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Golang makes up for the benefits of type aliases and generics and arbitrary key and value types for maps with nil pointer and zero value shenanigans.

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

submitted 10 days ago • 287 comments

Wouldn't be surprised if more people chanted "USA! USA!" for longer in Austin today for the No Kings protest than at this parade. I like WWII equipment as much as the next dude but I know which events were more patriotic.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

About 1.5% of the U.S. population protested today. (Closer to 1.9% if you only count the adult population.)

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 11 days ago • 218 comments

In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it www.iea.org/reports/ener...

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

I haven't set up a @longhornphp.com account yet here, but Longhorn PHP is back for its sixth (!) year this October. As usual, we're at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown Thursday-Saturday; dates for this year are October 23-25. CFP is open; submit talks at cfp.longhornphp.com. See y'all there?

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Heads-up @crankyflier.com, Southwest is showing WGA fares as Basic. This is for a flight that I haven't changed since I bought it as WGA.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Night of the Long Threads

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks to everyone for attending my #DevOpsDaysAustin presentation on osquery! Slides are here: ian.im/doda25

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Presenting on osquery in a couple hours at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Calling it now: the acquirers of Walgreens sell off the real estate for more valuable locations, swap to smaller storefronts where possible, shut down a bunch of stores, spin off international markets, and then sell the remaining US stores to UnitedHealth by mid-2028.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

you really just can't make this stuff up

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like there's been an uptick in SAML vulnerabilities popping up. This indicates to me that either a new tool for finding them got popular or a widely used tool got an upgrade around this detection. Anyone know which happened, and which tool?

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After Elon Musk has been insinuating to turn off Starlink in Ukraine, Poland‘s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is reminding Musk that Poland is paying for it, and he is making clear that if Musk follows through that Poland will abandon Starlink altogether for being an unreliable service.

submitted 108 days ago • 159 comments

The thought of Southwest merging with JetBlue makes me grumpy. The operating model clash would probably be the death of both airlines, and I actually don't mind either of them.

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Just imagine what Trump and Vance would say to Lai or anyone from Taiwan for that matter…

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

If I wrote this, you all would say I was taking the bit too far, wouldn't you?

submitted 117 days ago • 215 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 122 days ago • 242 comments

Batteries FTW! Batteries dumped ~4.5GW onto the grid this morning, keeping power spot prices ~26¢/kWh (day-ahead was like 3.5x that) despite record winter load. If we had had this kind of capacity back in Uri it would've been tight (low wind) but lights would've stayed on.

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Good morning with good news: Chile is using wind and solar to rapidly decarbonize its grid. Wind and solar skyrocketed from 5.50% of Chile's electricity in January 2016 to 42.93% in January 2025! Jan 2025 43% Jan 2022 31% Jan 2019 14% Jan 2016 5.50% Rapid decarbonization! #energysky #greensky

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

This is why so many Jews are skeptical of the national GOP claim of support — it rings hollow & opportunistic. Vance visits a Nazi concentration camp, lays a wreath at a statue stating “Never Again,” calls it an “unspeakable evil,” & then promptly meets with & promotes a German Nazi-aligned party.

submitted 129 days ago • 53 comments

Europe will have to defend itself now. Yet its armies struggle to find enough soldiers, or the money to pay them. If only Europe could leverage the desire of millions of non-Europeans to gain European citizenship, as a way to recruit soldiers! Alas, no one has ever devised such a system

submitted 129 days ago • 11 comments

📢 #PaxEx PR | @flynorse.com to wet-lease six B787-9s to IndiGo for long-haul routes. The aircraft will start operation in March.

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 140 days ago • 791 comments

Internal load balancing and VPC peering are brand new on Digital Ocean. Static routes operator gets you a pool of NAT gateways for consistent outbound IPs. #DOdeploy

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Digital Ocean maintains the DO Terraform provider. Ansible playbooks get DO contributions but they aren't actually maintained by DO. #DODeploy

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Wait, people are surprised by this news?

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

So focused on AI that they can't ship a functioning auto-upgrade feature.

submitted 154 days ago • 3 comments

Musk gonna threaten and/or sue

submitted 154 days ago • 70 comments

So... We've acquired Post Status and then immediately handed it off to a new, non profit, foundation (I'm in that foundation too, of course, but not alone): poststatus.com/ringing-the-... Making sure Post Status keeps on being available for the community.

submitted 154 days ago • 4 comments

DOKS in beta: up to 1k worker nodes, up from 500 #DODeploy

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They're at 20% cost reduction now. They get to 30% by swapping off of AWS-specific services. #DODeploy

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YoY cost figures. Spot when they moved from AWS to Digital Ocean. #DODeploy

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Quick migration to Digital Ocean for 30% cost savings #DODeploy

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AWS to Digital Ocean move case study: NoBid #DOdeploy

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Cheap GPUs #DODeploy

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Digital Ocean DBaaS getting autoscalling. You'll also be able to buy droplets with just compute and get storage separately, and they'll add different tiers to both object and block storage. #DODeploy

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#DODeploy roadmap slide, including ETAs. Not just "Soon (tm)"

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Digital Ocean using GenAI heavily when doing dev. 2k check-ins per day. #DODeploy

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DO ha over 600k customers (3rd most customers) At peak, 2 million droplets deployed 221 PB of customer data 77 billion objects in storage

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