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25% more than those other Tods
NACL or NaCl
Any network admin worth their salt knows the difference!
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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on type safety
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How is there not a Def Leppard Cybertruck version yet?
October 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Blog "A history of kernel threads".

Gather 'round children as an old timer explains.

cybersect.substack.com/p/a-history-...
A history of threads
Some notes
cybersect.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
The Red Mild Chilli Peppers
Slightly diminish a band:

Hootie and the Wheezefish
Slightly diminish a band:

The Mothers of Patent Protection
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
AWS announces us-moon-1 region for it's gen AI initiatives
EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The S in MCP stands for security
August 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Well written and thought out posts: 1
Reactionary, DHH weekend rewrite bro posts: 7,233,451 (so far)

We need more of what Corey brings.
July 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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As an underling, I always found the threat “be quiet or I’ll replace you with a very simple cron job” to be effective at keeping middle-managers in line.
July 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Customers: We want a faster horse

Henry Ford: Ah. In fact—

Kubernetes: Let me stop you right there. What you really need is 1000 horses that die randomly
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Feels like the post would be more aptly titled "Putting the 'Go' back into 'Go Fuck Yourselves'"?
"For the foreseeable future, the #golang team will stop pursuing syntactic language changes for error handling. We will also close all open and incoming proposals that concern themselves primarily with the syntax of error handling, without further investigation."

go.dev/blog/error-s...
[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - The Go Programming Language
Go team plans around error handling support
go.dev
June 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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May the fourth be with you
May 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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My favorite definition is from Richard Rumelt, who says that a strategy is made up of three elements:

1) a diagnosis
2) guiding policy
3) coherent actions

Both of his books are very good. He spends a lot of time snarking on CEOs who don't know what strategy means, which is fun.
April 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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My interactive AWS NAT Gateway blog post is now published. Check it out at malithr.com/aws/natgatew....
Interactive AWS NAT Gateway - Malith R
An interactive blog post exploring AWS NAT Gateway
malithr.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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What's she looking at?
March 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...
March 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Caption this
March 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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What a shame. Now we have US tax payers propping up cryptocurrencies. This is one of the biggest grifts of all time.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru....
Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve; prices spike
Analysts say the crypto market needs a reason to move higher, such as indications that the Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates or a clear pro-crypto regulatory framework from the Trump administration.
www.reuters.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I made note of the exit names on an American interstate highway during a road trip because if I ever get around to writing a Southern gothic novel these will be my characters.
February 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Sometimes when talking about platform engineering I feel like I'm having to advocate for things that used to be common practice: write software yourself, hire smart engineers, expertise and experience in building systems matters
January 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Sustainability isn't a race or marathon. It's a relay, and you have to be ready to pass, or grab, the baton when the time comes.
December 18, 2024 at 6:20 PM