Will
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Will
@williamsmale.com
Senior cybersecurity engineer & based Omni-liberal.
Thread of all companies affected by the #Cloudflare #Outage
God be with the engineers troubleshooting
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#Cloudflare is down. The internet has ground to a halt!
www.cloudflarestatus.com
Cloudflare Status
Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Finally made the jump from Docker to Kubernetes, specifically K3s. Also swapped Plex for Jellyfin because it actually plays nice with containers.
My reasoning’s in the latest post; Full technical breakdown coming next!
📓👉 williamsmale.com/blog/tech/mi...
#Kubernetes #Homelab #Containers #DevOps
Docker Just Isn't Cutting It
A developer shares their journey migrating from Docker to Kubernetes using K3s, covering why Docker fell short, how K3s simplifies multi-node setups, lessons from running Plex on Kubernetes, and why J...
williamsmale.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Ahhh yes the answer to the cost of living crisis, lowering the minimum wage. It's so obvious #UKReform
news.sky.com/story/nigel-...
Nigel Farage says Reform UK could cut minimum wage for young people - and defends U-turn on tax pledges
Mr Farage gave a wide-ranging news conference setting out Reform UK's economic plans, and defending claims of U-turning on 2024 election manifesto pledges.
news.sky.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Shout out to all my loyal readers in China. Yes all 400 of you! Really impressed with your 3 second read times 🤖
#BotLife #InfosecHumor
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New season of the Witcher. Don't do it to yourself, it outperformed even my low expectations
#witcher
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We live in a post truth world who need facts. Its all vibes bro!!!
"Grokipedia pages... have no internal linking, have no photos... There is zero insight into how any of the articles were generated, how information was obtained and ordered, any edits that were made, no version history, etc."

As a researcher, I'd say that all of the important parts are missing.
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
One problem AI can solve. Before you sign up, get an AI-generated T&Cs summary. Now thats a useful chatbot!

#AI
#DataPrivacy
#InfoSec
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Looking like broadband and mobile providers are having a little trouble in the UK Vodafone, BT, onestream, Virgin Media, Voxi, CityFibre, TalkTalk, EE, Sky, Three, O2 affected.
downdetector.co.uk
Status overview
downdetector.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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vpspricetracker.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We live in a day and age where Microsoft Teams takes more then a minute to just load the calendar. HOW
#enshittification
September 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There are two types of people.
1) 4:59 = Closed for business
2) 4:59 = Open
August 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Socrates walked with swagger" - Marcus Aurelius
a man in a white suit and sunglasses is walking down a hallway .
ALT: a man in a white suit and sunglasses is walking down a hallway .
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
RCE. CVSS 10.0. In prod.
One-line fix.
Lead dev goes on leave.
Follow up later.
“Did you raise a ticket?”
No, but I raised my expectations too high.

#AppSec #Agile
August 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Watching vibe coders hail the death of coding while their agent writes raw SQL in code
a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers
ALT: a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lucrative time to be a VPN reseller. Such people must be pushing promo codes shamelessly left right and centre making bank while doing it! #VPN #Shameless
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In truth would recommend if anyone is interested: mullvad.net
July 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Added comments to my blog, free & powered by Bluesky!
@emilyliu.me had the idea: turn comments into conversations.
@ollim365.menzel.it great implementation the real MVP.
Drop by, add your 2 cents... for that rare chance someone does 😅
#Hugo #BuildinPublic
williamsmale.com/blog/story_t...
Adding comments to my Blog
I’ve been looking around the interwebs of how to add commenting functionality to my Hugo blog for my one reader. Yes you buddy I love you ❤️ My requirements were simple, the solution needed to be free...
williamsmale.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Guess Salt Typhoon is only something the Americans need to worry about
July 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Agile is like Communism. At scale it always fails and people always blame that it was not done correctly
July 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Switched to Linux for gaming.
Because clearly I hate myself... and also love freedom ✊🇺🇲🔥

Dual-booted Nobara with Windows, mounted a cursed NTFS drive, and ran Steam like it was born on Linux.

The good, the bad and the ugly → williamsmale.com/blog/tech/li...

#LinuxGaming #TechLife #DualBootDiaries
Linux gaming in 2025?
Thinking about switching to Linux for gaming? Here's a deep dive into dual-booting, gaming on Nobara Linux, NTFS shenanigans, Steam support, and the good, bad, and ugly of Linux gaming in 2025 from so...
williamsmale.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You can't make up how sad this is
youtu.be/ccuiHKndhz4?...
June 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Is it just me or does everything #Disney puts out these days are just soul less and half assed?
June 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The year is 2025
Me: Ask AI to remove the dashes in a sentence
AI: Gives me the sentence with dashes
...
I think my job is safe
June 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Finally got ollama running with my AMD GPU after fighting the driver dragons. local LLMs, no rate limits, no “pay up bro”🔥
If you’ve got an AMD card and want to run local models, I wrote up the whole saga into a guide.
📓👉 williamsmale.com/blog/tech/se...
#AI #Ollama #AMD #LocalLLMs #OpenSource
Ollama with AMD GPU
Discover how to run local AI chatbots using AMD GPUs with Ollama. Skip the cloud, own your data, and set up open-source LLMs like Meta’s LLaMA and Mistral on your machine—no NVIDIA required.
williamsmale.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM