Lee Brotherston

The "are you 18 years of age or older?" yes/no prompt on the Epstein Files Department of Justice page.

In light of various services performing age verification, did the US Government themselves not set a precedent with regards to the the bar?

Never fails to delight!!!

Microsoft sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home : Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections

This headline is from yesterday, as in, this year: www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/m...

EVIDENCE BOARD!

the red string, conspiracy theory, "vision board" image

Another visual example of the red string board

I think I'm blanking out here. You know the red string, conspiracy theory, "vision board"... thing?

What is the proper name for that board?

It would probably be more effective to give those bodycams to members of the public instead.

I know that's wrong for a bunch of other reasons, not a serious suggestion :)

I can't work out if I never knew that lockdown mode included the external device part, or if I simply forgot. Either way, that's a bit of a win!

The number of "signal is down, use this sketchy app my mate wrote, it's more bettererer anyway" posts is ridiculous too.

Oh another brand… I’d class alert fatigue as being dismissive of real alerts, because of the amount of bullshit coming in so they get missed essentially. Being overwhelmed/overloaded is definitely still a thing with high volume of high quality imho.

I think it's an "it depends" deal. I think fatigue is less about volume per say, and more about the volume of false-positive or non-actionable alerts. That is, alerts for which mostly consume time with no useful outcomes.

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney

As you were asking about it before... www.ft.com/content/11dc...

That's not what socialized healthcare means!

Actually no, I know what it reminds me of. It looks like the sort of bollocks that Elon would trot out.

Me too! I keep typing things then have to delete them because I get paranoid that I’m missing the obvious joke somehow.

It’s like a “best of” bad tech bro ideas. All it needs is an NFT.

There’s a lot to process there, but “LOL WHAT?!?” captures my overall thoughts nicely :)

Feels like either “glitch” is underselling what happened, or that datacenter is seriously sub-par.

As outlined in the MBA module “throw shit at a wall and see if anything sticks”

Unrelated: @waterfox.net and LibreFox exist.

something something "put on your own oxygen mask before helping others" something something?

How did US people get moved to EllissonTok? Was there an app update, or was it something like DNS getting repointed to the other service?

FWIW we do actually have guns here. But we have laws about them, and do not have the fetish/"culture" around them.

There is a separatist movement in Alberta, they are exactly the people that you think they are, funded by the people you think are funding it.

LinkedIN inviting me, emailing me, and cold calling my personal cell all within 2mins is indeed "triple threat outreach", but not in the way I think you meant it Mr Salesperson.

@hootsuite.com is reportedly supporting ICE:

vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/01/21/v...

Wonder what their customers think? @adobe.com @corewellhealth.bsky.social @ochsnerhealth.bsky.social @soundcloud.dev @britishmuseum.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uhaul.bsky.social @unesco.org @who.int

Then you'd need another filter to confirm that your speakers are in fact working :)

An edible you say? May I humbly suggest S8:E1 “Brunchsquatch”?

The previous time that tech evangelists pushed this hard for something, and told us that we would be left behind if we didn't get onboard and embrace it was NFTs as I recall. As we know that turned out just wonderfully.

I bet they'd rather have your tourist visa's cut off, than all the owners of your national debt ditching the bonds they own and tanking their currency. At which point a tourist visa would be a moot point.

Not used it personally, so I may be missing something, but my understanding is that audio quality is higher and artist payouts better on Tidal.

I think the last phone I had without a case was a Nokia.