Scott Lowe

Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

Today’s brisket smoking attempt did not go well, unfortunately. Oh well! Live and learn, right?!

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

In this house, we believe: Cornbread should be sweet BBQ means grilling burgers A crockpot makes perfectly fine pulled pork You eat fried chicken with a knife and fork Sweet tea is gross Grits are just oatmeal with cheese

at last, a sign that will REALLY piss off your Southern neighbors

peace is not a gift that drifts into your life unannounced. in times like these, it must be cultivated with intention, guarded with discipline, and chosen over and over again.

Introducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOS | Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the availability of universal macOS installers for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2. What’s new Starting with AWS CLI v2 version 2.30.0, the AWS CLI ...

Finally!

aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

Being stuck on #Ubuntu LTS strikes again---can't use the most recent release of a software KVM because the dependent libraries available in the repos are too old.

a cartoon cat with a sad look on his face is saying `` good morning '' . ALT: a cartoon cat with a sad look on his face is saying `` good morning '' .

TFW it's only 10am and you have 7 stand hours

A screenshot of social media posts by user "Observer" reads: "The longer you spend in tech, the stronger the urge to buy a farm and never touch a computer again in your life."

💯

This. 100%.

Burner Phone 101 Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone...

Found via my Mastodon feed: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...

There are some good tips in the article.

Go ahead, $CURRENT_BANK. Keep f'ing around with customer service and you'll find out what it takes to lose a customer of 15 years.

For Slack to be the "Searchable Log of All Conversations and Knowledge", the search function really isn't that great IMO.

My current pet peeve with the #Ubuntu laptop I use for work: GNOME's implementation of notifications and badges on dock icons.

Sure…if Mother Nature is sweating profusely.

He isn't joking. He never jokes about this shit. We need news media to stop acting like he's joking about this or running again in 2028. He will not step down unless he's dead or forced.

Release 1.18.1 · cilium/cilium Summary of Changes Minor Changes: Add kernel_version, endpoint_routes_enabled, strict_mode_enabled and kubernetes_version feature metrics. (Backport PR #41078, Upstream PR #41003, @aanm) eni: impr...

🐝 New Cilium releases 🐝

Cilium v1.18.1, v1.17.7, and v1.16.13 have been released with minor updates and bug fixes 🙌

See the release notes for details:
v1.18.1: github.com/cilium/ciliu...
v1.17.7: github.com/cilium/ciliu...
v1.16.13: github.com/cilium/ciliu...

Thank you to all the contributors!

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:

NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts

I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

just legally mandate data centers run on solar our grid would be 100% solar in like 6 weeks lol

I used to travel a lot—over 100K a year. Over the past several years, that has declined dramatically. And you know what? I’m fine with it. I spent too many hours/days in airports and on airplanes. I can now spend that time with people that are important in my life: family, friends, & loved ones.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Today's a really good day to put @signal.org's app on your personal devices.

OMG, the new IBM product names for the former Hashicorp products are to die for.

I mean, who doesn’t love a name like “IBM Nomad Self-managed Premium Resource Value Unit Flexible Subscription License”? 🤣😆😂

A newly-built white farmhouse-style home

Finally done!

Today is a struggle with feeling like I’m just not enough.

This! 🤣

Haha, you may be right! 🤣

How is it that at 25 years old I didn’t think twice about climbing up on the roof to do something, but now at 50 years old climbing on the roof scares the crap out of me?