Paul Hoffman

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Old Skool Internet geek, particularly DNS. Pronouns: us/y’all.
In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.
Python: how I import the datetime module - Adam Johnson

Python’s datetime module risks a whole bunch of name confusion:

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."

I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

@javi Firefox has become the John Fetterman of browsers.
OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble 

they're so close

#PredictionMarkets #Coinbase

Not now. Hotel California's on the radio and I'm singing the guitar solo.
Maybe we should just not name things for men.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116218475028046070

"Absolutely no one should use nuget", a strong statement that is fully supported by the rest of the short article. @msftsecurity take note.

Y'all know why casinos use chips instead of cash right? Using "tokens" as your new made-up currency has the same effect of removing the psychological barrier of spending money.

So when AI companies bill you by different types of tokens using astronomical conversion factors, remember that the goal is obfuscation.