Dmitry Mazin

canceled in 2026: shane gillis, and also the leap second www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

this is so insanely sick > Own an Acorn computer with an Econet port? Want to meet fellow Acorn enthusiasts? Come join the (LAN) party! For one weekend only, we want to see just how big we can make our Econet network! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/econet-lan...

this really is what it’s like

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

show me someone who claims to understand DynamoDB pricing and I’ll show you a liar

pokémon stands for "pocket monsters"

PSA: If you are thinking of giving Claude Code permission to run `find` thinking it's read-only, remember that it has a `-delete` flag.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Always curious to see who gets to be an anonymous source!

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

if you’ve recently traveled into or out of the US and had any unusual interactions with CBP, i’d like to hear about them (regardless of immigration status—citizens, permanent residents, visa holders) email: gaby @ the verge dot com, i’m also on signal ✨

Am I the only one who has to restart my Mac after screen sharing using *any* app? The purple “you are screen sharing” icon never goes away otherwise and other stuff breaks.

This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:

His mother says he has been tortured by authorities at the airport. The reason, if any, for his detention is not known.

oh hello. new blog post alert: "LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassingly parallelizable". www.cyberdemon.org/2025/02/28/l... I write many scripts that do a bunch of completely independent tasks (like downloading a webpage). LLMs make it easy to speed them up

Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

MacOS: I will not let you write "fuck" MacOS: I will also autocorrect "pyenv" to "peen"

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Works.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if you set up your UK eVisa using your BRP, you also need to add your passport to the eVisa: www.gov.uk/update-uk-vi...

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

Setting up a Chromebook for my kid. It’s asking me to set up an email for him (alright), then asks his name, DOB, and gender. Yeah, no thanks. Going to install Edubuntu instead.

oh wow. nice!

welp, I just had the most idiotic LLM moment ever. I asked Perplexity how to use sysbench in Docker and one of the sources was my own blog post about how to do exactly that

I miss the days when PBR meant “Pabst’s blue ribbon” and not “policy based routing” 😔

yeah sure who gives a fuck anymore

Has anyone made a tool that goes through people you follow on Mastodon and tells you if they’re on Bluesky?

The most important thing I’ve learned about communicating in an age of lots of lies is that pre-bunking is basically the only thing that works. Give people ammunition against misinformation, but do not tell them that you’re doing that.

I’ve been feeling like I should limit my daily Anki study to 50/day because, truly, whenever it builds up I carry around micro stress all day

Hi. I’m Chris, and I live in San Francisco. I’ve been writing about left-field electronic music for the past 25 years. My writing has previously been published in XLR8R, Resident Advisor, Red Bull Music Academy, Vice/Noisey, SF Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, FACT Mag, others I’m forgetting.

Do with this what you will, but when @jack.bsky.social came to speak at Startup School in ~2013 he played a jazz mp3 and told us to keep a diary