Adrian Popescu
@adrianipopescu.bsky.social
Techie, homelab and music nerd, occasionally paid to develop software
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This is the most seriously I've felt about switching to desktop Linux lol
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 1:53 PM
This is the most seriously I've felt about switching to desktop Linux lol
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Pls, usem Linux
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 1:52 PM
Pls, usem Linux
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I thought the (obviously AI-assisted) MAHA report might provide the context for a concrete example of how LLMs fabricate citations. It was even easier than I thought. Neither of the first two citations exist, and even similar papers with that title don’t support the claims made.
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I thought the (obviously AI-assisted) MAHA report might provide the context for a concrete example of how LLMs fabricate citations. It was even easier than I thought. Neither of the first two citations exist, and even similar papers with that title don’t support the claims made.
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It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
May 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
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Encryption Is Not a Crime Discussion
Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
www.privacyguides.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Encryption Is Not a Crime Discussion
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Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft.
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
April 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft.
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
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Less than a day apart.
April 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Less than a day apart.
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Here's some good news: we can finally start using .slnx files which will dramatically reduce merge conflicts and other pain with your bloated sln files!
www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2...
#dotnet
www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2...
#dotnet
@devlead - Mattias Karlsson's Blog - SLNX Finally here📄
The new .NET solution format has evolved from being messy and bloated to being focused and clean
www.devlead.se
February 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here's some good news: we can finally start using .slnx files which will dramatically reduce merge conflicts and other pain with your bloated sln files!
www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2...
#dotnet
www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2...
#dotnet
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I admire President Macron for saying this right to Trump‘s scowling face:
“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”
“Second of all, those who paid should be compensated, not by Ukraine, by Russia. Because they started the war.”
Fucking glorious.
“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”
“Second of all, those who paid should be compensated, not by Ukraine, by Russia. Because they started the war.”
Fucking glorious.
February 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I admire President Macron for saying this right to Trump‘s scowling face:
“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”
“Second of all, those who paid should be compensated, not by Ukraine, by Russia. Because they started the war.”
Fucking glorious.
“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”
“Second of all, those who paid should be compensated, not by Ukraine, by Russia. Because they started the war.”
Fucking glorious.
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Good time for a reminder:
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Good time for a reminder:
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Germany's cybersecurity agency has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nextcloud cloud file syncing and sharing platform that can be used to bypass 2FA security systems
www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...
www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...
BSI untersucht Open Source Software "Nextcloud"
Im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Codeanalyse von Open Source Software (CAOS) hat das BSI die Open Source Kollaborationssoftware "Nextcloud" auf ihre Sicherheitseigenschaften untersucht.
www.bsi.bund.de
February 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Germany's cybersecurity agency has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nextcloud cloud file syncing and sharing platform that can be used to bypass 2FA security systems
www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...
www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-N...
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Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again Discussion
Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again – Mert Bulan
It’s been over a year since one of the most significant turning points in my life, and it’s time to reflect on that.
mertbulan.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again Discussion
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Never been more relevant.
January 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Never been more relevant.
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Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi Discussion
Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.
smallstep.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi Discussion
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It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.
This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.
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I made a substantial update to my "messaging and eventing resources" page, adding the CNCF xRegistry project and related subprojects, pending proposals for Apache Avro, a section on Microsoft Fabric RTI, and a new talk recording. github.com/clemensv/mes...
GitHub - clemensv/messaging: Resource collection for messaging and eventing
Resource collection for messaging and eventing. Contribute to clemensv/messaging development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
I made a substantial update to my "messaging and eventing resources" page, adding the CNCF xRegistry project and related subprojects, pending proposals for Apache Avro, a section on Microsoft Fabric RTI, and a new talk recording. github.com/clemensv/mes...
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NULL BITMAP: in honour of DSQL's release last week I wrote about what the point of having extremely precise trustworthy clocks is buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...
What are the Magical Clocks for?
At Re:Invent last week, AWS announced DSQL, their new serverless SQL database. As a fan of distributed SQL databases I have been enjoying reading about the...
buttondown.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
NULL BITMAP: in honour of DSQL's release last week I wrote about what the point of having extremely precise trustworthy clocks is buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...
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the entire "pivot to video" strategy that destroyed many of the sites you used to love was based on Facebook lying about video metrics, convincing everyone that was the only way their content was getting shared
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
As a reminder, Facebook had a giant hand in the death of online journalism in the mid 2010s because they inflated metrics that caused publications to crash and burn. Many of us haven't trusted it in a long, long time.
January 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
the entire "pivot to video" strategy that destroyed many of the sites you used to love was based on Facebook lying about video metrics, convincing everyone that was the only way their content was getting shared
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
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We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
January 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”