Sid
@siddizi.bsky.social
Muslim. Software Engineer. Love to read books. Also, I LOVE Big Nate comics, The Last of Us and epic fantasy. Can't think of anything else to describe me.
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IMO if you consider the exchange here, you will see that I, the leftist, am a common sense moderate who believes in popular beliefs like "killing innocent humans is bad" and that popularist triangulation can lead to amoral extremism.
May 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
IMO if you consider the exchange here, you will see that I, the leftist, am a common sense moderate who believes in popular beliefs like "killing innocent humans is bad" and that popularist triangulation can lead to amoral extremism.
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I rarely have CEOs on [odcast: but when I do, they are folks who are deeply technical. It's a podcast about software engineering, so the podcast biases towards engineering, and ignores e.g. business or strategy.
Nice to see feedback appreciating this!
Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WO...
Nice to see feedback appreciating this!
Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WO...
May 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I rarely have CEOs on [odcast: but when I do, they are folks who are deeply technical. It's a podcast about software engineering, so the podcast biases towards engineering, and ignores e.g. business or strategy.
Nice to see feedback appreciating this!
Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WO...
Nice to see feedback appreciating this!
Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WO...
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A huge potential use case of GenAI:
Internal company knowledge bases to FINALLY work.
So so so many companies (and vendors) spent to much for decades on the concept of “internal knowledge base.” Always a big disappointment.
Does your company now have something usable/useful?
Internal company knowledge bases to FINALLY work.
So so so many companies (and vendors) spent to much for decades on the concept of “internal knowledge base.” Always a big disappointment.
Does your company now have something usable/useful?
April 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A huge potential use case of GenAI:
Internal company knowledge bases to FINALLY work.
So so so many companies (and vendors) spent to much for decades on the concept of “internal knowledge base.” Always a big disappointment.
Does your company now have something usable/useful?
Internal company knowledge bases to FINALLY work.
So so so many companies (and vendors) spent to much for decades on the concept of “internal knowledge base.” Always a big disappointment.
Does your company now have something usable/useful?
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No way, Israel lied about war crimes? Who could've predicted that, given that it has only happened six or seven times just this week?
April 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
No way, Israel lied about war crimes? Who could've predicted that, given that it has only happened six or seven times just this week?
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So, thing I learned today that Claude is really good at.
Log Parsing.
Apparently you can just shove a ton of haproxy logs into it and ask "whats going on??" and it does a great job of diagnosing issues
Log Parsing.
Apparently you can just shove a ton of haproxy logs into it and ask "whats going on??" and it does a great job of diagnosing issues
April 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So, thing I learned today that Claude is really good at.
Log Parsing.
Apparently you can just shove a ton of haproxy logs into it and ask "whats going on??" and it does a great job of diagnosing issues
Log Parsing.
Apparently you can just shove a ton of haproxy logs into it and ask "whats going on??" and it does a great job of diagnosing issues
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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Warner Bros TV boss says #ThePenguin S2 is not currently in the works
"Never say never ... it’s definitely a possibility, but there’s nothing in the works at the moment"
(via Deadline)
"Never say never ... it’s definitely a possibility, but there’s nothing in the works at the moment"
(via Deadline)
April 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Warner Bros TV boss says #ThePenguin S2 is not currently in the works
"Never say never ... it’s definitely a possibility, but there’s nothing in the works at the moment"
(via Deadline)
"Never say never ... it’s definitely a possibility, but there’s nothing in the works at the moment"
(via Deadline)
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The only notable thing about this is that a Western newspaper did actual journalism about Gaza. Israel openly massacres ambulance crews, journalists, men, women, children, babies in respirators, babies outside of respirators, everybody it can, all the time.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The only notable thing about this is that a Western newspaper did actual journalism about Gaza. Israel openly massacres ambulance crews, journalists, men, women, children, babies in respirators, babies outside of respirators, everybody it can, all the time.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Bluesky, I would like to report a double murder
March 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Bluesky, I would like to report a double murder
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The Pebble smartwatch team shares all of the ways Apple limits non-Apple smartwatches on the iPhone.
Your smartwatch can’t send texts, respond to notifications or talk to iOS apps unless it’s an Apple Watch. No one is allowed to build a device that connects to an iPhone as well as an Apple device.
Your smartwatch can’t send texts, respond to notifications or talk to iOS apps unless it’s an Apple Watch. No one is allowed to build a device that connects to an iPhone as well as an Apple device.
Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I’m surprised that you’re surprised
ericmigi.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The Pebble smartwatch team shares all of the ways Apple limits non-Apple smartwatches on the iPhone.
Your smartwatch can’t send texts, respond to notifications or talk to iOS apps unless it’s an Apple Watch. No one is allowed to build a device that connects to an iPhone as well as an Apple device.
Your smartwatch can’t send texts, respond to notifications or talk to iOS apps unless it’s an Apple Watch. No one is allowed to build a device that connects to an iPhone as well as an Apple device.
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🚨 The Iran War Plan 🚨
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...
The Iran War Plan
Pentagon gears up for “major” war with Iran
www.kenklippenstein.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
🚨 The Iran War Plan 🚨
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...
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The ICE arrest of a lawful permanent resident goes well beyond the administration's previous deportation actions. There are actually more green card holders (13.9 million) than people living here without legal status (11.4 million). www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-is-c...
Trump Is Coming After Legal Residents. Are Citizens Next?
Green card holder arrested; 25 million living in U.S. now subject to deportation
www.kenklippenstein.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The ICE arrest of a lawful permanent resident goes well beyond the administration's previous deportation actions. There are actually more green card holders (13.9 million) than people living here without legal status (11.4 million). www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-is-c...
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the replies lol
March 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
the replies lol
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Columbia University’s pro-Palestine student groups had called for an emergency city-wide protest at 6:30 PM in response to former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s scheduled speech on campus.
March 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Columbia University’s pro-Palestine student groups had called for an emergency city-wide protest at 6:30 PM in response to former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s scheduled speech on campus.
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MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.
March 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.
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NEW: A 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Salem Alaa Saud, was killed today in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp after a leftover explosive device detonated.
February 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEW: A 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Salem Alaa Saud, was killed today in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp after a leftover explosive device detonated.
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My favorite part is how some of these VPN providers claim they can stop the NSA from spying on you. You'd have to be insanely gullible to think a $5/month VPN subscription is going to stop the world's most powerful spy agency.
The ironic thing about VPNs is they are only safe because they cannot see your traffic because it's already encrypted by HTTPS. 15 years ago, VPNs were untenable because you trusted them with private data they could spy on. They are only enabled now by innate privacy the ecosystem already provides.
February 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
My favorite part is how some of these VPN providers claim they can stop the NSA from spying on you. You'd have to be insanely gullible to think a $5/month VPN subscription is going to stop the world's most powerful spy agency.
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How will AI change programming?
Wrote down some of the thoughts I've been toying with these last few weeks.
Read them here: registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-might-...
Wrote down some of the thoughts I've been toying with these last few weeks.
Read them here: registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-might-...
January 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How will AI change programming?
Wrote down some of the thoughts I've been toying with these last few weeks.
Read them here: registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-might-...
Wrote down some of the thoughts I've been toying with these last few weeks.
Read them here: registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-might-...
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No better explanation of how Bluesky was built than when it comes from the engineers who did it. Which is exactly what this deepedive is:
Interesting article by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com and @hejelin.bsky.social about the evolution of Bluesky's architecture
#atprotodev #atdev
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
#atprotodev #atdev
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
No better explanation of how Bluesky was built than when it comes from the engineers who did it. Which is exactly what this deepedive is:
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A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate.
The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.
The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate.
The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.
The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Al Jazeera reports in-depth about @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...
What is ‘Dreams on a Pillow’, the Palestinian game about the Nakba?
The game is based on the events of the 1948 Nakba, referring to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians.
www.aljazeera.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Al Jazeera reports in-depth about @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...