Joe Thompson

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In every year divisible by four, there’s a Summer Olympics, the US has a Presidential election, and a new batch of people finds out for the first time that the CEO of StickerMule supports Trump.

Random question: if I say “10% gray”, do you assume I mean a very dark gray or a very light gray?

I don't know if I missed a notice or something, but my domain blind-forward to Gmail that had worked for, I don't know, 20+ years without problems? Quit working out of the blue 2 weeks ago. No indication how to fix it, or, if fixing it was possible, if more money would be involved.

Well, shit.

True Story

Interesting to read a description of what is pretty much exactly Auto-Tune in a science-fiction story published in 1960.

When I see someone post a link to a video of one of my conference talks:

Extremely disappointed in HashiCorp. They’re at the point of sending baseless C&D’s to open-source projects because they can’t stand the existence of a legitimate community fork of Terraform.

Did you know you can make a 15-year-old collapse into generational despair by asking them to explain the Gen-Z usage of “skill issue” and “sadge”?

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I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

I just saw a commercial for dish detergent that used the old “our detergent is used to clean animals after oil spills” trope but it had a disclaimer on the bottom of the screen that said “Simulated demonstration. No actual oil used”, and I’m not sure that’s actually better.

For those planning their eclipse trips in April, duration of totality along the center of the eclipse track at various points: Maximum duration: 4 minutes, 29 seconds, near Torreón, Mexico - Texas/Mexico border (near Eagle Pass, TX): 4m27s - Near Fredericksburg: 4m26s - Near Dallas: 4m23s

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"Lacey is being punished for failing to respect authority, failing to cave and give the government what it thought would be easy to get." Bingo. reason.com/2024/01/24/f...

Feds will try Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey for a third timereason.com It's a frightening reminder of how far the government will go to get their way—and to warn tech companies against platforming speech it doesn't like.

The “Hide keypad” button on my iPhone’s in-call keypad display is terrible UI design. At first glance, this matches the common design pattern of “icon with text label”, and so my first instinct when I want to “hide keypad” is to press the brightly-colored icon next to it.

Dear politicians: when you take credit for economic indicators regressing to the mean, it makes me want to whap you in the face with _Statistics for Dummies_ until you stop.

"[T]his should be of no legal concern, unless there is something reputationally different about misidentifying what kind of produce was used" is my new favorite legal argument.

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It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago

TIL: “In 1997 a review in the biomedical journal Nature Medicine was published under the title ‘Nitric Oxide And Inflammation: The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind.’ It turned out that this was part of a bet among Swedish scientists who were trying to embed Dylan lyrics into their articles.” 1/2

Folk wisdom has it that no matter where you are, you’re no more than three feet from a spider. This is incorrect, or more correctly, imprecise: the correct value is 3.72 feet.

Dear every airline but Southwest: instead of begging for people to gate-check their carry-ons on EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT, which you have to do for free and which slows down boarding, just do what Southwest does and allow two free checked bags. It’s not like there isn’t enough room in the baggage hold.

This #kubecon talk about RBAC misconfig allowing cryptominer attacks has a case study of a customer who role-bound the ClusterAdmin role to the system:anonymous principal, which means anyone with connectivity to the API endpoint has cluster-admin permissions. 1/2

What the guide said about Bluetooth pairing: “Long press the FN + Q / W / E combination key for 3S” What I thought that meant: Long-press Fn + Q + W + E to enter pairing mode. What it *actually* meant: First, wake up the keyboard, then long-press Fn + *one of* Q, W or E to pair device 1, 2 or 3.

After listening to the @oxidecomputer.bsky.social and Friends about AI doomerism, I want to make a patch proclaiming me part of the 1st AI Mischief Force Reserve. “Defending the Light Cone with Heavy Messing”

@bcantrill.bsky.social I was looking to see if I could listen to Oxide et amis in Overcast (answer: yes!) and noticed that searching the podcast directory for Oxide brought up some… well, have a look at an example:

Ah, yes, had my first conference-presentation anxiety dream since 2021! It’s almost like a long-absent old friend dropping by to visit.

Kubernetes folks, and especially those who still consider themselves newbies, what part(s) of Kubernetes networking do you wish you knew more about the underpinnings of? (I don't usually ask this, but since I'm new here and haven't built much of my network out here yet -- re-sky for reach?)

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