Chris

@chrisvest
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Computer at lifestyle company in Cupertino.
So much #netty, #java, #database, and #tls

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GitHubhttps://github.com/chrisvest
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Consistently, Anthropic’s marketing strategy is fear mongering. Fear of “foreign” models, fear of open models, fear of other companies privacy invading monetization strategies, fear of Mythos’ infosec capabilities, and now fear of AGI.

If Quarkus is faster than Spring, why do you see no difference in throughput between them when you benchmark? Turns out you might be measuring the performance of an unrelated network proxy.

https://redhatperf.github.io/post/hidden-cost-rootless-container-networking/

Why isn't Quarkus 2x faster than Spring on my machine?

Our perf-lab shows Quarkus 2x faster than Spring, but a community member only sees 1.19x locally. The culprit: a userspace TCP proxy hidden inside rootless podman.

Red Hat App Services Performance Team

I got annoyed that "brain power" as a term isn't used with its proper unit: the watt. So I found this 2009 paper on cerebral metabolic rate of ATP in live feline brains (https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/09MProceedings/PDFfiles/03290.pdf) which measured 6.5±1.2 μmol/g/min. Using that with hand-wavy correction for anesthesia, I finally got the number I wanted:

A cat's brain power is ~0.2 W.

Sit with this for a second: If the White House had its way, all the immigrants in this country would be dead -- at least on paper. WaPo reports that the Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts. The plan reportedly fell apart after pushback from Social Security Administration employees who were tasked with implementing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/

Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.

The Washington Post

BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS: Reuters | SpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules

THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY FOR INVESTORS AND YOUR RETIREMENT

"S&P Global said on Thursday it ​was not changing the requirements for entry into its major indices, dealing a setback to Elon Musk's SpaceX by ‌effectively ruling out a swift entry for the world's biggest-ever IPO into the benchmark S&P 500 index."

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/sp-global-keeps-fast-entry-proposal-unchanged-spacex-listing-looms-2026-06-04/

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#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

Let's Encrypt target late 2026 for staging support for Post-Quantum Merkle Tree Certificates, with prod roll-out in 2027: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post is about these plans and why we believe MTCs are worth pursuing as a key to a post-quantum future. An increasingly urgent problem For much of the last several years, the conversation about post-quantum cryptography has been a conversation about encryption. The reasoning was straightforward: an attacker who records encrypted traffic today might be able to decrypt it years from now once quantum computers can break the underlying math. Authentication, the part of TLS that indicates a server is who it says it is, has been a less urgent problem. A quantum computer needs to forge a signature in real time, not retroactively, so threats to authentication hinge on the existence of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC).

“Trump’s core political promise was that deportations would open up jobs for American workers. But we found the opposite: Employment among U.S.-born workers also declined in areas with heightened ICE activity. And employers didn’t respond by raising wages to attract more Americans to their workplace. Their demand for workers contracted instead.”
https://theconversation.com/when-ice-ramped-up-enforcement-us-born-workers-didnt-see-any-economic-gains-283011
#trump #us #usa #capitalism #xenophoby #ice #workers #workingclass #internationalism #employment
When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn’t see any economic gains

Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.

The Conversation
Intrigued by Zig for its fast compilation, C interop, small binaries, and cross compilation story. How is it working out in practice for people?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/116686083001528980

Mad Max looks different in real life

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116682616422398554

I think what bugs me about this is:

  • They don't care.
  • It's clearly intentional.
  • We all know nothing will change.