Are y'all following Mat Duggan? Cause you should totally be following @matdevdug

He wrote this and it made me laugh out loud. Granted, I'm an easy target for a geeky laugh, but still...so are most of you. That's just one of the reasons I love you.

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

chatting with a friend about how Iran carefully targeted AWS in *all three geographically separated AZs* to take out a whole region, and i wrote:

did a whole redundancy plan for BMJ for a coupla months. It was pretty good! We got as far as multi-AZ. I sketched out plans for multi-region (which is not really different as long as you're inside AWS structurally, tho byte charges across regions will kill you) and discovered that ~nobody *actually* does multi-cloud yet, they're too different once you get beyond "we need terraformable Ubuntu boxes" or "we need k8s with a pile of arbitrary Docker images".

that I have 25 years in sysadmin and can write all that having actually done all that and *still* can't find a new job in tech tells you a bit about the state of tech employment right now

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Sharing a post I read:

📑 A Max Headroom in Every Terminal!

More people than ever are spending more time than ever jacked into their computer terminal - DON'T YOU WORRY WHY - so there has never been a better time to introduce... a Max Headroom in every termin…

https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-01

#postroll

After laying off 30,000 corporate employees over the past six months, Amazon has realized the AI replacing jobs narrative is bad optics.

I expect to see more active counter positioning against AI as a job killer as opposition to datacenters and AI adoption increases.

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"Onebit" colouring scheme.