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"site" "reliability" "engineer" If you like computers, read my blog: www.cyberdemon.org
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MacOS: I will not let you write "fuck" MacOS: I will also autocorrect "pyenv" to "peen"

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 14 days ago • 437 comments

Works.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if you set up your UK eVisa using your BRP, you also need to add your passport to the eVisa: www.gov.uk/update-uk-vi...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

submitted 70 days ago • 23 comments

Setting up a Chromebook for my kid. It’s asking me to set up an email for him (alright), then asks his name, DOB, and gender. Yeah, no thanks. Going to install Edubuntu instead.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

oh wow. nice!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

welp, I just had the most idiotic LLM moment ever. I asked Perplexity how to use sysbench in Docker and one of the sources was my own blog post about how to do exactly that

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I miss the days when PBR meant “Pabst’s blue ribbon” and not “policy based routing” 😔

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

yeah sure who gives a fuck anymore

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Has anyone made a tool that goes through people you follow on Mastodon and tells you if they’re on Bluesky?

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been feeling like I should limit my daily Anki study to 50/day because, truly, whenever it builds up I carry around micro stress all day

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Hi. I’m Chris, and I live in San Francisco. I’ve been writing about left-field electronic music for the past 25 years. My writing has previously been published in XLR8R, Resident Advisor, Red Bull Music Academy, Vice/Noisey, SF Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, FACT Mag, others I’m forgetting.

submitted 100 days ago • 6 comments

Do with this what you will, but when @jack.bsky.social came to speak at Startup School in ~2013 he played a jazz mp3 and told us to keep a diary

submitted 664 days ago • 0 comments

the "site" in "site reliability engineer" stnads for "website"

submitted 672 days ago • 1 comment