Cail Young
@cail.bsky.social
Still trying to collect all the blue pages.
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.
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...
Quick thoughts on the recent AWS outage
AWS recently posted a public write-up of the us-east-1 incident that hit them this past Monday. Here are a couple of quick thoughts on it. Reliability → Automation → Complexity → New failure modes …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...
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Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here:
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
Submit an Incident Report
The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.
www.thevoid.community
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here:
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
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EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
aws.amazon.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
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The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
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@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Jewel heist from a museum, you say?
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Jewel heist from a museum, you say?
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Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to
Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won
Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won
After taking his case to the administrative review tribunal, Daniel’s complaint then went to the commonwealth ombudsman, which is now investigating Centrelink
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Daniel’s chest tightened, his stomach dropped. The Centrelink worker at the end of the line told him his jobseeker payment had been cancelled. But he knew it wasn’t right.
Daniel is one of an estimated 310,000 Centrelink recipients who had their payments unlawfully cancelled between 2020 and 2024 because they were incorrectly told they had not met their mutual obligations under the scheme. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to
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I don't want public servants who don't understand how emails work and politicians who use this to tell pathetic lies about the FOI system regulating the use of the internet. The standard of public representation in communications policy is through the floor, and it's been Labor's level for decades.
![Internal chat logs from February, released to transparency website Right to Know under freedom-of-information law, revealed panic setting in at the online safety regulator when the emails using this form began.
“[They] have created a new tool which has been facilitating applicants sending in a new FoI request every five minutes or so (50 FoIs since 1pm),” the 5.45pm message stated on 8 February.
“I am concerned that emails flowing in every few minutes may jam something and prevent work … I suppose or mailboxes are built to sustain that quantum but I wanted to check and make sure nothing needed to be done, just in case.”
An anonymised IT staffer at eSafety dryly responded: “If it’s one email every five minutes that isn’t a concern at all from an IT perspective.”
“I am concerned at the current pace, the emails might jam something. I am not sure how much data these mailboxes are built to hold,” the first staffer replied.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixeh4sx7e2e5z5ugpmkrptee/bafkreie42qjg5w6j3wcu7rbvxae2n6lt6xzyseraohv635ofqbdzgiq6lm@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don't want public servants who don't understand how emails work and politicians who use this to tell pathetic lies about the FOI system regulating the use of the internet. The standard of public representation in communications policy is through the floor, and it's been Labor's level for decades.
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Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
Maybe 10 years ago on the failed hellsite I posted about how much toasters all sucked and an acquaintance replied “well they should really use optical albedo sensors”.
The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.
The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.
October 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Maybe 10 years ago on the failed hellsite I posted about how much toasters all sucked and an acquaintance replied “well they should really use optical albedo sensors”.
The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.
The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Five nines at least”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“Five nines at least”
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Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"
The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this
The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this
October 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"
The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this
The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this
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Psychometrics and evidence science folks, I feel like we need to help software engineering out more because they are trying to measure constructs like depersonalization via software activity data?!?!!?
github.com/Rootly-AI-La...
github.com/Rootly-AI-La...
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Psychometrics and evidence science folks, I feel like we need to help software engineering out more because they are trying to measure constructs like depersonalization via software activity data?!?!!?
github.com/Rootly-AI-La...
github.com/Rootly-AI-La...
quick question for davinci resolve perverts (complimentary):
is there a way to include the macOS color tags that are on a video in the metadata on a media pool import that I’m missing? it would speed things up so much to have that info hit the ground running but i can’t find anything for it
is there a way to include the macOS color tags that are on a video in the metadata on a media pool import that I’m missing? it would speed things up so much to have that info hit the ground running but i can’t find anything for it
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM