It was silly back in the day when a dev
would post “hey I coded StackOverflow in a weekend” or “I coded the Google Search last week” and time has not improved that argument/brag.

So FYI, First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detector has a red backlight as standard, not just when it detects elevated carbon monoxide.

Tonight’s adventure brought to you by an end of life carbon monoxide detector that started chirping, a replacement that glowed red, and a visit from the fire department.🤣

It’s 5 pm somewhere 🧀👍

In this case about 6 months and a feature request….

The distance between “this code is clever and elegant” and “this code is crap” is shorter than it appears.

Best #StarTrek crew, wrong answers only.

So they act like printers now 🤣👍

Still mad about the Silverlight rug pull how many years later 🤣🤣🤣

Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…

As someone who got started in enterprise line of business applications, this post from @jsnover.com brings up some painful memories.

www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

Abuser Politics: Christian Male Supremacists Want Women to Shut Up The desire for quiet women—really for silent women—in every public forum is neither about adherence to Biblical truth nor the revelation of natural law.

Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.”

I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right.

www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

Why yes if an AI enabled attacker breaches the firewall and we go have a loaded shotgun next to our servers for rapid decommissioning.

This is part of our new SOC5 protocol. Didn’t you the documentation I sent out?

Yes sir, the NSA is decrypting our web traffic and sending it to Alpha Centauri systems. I will prepare the one time pads immediately 🫡

No sir, we will not adopting that security feature because you are worried about aliens from Area 51 hacking our hardware.

Yes sir, we will add extraterrestrial hacking attempts to our threat model.

The worst conversations are with people who understand maybe 50% of a given topic but assume they know way more and start making really strange assumptions. 😬

Advertising sign for Delve during RSA saying "Your CISO's cardiologist will thank you." Spoiler: they will not

Delve claims "Your CISO's cardiologist will thank you." Spoiler: they will not.

www.inc.com/ben-sherry/t...

But as Prof. Haraway taught us, there is no "god trick", no view from nowhere. The only way to do good scholarship is to embrace, acknowledge and speak from one's actual positionality.

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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants.

He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

The second most brutal Irish curse I’ve ever heard, in case you were wondering, is go scríobha do scéala báis le fual na bláthnaide gallda. It means “may your obituary be written in weasel’s piss.”

Didn’t Socrates say something about “the unexamined life is not liveable for a man” a couple of years before Freud 🤣

Some days it feels like we are truly living in an age of madness when “now” is the only thing that matters.

You know dam well why your boss ONLY wanted those updates via Signal and why Signal wasn’t on the list of approved apps. You can’t claim ignorance of how technology works when that is why you got hired at DOGE.

My first introduction to differential privacy (awesome topic btw) at Defcon was proceeded by a commercial from Google talking about their creepy ability to detect if a restaurant or other public venue would be busy at a specific time. Creepy as all get out and the antithesis of privacy.

We had one marriage in our WOW guild and a bunch of married couples. Sigh when I could stay up till 2 AM for raids 😢

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The Real World Crypto Symposium 2026 ( RWC 2026)- March 9, 2026 YouTube video by 一欣國際會議顧問有限公司

RWC livestream has started at www.youtube.com/live/QQhyxFj...

Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...

Not too good to be true, but definitely too early to victory-lap. The recent “universal” respiratory vaccine paper that’s getting attention is a mouse study, published in Science. It used an intranasal formulation that did not target one specific pathogen.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...