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@Picolas_Caged @Mr_Husky1 + 1 like for the highly specific cat meme that I will bear in mind hence forth.

@Mike__eBee @Mr_Husky1

I’m a big guy. I’ve been lifting weights for ten years. I look intimidating, I guess. I was at Planet Fitness doing bench presses. I noticed a kid in the corner. He was maybe 16, really overweight. He was looking around like he was terrified someone was going to laugh at him. He walked over to the dumbbells, picked up the lightest ones, and did a few awkward curls. He stopped, looked in the mirror, and hung his head. He was about to leave. He looked like he was about to quit before he even started. I racked my weights and walked over to him. He flinched when he saw me coming. He thought I was going to make fun of him. 'Hey man,' I said. He looked down. 'I’m leaving, sorry.' 'No,' I said. 'I was just gonna say, your form is a little off. You’re gonna hurt your back.' I picked up a weight. 'Tuck your elbows. Like this. Slow down.' He copied me. 'There you go,' I grinned. 'That’s the muscle working.' We trained together for an hour. I showed him the ropes. At the end, he wiped the sweat off his forehead. 'I almost walked out,' he admitted. 'I felt stupid.' 'We all started somewhere,' I told him. 'I used to be 50 pounds heavier than you. The only bad workout is the one you didn't do.' He’s been my gym partner for six months now. He’s down 40 pounds. Strength isn't about how much you can lift. It’s about lifting others up with you. Anonymous

@akafaceUS Yup. More of this.

Gotta give respect to those that are trying to better themselves after letting themselves go.

@VintageMrHobbes @purplepangolin @trevgoes4th A good scrape / aggregation pattern would be the indomitable "...'a survey shows'"

You cannot vote your way out of this

@Picolas_Caged @Mr_Husky1 Yeah. It doesn't matter even if it didn't. Well done tho.

@DavidDPaxton It's this stuff that gives me hope w regards to their rejection. They just can't help themselves.

That’s a bit on the nose.

Systemd is really rather good. But this ... Ain't it. I hope the forks land.

@maietta @DoingFedTime Done.

Fellow tech minded individuals out there, especially those interested in cyber security, digital privacy, and related, you really ought to give @DoingFedTime a follow here and on YouTube.

@Szlater2 @CageFooName Reminds me of talking to PM's. "....OK. But, that's not how it works."

@CageFooName OfCom is really embarrassing ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/st…

I find this whole thing really embarrassing for the UK to be honest

@DispairSoftware upgrade to premium plus, for CDN delivered content only.

lol

@mikecosgrove @RupertLowe10 Yeah but maybe their cars are bigger than theirs.

@RupertLowe10 They’re also very weak people. Some of the most powerful ppl in Britain wouldn’t survive 5 mins on a council estate or a boxing ring with the avg guy.

The people who ‘lead’ Britain are ignorant. They are incompetent. They are dishonest. It is a terrible combination.

@DavidDPaxton Amusingly the politics stuff is kind of downstream to the same thing happening with code generation. Conflating LOC generated with productivity. Twitter's algo pref for articles and long form making the same mistake as it likely smells great in their agentic scoring.

People really need to stop sharing these AI slop longread 'analysis' posts. Starve them of attention. It's noise and grift and we have too much of both already. There should be social penalties from right-minded folk.

@DavidDPaxton @IdoHalbany Just passing by to say, it's ai slop and I concur. Have some self respect.

@IdoHalbany I'm only still talking to you because you replied by calling me an idiot. But sure, you don't care. I'll complain about the AI slop piercing my timeline, you ignore it because you don't care. Everyone is fine.

I see a lot of people are confused by Trump's post. Is he throwing Israel under the bus? Did he even know about the strikes? Or is this actually a message to the Gulf states? Let's bring some order to this: To begin understanding what's happening here, you first have to understand the logic of the Gulf energy arena. What's the real problem? The Americans have no real way to fully secure massive energy infrastructure in the countries neighboring Iran. The countries themselves - Qatar, KSA, and the UAE - don't have a way to do it either. And neither does Iran. These aren't point targets. Not a single platform, not two isolated facilities, and not one refinery. We're talking about enormous stretches of territory, kilometers of sensitive installations, giant industrial monsters spread across wide, exposed, vulnerable areas. You cannot really wrap something like that in airtight defense. That's why the real protection for these facilities never rested only on air defense systems. It rested on a balance of terror - "you don't strike the heart of my economy, and I don't strike the heart of yours". This is an unwritten taboo. Everyone understands that escalation can happen in many ways, but you don't break the region's energy infrastructure. The moment that happens, it's no longer just another military round. It becomes a real threat to the global economy. Put simply; you can fight in other rooms of the house. But once someone starts playing with the main electrical panel, the whole building goes dark. That's why everyone is especially careful there: This is exactly why all players usually handle energy infrastructure with velvet gloves. "To destroy", "to demolish", "to wipe out" - those are easy words to use. But a real, systematic strike on infrastructure of this kind wouldn't only hurt the enemy. It could halt production, shake markets, send energy prices soaring, and hurt everyone. Even if Hormuz remains open, that may no longer help if the sides begin striking production capacity itself. That's where the Americans don't want this arena to go. Israel as America's attack dog: It's amusing when people claim that "Israel controls the US", because nothing could be further from reality. If anything, what we're seeing here is a partially coordinated division of labor; Washington allows, encourages, and creates tactical shocks, while preserving for itself the exclusive right to determine their strategic meaning. Trump appears willing to let Israel generate shock. It can touch sensitive points, break routine, expose vulnerabilities, and create urgency. But the actor that frames the event, sets the limits of escalation, and translates it into regional and diplomatic order is the US. In that sense, Israel sometimes serves as an operational arm of the US - It throws the system into shock, and the White House then turns that shock into leverage, deterrence, or de-escalation. We saw a similar dynamic in Doha a few months ago when Israel attacked senior Hamas officials in Qatar. So what's Trump actually doing in this post? I don't think it's reasonable to attribute one goal to this, to conclude that Israel is being thrown under the bus, or to believe that Trump is simply unaware of what's going on. In my view, those are mistaken readings. You may agree or disagree with Trump, but it's hard to ignore that he doesn't operate like a classic diplomat trying to project a single, quiet, clean line. He operates through power, ambiguity, mixed signals, and the imposition of hierarchy. Trump's post is aimed at several audiences at once, and each of them hears a different message in it. * To Iran - don't escalate against the Gulf states, and do not drag the US in: Trump is saying something very simple to the Islamic Regime: don't interpret this event as if it were a direct American war. Don't use it as a pretext to escalate against Qatar, the Gulf states, or American assets. He does this through partial public distancing of the US from the event, while simultaneously sending another message - if Iran breaks the rules, it won't face only the IDF - it'll face the strongest military in the world. The Islamic regime has already shown sensitivity in the past to exactly this kind of ambiguity. * To the Gulf states - you're not alone: To Qatar and the rest of the Gulf states, Trump is sending a reassuring message; the US won't allow this to become a free-for-all over energy infrastructure. This may be the most important part - the Gulf states are especially sensitive to energy uncertainty. That's why Trump is signaling to them that another strike on Qatar or on Gulf LNG infrastructure would cross a red line. Not because of any special affection for them, but because they're a critical node in the global energy system. --- Trump's three objectives 1. Distance the US from the initiative, while creating control: By creating the impression of distance from the operation, he creates plausible deniability. That makes it harder for Iran to frame every Israeli action as a joint American-Israeli operation. This is classic risk management. 2. Warn Iran not to touch the Gulf states: This may be the most important immediate objective. 3. Rebuild the taboo against striking energy infrastructure: This is the broadest objective. Trump wants to allow pressure on the Islamic regime while at the same time preventing it from turning attacks on energy infrastructure into a norm. That way, he preserves room for action against Iran while also narrowing Iran's response options. If Iran chooses to retaliate by attacking energy infrastructure, Trump will be able to argue: "Israel acted on its own, but you're the ones who broke the taboo and turned the confrontation into a much broader crisis". From his perspective, that creates a stronger basis for American legitimacy to escalate. --- Judging by the reactions to that post, it seems the president is succeeding in luring everyone into the trap.

@JordanEVGuy Ai slop.

This doesn’t look like much, but it changes everything. What you’re looking at is an evpzee lamppost charger. It is the smartest solution to one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption. A standard street lamp, quietly turned into an EV charger. No digging up roads, it is installed in just 30 minutes. No huge infrastructure projects, a full street can be electrified in a matter of hours. Manufactured and assembled in the UK and fully OCPP. Using what’s already there. For millions of people across the UK, especially those without driveways, this is the difference between “I can’t have an EV” and “actually…I can.” It’s easy to overlook innovations like this because they’re not flashy. No 350kW ultra-rapid chargers. No massive charging hubs. Just practical, scalable, everyday infrastructure doing exactly what it needs to do. And that’s the point. The EV transition will be be driven by everyone having the ability to charge when they need to. Simple. Effective.

@donaldgorbachev @philippilk @baoshaoshan Ai slop.

The five-second epistemology of 1973. This isn’t 1973. 1973 was a basic bitch black swan. 1973 was a policy decision — OPEC turned the tap off and OPEC turned the tap back on. The tap existed. The infrastructure was intact. The fields were maintained. The rigs were crewed. The refineries were standing. The embargo ended and the oil flowed because the system was there waiting. Look at that image. That’s not a tap being turned off. That’s the tap on fire. Multiple ignition points. Structural. The cranes in silhouette against a sky lit orange. The fire reflecting off the water. The infrastructure that produces and processes and exports the oil burning from both sides of a war that has no off-ramp because the off-ramp was killed on Laylat al-Qadr. 1973 had a resolution mechanism. The Arab states wanted concessions. The concessions were made. The embargo lifted. The oil flowed. This has no resolution mechanism. The negotiator is dead. The new leader said not the right time for peace. The eight-year war general is advising. The IRGC just declared American facilities fair game until completely destroyed. The civilization on the other side defines death as happiness. 1973 was a negotiation. This is Karbala. You can’t negotiate with Karbala. You can’t make concessions to fourteen centuries. Shortages and rationing — yes. Including in America. Energy independence is an accounting fiction. Work from home if you keep your job — yes. But the framing as 1973 is too comfortable. 1973 is in the textbook. 1973 had a chapter and the chapter had an ending. This doesn’t have an ending because the system that produces the ending is on fire in that image. The rigs are idle. The decline curves are running. The gas fields are bombed. The refineries are burning. The LNG is on fire. The Strait is closed. 1973 turned the tap off. This is the tap and the pipe and the rig and the refinery and the terminal all on fire simultaneously with no crews to restart any of it. Day twenty. That image is the war. The sky is orange. The infrastructure is burning. The Strait is closed. 1973 was a policy decision. This is a structural break. The basic bitch black swan had a chapter. This is the real one. The chapter is being written in fire.

Gas facilities in Saudi Arabia. It’s over folks. We are heading into a major 1973-style energy crisis. There will likely be shortages and rationing. We will probably be moved to work-from-home - if you keep your job, of course. 🛢️📈

@loftwah Somewhere out there a robot dog might be protecting my shitty code. I like this idea.

So there are robot dogs guarding the datacenters now? We are living in a dystopia aren’t we?

This silly trope is just as silly as premature optimisation. K8's / K3's can actually help *simplify* the dyi vps setup, if used correctly.

@slimjimmy The only *tiny* gripe I have is how you kinda don't notice how their eventually concurrent systems work as you scale. The whole waterfall system on rules / logic is kinda hard to understand sometimes

had a lot of fun building on cloudflare - i like the services, the APIs are nice and the docs are good unfortunately the cost has been an astronomical $0

@fjzeit Bro. I want the thing.

this is where i say the thing