By day, I work in SharePoint/Power Platform development.
For fun, I enjoy fiddling with my #aquarium, riding my #ebike, tinkering around with #HomeAssistant, playing #Factorio, going to #MetalShows, #Grilling, and reading about spaceships fighting.
We have five cats, which are henceforth referred to as The Goblins.
📍 Richmond, VA, US
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Why are there birds loudly chirping at 2:41 am? 😑
That is def an unapproved night noise.
Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs as the US technology company seeks to reassure investors that its bet on AI infrastructure will pay off.
🔗 US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending | Oracle | The Guardian
I genuinely believe that these tech companies are making these types of choices purely because of the stock market. Layoffs make their stock prices go up because of a perception of improved productivity.
Yes, I think we can all agree that the US has become a less predictable partner when it comes to NATO and defense. It seems obvious to me that European countries need to pool their resources and work together to build their own capabilities.
I didn't realize how fractured European politics are though. To my US-centered brain, it's a bit like California and Texas trying to work together to do... pretty much anything. It just wouldn't work, and yet that's roughly the challenge facing Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Poland, and the rest.
The numbers tell the story: among just the top 10 European economies, there are 5 different main battle tanks in service. Seems like there would be some easy wins from an economy of scale perspective. Ditty pretty much all the big expensive things that militaries want. Jets, missiles, artillery systems, air defense systems.
So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but tar + ssh can definitely accomodate the use case of “transmit all of these files over an SSH connection to another host”.
🔗 tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync
This is such a silly stance IMO. Purity culture anyone? Are people like Drew going to continue to reduce their list of acceptable software until they’re forced to not us any software because an LLM was used in the pipeline somewhere? Dumb.
Early this morning, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code npm package—but it was quickly discovered that package included a source map file, which could be used to access the entirety of Claude Code's source—almost 2,000 TypeScript files and more than 512,000 lines of code.
🔗 Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file - Ars Technica
Oops!
OkCupid and its owner Match Group reached a settlement with the Trump administration for not telling dating-app customers that nearly 3 million user photos were shared with a company making a facial recognition system. OkCupid also gave the facial recognition firm access to user location information and other details without customers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.
🔗 OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Ars Technica
Grrr these damn people make me so mad.
