Sortware dev (mostly Go), gamer, has too many cats. He/him. Infosec adjacent.

Joined August 2008
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When I worked at a cyber security company, anything like this would be at the least a quick way to a conversation with a very intense security exec.
Jan 28
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Head of US cyber defense agency CISA Madhu Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive documents into public ChatGPT, prompting a DHS investigation.
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Why would so many people be interested in a young "actress" with no agency, labour controls, or rights? The Free Press here starting to say the quiet part out loud.
2 Oct 2025
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable tweets, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI, writes Tyler Cowen. thefp.com/p/my-favorite-actr…
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As a Canadian none of the above for the near term future, and it's looking entirely possible for the rest of my life.
You can only live & travel within one region of the United States for the rest of your life. What are you picking?
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David Fleming retweeted
This to me is one of the most important images from the Apollo missions, and its something most people outside space circles don't know about, and may not get the significance of. It shows Pete Conrad standing next to Surveyor 3, an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the Moon in 1967, and in the background can be seen the Apollo 12 lunar module he arrived in in late 1969. One of the objectives of this mission was to demonstrate high accuracy landing - and they managed to put the LM down a short walk from this probe. They recovered material samples from it to study how it had held up after 2 years on the surface. What this meant was that, in 1969, NASA had the capability to do lunar surface rendezvous missions - i.e. sending multiple payloads to the same site - up to and including other lunar modules. An unmanned LM that removed its ascent engine and propellant could deliver an extra 3 tonnes of cargo - a manned mission landing near to it later would then have that available for a much longer duration mission. NASA indeed began planning this, with 14 day surface time, but the budget was cut before even the first lunar landing. So this demonstration undermines claims that Apollo was a dead end. It wasn't - the decision to not continue after it was purely political.
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I (6') have sat in the 3rd row seats of a Model Y. It feels a lot like this. Potentially useful for kids and dogs, but not much else.
Remember when Tesla short sellers said the 3 row Model Y was fake and “proved it” with this diagram?
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David Fleming retweeted
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People, it brings me no joy to tell you this (That is a lie. I have so much absolute joy in the news I am about to tell you.) My HOA Board has violated state law
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When Nextdoor was newly in this area I happened to look around Victoria or Canada Day. There was of course a post about fireworks. Kicker was the comment insinuating that someone was using the noise as cover for gunshots? Breaking into houses? Other nefarious activities?
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I have chickens in my backyard and eggs still cost me money. Not much, but some. I don't think that man can tell the truth if he wanted to.
The most a price can come down, by definition, is 100%. That would take it to zero. Does Trump think stores are paying people to take eggs?
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Falcon 1 (not 9) launched 5 times with only 2 successes. Comparisons to its payload are basically meaningless. I suspect the launch cost thing might be true only if you consider development costs and assume Starship will amortize over many more launches.
9 May 2025
Elon Musk: “Falcon 1 is about half a ton to orbit. Starship 3 will be 400 times more payload for less than the cost of a Falcon 1. These are unthinkable numbers. Nobody ever thought this was possible.”
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SpaceX does some cool shit, but it's not as amazing as some might suggest. Kind of typical of everything that comes out of that dude.
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An excellent take on how all the trade deficit stuff is total bs.
6 Apr 2025
I own a small dessert business. My business has a 100% trade deficit with the grocery store. I’m always buying from them, and they’ve never once bought anything from me. Now, of course, I take products I buy from the grocery store, turn them into delicious baked goods, and make a 50% profit, while the grocery store is running on 2-4% profit margins, but WE HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT! They’re ripping me off with their low, low prices, because they NEVER buy anything from me! Of course, the alternative is for me to grow, harvest, thrash, grind, then finely mill all of my own flour, including into the various mixes of flour that I use for various products (cake flour, bread flour, all-purpose, etc…), maintain and milk a dairy cow, churn my own butter, make that milk into heavy cream, yogurt, sour cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk, etc…grow cacao, and then turn into all the different kinds of chocolate and baking cocoa… grow and harvest sugar cane, sorghum, mine salt, make baking powder, baking soda, grow vanilla beans, etc, etc, etc… All of that (plus WAY more), and we haven’t even talked about all the different fruits and nuts I would need, or how I would only be able to offer certain products during certain times of the year, or how a lot of what I said before wouldn’t even be possible in the climate I live in, but I digress. If all of that wasn’t cost-prohibitive enough to completely wipe out my profits (it would be, and then some), the time commitment and significant additional physical labor certainly wouldn’t make any of it worth the tiny remaining profit. Now, compare that to the current screeching about the trade deficits we have with other countries. We import raw materials (aluminum, steel, lumber, etc…) from other countries, which would be labor and/or cost prohibitive for us to make, or that we simply cannot produce or source here, and then we take those materials, and turn them into higher profit margin products, which we then export to other countries. It is exactly the same as my example, but on a macro scale.
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All borders are on some level artificial, and many are "drawn with rulers". For example the western half of the US. This is just a fraudster obsessed with acquiring real estate that catches his eye.
11 Mar 2025
Trump: "When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done by a ruler ... you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the US, there is no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. And then if you add Greenland, that's pretty good."
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When do they plan to finish designing it?
10 Mar 2025
New Jaguar in Paris
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The part I don't understand: What is the point of a trade agreement if one party can unilaterally apply tariffs to goods covered by that agreement? (Only to back down "temporarily" when it becomes increasingly obvious how stupid the tariffs are.)
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For profit healthcare is insane. In Canada having a kid cost us about $80 out of pocket. Yes, less than a hundred. All for parking at the hospital over the many Obstetrician appts and the several day stay for the birth.
30 Jan 2025
Replying to @CarlZha
I paid $30,000 out-of-pocket to birth three children in Texas, and that was on top of paying $2000 a month for “good” health insurance.
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If someone working for you automates themself out of a job, give them a raise and a bigger job. Repeat as necessary.
Software developers are the only group I know working overtime to automate themselves out of a job. 😂
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ISO 8601 for life.
DD/MM/YY format makes no sense
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