Blair Drummond

Blair Drummond

@blair-drummond.bsky.social

Kubernetes & IAM nerd in Montréal 🇨🇦

149 Followers 308 Following 21 Posts Joined Jan 2025
3 weeks ago

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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Welcome!!!!! 🍁🏒🥞

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This is awesome. One thing I haven’t tried but might be possible, instead of using non-expiring Tailscale keys, you might be able to have your TPM mint a JWT and use that as a federated credential with tailscale. Probably depends on how old your laptop is whether or not it has a TPM

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

🧵

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If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

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2 months ago
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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2 months ago

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.

When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

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No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About? Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...

Once again.

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There is useful inspiration for approaches here from TPMs (Trusted Platform Modules). Not a privacy expert but I think the capabilities are provided by TPMs for the key holder to choose to attest the hardware class, or to self-identify as a specific device. Snippet here from a free book on TPM 2.0

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2 months ago
Link in the twisted hallway from the Forest Temple in Zelda: Ocarina of Time

This seems familiar…

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3 months ago
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i've made so many good posts in my life, why is this four and a half year old tweet the one still popping up on facebook content farms all the time

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3 months ago
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0 A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

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3 months ago
George Stephen House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada c.1881

George Stephen House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada c.1881

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3 months ago

I once ordered 2kg of smoked meat, and received Indian food instead. I cannot imagine the disappointment and confusion of whoever got the other end of that mix-up

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Apple Siri App Privacy Violation Canadian Class Action | Consumer Law Group Class Actions Canada CONSUMER LAW GROUP has filed a Canada wide class action lawsuit excluding Quebec against Apple Inc and Apple Canada Inc for surreptitiously recordin

Any Canadians onboard for a class action suit? Have you used Siri? clg.org/Class-Action...

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3 months ago
my hand holding a huge 24.5 fl oz can of graza olive oil. the can has a tab top lid exactly like a can of seltzer

fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought

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Kraft Original Mac & Cheese Mac Friday 65" Box, 65 Count of 7.5 oz Boxes goes up on Walmart exclusive in 60 minutes (9 PM PT - $19.37) buff.ly/zdUIMSg #ad

-65" TV-sized box
-65 boxes of Mac n Cheese
-4K Noodles

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Tom Forsyth (@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place) Attached: 1 image Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I sha...

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2".

I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

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4 months ago
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

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🚨🗞Yesterday, FINTRAC fined a crypto exchange $177 million -- the largest fine ever in Canadian history (by a LOT). But more importantly, there are significant geopolitical implications of the Cryptomus story:

newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/the-177-mi...

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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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4 months ago
Chicago Union station to Montreal is 46 hours

This is a policy failure for US and Canada. I would love to take the train to Montreal but it is 30x slower than flying.

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Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰
This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem.
Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?"

There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant. Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence. Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence. The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

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Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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i want this video to be my ringtone

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