This is dumb. Amazon Audible lets parents share audiobooks with children in their household, but only until they turn 13. Then they can't access them until they turn 18. Excuse me while I go find my pirate flag.

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

Words to live by. RIP.

Oh my. Kevin Mitnick has died. "Kevin David Mitnick, 59, died peacefully on Sunday, July 16, 2023, after valiantly battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year." dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las…

Well, that makes the decision easier, I know what I'm putting on the garden. #itswhatplantscrave

When in NOLA post-Tales, time to hit Preservation Hall for a show!

Reid’s blog post on what sucks about SOC2 is the hardest thing i’ve read in a while medium.com/@reid.huyssen/…

Fixed it.

Today in Florida news.. yahoo.com/news/florida-m…

How do you make people join radical movements? Perhaps the best answer comes from Dostoevsky's forgotten masterpiece, Demons Sentenced to death for conspiracy, he knew the lure of radicalism—and saw the madness to come 28 insights on how brainwashing really works:

I was today years old when I learned that MacOS has a built in speed test application that you can access by simply typing “networkquality” into a terminal window.

TLDR: He doesn't want their help because he's already made (apparently exclusive) deals with two other groups who are working on cracking the drive and wants to give them more time. Still, it seems that it's only a matter of time before he has his money back.

I always knew that I'd look hip and trendy one day..

Sam Altman is out at OpenAI, this seem to be the most convincing theory so far.

Sitting in a restaurant with my laptop and fighting the urge to ask the manager if I can reconfigure his wireless network for him. One single AP for a large restaurant with brick walls.. that also supports their POS and some of their TVs. I think I'll just have another beer.

This is quite a paper on the failures of IT security (and system design) in healthcare. It makes me very happy that I'm not working in healthcare but it's also going to make me more nervous the next time I'm at the hospital. ferd.ca/notes/paper-yo…

Every so often, a song will come up while listening to random songs that (at least in the title) sums up my current state of mind. That's happening right now.

I got a popup this morning saying that Twitter needed to be sure I wasn't a robot and needed to interact with my feed more if I wanted to send DMs or have my posts seen. They must be pretty desperate for engagement in the face of Threads and Bluesky.

Dear Realtors: Please stop it with the augmented reality home interior photos. They're terrible and make me want to go look at another listing.