all my certs…. gone

It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.

Bernie Sanders

to the girl reading this

pro-tip: If you're making a bot, prevent it from using the `mention` facet if you don't want it to get banned

not now kitten, daddy is extending his professional network

Germ DM, much like the PS5, has no games

whenever you use the term "oncologically" this is how you sound by the way:

Update: she's STILL there, I don't even think I've seen her get up to use the bathroom she's so eeepy

Bro I can’t believe we’re getting Coronavirus 2 before GTA VI

silly bingus slept out on a pile of blankets on the couch ALL NIGHT, didn’t even come to bed last night

Yeah whenever I want a low-key buzz I just use ChatGPT for 10 minutes and that mellows me out, I put on a Pink Floyd album and chill

Without downloading something new, where are you mentally?

my wife and I started watching Mad Men. rewatch for her, first time for me!

low trust society this, low trust society that, you're still letting me come over and sleep on your couch tonight right?

General Strike? No I’m just generally striking

Not gonna lie, I love grabbing lunch at the office, catching a few meetings then absconding home at like 3:30 for some focus time

Weekend at Boernies

Hogwarts is a University of Tricknology

~neoliberalism~

Pro-tip if you see someone who's been banned posting from an alt: Report -> Breaking Site Rules -> Banned User Returning

my prediction (not that anyone cares): the most toxic cluster of left adjacent cry bullies will eventually all get perma banned from the Bsky appview, in which they will inevitably go to Blacksky, and annoy the shit out of people there until they get perma banned again.

the libidinal poster's urge to post death threats on a site where death threats are explicitly not allowed

all this datacenter talk got me thinking, it would be really interesting to take the published IP ranges of AWS, GCP, Azure and block them via UFW or something. how much of the modern web would fail to work?

The secret to not getting your mugshot on the news is to make it a murder-suicide kind of deal

this isn't just a social media site, it's an information war zone. the Likes — my ammunition the Reposts — my life saving medicine the Blocks -- my nuclear bombs

Wrote up an event report about the Atproto Amsterdam meetup in March. Which now seems like 100 years ago. I'll be at RustWeek in Utrecht later this month, maybe other Atproto-interested people there want to have a meetup of some kind?

Worth noting that Google and Netflix have very different workloads w.r.t. encoding. YouTube isn’t going to be able to encode 18 billion videos and push that out to a CDN so they have to do real time transcoding

It’s such a bad day to be a data center understander on here, they’re hunting SREs for blood sport

Open Connect (Netflix’s edge CDN) has over 12,000 instances, which are custom boxes deployed into dozens of ISPs. Each serves like 5Gbits of traffic at peak, and thats just the edge!

I'm currently looking for some mix of Rust and LLM work, with a focus on Bay Area hybrid roles. I'm in the pipeline at a couple of places, but I'm open to exploring opportunities so please reach out if there's anything that you think might be a good fit (DMs open)

I didn't find a good use for this photo, but please I trust you to find it a good home

joe weisenthal has to stop reposting my replies on twitter for real

nothing else matters right now, go look up the Gamestop CEO's CNBC interview from today

😐

Yeah I mean I think one of the core issues with bluesky is how it's full of subcultures who believe that, since they're vulnerable, they have an unlimited license to be as violent, abusive, and obsessive as they want. Their own (very real!) vulnerability becomes a permission structure for abuse

Natalie Wynn pointed out a few years ago that there is a tremendous amount of powerlessness for your average hyper politically engaged online queer person. That powerlessness sometimes metastasizes into bullying behavior because online lefty spaces are the only place they can leverage any power.

slightly related, a friend of a friend know-it-all IT guy type telling me about how he's buying a bunch of random DVDs and ripping them to host on a media server, I ask him if he's going to put it behind a VPN or anything and he just goes "nope HTTPS is good enough" and laughed at me

it's so funny to sit opposite my wife on the couch while she's reading and see her reaction when she reads something shocking in her book

the IT guy / performative hacker side of Instagram Reels / YT Shorts is wild. just some guy driving around with his laptop and an SDR "wardriving" someone running a `ping nsa.gov` on their aliexpress cyberdeck with darkwave music

forcing my 1930's LLM to learn Perl lmao

actually, if anything the Bluesky mod team cares about, it's banning people who post death threats

this one's my favorite photo of Trump

I'm just now catching up on all the d4vd shit, what the actual fuck how is this guy not in prison already???

Reminder: Bluesky has a report button for "ban evasion" bsky.app/profile/brai...

and the most important question "you did WHAT?????"