2025-11-23 21:42:03
from my link log —
What now? Handling errors in large systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/20/what-now.html
saved 2025-11-23 https://
from my link log —
What now? Handling errors in large systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/20/what-now.html
saved 2025-11-23 https://
Chart of the week: What did Ukrainians search online in 2025?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/chart-of-the-week-what.html
Not sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
NFL Week 12 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-12-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games
The SEC's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO, Tim Brown, was met with immediate and widespread joy across the cybersecurity leadership community.
But experts say CISOs should start shoring up their internal defenses in case the policy or legal winds shift again.
Check out my latest CSO piece on what the decision means for CISOs. Many thanks to Joe Sullivan, Gadi Evron, Diana Kelley and Cara Peterman for their insights.
What CISOs should know…
Elon Musk is having a very bad week.
The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.
Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—th…
💨 What has gone wrong at Zipcar – and is UK car-sharing market dead?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/04/what-has-gone-wrong-at-zipcar-and-is-uk-car-sharing-market-dead
Is that legal, posing as different police? In Minneapolis right now, what is legal and what is illegal is just a sort of amusing abstract question, about as useful as asking “If you could breed a chicken with an octopus, would its eggs have shells?” — except suffused with a kind of grim, exhausted anger.
The law is something that people argue about on TV and on social media. It has so little relationship to what happens on the ground, it’s just hardly even relevant.
What Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Has in Store Next https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-ashton-jeanty-has-next-
Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued
What Defensive Scheme Will Cowboys Run Under New DC Christian Parker? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/what-defensive-scheme-will-cowboys-run-under-new-dc-christian-parker
What to Know About the Nearly 10% Climb in a Key Medicare Expense for 2026 (Mark Miller/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/what-to-know-about-the-nearly-10-climb-in-a-key-medicare-expense-for-2026.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p35#a251122p35
The Right Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Zohran Mamdani https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-democratic-socialism-trump-conservatives/
Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and…
In case you were curious how the #SocialMediaBan is progressing: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/australia-social-media-ba…
What is a Passkey?
Passkey pop up everywhere, Mike Pound explains what they are!
— "If I set my Passkeys on.my laptop how I can use it on my phone?"
— "You can't!"
🔑 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfiOnufBSk
"The only way to deal with rapists is to put a gun to their head. The United States is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today. Preserving freedom and democracy is worth paying any price. It is not subject to deals."
https://www.
“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…
Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader.
JENNA: Well, I hope Blake appreciates this.
BLAKE: Renounce. Renounce.
ORAC: Renounce what? Tell us what.
BLAKE: Freedom. Freedom Party.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/127
Scientists Got Men to Rate Penises by How Intimidating They Are. This Is What They Found. https://www.404media.co/scientists-got-men-to-rate-penises-by-how-intimidating-they-are-this-is-what-they-found/
Concise and useful overview of the Russian occupation of Ukrainian land:
"What is the Donbas, the piece of Ukrainian land that Putin wants so badly?"
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/world/ukraine-donbas-region-explained-intl
"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research
What the heck are the flowers doing in the title sequence? Very "cherry blossoms" but not cherry blossoms but what is going on there.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Dream Syndicate:
🎵 That's What You Always Say
#TheDreamSyndicate
https://thedreamsyndicate.bandcamp.com/track/thats-what-you-always-say-down-there-ep-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jgfLVXTBxufrbccakHQi1
Huh, that's weird.
Watching a documentary set in a hospital ER and they're blurring some obvious things - patient names, computer screens not relevant to what's going on, faces of people without a media release, more graphic injuries, etc.
But they also blurred a *clock* in the background of one scene. I have to wonder what the story there is. Just a big 7-segment LED clock on the wall of one of the trauma bays.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115599035878316402
"Mastodon-ish instances". Wait, what? 👀👀👀
For decades now, the traditional telcos keep trying to find ways to get newer companies to pay them... whether it is dressed up as " #FairShare " or #NetworkFees or "dispute resolution" or whatever... in the end they are flawed ideas that are solutions trying to find proble…
8yo: "Hey dad?"
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of black hole is an ultra massive black hole, right?"
me: ...
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of.."
me: "no, I heard you. I don't know."
8yo: "How do you NOT KNOW??"
me: "I'm not an astronomer!"
8yo: "I'M A JUST CHILD AND I KNOW"
I can see it as a conversation starter, and what's bad about that?
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/23/maga-meltdown-pink-sweater-men-masculinity-fragile
"What will be the condition of the world our children inherit? What will we feed them if we destroy the ecosystems on which agriculture depends? In short, we can’t nurture healthy people on a sick planet."
—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, in her piece in the new issue of the YDS journal Reflections
I hate the ugliness of American English.
Why do they use the term 'douchebag'? Is that what I call a toilet bag, and if so, what is the sense of it as an insult?
However I also assumed the horrible 'dude' (Yankee for 'bloke') was a newish invention, but came across it recently in a C19th novel, Dickens 'Our Mutual Friend' (wonderful book) if I remember rightly.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Joey Ramone:
🎵 What A Wonderful World
#NowPlaying #JoeyRamone
https://living-room.bandcamp.com/track/the-transplants-diamond-and-guns-joey-ramone-what-a-wonderful-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Kgz8aGqtXJFyihsSuNAWO
Hey #OpenStreetMap contributor! Do you sometimes feel the urge to look back at what you have done today? Or during your vacation? Or not just you, but a group of friends joining you on a #mapwalk?
#whatdidyoudo
why did the gas company take $480
what the fuck
what's fucking happening
Niners-Colts on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 48-27 win https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-colts-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-48-27-win
What 60 Minutes won't show, ProPublica will
#CECOT
Executive presence is not about how you stand or what you wear.
It comes from four qualities you build from the inside out: care, clarity, curiosity, and courage.
The leaders who inspire others stop performing and start living these qualities.
What would change if you focused on these instead of trying to project confidence?
Read more: [link]
“How can one mutation cause such different effects?”
Pera explained. “It comes down to genetic background.
Each strain has a unique genetic makeup that can either protect against or magnify the impact of that mutation.”
To confirm these findings in living organisms, Pera introduced the same mutations into live mice from the same eight strains.
Remarkably, the neurons in the brains of these mice phenotypically matched what he had seen in the petri dish,
providin…
I was confused who is Josh O'Connor and why this guy popped up on SNL, until I finally watched Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 😀 What a role. What a presence all of these actors have in this flick. The best in the series so far.
Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Chargers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-chargers
Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.
from my link log —
What now? Handling errors in large systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/20/what-now.html
saved 2025-11-23 https://
"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.
New ICE policy allows officers to enter homes without a judge's warrant. Here's what experts say (Michael Williams/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/ice-memo-warrantless-entry-what-we-know
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p80#a260123p80
The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆
What We’ve Learned Covering NATO’s Eastern Flank for Nine Months: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/what-weve-learned-covering-natos.html
Neither law nor order is anywhere in sight.
The only things that matter right now are what we can do, and what they think they can get away with. That’s our entire reality.
Vikings-Chargers on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Los Angeles' 37-10 win https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-chargers-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-los-angeles-37-10-win
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
SOOLIN: Why don't we wait in the Pursers Office?
TARRANT: What a good idea! [They enter the Pursers Office and check the monitor screen.] Any minute now.
[Entering the Space Princess hold.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/267 B7B4
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/impersonators-are-targeting-companies-with-fake-techcrunch-outreach/
“A growing number of scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretend…
Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Chargers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-chargers
The TikTok Deal Is Done - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-deal-finalized-what-changes-ownership-2026-1
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Two Door Cinema Club:
🎵 What you Know
#NowPlaying #TwoDoorCinemaClub
https://slimburn510.bandcamp.com/track/two-door-cinema-club-what-you-know-slimburn-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JHg4nNYUJQ5HULcCmI18R
Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action; here's what we can do about it #fossilfuel
Jets' Aaron Glenn preaches patience to fans: 'We know exactly what we're doing' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-aaron-glenn-preaches-patience-to-fans-we-know-exactly-what-we-re-doing
Rob Gaskell of Sundial is presenting on a layer two protocol designed to enable bitcoin to generate yield.
Most bitcoin is still, in long term hodl. Not helping anyone.
Sure, you could lend your bitcoin for interest but that would count as a tax event and also involve losing custody.
What if a programmable sidechain to help with scaling, allow borrowing and lending and products retail and institutions like?
His solution is called Sundial and doesn't need new protocol changes or forks.
Hard to say what it actually does though? Presumably something like liquidity in sidechains? Didn't really seem to get what he actually is building. 🤷
#bitfest #bitcoin
Hey, guess what?
I just saw the first Small Web site (the Kitten Chat example¹ from Kitten²) running at a Web Number³:
https://91.98.66.193/
👉 Update: I’m shutting it down in a few moments so it might not be there when you try it :)
Come say hi (I don’t know how long I’ll keep it on for, will update this when I turn it off.)
🥳
PS. This is only in the ip-address-support branch of Kitten right now and should be considered experimental. Will likely make it in…
Half the street corners around Minneapolis have people
— from every walk of life, including republicans
— standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles,
which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that
tracks ICE vehicles
and mobilizes responders.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years.
I have never seen anything approaching this scale.
Minneapolis is not accepting what’s happening here.
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: Perhaps that creature drove the people away.
COSER: I doubt it. Raw materials ran out more like.
RASHEL: Perhaps that was the only one.
COSER: Perhaps, perhaps! Just get on with it, will you?!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/397 B7B3<…
Impact: A deep dive into Christian Parker's history, what he can bring to Cowboys as DC https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/impact-a-deep-dive-into-christian-parker-s-history-what-he-can-bring-to-cowboys-as-dc
What the Raiders' Clash With the Browns Really Means https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-clash-with-browns-really-means
from my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…
What have we learned about child poverty in America? (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-we-learned-about-child
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p37#a251222p37
Thirty years later, the Cowboys still chase what once came easy https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/thirty-years-later-cowboys-still-chase-what-once-came-easy/90dea6526f3056904b671e74
Rams vs. Seahawks odds: How to bet NFC Championship Game, what to know about each team
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-vs-seahawks-odds-ho…
What the Raiders' Coaching Staff Needs From Young Roster https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-coaching-staff-needs-from-young-roster
What English translations miss about Bulgakov — and why it matters in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/what-english-translations-miss-about.html
There is a push to allow car traffic back on the Santa Barbara
State Street Promenade.
Now is our chance to stop it!
Send in a public comment now!
What do you enjoy most about the Car-Free State Street Promenade
https://www.strongtownssb.org/initiatives/state…
from my link log —
Think you can’t interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? What about Qemu?
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/think-you-cant-interpose-static-binaries-with-ld_preload-think-again/
saved 2025-11-21
What the Raiders' Performance vs. Texans Meant for Pete Carroll https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-performance-texans-meant-pete-carroll
Unprovoked attacks from wildlife may be rare,
but that's never an excuse to do what one unidentified man did back in October in Yellowstone National Park.
Photographer Keith Allen Kerbs captured a chilling moment when
a man approached a pack of five wolves, while onlookers looked on in horror.
The video, which went viral in November, shows the man coming within a few feet of one of the wolves before spraying them with what appears to be bear spray.
The tense …
Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
ARLEN: I won it in a lottery. What do you care?
BLAKE: I don't, so long as it wasn't issued to you.
ARLEN: It's Federation.
BLAKE: That's what I mean.
ARLEN: Do I look like one of theirs?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/40…
What happened to Marquette King? Raiders punter reveals why he believes he was blackballed from NFL https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/what-happened-marquette-king-ra…
What went wrong for Keon Coleman in Buffalo? What's next for the Bills at WR? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994412/2026/01/23/nfl-bills-draft-keon-coleman-wr/
Kav: Let's talk about the real world downstream consequences.
Wouldn't all the Trump appointees be immediately removed for cause by the next Dem president if we set this precedent you want?
What are we doing man?
Sauer: I can't predict what could happen
Kav: Come on, man, we all know
https://
Drake Maye aims to do what Tom Brady couldn't with the Patriots: win a playoff game in Denver https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/drake-maye-aims-to-do-what-tom-brady-couldnt-with-the-patriots-win-a-playoff-g…
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: What makes you think that?
SERVALAN: I was hiding over there. I heard every word.
AVON: I see. Go on. [Hands the glass to Servalan]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/351 B7B6
What’s Next? George Pickens headlines WR concerns https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/what-s-next-george-pickens-headlines-wr-concerns
Shedeur Sanders' first NFL start: What should we expect from Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback? https://www.nfl.com/news/shedeur-sanders-first-nfl-start-what-should-we-expect-from-cleveland-browns-rookie-quarterback
What’s Next? George Pickens headlines WR concerns https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/what-s-next-george-pickens-headlines-wr-concerns
Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Right, out.
SLAVE: I'm sorry to bother you, sir.
TARRANT: Yes, what is it?
SLAVE: I had detected federation pursuit ships.
TARRANT: Dayna, respond please. Dayna, can you hear me?. Slave, check for malfunction.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/8
What’s Next? Javonte Williams and the RB equation in Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/what-s-next-javonte-williams-and-the-rb-equation-in-dallas
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
AVON: And on living matter it never worked. Put a living creature into one end, take a dead creature out of the other, or nothing at all.
JENNA: So you think that is what all this is for? Matter transmission?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/142 B7B…
What if the NFL had a transfer portal? Ranking 10 players who would benefit most in 2026
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-transfer-portal-ranking-players-benefit/
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Say goodbye to one bolt hole.
BLAKE: That's not funny, Avon.
AVON: It wasn't meant to be.
ZEN: Pursuit ships are turning.
BLAKE: You know what to do.
AVON: Zen, increase speed to Standard by Eight.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/581
What They're Saying: Cleveland Browns have all eyes on Brock Bowers https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-cleveland-browns-have-all-eyes-on-brock-bowers-nfl-week-12
What is it about Sean McVay that has the Rams on the cusp of another Super Bowl? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6990881/2026/01/23/sean-mcvay-rams-super-bowl-playoffs-nfc-championship/
What They're Saying: Cleveland Browns have all eyes on Brock Bowers https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-cleveland-browns-have-all-eyes-on-brock-bowers-nfl-week-12
What to know as Browns QB Shedeur Sanders makes his first NFL start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6827519/2025/11/23/shedeur-sanders-starting-browns-raiders-nfl/
What I'm hearing about Brandon Aiyuk, Joe Burrow's status and Shedeur Sanders' first start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6828031/2025/11/22/nfl-rumors-news-joe-burrow-brandon-aiyuk-shedeur-sanders/
What we learned in NFL Week 16: Time to take Jaguars seriously, here come the Bears https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6909980/2025/12/22/nfl-week-16-takeaways-jaguars-liam-coen-trevor-lawrence/