Lol, Linkedin didn't like me posting photos from today's anti-trump, anti-ICE protests. 'Cause, you know, gotta keep it professional when the goons shoot citizens and snatch your neighbors from the streets. Good job, Linkedin. May I recommend selling Hollerith punch cards next?

(Yes, yes, I'm aware that of course MS sells all sorts of services to ICE. They all do. 🤮)

Everybody walking past Trump Tower be like…

#fuckICE #iceoutforgood #fucktrump

Quotable as ever, here's @nprofile1q... on code as liability and that having AI produce more code faster is simply tech debt at scale:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

"The longer a computer system has been running, the more tech debt it represents. The more important the system is, the harder it is to bring down and completely redo."

"Writing code that works, without consideration of how it will fail, is a recipe for catastrophe. It is a way to create tech debt at scale."

Completely different topic, so ripping this quote out of the context from the article I just boosted:

"I wonder how much Venezuelan sensitive information was in fact stored on Google/Microsoft services and accessed by the US military to prepare their recent strike."

This is indeed a pretty interesting question to ponder. And if you're, say, Greenland, maybe consider your use of US cloud services...

'Twas the night of the moratorium, and all through the cloud
not a pager was beeping: no deploys were allowed.
The packages frozen on the servers with care,
In hopes that an outage would strike nowhere;

The developers still pondering code to embed,
While visions of monads danced in their heads.
The VM put to sleep, and I in this app,
Had just settled down for a long masto thread,

I finally jotted down a table of in how far the big three browsers currently support RFC9460 HTTPS records.

In summary:
- All browsers support ALPN
- Safari has the best support; it's the only browser that supports AliasMode, but Safari doesn't support ECH
- Firefox requires DoH, but then supports several parameters
- Chrome only support ALPN and ECH

See this page for details, I may update it in the future:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/https-caniuse.html

#dns

Here's another funny generational divide: students no longer understand public_html directories and /~user/ URLs because apparently nowadays shared fileserver access is no longer a thing.

Smh, fist, yells at cloud.

Oof, this hits hard.

"AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Choice quotes:

"The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."

"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience. Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively."

So many more spot-on observations. It's long. Actually read it, don't have AI summarize it for you.