Which idiot at SumoLogic required cookies for their API? Do they not know that an API is not a website? FFS people
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Which idiot at SumoLogic required cookies for their API? Do they not know that an API is not a website? FFS people
I propose that countries outside the US should impose tariffs on the US, but they should call them “mad king taxes”. Each time Trump does something stupid relating to that country, they increase by 1%. They go to zero and Trump leaves office.
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I propose that countries outside the US should impose tariffs on the US, but they should call them “mad king taxes”. Each time Trump does something stupid relating to that country, they increase by 1%. They go to zero and Trump leaves office.
Turns out effective legislation can stop nazi groups. Excellent news: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
'We don't want them': Neo-Nazi group says it will disband ahead of new laws
In a statement posted to Telegram, the group announced the closure of the National Socialist Network would also spell the end of "co-projects" White Australia, the European Australian Movement and the...
www.abc.net.au
January 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Turns out effective legislation can stop nazi groups. Excellent news: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
A couple of tough calls here, but amusing how much Elon Musk smoked David Sacks.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A couple of tough calls here, but amusing how much Elon Musk smoked David Sacks.
Mandating that social media platforms provide a non-algorithmic feed option is a really interesting idea: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I already do this on the two platforms I’m on (bsky and linked in)
I already do this on the two platforms I’m on (bsky and linked in)
How would your social feed look if you controlled what you saw?
Sexual violence prevention group Teach Us Consent is pushing for Australians to have the choice to "opt-in" to social media algorithms.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Mandating that social media platforms provide a non-algorithmic feed option is a really interesting idea: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
I already do this on the two platforms I’m on (bsky and linked in)
I already do this on the two platforms I’m on (bsky and linked in)
I named my fists Meteor.js and SQL Server Service Broker because they looked good but turned out to be completely useless.
I named my fists Adobe Premiere and Microsoft Access, because I don’t know how to use either one effectively!
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I named my fists Meteor.js and SQL Server Service Broker because they looked good but turned out to be completely useless.
Maybe Alan Dershowitz being unable to buy a pierogi?
I’m trying to think of a situation where I had less sympathy for someone’s complaints and I’m having a hard time coming up with one
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Maybe Alan Dershowitz being unable to buy a pierogi?
There are times where I love living in Australia: www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
Thanks to effective regulation I got a refund on stupid copilot features that were rammed down my throat.
Thanks to effective regulation I got a refund on stupid copilot features that were rammed down my throat.
Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions
The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its US-based parent company Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading approximately 2.7 million Australian ...
www.accc.gov.au
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There are times where I love living in Australia: www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...
Thanks to effective regulation I got a refund on stupid copilot features that were rammed down my throat.
Thanks to effective regulation I got a refund on stupid copilot features that were rammed down my throat.
It looks like the iPhone SE has been discontinued. Is there still a fingerprint authentication iPhone sold? FaceId is an inferior solution.
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It looks like the iPhone SE has been discontinued. Is there still a fingerprint authentication iPhone sold? FaceId is an inferior solution.
Many things that are strange in American come from the minimum wage being too low. Tipping culture for example. Just pay people a fair wage rather than adding a tax enforced by shame.
I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Many things that are strange in American come from the minimum wage being too low. Tipping culture for example. Just pay people a fair wage rather than adding a tax enforced by shame.
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In case you missed this last night, President says he will order future aircraft carriers go back to steam catapults, which would require a major redesign of the in-production Ford class ships.
As reason, Trump appears to dislike magnets, including a belief that they stop working when wet
As reason, Trump appears to dislike magnets, including a belief that they stop working when wet
NAVY NEWS: In an address on the USS George Washington in Japan, the President says he will issue an EO requiring future Ford-class aircraft carriers to revert to steam catapults and hydraulic elevators, speaking at length of his distrust of "magnets"
Not kidding
www.twz.com/sea/executiv...
Not kidding
www.twz.com/sea/executiv...
Executive Order To Go Back To Steam Catapults On New Aircraft Carriers Coming: Trump
The electromagnetic catapults and weapons elevators for Ford class carriers have historically been a headache, but changing now would create immense challenges.
www.twz.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In case you missed this last night, President says he will order future aircraft carriers go back to steam catapults, which would require a major redesign of the in-production Ford class ships.
As reason, Trump appears to dislike magnets, including a belief that they stop working when wet
As reason, Trump appears to dislike magnets, including a belief that they stop working when wet
In retrospect it was a mistake to got for a run in the middle of a 30 degree (Celsius) day with high humidity having drunk one glass of water all day.
October 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
In retrospect it was a mistake to got for a run in the middle of a 30 degree (Celsius) day with high humidity having drunk one glass of water all day.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
I’m already a Mac user, you don’t have to do more to convince me.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’m already a Mac user, you don’t have to do more to convince me.
This is so true.
I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is so true.
I saw this on Linked in and thought it was so good I had to borrow it
October 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I saw this on Linked in and thought it was so good I had to borrow it
Everyone should listen to this podcast. On online memes, terminally online people and assassinations as performance: shows.acast.com/warcollege/e...
Assassinations Are Shitposts Now | Angry Planet
shows.acast.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Everyone should listen to this podcast. On online memes, terminally online people and assassinations as performance: shows.acast.com/warcollege/e...
D. I'm Australian, and all the best foods come here with migration. Cutting of Tasmania would mean losing smoked salmon, but sacrifices must be made.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
D. I'm Australian, and all the best foods come here with migration. Cutting of Tasmania would mean losing smoked salmon, but sacrifices must be made.
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Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…
Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I finished writing this, it occurred to me that there was no chance I was the first to think of doing this, so I did a search and sure enough, the writer Talia Lavin had the same idea months ago.
www.techdirt.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…
Being a Christian is not a get out of jail free card for not doing your job. I say this as someone who is a Christian.
"My faith is the most important aspect of my life—far more than anything else—and I don’t think for a second that it was 'God’s plan' for all these children to die in flood waters." A brutal, fact-based calling to account by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
Do Not Put This On God
None of this was God's plan.
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Being a Christian is not a get out of jail free card for not doing your job. I say this as someone who is a Christian.
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.
June 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings or Marvel.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
It's really, really hard to assess whether someone is a good developer. The people who look like good developers are often the worst.
It's really, really hard to assess whether someone is a good developer. The people who look like good developers are often the worst.
June 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
It's really, really hard to assess whether someone is a good developer. The people who look like good developers are often the worst.
It's really, really hard to assess whether someone is a good developer. The people who look like good developers are often the worst.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
It's impossible to write bug free software.
It's impossible to write bug free software.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
It's all just linear models. Statistics is, like, three linear algebra operations in a probability-shaped trenchcoat.
It's all just linear models. Statistics is, like, three linear algebra operations in a probability-shaped trenchcoat.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
There are thousands of freshwater fish species in North America alone. My historical dataset from Missouri alone had 200 species. And they're all more interesting than bass
There are thousands of freshwater fish species in North America alone. My historical dataset from Missouri alone had 200 species. And they're all more interesting than bass
June 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
It's impossible to write bug free software.
It's impossible to write bug free software.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Software engineering is not engineering. It's a made up term to give developers an inflated sense of ego.
Software engineering is not engineering. It's a made up term to give developers an inflated sense of ego.
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Software engineering is not engineering. It's a made up term to give developers an inflated sense of ego.
Software engineering is not engineering. It's a made up term to give developers an inflated sense of ego.