James Laverack
@jamesl.bsky.social
Kubernetes, Cilium, and eBPF 🐝 | Principal Customer Success Architect, Isovalent at Cisco 💻 | Board Gamer 🎲 | Bisexual 🩷💜💙 | Former K8s Release Team 🛳️
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I’ve been using my Steam Deck docked with my TV for ages effectively as a console anyway. This just is gonna be a more streamlined way to do that. :D
Valve is about to win the console generation
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/
Valve is about to win the console generation
The newest post on Xe Iaso's blog
xeiaso.net
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’ve been using my Steam Deck docked with my TV for ages effectively as a console anyway. This just is gonna be a more streamlined way to do that. :D
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Personally I cant wait for Lego Tuvix!
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
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The Lego 'Star Trek' Set Is Here, and It's Exactly What You Want
Boldly go with the USS 'Enterprise'-D in Lego form when it hits shelves in late November.
gizmodo.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Personally I cant wait for Lego Tuvix!
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
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I am thrilled to announce that I've won a seat on the Kubernetes Steering Committee! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me. I'm so excited to get to work for you all. <3 <3 <3
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I am thrilled to announce that I've won a seat on the Kubernetes Steering Committee! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me. I'm so excited to get to work for you all. <3 <3 <3
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My current favorite is "The Occupants" from 1000xRESIST because it's 8 minutes long, so evocative, and has a slow build that really works with a lot of my scripts sunsetvisitor.bandcamp.com/track/the-oc...
The Occupants, by Line Katcho
from the album 1000xRESIST (Original Soundtrack)
sunsetvisitor.bandcamp.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My current favorite is "The Occupants" from 1000xRESIST because it's 8 minutes long, so evocative, and has a slow build that really works with a lot of my scripts sunsetvisitor.bandcamp.com/track/the-oc...
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.
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I do developers docs in cloud native spaces, and I'm looking for work. If you need better docs for your project, let's chat.
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I do developers docs in cloud native spaces, and I'm looking for work. If you need better docs for your project, let's chat.
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i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question
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me: The us is a weave than can be unpicked.
ken: what? can you stop talking like that
me: There is a knot and a strand that tightens.
ken: can you just go do the dishes already please
me: ..... Resonance....
ken: what? can you stop talking like that
me: There is a knot and a strand that tightens.
ken: can you just go do the dishes already please
me: ..... Resonance....
August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
me: The us is a weave than can be unpicked.
ken: what? can you stop talking like that
me: There is a knot and a strand that tightens.
ken: can you just go do the dishes already please
me: ..... Resonance....
ken: what? can you stop talking like that
me: There is a knot and a strand that tightens.
ken: can you just go do the dishes already please
me: ..... Resonance....
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oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid
NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
October 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid
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I've been walking in Minecraft to the edge of the world, the Far Lands, for over 14 years. I've brought the most awesome friends and community with me the entire way, we've raised over $500k for charity, and today we're finally going to get there, live on my twitch channel! twitch.tv/kurtjmac
October 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I've been walking in Minecraft to the edge of the world, the Far Lands, for over 14 years. I've brought the most awesome friends and community with me the entire way, we've raised over $500k for charity, and today we're finally going to get there, live on my twitch channel! twitch.tv/kurtjmac
After 14 years, this guy is finally expected to finish his walk to the Minecraft far lands today. :o
twitch.tv/kurtjmac
twitch.tv/kurtjmac
kurtjmac - Twitch
Reaching the FAR LANDS after 14.5 Years - FLoB-a-Thon Day 69 - !charity !map
twitch.tv
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
After 14 years, this guy is finally expected to finish his walk to the Minecraft far lands today. :o
twitch.tv/kurtjmac
twitch.tv/kurtjmac
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The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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its fucking real. its fucking real. i feel like im dreaming. i still dont believe it. i cannot believe its fucking real
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
its fucking real. its fucking real. i feel like im dreaming. i still dont believe it. i cannot believe its fucking real
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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perfect. this is it.
ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point
ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point
September 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
perfect. this is it.
ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point
ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point
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it's very funny to claim victory over "woke" in tech while simultaneously yelling at another company for still being "woke"
"didn't you hear? we won? you don't have to be woke anymore! please…"
"didn't you hear? we won? you don't have to be woke anymore! please…"
September 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
it's very funny to claim victory over "woke" in tech while simultaneously yelling at another company for still being "woke"
"didn't you hear? we won? you don't have to be woke anymore! please…"
"didn't you hear? we won? you don't have to be woke anymore! please…"
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Good morning!
September 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Good morning!
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
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Every day he finds a new way to make me swear in horrified disgust
September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Every day he finds a new way to make me swear in horrified disgust
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DHH is an embarrassment of a human being and should’ve been chased out of this industry and his entire community years ago for being the toxic missing stair that he is.
His presence provides no benefit to anyone.
His presence provides no benefit to anyone.
September 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
DHH is an embarrassment of a human being and should’ve been chased out of this industry and his entire community years ago for being the toxic missing stair that he is.
His presence provides no benefit to anyone.
His presence provides no benefit to anyone.
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We're going to make everyone live in a gigantric panopticon and if you don't like it the Prime Minister will call you a nonce
For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
Why biometric AI holds the key for the UK’s Online Safety Act | The AI Journal
The next phase of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which prescribes how content platforms can serve children, has finally come into force following years of
aijourn.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We're going to make everyone live in a gigantric panopticon and if you don't like it the Prime Minister will call you a nonce