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🛠️ Software engineer in cybersecurity 🐹 Writing mostly Go code 🏦 Ex-Monzonaut 🔗 Links: https://akash.lol 🔗 Website: https://akashgoswami.com
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How is Whatsapp for iPad still not a thing yet?!

There's going to be a new Avatar Series called 'Seven Havens’ Me:

Ok this is the second time this week my broadband provider has had a major outage now No idea how they have managed to have this happen twice in a single week

Oh no…I bought the thing!

Just saw that Pantheon Season 2 dropped on Netflix today along side with a new episode of Invincible so I would say that’s my weekend sorted 🍿

Oh no, I watched 2-3 smart home videos on YouTube over the weekend and now most of YouTube recommendations are all for smart home stuff...down the rabbit hole we go 🐰

Honestly I was quite relieved to find out my internet provider was the one having the issues for all customers because just before the outage started I ran a #kubernetes command and thought I’d managed to destroy my home network setup with that one command 🙃

My home broadband provider might be having a bad day today but at least it’s sunny (for once) outside today

It’s a double espresso shot kinda afternoon today ☕️☕️

Fans: We want a sequel to Days Gone Sony: Gotcha...here's a remaster of the original game Fans:...

Paint ≠ Infrastructure #BikeSky #Urbanism

The safest and most encrypted messaging you can use is a carrier pigeon. BRING BACK THE CARRIER PIGEON

"UK security officials 'demanded that Apple create a backdoor allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud'" Yeah that's not happening - What a massive breach of privacy Apple isn't going to give into this arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Was really hoping we were getting a base rate drop today Down 0.25% (4.75 to 4.5) Still a bit too high but given the state of the UK, it's better than nothing

What I miss most about ZIRP is when tech companies hired usability experts. How is any non-employee of these companies supposed to know which to use?

More of this type of AI. Not the ones that draw art please (leave that to us to do) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL9i...

feather the storm

A good start to the day on the #PokemonTCGPocket side of things today Happy Space Time Smackdown launch day 🚀

OpenAI complaining about DeepSeek rn:

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

The one thing I miss from my trips to the US is Trader Joe's

We're getting new Pebble smartwatches! I have an Apple Watch but I miss my classic Slides of Time watchface and Apple never let you build custom watchfaces easily Would be exciting to see new Pebble watches. I still have my Pebble Time Steel kicking around in a drawer somewhere

So I have to file a self-assessment tax return, thought I'd get it done over the weekend, only to find out minutes later after submitting it that I forgot to include my employment income 🤦🏽‍♂️

I like Vanguard's stance on "no Bitcoin" It makes total sense in my opinion given their history Vanguard has always been about low-cost, long-term passive investing. Crypto just isn't assigned with that. It's still way too volatile

A good TLDR on DeepSeek

Good morning

I'm only hearing good things about DeepSeek-R1. I imagine some American AI companies are going to be panicking a bit. It would be funny to see if they try shouting for more regulation in the space (given their historical disregard for it in the past)

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

Is anyone still using mailbrew.com as an RSS reader at all? Just curious because I honestly really enjoyed it for its daily digests and I'm thinking of going back to using it.

I needed a refresher on bash scripting and I came across this wonderful post by @tania.dev that's been really helpful 😁 How to Create and Use Bash Scripts

Clearly, I needed my morning coffee before I made my morning coffee because I tried to make filter coffee and forgot the filter so I ended up with just a mess to clean up

Is there a way to beg Apple to make the Photos iOS app not horrible again

Exciting but honestly surprised they decided to call it the 'Switch 2' 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLU...

So, Freetrade has been acquired by IG Group now, and that reminded me that I bought some shares in Freetrade via Crowdcube about seven years ago. Unfortunately, the sale has not made me a millionaire 🥲

Happy: The shoes I want are on sale Sad me: They don't have my size in stock 🙃

Booked my first trip for the year ✈️ 2024 was light in terms of travel for me. I'm looking to make that up this year

Sometimes when I see a post (or reply), I try to guess which country the person posting it is from For example, when I see something like "I requested PTO for my birthday and it got denied so I'm sad" and one of the replies is "PTO is not for birthdays", I know both of them are American 🙃

This is such a cool personal website I've come across recently 🎨 www.nicchan.me/

My version of this was someone approaching me while I was in Amsterdam and tried to ask me something in Dutch and I had to tell them I was not from the Netherlands and didn't speak Dutch and they said "Oh I thought you were Dutch"