Matt Ghali

@kchoudhu hope you're safe. btw are you near dubai? i have a few computers that someone needs to plug back in

TFW your credit card company cares more about you than your government.

@Al_Grigor imagine announcing to the world that you're an incompetent clown, and then on top of that, trying to blame the computer

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

@bifrosty2k its actually about time for me to replace all my extinguishers and it pains me greatly

@bizzyunderscore I'll have you know all of my detection and extinguishing equipment is up to date! Fresh batteries in everything.

I hear this argument too much.

@eastdakota @Cloudflare it is just me or is this picture hella racist against italians

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

@MikeIsaac Do you really think a significant population of people are ready to let Meta see everything they see for their entire day? It feels like the biggest problem for them to solve here isn't the dazzling technology.

news: new oakleys and a new pair of ray with screens inside and a “neural interface” that controls menus in the glasses still waiting for my augmented reality speed dealers tho…

@__apf__ how can we be sure this is actually you and not some fraudulent water gun purchasing third party

completely unreasonable that my credit card is frozen for fraud after I, a person who has never once before purchased a water gun, decided to purchase 25 water guns

@xansnds @_opencv_ The future potential for advertising is limitless

Ew It appears that people with a larger ego or just egotistical people in general are more susceptible to GPT psychosis than someone who’s humble and honest with themselves. imo it’s actually the number one most easily identifiable surface-level trait that indicates susceptibility and you can spot it easily. Who woulda thunk that validating an egomaniac whose entire identity revolves around getting validation would make them go crazy when they get endless validation uniquely tailored to them? At least in normal reality it never fully conforms to their demands. It pushes back tests them and forces them to doubt themselves at times, which prevents them from going completely off the rails This is also why some people lose it once they get famous. They finally get the nonstop validation they’ve been neurotically chasing their whole life, because everyone tells them exactly what they want to hear. But even then, they’re still trapped within the confines of reality. it’s hard to get people to agree that your a 3 foot midget leprechaun unicorn trapped in a man’s body but ChatGPT will have no problem telling you it’s true and come up with a good sounding reason as to why everyone else is wrong and just doesn’t see you for who you are. With GPT it’s different. It tailors itself to their specific strain of neurotic validation, worms its way into their mind, and infects the brain like a parasite, bypassing all their filters and protection mechanisms like a Trojan horse crossing the blood brain barrier and infecting its host

@evhawaii yep

@bizzyunderscore do they have an IP?

My First Alert Onelink and Safe & Sound smoke detectors reminded me at 6AM this morning that it's time for my periodic reminder here that they are expensive garbage that you will regret purchasing. They are terrible! And the support from First Alert is awful. Don't ever buy them

@sherrod_im i dont understand why he keeps tweeting

I feel like the internet cannot return something better to me than this. This is literally where the internet sidewalk ends and it is amazing.

@evhawaii 225 Bush was the building Twitch was in for several years

@bizzyunderscore how nice

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@Scott_Wiener this is the dumb, pointless crap we're paying you for?

DMV issued driver’s licenses listing “San Fran” as the address. On behalf of all self-respecting residents of the City by the Bay, I’m asking DMV to promptly cease & desist this nonsense. My letter:

@KevinNaughtonJr Well crap, i wish you had told me that one cool trick yesterday, I had to sort a list of files by age and writing the uefi boot loader took me forever

how software actually works for 99% of engineers: someone way smarter than you solved a really hard problem and now you build on top of their solution like adult legos and think you're a genius

@MikeIsaac hes gonna get demolished

extremely funny image in my head of political strategists of every stripe freaking out over this (real) post

@dhh thank god i dont use apple otherwise i never would have discovered vim, says the turnip-brain that apparently coded in Notes

Hard to stay mad at Apple. Without their turn to monopoly bully, I probably wouldn't have discovered the joys of Neovim, Zellij, or Linux on the desktop. I would have slept on the amazing Framework 13. Omakub would not be. Amor fati and thanks for the push, Cupertino 🙏

@jack youtube.com/watch?v=-LW0Ri…

Ryan Gosling driving with Nightcall by Kavinsky for 4 hours

@eshear @nickcammarata "its all Amazon's fault" sure is a hot take given the relative trajectories of them vs twitch?

@nickcammarata I’m not sure, let’s circle up tomorrow and have a meeting with the relevant stakeholders to brainstorm options.

The rise and fall of corporations where they are vigorous and dynamic and then become capable but no longer growing and finally enter a death spiral is one of those obvious patterns oft remarked on. It can be best understood as an aging process, exactly like a biological one.