Austin Wright

@AmazingSights Same energy

Millions of years of evolution into a perfect predator undone by a shovel.

@DMan813466 @DuBoseDefense You're talking about a judge who, in that jurisdiction, has to go on the campaign trail and calls people to solicit money from them to keep his position as a judge

@awwright @DuBoseDefense You people don't know how these relationships work and I realize that now. Whatever you say guy.

It gets worse. This weekend after seeing the video, a veteran criminal defense lawyer (with no cases in this guy’s civil court) wrote this judge an email telling the judge he needed to apologize. The judge responded by accusing the lawyer of making an ex parte communication and ordered him to appear next week under threat of contempt. I’m a member of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association “Strike Force,” a group of several lawyers tasked with defending lawyers against judicial overreach at a moment’s notice. We’ll be there to make sure this judge does not try to jail a veteran lawyer just for exercising his First Amendment rights in criticizing an elected judge’s behavior.

@TedWarring @SandyofCthulhu Now do quantum superposition

@awwright @SandyofCthulhu I think Mr. Occam might want to speak to you about that assertion.

I don’t believe it and there is zero evidence for it. It is the least scientific “scientific fact” ever. Where does all the energy come from to create an entire universe?! We can’t even explain THIS universe’s origin and now y’all are inventing an infinity of them?! Pfui

@BlakeGa53596725 @SandyofCthulhu A scientific theory is preferred based on how predictive it is. If you have a theory that is more predictive then let's hear it.

@awwright @SandyofCthulhu It is actually the most complex theory possible, because it assumes infinities upon infinities. It also comes very close to assuming that Azathoth and every Lovecraftian horror imaginable and unimaginable must come into existence in the unending randomness.

@AnoneySFWtan @SandyofCthulhu Please tell me how quantum entanglement works. Can use it to predict an observation?

It is quite literally the ABSOLUTE furthest thing from "simple" theoretically conceivable.

@jwludwig @DavidAFrench ??? The Nazi party is literally banned in Germany, you can go to prison for it, for a very long time

You listen to this and you can understand how the German people supported Hitler. They are advocating for unconstitutional executive orders where the president becomes a dictator by unlawful emergency decrees. Why outlaw the Democrat Party? Burning down the Capitol and blaming Democrats would be far easier.

This is utterly deranged authoritarianism. The way in which so many MAGA Christians have totally lost their moorings in this moment is more than disturbing—it’s dangerous.

@WhoTFisMiingo I'm not sure that matters? Most music services want you to normalize the continuous waveform to 0dB, macOS even has a builtin command "afclip" to compute this for iTunes submission

@awwright Well yeah if your threshold is way too much

Hi audio engineer here✨ Your mic should be the left one Your game the middle one Your Spotify the right one Hitting the red doesn’t mean you’re “distorting” or “peaking” you would have to go above 0dB for that to happen 🙃

@DMan813466 @DuBoseDefense Yeah well, the judge's opinion is immaterial if he's not talking to someone with a case before him.

@awwright @DuBoseDefense "Shot his mouth off' to a dickhead the holds sway in his district. That's what I gathered. That's the way the judge sees it.🤷

@KuroganeYuuji @eirshy @Notwithsitting @PSA_Sitch In any event it worked out, because 100F means you have a fever

@eirshy @awwright @Notwithsitting @PSA_Sitch And 0 fahrenheit is the freezing point of brine (was supposed to be, anyway)

メートルとキロメートルを使う方が、フィートとマイルを使うよりも優れているという点については、日本の友人たちには同意します。 But Fahrenheit is far superior to Celsius in every way.

@anishmoonka Is the builtin networking library insufficient somehow? Why do we keep going down this road?

A tiny piece of code called axios runs inside almost every app on your phone and every website you visit. Developers download it 100 million times a week. A few hours ago, someone poisoned it with malware that hands an attacker full control of your computer. If you’ve never heard of axios, that’s normal. It does one boring but important job: it lets apps talk to the internet. When a website pulls up your feed or an online checkout processes your card, axios is probably doing the work underneath. Over 173,000 other code packages plug into it. It’s everywhere. The attacker stole a lead developer’s login for npm (think of it as an app store, but for code that programmers use to build software). Once inside, they swapped the developer’s email to an anonymous ProtonMail account and uploaded the poisoned version by hand. That jumped past every security check the project normally runs before new code goes live. And this was not some rushed job. The attacker staged the malware at least 18 hours before pulling the trigger. They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. They poisoned both the current version and an older one within 39 minutes of each other, casting the widest net possible. Once the malware ran on a machine, it deleted itself to cover its tracks. The trick was smart. They never touched a single line of code inside axios itself. Instead, they tucked in a fake add-on called plain-crypto-js, built to pass as a well-known, trusted library. It copied the real library’s description and author info, so nothing looked off at a glance. When a developer installed axios, this fake package quietly ran the malware on its own. When a smaller package called ua-parser-js got hijacked back in 2021 with about 8 million weekly downloads, the security world treated it like a four-alarm fire. Axios has 100 million. Over 12x the exposure, with 173,000+ packages depending on it. Socket, the security firm that flagged this, caught it in about 6 minutes. That’s fast. But 6 minutes is still plenty of time for automated systems at companies everywhere to pull and install the bad version before anyone can react. If you or your team runs axios: lock your version to 1.14.0 (or 0.30.3 for the older branch). Change every password, API key, and access token on any machine that installed the compromised update. And check your network logs for connections to sfrclak dot com or the IP address 142.11.206.73.

@krewson281976 @Scotchlover3 @SusieM414141 That's what I'm saying. Assigned seats are not for safety purposes.

@awwright @Scotchlover3 @SusieM414141 now they have asigined seats you paid for your seat SIT IN it but year seating has nothing to do with it

This woman is on a Southwest Airlines flight that was obviously not full, so she decided to switch seats. Now they are telling her she has to go back to her assigned seat or get off the flight. If a flight is not full, should people be allowed to switch seats? It used to not be a problem, but maybe when there is an unfortunate crash it becomes harder to identify people.

@tinrocha @TarasBuria Why does it have to be a brand language? We already have a universal UI language for this: Checkboxes

@TarasBuria Another design from Microsoft. Instead of sticking to one unified brand design language, they just invent a new one for every single product. When you see a Google or Apple product, you know exactly which company it belongs to, with MS it's a mystery.

Copilot used to be a native Windows app (I liked it really). Now it is a web app again with iOS (???) toggles. Seriously, what is wrong with you, Microsoft?

@cyber_razz I fail to see the problem, did you want an updated openssl or no?

I watched a senior sysadmin read a security bulletin about a new OpenSSL vulnerability. He downloaded the tarball. He ran ./configure. He ran make. He ran make install. He overwrote the system OpenSSL. I asked if he enjoyed maintaining his own private dependency hell or just hated package managers. He looked confused and said he wanted the patch immediately. I told him that by compiling manually, he just ensured that dpkg (or rpm) has no idea OpenSSL was updated. Next month, a different vulnerability will be found, and his "patched" server will still report the old version, triggering a security audit. I wiped his /usr/local and forced him to backport the security patch into the distribution's official package repository.

@Scotchlover3 @SusieM414141 Southwest went 30 years without assigned seats, that's not the reason.

@SusieM414141 You can NOT change seats without permission. God forbid an accident, and the airline uses the seat assignment to help identify casualties. Not sure if people notice, if the plane is only 1/2 full and people are scattered all over the plane, it is called balancing the load.

@DMan813466 @DuBoseDefense What did the lawyer, with no cases before the judge, do, exactly?

@DuBoseDefense That was very short sighted behavior by that lawyer. What was he thinking?

@JenMsft @marchr Trying to set a static IP address. Before that, trying to fix the color profile of an HDMI output. But which one of the three are you talking about, exactly?

@awwright @marchr The last time you opened control panel, what were you looking for?

I'm really excited for the work we're doing on Windows to improve the quality and craft of the OS. I work on the Windows design system & core surfaces (like taskbar, start, & settings). If there's something you'd like to see improved in the design of Windows, let me know!

@Notwithsitting @PSA_Sitch F calls them degrees because 180 of them is the difference between freezing and boiling.

@PSA_Sitch When does water freeze and boil Sitch? the answer is why Celsius is superior.

@taiki_phrases As an American, somehow this feels rude to ignore. I've also heard saying "thank you" while paying for an order (the "double thank you") is considered odd, even though you're doing me a service just as much as I am for you.

Konbini clerks say いらっしゃいませ but they don't want a reply. I've watched tourists say "Hi!" back. The clerk freezes every time. It's a sound effect, not a greeting. Just walk in. And just walk out.