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@TurboHaus Just came back from cali. and i agree. I hate it here, but here's home.

I like Toronto. It’s kind of ugly, and Torontonians talk about their “grind” in a way Montrealers just don’t, but the people I met there are among the best I’ve ever met. I like their bars, their roti is amazing, and it’s the first place I ever had pho and ever fell in love.

@ns123abc Sir, a second data center was hit.

there's an AWS outage in me-central-1 because it got bombed

@BenDziobek "Posts it online, with smart phones that process the data in data centers" - the irony is almost baffling.

A data center in New Brunswick was canceled tonight when hundreds of residents showed up. When fight big tech and private equity we win.

@Freyy_is Simple. Scaling a video playback service (for free btw) is extremely hard. the ISP, the registrations and the mere server deployments to deploy a service like this world wide, with good service no issue and handling all types of connection is a hard problem.

the fact youtube still has no real rival after 20 years… that’s crazy dominance.

Guess I don't have enough claudecode instances running.

@ElijahKurien congrats!

I'm dropping out of school to join Cursor as a full-time software engineer. I wrote a blog post on why this is the most important time to be working on coding agents.

you dont even know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

@christophersaum Well we're building something special in a new world where Ads are no longer working. Happy to chat.

I hear VCs go quiet during the holidays? It’s Saturday before Thanksgiving and we’re actively working on three deals. We love being the first believers with $500K checks to catalyze a founder’s raise. If you’re building, let’s talk.

lil sidequest

@sethsetse bro go back to building

there’s ~ a 30% chance I’ll follow you back if you follow me it’s only getting worse, act fast!

Is it just me, or are you getting sick of seeing AI this AI in YC latest batch. Like can we focus on the value and not the features please?

@levelsio @philz1337x @stripe @Wise @Cloudflare yeah personally dealt with an issue with @Wise I was issued a refund for 5000 dollars (had issues with another neo bank) and they claim the moneys gone missing and failed to help us retrieve it. (we've the got the whole refund has been issued email and all). I refuse to use them

A tale of how things can go wrong very fast: Yesterday @philz1337x accidentally charged my Wise card $80,000 via @Stripe Accidents can happen, and the charge was declined, but then @Wise immediately froze my card That card was also tied to my @Cloudflare and responsible for all payments, including domain renewals Cloudflare failed to renew my domain and then emailed me that they "won't attempt to automatically renew the domain again" Which seems like an excellent domain hit job, you charge someone's card a lot of money around their domain renewal date, get their card frozen, then get their domain renewals failed and scoop up the domain without them noticing I'd think the fix here would be Cloudflare retrying many times to renew the domain after failed charges until it works Sometimes cards are frozen for a few hours or a day, but they start working again after

@henrythe9ths FUNDRAISE

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@cliftonsellers Grow through Customers w/Behaviour Intelligence

You got 5 words Sell me your service

@rareZuhair cashin [dot] so if you want to fight against it. bring humanity back.

announcing our vc-backed bot farm to accelerate the dead internet.

@edenchan mate bring the deodorant

just packed my bag for sf, cant wait

Midjourney aint mid, fair assessment

I'm buying more, because if half of the internet relies on AWS, then they have more control then we give credit for.

@yimingdothan send me @ i'll join the pod

im assembling a team