Keith Lawson
@keithlawson.me
Altmans claims are getting more outlandish.
December 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Altmans claims are getting more outlandish.
Doesn’t feel to me like AI safety is where it needs to be for humanity to be comfortable with autonomous weapons!
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
Ukraine just approved its first ground robot equipped with key grenade launchers, maker says
Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance.
www.businessinsider.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Doesn’t feel to me like AI safety is where it needs to be for humanity to be comfortable with autonomous weapons!
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-appr...
Trying out a new wax. I’ve only had training wax up to this point. Hoping for a speed improvement.
#snowboarding
#snowboarding
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Trying out a new wax. I’ve only had training wax up to this point. Hoping for a speed improvement.
#snowboarding
#snowboarding
The lifetime of publicly signed certificates is being reduced to 45 days. Let’s Encrypt is making this change dead easy for us and we have over 2 years to make this change. Plenty of time. Don’t ignore this until the last minute 😉
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
This change is being m...
letsencrypt.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The lifetime of publicly signed certificates is being reduced to 45 days. Let’s Encrypt is making this change dead easy for us and we have over 2 years to make this change. Plenty of time. Don’t ignore this until the last minute 😉
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
#cybersecurity
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
This is alarming for sure but the NTP protocol accounts for inaccurate time sources. Providing you have your systems configured to use multiple servers of course.
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
NIST warns of NTP inaccuracy after blackouts across Colorado
: A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage
www.theregister.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is alarming for sure but the NTP protocol accounts for inaccurate time sources. Providing you have your systems configured to use multiple servers of course.
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/n...
Reposted by Keith Lawson
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
🎵 This week:
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x2)
Don't Wanna Fight — Alabama Shakes
You Really Got Me — The Kinks
📀 Burn To Shine
#NowPlaying #Music
Nothin' — Guns N' Roses (x2)
Don't Wanna Fight — Alabama Shakes
You Really Got Me — The Kinks
📀 Burn To Shine
#NowPlaying #Music
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“43% of Americans 18-29 get their news from TikTok”. That can’t be right. Forty three percent?
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
No Mercy / No Malice: 2026 Predictions
Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2025-12-20 · 24m
podcasts.apple.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“43% of Americans 18-29 get their news from TikTok”. That can’t be right. Forty three percent?
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The cloud isn’t a magic solution. It brings convenience and scale but with a trade off of complexity and entirely new failures/single points of failures. “We didn’t eliminate failure, we concentrated it.”
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
The BIG Outage: The One System That Can Take Down Everything
YouTube video by Dave's Garage
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The cloud isn’t a magic solution. It brings convenience and scale but with a trade off of complexity and entirely new failures/single points of failures. “We didn’t eliminate failure, we concentrated it.”
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
#AWS #Azure #Cloud
youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
So far the most challenging task in building my own feed is filtering out political content! To be fair the filter is really trivial but political content in firehose is overwhelming 🙄
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So far the most challenging task in building my own feed is filtering out political content! To be fair the filter is really trivial but political content in firehose is overwhelming 🙄
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
#genx #music
bsky.app/profile/keit...
I wanted to play around with implementing a custom feed server so I'm testing it out with a gen X music feed. My filter obviously needs some tweaking but it's working.
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I wanted to play around with implementing a custom feed server so I'm testing it out with a gen X music feed. My filter obviously needs some tweaking but it's working.
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#genx #grunge
bsky.app/profile/did:...
A recent conversation between @jessicatarlov.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com about rage bait and the effects that the toxicity of the internet have on them got me thinking about steps I've taken to get better value out of the internet. blog.9600baud.net/detoxing_fro...
When Platforms Monetize Anger: Reclaiming Attention in a Broken Internet
blog.9600baud.net
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A recent conversation between @jessicatarlov.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com about rage bait and the effects that the toxicity of the internet have on them got me thinking about steps I've taken to get better value out of the internet. blog.9600baud.net/detoxing_fro...
Excellent write up on new attack vectors from AI coding agents through implicit trust of IDEs by Ari Marzuk.
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Excellent write up on new attack vectors from AI coding agents through implicit trust of IDEs by Ari Marzuk.
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
More confirmation bias for me that vim is the only IDE I’ll ever need! 😂
#vim
https://maccarita.com/posts/idesaster/
I wrote a little cross poster command line tool to post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter so I can test all 3 and see where I get the best experience.
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I wrote a little cross poster command line tool to post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter so I can test all 3 and see where I get the best experience.
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
https://github.com/j-klawson/crossposter
Some really good advice. Much of the outdated advice they reference is still deeply entrenched in our industry. Time to put some of it to bed once and for all.
Share this with your colleagues, friends and family.
https://www.hacklore.org/
Share this with your colleagues, friends and family.
https://www.hacklore.org/
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Some really good advice. Much of the outdated advice they reference is still deeply entrenched in our industry. Time to put some of it to bed once and for all.
Share this with your colleagues, friends and family.
https://www.hacklore.org/
Share this with your colleagues, friends and family.
https://www.hacklore.org/
QOTD: Computer scientists love that computer scientists love recursion.
September 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
QOTD: Computer scientists love that computer scientists love recursion.
I just backed Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...
Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook
"Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (an audiobook Amazon won't sell!)
www.kickstarter.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I just backed Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...
I have seen many failed attempts at trying to secure SMTP over my career and there's always a flaw. Better tools exist today. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3993713/secure-email-a-losing-battle-cisos-must-give-up.html
May 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I have seen many failed attempts at trying to secure SMTP over my career and there's always a flaw. Better tools exist today. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3993713/secure-email-a-losing-battle-cisos-must-give-up.html
Nearly 30 years in IT and I still can't fix a printer.
May 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Nearly 30 years in IT and I still can't fix a printer.
Why it costs 30% more to operate ChatGPT in Canada. That number jumps to 50% more if you account for apology prompts: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sam-altman-reveals-why-saying-please-thank-you-chatgpt-costs-millions-dollars-1732942
April 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Why it costs 30% more to operate ChatGPT in Canada. That number jumps to 50% more if you account for apology prompts: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sam-altman-reveals-why-saying-please-thank-you-chatgpt-costs-millions-dollars-1732942
Am I the only one reminded of downloading images on a 9600 baud connection when I'm watching ChatGPT generate an image?
April 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Am I the only one reminded of downloading images on a 9600 baud connection when I'm watching ChatGPT generate an image?
I can't wait until this is available in Canada 'ssh terminal.shop'
April 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I can't wait until this is available in Canada 'ssh terminal.shop'
Confirmation on the Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach. FBI investigating. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fbi-investigating-cyberattack-at-oracle-bloomberg-news-reports/ar-AA1BScjW
March 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Confirmation on the Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach. FBI investigating. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fbi-investigating-cyberattack-at-oracle-bloomberg-news-reports/ar-AA1BScjW
If my brain were a git repo it would keep accidentally deleting main and I'd be stuck on with only the new feature branch apparently.
March 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If my brain were a git repo it would keep accidentally deleting main and I'd be stuck on with only the new feature branch apparently.
So after getting distracted creating this crossposter I completely forget what I wanted to post to both accounts. Sigh.
March 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
So after getting distracted creating this crossposter I completely forget what I wanted to post to both accounts. Sigh.