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Mark (t0vster)
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Reliability Developer @ Arctic Wolf 🐺
he/they - Backend/Devops Dweeb - Based out of Toronto 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Oh we’re back on this shit again
The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030
The EU Commission unveiled the first step in its security strategy to ensure "lawful and effective" law enforcement access to data
www.techradar.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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There should be a float that lists all the companies who are cowards while playing Beck’s Loser.
“Nervous Corporate Sponsors Retreat from New York Pride:
About 25 percent of corporate donors to New York Pride have canceled or scaled back their support, citing economic uncertainty and fear of retribution from the Trump administration.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n...
Nervous Corporate Sponsors Retreat from New York Pride
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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There’s been so many days in a row lately
January 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Why is every search for "xyz library alternative" come up with a dev dot to or Medium article titled "I made the best library ever, it's SO MUCH better that regular library."

And I look up the library and it has been abandoned for years.
December 12, 2024 at 2:32 AM
This is how AI gets you. First it starts with flattery. 🤔
December 6, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Shifting my mentality in this way was probably the single biggest thing that led to a lot of growth for me as a developer. It’s insane how many doors one misses by being stuck in the Imposter syndrome headspace.
Impostor syndrome: “I don't know what I'm doing. It's only a matter of time until everyone finds out."

Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."

The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
December 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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funny how people are getting bent about bluesky's public data APIs being used for AI training

public data is.... public.... data

if you dont want your data to be...public, don't make it... public
December 3, 2024 at 1:31 PM
What an ominous notification? Like, is LG coming for me now? 👀
November 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
This just in! Publicly available service can be scraped!
New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
www.404media.co
November 27, 2024 at 12:30 AM
The lists feature here is definitely a banger. Huge fan. 😎
November 24, 2024 at 3:28 PM
High key loving Bluesky, although I gotta say that the multi-account experience kinda sucks. 😬

Anyone got a good suggestion for an iOS Bluesky client where having more than 1 account isn’t jank?
November 23, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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bro, so to run a program, i "execute" it, but to stop it i "kill" it? computers are barbaric, bro
November 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM