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Avi Greenbury
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I like computers and bikes
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my gender reveal party
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Going down the rage warehouse anyone need anything?
January 6, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Microsoft Secrets: Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows

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This white paper discusses the approach used to convert the Hotmail web server farm from UNIX to Windows 2000, and the reasons the features and techniques were chosen.
M?cros�ft Secrets
Project constraints
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December 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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This will not go well.

What this will do is push teenagers, already more digitally literate than lawmakers, into using increasingly sketchy methods to avoid age checks.

Let me tell you how I know... 🧵

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December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,

in fact,

a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Twice in one week. Once again there was a crash on the M65 motorway and once again Googles autonews that clearly has no human editing throws up and image of the M65 Gemini aeroplane. Welcome to your dogshit AI generated future.
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This is really fun!
Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.

No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.

h4x0r.org/funreliable/
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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The entire point of social media is being able to surround yourself with people who start posts with sentences like "Hi, shipwreck autist here!"
Hi, shipwreck autist here! It was in fact true at the time. The Edmund Fitzgerald also had a sister ship, the Arthur B. Homer, which had the same structural defect the Edmund Fitzgerald did and was quietly retired shortly after Fitz sank. She remains the largest ship ever scrapped on the Great Lakes
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.

However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Can’t wait to be in an open office where everyone is talking to their computers in order to control them at the same time. What could possibly go wrong?
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 2:47 PM
When did Reddit start thinking I was more interested in views and engagement than just getting help solving a problem?

I don't want more viewers in different communities, I'd just like some specific Firefox help!

(I did mostly figure it out: avi.st/deleting-syn...)
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This comes up on occasion. Companies like Meta aren't using your phone's microphones to listen to you. They don't need to! Their ad tech is already powerful enough to know where you go, who you chat with, and it can guess what you're interested in. *That's* the problem!
Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won't need to) | TechCrunch
The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users' phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory -- and one that the company has disputed before.
techcrunch.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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This is important.
September 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Listen, if this is how you're dressing to enforce any kind of law, you're the bad guy. And that's not to say that the aesthetics are worse than the horrifying human rights abuses, but it is to say that wearing a supervillain uniform casually is absolutely insane.
Federal agent points a less lethal launcher at protesters outside of the Broadview ICE processing facility ... in Broadview, Illinois, U.S. September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska @jimvondruska.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Amazing hearing the @newstatesman.com podcast flip so effortlessly from "we need to stop sending all our tech industry to the US" to some weird rant about data centres as an awful effect of AI that's economically inert save for being the end of "a tube to silicon valley"
September 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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tldr humanity needs to engineer buildings around filtered air replacement rate and it's not even that dramatic but for dramatic results
⬆️ ventilation = ⬇️ Covid HAIs

Increasing from 1 to 6 ACH = 50% reduction
(~40% to 20% attack rate)

Increasing from 6 to 10 ACH = more reduction
(~20% to 10% attack rate)
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM