Jake Vose

Jake Vose

@jakevose.github.io

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Google saying Gemini can break out too is like the kid in school who buys a black leather jacket to look cool and tough but it’s soft leather

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bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

idk who needs to hear this, but until us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com gets its life together, this one liner in your bootstrap can save you a butt-ton of AWS build time: sudo sed -i 's/us-east-1\.ec2\.//g' /etc/apt/sources.list

hey so, if the town my ip address geolocates to is mistaken for a town of the same name in another state, and this confuses Steam’s security protections, who do i even email about that?

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the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

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IDK the source either, but I remember someone observing that if you go into a kindergarten class and ask, "Who can draw? Who can sing? Who can dance?" EVERYONE'S hand goes up. A few years later, it's almost nobody. This is, and I'm being v serious, a cultural-scale failure.

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Millennials are listening to Phillip Glass and walking slowly through the woods, they're calling it poignancymaxxing

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The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software". A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Trying to keep traceability on the Golden Images in your AWS Organization? You can use Config Aggregator to query running EC2, and if you have downstream AMI builds, you can bake the source AMI IDs into their tags and query them with the Aggregator too!

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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud