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jbronn.bsky.social
(Geo | Legal | CS) Hacker
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holy shit Palo Alto’s GlobalConnect VPN client software sucks ass

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

on the bright side, it’ll be nice to travel abroad and not hear American pop music for once. media hegemony dies hard, yo.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kids: respectfully, fuck your Beats headphones and buy some Sony studio monitors — save some money and gain fidelity.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

realizing I’ll need to travel abroad for my flu & covid vaccines this fall: fuck you if you voted for death.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

cf law school is trade school despite the “doctorate” it awards

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

why attend law school in a monarchy?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

the collapse of American society goes down better discussing it with your homies

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Pro-tip: the UK doesn’t know the location of US passport RFID chips — scan the *back cover* instead for a less frustrating experience.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“I drink Evian water while my thoughts get published”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Civ VII is buggy but still worth it

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

aight UK here I come — looks like I get to break in the ETA app too

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 29 days ago • 122 comments

Apple Maps wins against Google Maps (for now)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

For everyone else: @matthewstoller.bsky.social is toxic and @edzitron.com should be ashamed for featuring this clown on his podcast.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

debating whether to involve myself in OSS again

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

“Because Apple has added OCR to the MacOS image display system, I can get more reliable results by screenshotting the PDF and then copying the text out of that. This is the true mark of its enshittification: I now wish the journals would just give me a giant PNG.” — @jtimmer.bsky.social !!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I file income taxes early as possible due to identity theft risks, meanwhile I didn’t consider collapse of the federal workforce 🤔

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I also have jewelry opinions … why did Pharrell think he could design pieces as well as he could produce music?

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve learned entirely too much about Istio and the Kubernetes Gateway API that’s healthy for an individual,

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

enjoy the last days of American “freedom” it’s all downhill from here 😬

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s all therapy on top of turntable riffs.”

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Too much of my vinyl collection is Atmosphere and I don’t care

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Voodoo Ray still slaps

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

why am I trapped in the 80s, sipping on Romulan Ale with Kirk & McCoy?

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I’m glad I went to college when there was no consensus on languages. Algorithms 101 & 102 in C++. Functional languages in Scheme. Operating systems in Python (interacting with not implementing). Everything else in Java. It’s all the same: drop the crusade unless you’re being paid to care.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone loves an extensive vinyl collection until they have to move it somewhere else 🤣

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

did my first AI prompt ever today on the new laptop and had llama3.3 write some poems about my pets

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

can’t wait for SCOTUS to decide the 22nd amendment only applies to consecutive terms, you’ve been warned

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

trying to enjoy our last days of sane government, apologies for the drunk skeets

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck your Beats headphones. My MDR-7509HD’s are better, cheaper, and last for decades.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

exhausted the available spare sectors on primary NVMe on work laptop and giving myself a headache trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 and restore files on the replacement

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment