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🏢 Engineering Manager @ NSG 🎥 Former Lead Systems Engineer @LAIKA Pronouns: he/him
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Man Puts Glass Of Water On Bedside Table In Case He Needs To Make Huge Mess In Middle Of Night http://theonion.com/...

Momo fell asleep on the leg rest of my recliner.

Once again we have arrived at a point where The Onion is just straight reporting. I seem to recall it wasn’t a good thing the last time we hit that point.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/will...

Happy news time: we ran a 200+ person @honeycomb.io company summit in southern California last week. Our COVID protocols worked to keep employees safe and healthy. 0 cases of COVID. 1 detected case of flu at event, 7 cases of flu post-event. In-person doesn't mean hosting a super-spreader.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

we've been working hard on addressing early beta feedback for Atuin Desktop in the past week - dark mode (y'all kept asking) - improved collaboration UX - custom terminal fonts - fixed several sync & performance issues

Damn, such a good headline. www.jezebel.com/whiny-little...

It's going to be interesting reading the articles written by people who've created applications completely using AI. A lot of effectively new developers are going to learn that maintenance is just as important as creation, and isn't made particularly easier by AI.

If you pay for a personal or family plan for Office 365, and don’t want the new AI features, when you attempt to cancel they will give you the option to switch to the classic plan, without AI.

Why is it that these fragile rich men, go full neo nazi if they ever get criticized by anyone? Also, turns out it’s really hard to make good AI models without copyright theft. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/15/m...

I hear windows media player and flash are about to make a big comeback if the Ticktock ban actually goes through.

Historical fact: When I was a kid, we had so many eggs, and so much toilet paper that he cast them at the homes of our enemies.

More of The Big Push youtu.be/uSeCuR51rek?...

Been listening to Ren for a while now, but just discovered his band, The Big Push. youtube.com/watch?v=azAD...

It amazingly isn’t a trap.

I re-read The Collapsing empire by @scalzi.com at the end of 2024, and holy crap it’s such a masterpiece. Great plot and story arc ✅, critique of neo-feudalism ✅, amazing gender bend of classic tropes that hit’s so good ✅, some of my favorite characters ever (Kiva Lagos is just so good) ✅.

Very much didn’t have this on my 2025 bingo card.

I think it’s a Cooper’s hawk in the apple tree in my back yard.

If you're building a cool app or tool or website or startup I'd love to hear about it! I get excited watching people create cool things.