Cail Young
@cail.bsky.social
Still trying to collect all the blue pages.
Still happening, and I suspect it’s their WAF blocking the iCloud Private Relay exit addresses. Now, how to contact a public service IT team over the new years break? Hmmmmmm
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Still happening, and I suspect it’s their WAF blocking the iCloud Private Relay exit addresses. Now, how to contact a public service IT team over the new years break? Hmmmmmm
vic.gov.au looking great, love this new minimal design
December 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
vic.gov.au looking great, love this new minimal design
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Incredibly cool series of photographs showing how infrared tech enables surveillance systems
PHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cage
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of you...
apnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Incredibly cool series of photographs showing how infrared tech enables surveillance systems
I come back to you now, at the turn of the FUCKING tide…
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I come back to you now, at the turn of the FUCKING tide…
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This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.
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I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
Holding complexity amidst catastrophe
I didn't want to write this.
I don't want to write this.
I feel like I need to write something.
I am writing this.
I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.
I am still writing this, ei...
in-between-days.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.
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I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!
Adding this to the Slideshow Karaoke list
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Adding this to the Slideshow Karaoke list
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#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
I am slowly realising that my software career has mostly been about moderating the level of “pissed” in my epistemology.
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am slowly realising that my software career has mostly been about moderating the level of “pissed” in my epistemology.
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
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I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage.
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage
I was at QCon SF during the recent Cloudflare outage (I was hosting the Stories Behind the Incidents track), so I hadn’t had a real chance to sit down and do a proper read-through of their pu…
surfingcomplexity.blog
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage.
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
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we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)
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🎶 I also will decry AI and all its many tentacles
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎶 I also will decry AI and all its many tentacles
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
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🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
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Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US
Just a thought
Just a thought
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US
Just a thought
Just a thought
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if you’re a programmer who has shared instructions online and you haven’t run the copy by a NORMAL PERSON first, i hope you stub your freakish little hobbit toe
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
if you’re a programmer who has shared instructions online and you haven’t run the copy by a NORMAL PERSON first, i hope you stub your freakish little hobbit toe
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.
More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
thundergolfer.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.