Alex Palermo
LightNews LightNews
banner
alex-palermo.bsky.social
Alex Palermo
@alex-palermo.bsky.social
51 followers 83 following 31 posts
He / him, data engineer, tech nerd, recovering physicist.


http://apalermo01.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
alex-palermo.bsky.social
A couple weeks ago I decided I wasn’t going to touch my dotfiles for a few months because I’ve been spending too much time tweaking them.

I had a few days off work this week so I decided to learn nix.

I think I’ve made a mistake.
April 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
“SSL is a joke I know the guy who built the backdoor”

“WHAT?”

“What?”

Is an exchange that lives rent free in my head
cyberciti.biz nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Mar 10
For those who wants a little bit of laughter today with some geeky jokes. I'm sharing because they say: laughter is the best medicine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yeb...
Next-door 10x engineer // PART 2
YouTube video by Programmers are also human
www.youtube.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
timheidecker.bsky.social
Opt out tomorrow!
February 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
cyberciti.biz
😂
February 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
hacks4pancakes.com
On immigration as American IT people
“For the CS majors, SWE is -not it- for immigration. Nor is Analytics. The market is way too competitive. Too many young and hungry people already constantly immigrating with CS degrees. Specialize. Do it smartly. Legacy. COBOL. ICS. The niches that aren’t sexy that half the planet runs on and the people who installed and maintained them are retiring or dead. Get good at being a computer janitor keeping SCADA and mainframes running. Banking. Hospital tech. Same with cybersecurity. Entry level analyst market is saturated. Specialize! Cloud certs to fix all the poorly implemented buckets. Dull international GRC. Security engineering for obnoxious and finicky products like legacy SIEMs and forensic suites. Get certs in those, not just Sec+ or CISSP. The sexy jobs got pitched and sold by too many opportunist universities. Be an IT janitor and be damn good at it.”
February 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
danwblack.bsky.social
Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts.

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
cloud.google.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
bencollins.bsky.social
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
February 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
Y’all need to start masking again like…. Yesterday
February 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
hankgreen.bsky.social
If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
digitaldragon.dev
Progress update: A tracker is now live at tracker.archiveteam.org/usgovernment/
Usgovernment tracker Dashboard
tracker.archiveteam.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
junlper.beer
it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
Friendly reminder to always always ALWAYS use your right to remain silent
lataco.bsky.social L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · Jan 24
Here are five attorney-vetted ways you can protect yourself and the employees of a restaurant for both customers and restaurant owners.

By @theglutster.bsky.social

lataco.com/ice-rights-r...
January 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
Microsoft is making ads for FOSS alternatives again

“It’s not spyware, it’s a feature!”

youtu.be/W9X6yMwmMpE?...

#linux #foss #opensource
Microsoft Copilot Manager roasted, doesn't understand Confidentiality
YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
cyberciti.biz
Forget the Eiffel Tower, this penguin's love is for the command line. He'd rather 'rm -rf /*' his computer than install proprietary OS. He's got a baguette in one hand and a bash script in the other. Don't mess with him. 😌
January 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
envirodgi.bsky.social
This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST.

We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it.

Here’s our unofficial but functional copy: digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.
digitalhistory.github.io
January 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I do all my stuff in obsidian / vim (markdown FTW) and back everything up on gitlab and proton drive
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Jan 21
Slowly moving all my writing offline from Google Docs. I don't know why, but I feel like reverting back to using a plain old word processor.
January 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted by Alex Palermo
galaxyrabbit.bsky.social
Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.

👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!
January 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9

github.com/apalermo01/A...
Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:29 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

hint: make sure you don't end up with a blank line at the bottom of the puzzle input.

github.com/apalermo01/A...
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 AM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just put up my first blog post!

medium.com/@apalermo01/...
6 Lessons from doing Advent of Code in C
As a data engineer by day, I spend a lot of time buried in Python, SQL, and occasionally JavaScript. However, I’m also interested in many…
medium.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:16 AM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

skipping day 4 since I'm still stuck dealing with edge cases. Apologies for the messy code if you look at it. I wanted to quickly pound out a quick win.
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:33 AM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I lost #whamageddon while getting Greek food
December 7, 2024 at 1:09 AM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

This was my first time doing regular expressions in C- I definitely feel like python has spoiled me

github.com/apalermo01/A...
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:54 PM
alex-palermo.bsky.social
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2
December 2, 2024 at 11:04 PM