Sean Gillies

@sgillies
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(b. 1969, he/him) Is it dinner time yet? Until then: trail #running, #gardening, #chickens, #python, music, progressive politics, eating the rich, dad jokes, spatial data infrastructure, software, and systems. Made in Utah, living in Colorado. Wannabe European.
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Which billionaire (or trillionaire) will be the first with a personal nuclear arsenal? Billionaire heads of state excluded.
Elon Musk
Larry Ellison
Jeff Bezos
Other
Poll ends at .

These 500 Songs episodes about the Who are so good. There was so much going on in this moment. For example, Led Zeppelin might have launched with John Entwhistle and Keith Moon instead of John Paul Jones and John Bonham. And I had no idea that Pete Townsend was working out his gender and sexual identity through his music at this time.

https://500songs.com/podcast/song-183-pinball-wizard-by-the-who-part-2-led-by-his-disciples/

Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by the Who, Part 2: “Led By His Disciples”

Apologies for the delay in posting this episode — health issues have continued to affect me. They *seem* to be improving, but I should also mention here that some of the guitar demonstrations in th…

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

Anyone who thinks hash pinning is a solution for supply chain attacks should look at what happened to #AquaSecurity’s #Trivy: pinning the hash was arguably key to the attack succeeding by making the payload blend in, with a hefty assist from the design flaw in #GitHub allowing commits to be referenced through a repo which doesn’t contain them.

Immutable tags are becoming table stakes.

https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GHSA-69fq-xp46-6x23

#GitHubActions

Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised

## Summary On March 19, 2026, a threat actor used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.4 release, force-push 76 of 77 version tags in `aquasecurity/trivy-action` to credent...

GitHub
Despite the recent frost at my tree's most vulnerable moment, we have wee baby apricots on every branch. Roughly 15% survival.
What's the ICE budget for steroids? Or are personnel supposed to procure their own? Look at the absurdly juiced dudes in some of these photos. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/photos-airline-travelers-encounter-armed-ice-agents-at-airports-across-the-country
PHOTOS: Airline Travelers Encounter Armed ICE Agents at Airports Across the Country

Airline travelers across the country were greeted with the sight of armed...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
#COwx #BOU
Record heat will return to northeast and north central Colorado tomorrow and Wednesday. In fact, high temperatures by Wednesday will be nearing the all time March heat records that we just broke last week!
I recently heard someone say that in the era of commodity code and competence, "velocity is the moat". Wild. In the best case, we're talking about burning people out, no? In the worst case, what is the difference between this and grifting?

Copilot is a colossal failure. That button on PC keyboards is a tombstone.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html

Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why

Nadella just reshuffled his entire AI leadership. Here's what that means for your portfolio.

Yahoo Finance
Good news. I think I've solved my chicken's teleportation problem.

On the positive side, if you want to abolish ICE, I can’t think of a more efficient way to make that happen than forcing the business travel class to interact with ICE agents on a regular basis

#USPol