29 days ago
We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today
@ahl.bsky.social
and I are going to be joined by the
@oxide.computer
team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us for a wild, multi-year debugging tale!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4921 members
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1478128159021989950
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Bev Hamilton
about 1 month ago
I am old enough to remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something.
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Sleepy boy
about 1 month ago
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Carl Quintanilla
about 1 month ago
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends,
@sdtuck.bsky.social
and
@bcantrill.bsky.social
talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News.
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Oxide and Friends 2/23/2026 -- Oxide's $200M Series C
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-tcU2a4vU
about 1 month ago
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Federico Varano
about 1 month ago
Wasn't expecting to hear the familiar voices of
@ahl.bsky.social
and
@bcantrill.bsky.social
on a Veritasium video!
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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
YouTube video by Veritasium
https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=2661&si=DojcudZVYIcD0_Li
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I'm looking at AWS Outposts pricing for the first time since 2021. Many (all?) of the "1st gen" models are still for sale (with seemingly unchanged specs). Care to guess the percentage-wise price delta between then and now?
about 1 month ago
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Bryan Cantrill
about 1 month ago
People say that
@oxide.computer
is a podcasting company that built a computer for content generation, but we also use funding milestones for content generation: join
@ahl.bsky.social
,
@sdtuck.bsky.social
and me today at 5p Pacific as we talk about our $200M Series C!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Hank Green
about 1 month ago
You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different?
hankgreen.com/crc
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Something is Going on with Colorectal Cancer
An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.
https://hankgreen.com/crc
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The level of amorality is shocking
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about 1 month ago
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Post a banger that isnāt in English
youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?...
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about 1 month ago
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Pete Lumbis
about 1 month ago
This new season of Heated Rivalry is awful.
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I just joined the local pickleball club so of courseā¦
about 1 month ago
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RIP Sun Lab
blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a...
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A History Of The Sunlab
The Sunlab is no longer with us. Students who graduated in the past decade or so think of it mainly as a place where they could use desktop computers running Linux and attend TA hours and help sessions. But it started as something different.
https://blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a-history-of-the-sunlab/
about 1 month ago
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It has legs
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about 1 month ago
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Ho ho! What a knee-slapper from the man who invited the national guard to deploy to San Francisco
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about 2 months ago
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