My privacy story was in the NYT today: “Rob Leathern, a tech executive in Texas, was surprised last year when he got an email from Toyota saying he could get “big savings” from Progressive because he’d been identified as a safe driver, based on information collected from his

Bon. No wait, bon-kers.

It was hard to get my own driving data, so here's a partial sample of what they sent me (& you'd be sharing with insurance). A 2-page PDF "report" & an Excel file with 962 lines of second-by-second event data in 6 tabs w/ detailed Lat/Long for *every single event*

From the archives - at Strangeloop (RIP!) in 2017, @[email protected] gave a terrific talk about the internals of our storage engine. youtube.com/watch?v=tr2Kce… This talk shows how we are able to deliver complex sub-second queries over vast data volumes in real time.

And of course, it goes without saying, it has to be schemaless and handle any and every data type and structure, including as much high cardinality as you can throw its way. If you're a data nerd and you want to understand how this is done, I recommend: honeycomb.io/blog/why-obser…

That's one of two long-form pieces by Alex Vondrak -- this being the other: honeycomb.io/blog/time-seri… -- which together provide a clear, grounded overview of how databases work. Both are fascinating and incredibly accessible -- if you haven't read them, PTAL. ☺️

The best part of my job is talking to rad people about their career and geeking out. This is one of my favorite episodes with CTO of Honeycomb.io System Status Updates, Charity Majors about her career, the future of observability, and the early days of a startup. spot.io/podcast/cloud-…

Interesting

Dear Platforms: Stored blind XSS is NOT social engineering

Has anyone in my network deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 and users feel they're getting $30/mo value from it?

Please make this happen. I would love nothing more than to have an image parser run during a bugcheck

This is what it looks and sounds like when your child breaks the world record at the Olympics. This is shot live from my perspective.

Everyone: Telegram is encrypted. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app <CEO gets arrested> News: Telegram is an encrypted messaging app. Experts: Telegram IS NOT an encrypted messaging app.

This.

Got to connect with Rachel Tobac on some of the latest AI deepfake news about Taylor Swift. Rachel is one of the top experts in all things social engineering and we decided to start recording our side chats for you all.

Kinda wild that this "AI coding assistant" that creates GitHub PRs according to changes I request was almost entirely written by me prompting ChatGPT. About 700 lines of code, and really just two evenings performing iterated prompting & some cut/paste & some minor edits.

Goals

This one came directly for me this morning. Cc PunkAB