DNS Security is Important But DNSSEC May Be a Failed Experiment.
DNSSEC is fucking moronic, harmful clownery of the worst kind. It’s a giveaway to those who want to hijack your traffic and a boon to malware.
Fuck DNSSEC. Fuck anyone who implements it.
If we ever have a large estate, we need an A-10 for close air support.
It’s a requirement, really.
I think I know how I could be scammed.
None of the standard methods work on me. I don’t care about authority, I’m nearly impossible to intimidate and I don’t have any desire to rescue anyone (having low empathy is sometimes a benefit!).
But if someone gave me a plausible scenario of getting revenge or harming someone who had harmed me, I think that sort of scam could get me — even if I were already aware I could be scammed that way. That’s like catnip to me so yeah, could happen. I can see how it’d play out.
I strongly support cultural appropriation! https://t.co/0ZBkr0HpBW
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2025
New species of goth girl just dropped and I’m all about it.
“I want to make sweet love to the spreadsheets. I wish to caress them and run my hands along their columns and rows till they purr like kittens. I will make the spreadsheets feel like the only one in the world, at rest or in transit. I will make them the center of my data universe.”
Climate change is real. Of course.
As with all the other problems we’ve faced as a species, it’s just something we need to deal with. We’ll have to use tech to manage and ameliorate it; it is not something we need to dismantle our entire civilization to atone for.
Doofus degrowther nonsense is gonna get us all killed.
A girl that I was interested in asked me to buy her some yogurt. And deliver it to her in the middle of the night. Where she lived alone.
When I got there, we sat on the couch and she asked me to play with her hair as it felt good.
I still missed all the signs and didn’t realize it until years later. She must have thought I was so clueless. Which I was.
But sure, all men think about is sex. As for me, I just thought, “Huh, cool, she really likes yogurt and enjoys having her hair played with. That’s nice. She’s a cool person.”
You can tell Reddit users average really young because they think everything that doesn’t routinely happen in an upper middle class suburban high school by junior year never happens anywhere ever.
It’s pretty amusing.
So much more is possible than we allow to be. What we think is “impossible” is far more constrained by our limited beliefs and aspirations than by reality.
Remember, what was once “nerd fantasy” is now normie reality. It’s the story of the rise of humanity.
Well, dude has a point.
The phone addicts are really going to be something we have to deal with before we can make any sort of better world.
They are the wireheads dystopian sci-fi warned us about. And as with all addicts, they are very hostile about giving up their precious wire screen and the dopamine hits therefrom.
House Makes Moves to Block Pentagon from Canceling E-7 Wedgetail. Good. Satellites cannot replace that capability.
Institutional landlords see new competition from an unexpected source.
Superheated gold withstands ‘entropy catastrophe’: New method challenges established physics.
Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars. Degrowthers are crying now.
A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers.
A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us.
Trump Guts State Department And Staff Warns People Should Be ‘Scared.’
You can’t outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds.
Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? We are not.
Rent Prices Are Falling Fast in America’s Most Pro-Housing Cities.
Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study. MAGA: As long as the poor suffer, who cares?
Gender Relations Have Made Dating a Hostile Act.
It’s Obviously the Phones. Indeed. So just shut up clown-ass phone addicts. Your opinion is not needed nor wanted.
I’ve been seeing “walked away scotch-free” more and more frequently.
It’s “scot-free,” people! “Scot” is an old word for tax or payment. And “scotch” among other things is whiskey.
Damn.
And about the below, being taken off high-impact projects for trivialities is not any sort of exaggeration. It happens constantly.
Just yesterday a person in Operations contacted me with an “urgent” request. And the request was that she wanted me to take over managing and organizing her group’s email. Note that she has full and unrestricted access to everything needed to do this herself, has been trained how to do it, and should be approaching her own manager for this request. It is in no way my team’s responsibility and has absolutely nothing to do with anything we’re supposed to be doing or really should be even thinking about for a single second.
Currently, I’m wrapping up a project that will lead directly to millions of dollars of additional revenue potential yearly. I’m in fact one of the few people in tech where many of my projects actually cause a revenue increase. Her even talking to me about this means I had less time to work on this project that the CEO is watching like a raptor.
Though she was put out, I told her that my team’s role is not really intended to be professional email and inbox organizers, that she should go to her own manager if she needs assistance, and that there was no need to put in a ticket as we’d just route it to her manager anyway. Or more likely, just close it.
And we get requests like that all the time at any company that I’ve ever worked in any similar role.
It is exhausting.
