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  RE: https://rubber.social/@RinaVolpina/116934878016469522 I'm just going to take a giant sip of coffee and read this email I've just received from Amazon about my account.

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  "It's a Superpower??" debuted today, and it's very, very good. I laughed out loud so much, in ways nothing has really prompted me to do in ages. It's good. Go in cold. Trust me. https://allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower

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  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx85vkk0gko "You know, I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit." — Joshua Lyman, "The West Wing"

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  The thought occurs that, now that the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. now predominately show you random shit off the Internet rather than what your actual friends you want to see are posting, it would be more accurate to call them antisocial media.

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  Friday this week (July 31st) is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day #sysadminday

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  @bjh21 This may be relevant to your interests. As context, you may find BG's inaugural lecture informative/entertaining: https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/ben-goldacres-inaugural-lecture/ I remember thinking that it's always a good sign when ~rja14 has nice things to say about your security design. Bonus points if you spot me in the audience. ;-)

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  I somehow missed these when they were first published. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8962.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9948.html I am also entertained that errata exist for these formal internet standards documents. https://errata.rfc-editor.org/eid6516/

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  I'm looking at https://dns-aid.org/ and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid/ and not understanding why it doesn't make proper use of conventional DNS-SD SRV records, insisting on inventing their own, AI-agent-specific thing. The ideas of DNS-based service discovery, central registries, and RPC are absolutely nothing new. And not being able to indirectly point to other search domains seems like a serious omission. #dns

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  RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 I've had a look at this, and I think this is the wrong way to look at things. rsync is load-bearing, mature, valuable software. It's featureful, it's complicated, it's useful, and it's everywhere. And it's written in C. And people have figured out that even relatively basic LLMs, hooked up to an appropriate harness, can be used to drive processes that once required lots of manual work. Including...

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  Multitasking, v: The act of avoiding multiple sources of work at once.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116499146658427751 This is fucking atrocious. UK folk, write to your MP, this is not okay. https://www.writetothem.com/

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  I am reminded of the time that, on the day I implemented DNSSEC validation on the university recursive nameservice, ac.uk broke its DNSSEC signatures. Fortunately, I had a plan for that...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/116528979198177888 github.com's lack of reliability is a serious problem.

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  Hmm. https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

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  (This is not the same role that I previously advertised: https://mastodon.social/@dwm/115939807010381625)

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116087059413472819 I'm really not keen on this "papers, please" Internet environment that the UK is rapidly deploying.

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  RE: https://chaos.social/@jonty/116212142805285052 crimes detected

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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116211359321826804 oh for fucks sake

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  "Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount" https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/ > prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers [citation needed]

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  These are not serious people.