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The first east-coast DevOps meetup was
nycdevops. Sadly it folded this month. It hadn’t met since 2020.I’ve archived all the meetup.com posts since the meetup pages will disappear soon.
read moreTom's House of Awesome CVEs
Did you see that the U.S. is no longer funding the national security CVE program?
I’m glad to see they’re doing away with the “neutral third party” and going with a free market solution.
I’m starting my own CVE service. Here’s my price-list:
- Regular CVE’s: $1,000 evaluation fee
- CVE’s where you get to pick the number: $10,000 (though certain numbers will be sold at auction… how much would you pay to be responsible for CVE-69?)
- Special packages:
- $100,000/year and your company’s products will get a lower severity.
- $10,000,000/year and all CVEs related to your product will be rejected as irreproducible.
I accept Bitcoin, Venmo, and cash in unmarked envelopes slid under my door.
read moreThree AI links everyone should visit
There are three AI-related links (URLs) that everyone should visit.
read moreConfiguring iPhone/MacOS to sync contacts
Mostly a “note to self”, but others may find it useful.
read morePride Rocks -- New Jersey
Free concerts to promote LGBT+ voting in New Jersey (Somerville, New Hope, Asbury Park)!
read moreMrs. Creiger Was Calm
An article about a woman in our town from 1893. I like how she handled the situations.
read morePostcards for Democracy
Info about postcarding parties.
read moreHarris 2024
I’m writing this moments after hearing the Biden has dropped out.
read moreJuneteenth
Happy Juneteenth, folks!
I find many people get perplexed trying to explain what this holiday is. My advice? Keep it simple: Today we celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.
read moreRemoving Dead Code From DNSControl
A few weeks ago I used the golang tool
read moredeadcodeto find and remove unreachable code from the DNSControl project. I also fixed some unrelatedunused parameterwarnings. This was my first experience with the utility and it was a good experience.Apple Vision... thoughts
I wasn’t going to buy the new Apple Vision Pro but I thought I’d look at the web site.
read moreNiklaus Wirth has passed away at age 89
Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89.
read moreOur House
I thought I’d share some info about our house.
read moreThe Greater Fool
Some thoughts…
read moreHave a f***ing sales person call me!
tl;dr version: The job title “business development” is distasteful. I don’t want to be approached by someone who’s job it is to grow YOUR business. I want to grow MY business. I’m not here to help you.
Longer version:
No, I won’t return your cold-call if your job title is similar to any of these:
- “Business Development”
- “Growth Account Executive”
- “Revenue Operations”
Hang up the phone. Stop sending me email.
Find someone with “sales” in their title. Have them call me. I’lll gladly respond.
Let me explain why:
read moreGeorge Mack's Razors
Goerge Mac (
@george__mack) posted a list of rules and razors that he’s found useful. Before Twitter deletes them, I recorded them here.The originals are all here: https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1649835213982408704
read moreIn memory of Dr. Erwin False
Today we celebrate the birthday of computer scientist Erwin False, computer science, innovator, and collaborator with George Boole in the invention of what we now call Boolean Algebra.
read moreMy new ACM Queue column: Operations and Life
I have 2 big announcements!
read moreUsenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective
The Usenix LISA conference is no more. After 35 years, I have a lot of good (and some not good) memories of the conference. It was a big part of my career and I’m sad to see it go. However I’m proud of what LISA accomplished.
I wrote my personal reflections on the conference in a new article published on the Usenix website. Warning: this article includes some over-sharing.
Read it here: LISA made LISA obsolete (That’s a compliment!)
read moreHow to disable stable-diffusion's safety filter
You may have read Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU. (The Linux equivalent is here.)
Here are a few code changes you might wish to make:
read moreAutomating an un-automatable access issue
This is a “face-palm – why didn’t we think of this earlier?” situation that I thought I’d share. Maybe it will help someone else.
read moreFacebook's Metaverse Doomed to Fail
Facebook/Meta’s VR will fail.
read moreMy prediction from January 2, 2016
A friend of mine dug up this Facebook post that I wrote in 2016. I hate when I’m right.
read moreBiden Needs to Promote His Success
Biden is actually doing an amazing job but he’s being humble. This will cost him the election. He needs to start boasting.
read moreMayo Clinic finds and fires 700 bio-terrorists!
Headline: Mayo Clinic fires 700 employees for knowingly bringing harmful biological substances to work.
read moreProTip: Give Your Enemy Bad Advice
One of the most cynical tactics of GOPers is to make public statements recommending bad advice for Democrats. Then reporters join in and start repeating this bad advice. Soon there is a groundswell of support for this bad advice and the Democrats are tempted to cave. The GOPers cackle as they watch the Democrats fall into their trap.
Want some examples?
read moreDon't make me use Cisco WebEx
Here are my rules for using Cisco WebEx.
read moreFun With Shipping
I have to blog this so that when people say “that can’t be true” I can point to this blog post.
read moreThe Minimalist Headset Solution
I got sick and tired video conferences being delayed by audio problems. I know that a lot of times it is a problem on my end, but I think everyone has had audio problems. How did I fix it? I got rid of any feature that caused me trouble until I had a trouble-free headset experience. Spoiler alert: I had to eliminate nearly all features. The purpose of this blog post is to provide links so that people can purchase the same equipment I now use.
read moreCory Booker Teases Tuberville Over Defund The Police
Senator Cory Booker just did something awesome.
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