I wish everyone here a very happy 2026. 2025 was surely tough. My new year's resolution: find new ways to enjoy life and support my fellow human beings. Yours?

Oh dear. I do seem to have sprinkled AI pixie dust on myself at work. Does anyone know how to get it off?

@Drbruced Congratulations!

In an era where freedom of speech is under attack, I'd like to take this opportunity to suggest a quota on use of all CAPS words.

Unfortunately, I have to say this again: US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny. Shortly after the […]

I did nazi that coming. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-nazis-treated-jewish-143613005.html

Well, having panned Microsoft Azure, I can now add Google to the "you suck" category as well. Having provisioned a 0.25 VPU device, I realized I was being charged for 2VPUs. 4x. Because I'm still in the trial period, I can't get any assistance. Bad news Google: we won't be together past the […]

The administration speculating on digital currencies has two pernicious effects: it props up currencies that are primarily practically used for illicit transaction (like murder for hire), and it interferes with the Fed's ability to manage monetary policy. Discuss.

You never quite know how bad something is until you try it. I logged into Microsoft Azure to try their "free" subscription, and ended up tied to a decades old government account that I briefly used to access five documents. There was no way to detach from this account without discarding my […]

Every time someone proposes a new DNS application, this is what runs through my head... ( @jpmens @paul_ipv6 @paulehoffman )

The ultimate debugging message you want to see when prototyping: “Holy Shit! It worked!”