Brian Trammell
@trammell.ch
Yet another American-Swiss immigrant geek with a cargo bike. IETF (mostly L4), SRE (infrastructure), recovering academic and security person, frighteningly amateur electronic folk musician, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist.
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This is an amazing fact
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is an amazing fact
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I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I see this ignorance about software development history all the time, making people «reinvent» the past constantly or forgetting the lessons we learned.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
I think universities need to teach «history of software development» or we’re just going in a loop here, unwittingly reenacting past mistakes.
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WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
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Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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We did it. We've reached peak snowflake.
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
We did it. We've reached peak snowflake.
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I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
Portland never stops being Portland.
wizard frog is insane
October 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
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Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/
www.irtf.org/anrp/
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/
www.irtf.org/anrp/
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+++ EIL +++ EIL +++ Technologieoffene Strategie der deutschen Automobilindustrie bewährt sich
+++ EIL +++ EIL +++
+++ EIL +++ EIL +++
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
+++ EIL +++ EIL +++ Technologieoffene Strategie der deutschen Automobilindustrie bewährt sich
+++ EIL +++ EIL +++
+++ EIL +++ EIL +++
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DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were).
It can easily be disassembled as well.
We don't have to live like this.
It can easily be disassembled as well.
We don't have to live like this.
A government communication reviewed by the Sun-Times showed that a request was made to have several Border Patrol and ICE boats and vehicles use the Chicago Harbor Lock as part of Operation Midway Blitz.
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Border patrol spotted with guns on Chicago River in Trump's latest deportation push
A government communication reviewed by the Sun-Times showed that a request was made to have several Border Patrol and ICE boats and vehicles use the Chicago Harbor Lock as part of Operation Midway Blitz.
trib.al
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were).
It can easily be disassembled as well.
We don't have to live like this.
It can easily be disassembled as well.
We don't have to live like this.
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It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator
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Release the Homan files and tapes.
September 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Release the Homan files and tapes.
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Congressional Republicans can no longer ignore the urgent need for impeachment and removal
September 21, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Congressional Republicans can no longer ignore the urgent need for impeachment and removal
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Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
September 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
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My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"
Turns out, mom was right.
Turns out, mom was right.
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We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
this is the most accurate description of the current US political situation I’ve read in a while.
watching a baby absolutely dialed into a iPad kinda feels like watching a baby chewing on loose electrical wiring, like he seems to be having a great time but as an adult I probably should not just stand there and let him do this
September 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
this is the most accurate description of the current US political situation I’ve read in a while.
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watching a baby absolutely dialed into a iPad kinda feels like watching a baby chewing on loose electrical wiring, like he seems to be having a great time but as an adult I probably should not just stand there and let him do this
September 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
watching a baby absolutely dialed into a iPad kinda feels like watching a baby chewing on loose electrical wiring, like he seems to be having a great time but as an adult I probably should not just stand there and let him do this