Stephan Somogyi
thinkpanzer.bsky.social
Stephan Somogyi
@thinkpanzer.bsky.social
Primum non nocere
I ⬣ TXL
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful, deliberate, and premeditated emdash user
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
Leaving aside the nice resilience properties of good cloud infra, I agree that _a_ cloud is a diff kind of spof w diff failure modes. Options exist, esp if you're ok with eventual consistency. One Constant Ground Truth is the challenging constraint here, esp if your risk model likes offline copies.
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We know that humans are competent at breaking their phones, that in many parts of the world phone theft is a high-volume harm, and old skool threat modeling tells us that Availablity of our data is important, not just Confidentiality and Integrity. Phone-as-ground-truth is a tough sell.
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Making our pocket rectangles even more of a single point of failure seems… imprudent.
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is the way.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yes pls, esp since I seem to have totally missed out on whatever happened
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
But… why?
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
+1 -- one can also season to taste, eg liberal splashings of soy sauce before sticking them in the oven.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tough to tell from the photos alone, but the backing blue plastics are different shades, and the screws on one show different corrosion. Wouldn't be surprised if they were made at different times and by different engravers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Nor I, but that was a small detail compared to the comedic gold later on in the piece.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Slickers
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In the case of peanut allergies this is neither particularly controversial nor new. Here's a recent piece from Princeton Medical Review medreview.odus.princeton.edu/2025/06/23/b... and it cites this 2008 paper www.jacionline.org/article/S009...
Bamba Babies: How One Snack Revolutionized Global Understanding of Peanut Allergies – The Princeton Medical Review
medreview.odus.princeton.edu
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is the kind of thing that reaffirms my decision to only ever run Slack in a Chrome profile rather than in the Electron-based app.
October 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Season? I have hummers year-round and am continually refilling their fuel supply.
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM