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Eliot Lear

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Internet engineer, and Independent Submissions Editor for the RFC Series [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@eliotlear on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Latest posts by eliotlear.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on Bluesky

@SteveBellovin Does it have to be THIS Supreme Court?

27.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh dear. I do seem to have sprinkled AI pixie dust on myself at work. Does anyone know how to get it off?

23.09.2025 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@Drbruced Congratulations!

15.06.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In an era where freedom of speech is under attack, I'd like to take this opportunity to suggest a quota on use of all CAPS words.

16.04.2025 12:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@Edent Sorry! I replied to the wrong article!

14.04.2025 08:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on federate.social

Unfortunately, I have to say this again:

US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny.

Shortly after the […]

10.04.2025 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 0
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Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

I did nazi that coming.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-nazis-treated-jewish-143613005.html

08.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Trump introduces 25% tariff on all CSV imports

Trump introduces 25% tariff on all CSV imports

06.04.2025 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on mastodon.social

Well, having panned Microsoft Azure, I can now add Google to the "you suck" category as well. Having provisioned a 0.25 VPU device, I realized I was being charged for 2VPUs. 4x. Because I'm still in the trial period, I can't get any assistance. Bad news Google: we won't be together past the […]

12.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The administration speculating on digital currencies has two pernicious effects: it props up currencies that are primarily practically used for illicit transaction (like murder for hire), and it interferes with the Fed's ability to manage monetary policy. Discuss.

03.03.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@peterhoneyman How does anyone install anything with the name of "Crowdstrike" after last summer?!

27.02.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@erininthemorning.com from a "president" who understands none of those qualities.

27.02.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on mastodon.social

You never quite know how bad something is until you try it. I logged into Microsoft Azure to try their "free" subscription, and ended up tied to a decades old government account that I briefly used to access five documents. There was no way to detach from this account without discarding my […]

27.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every time someone proposes a new DNS application, this is what runs through my head...

( @jpmens @paul_ipv6 @paulehoffman )

06.02.2025 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ultimate debugging message you want to see when prototyping: “Holy Shit! It worked!”

04.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@Nonilex "Do what I want or I'll poke myself in the eye!!" Oh Starbucks...

26.01.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0