I should have read past the first few paragraphs before I got to honking. Later in the piece...
He managed to secure a job working for a different nonprofit, Aproquen, which provides health care for burn victims. Aproquen was founded and run by Vivian Pellas, a burn victim herself whose husband, Carlos, happened to be Nicaragua’s first billionaire.
Pietras was vague about how he had made his fortune. He told Andrew he’d earned his M.B.A. from NYU and once worked for a billionaire in Nicaragua.
Billionaire in Nicaragua?? First sign this story is going in the way of a scam artist...
https://archive.ph/pcyVZ
There MAY be one here in Nicaragua, Carlos Pellas, but I doubt he's at that level.
"In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that it’s going to happen soon.
Meanwhile, quirked-up threehundricorn OpenAI has either raised or is about to raise another $8.3 billion in cash, less than two months since it raised $10 billion from SoftBank and a selection of venture capital firms.
I hate to be too crude, but where the fuck is this money going? Is OpenAI just incinerating capital? Is it compute? Is it salaries? Is it compute? Is it to build data centers, because SoftBank isn’t actually building anything for Stargate?
The Information suggested OpenAI is using the money to build data centers — possibly the only worse investment it can make other than generative AI, and it’s one that it can’t avoid because OpenAI also is somehow running out of compute. And now they're in "early-stage discussions" about an employee share sale that would value the company at $500 billion, a ludicrous number that shows we're leaving the realm of reality. To give you some context, Shopify's market cap is $197 billion, Salesforce's is $248 billion, and Netflix's is $499 billion. Do you really think that OpenAI is worth more than these companies? Do you think they're worth more than AMD at a $264 billion market cap? Do you?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/
#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #AIBubble #AIHype
I don't fully understand the cryptographic reasons why they're more secure, but I do like the fact that ed25519 SSH public keys are so much smaller than their rsa alternatives.
#SSH
. Socket researchers just uncovered 11 malicious Go packages using obfuscated loaders to fetch and run remote payloads. 8 are typosquats.
Details →
https://socket.dev/blog/11-malicious-go-packages-distribute-obfuscated-remote-payloads #Golang
We decided to watch True Detective as my wife has never seen it (well, some of S4, which... well more below).
I forgot how amazing S1 was. I also forgot how stupid S2 is. Who the hell cast Vince Vaughn as a tough guy mafia boss? I don't believe this guy for a second.
S3 I remember being much better than S2. Half way through S2 still so...
S4 was terrible. Worst season easily (and that's saying something cause S2 sucks). We won't revisit this one.
I think S2 bothers me so much because it's based in LA and I want to love it just for that fact alone (being an Angelino myself). Picking out locations, "Vinci" is supposed to be Vernon, "Vinci Gardens" casino, obviously Hawaiian Gardens Casino, etc. God damn they just did such a terrible job with casting and the portrayal of SoCal street life that I just am annoyed watching it.
For the people who randomly put my name @gmail.com into their various web forms I just want to let you know that I hate you.
I'd also like to apologize to johnnybgood@gmail.com because I know you hate me.
It's the circle of life.
Ahhh yes it's that part of the day where my knees start aching even more. Highly recommend power lifting to all.
#Sunset from the Pacific off the SW coast of #Nicaragua.
Today I unfortunately found another way how providers of "residential proxies" operate. Exhibit one: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CRDYXKFN - Yes, that's a Fire TV "screensaver" which uses your internet connection for web scraping.
![Popup when starting Mermaid Screensaver:
To support Mermaid Screensaver, please allow web indexing by Bright Data
to use your device's free resources and IP address to download public web
data from the Internet while you are using Mermaid Screensaver. Bright Data
will only use your IP address for approved business-related use cases and
never for unauthorized cases. None of your personal information is accessed
or collected except your IP address.
You can opt-out anytime.
[Dismiss] [Accept]
Bright Data runs in the background even after closing the application.
Learn more about Web Indexing by Bright Data
(and a QR code)](/d/G2FY4YtQSDDL5c2vVn5QZ.png "Popup when starting Mermaid Screensaver:
To support Mermaid Screensaver, please allow web indexing by Bright Data
to use your device's free resources and IP address to download public web
data from the Internet while you are using Mermaid Screensaver. Bright Data
will only use your IP address for approved business-related use cases and
never for unauthorized cases. None of your personal information is accessed
or collected except your IP address.
You can opt-out anytime.
[Dismiss] [Accept]
Bright Data runs in the background even after closing the application.
Learn more about Web Indexing by Bright Data
(and a QR code)")
@crft Thanks! In a few months it's got over 100K saved links (mostly private though, through a few heavy users who migrated from Pinboard) and a whopping 4 paying users haha. Still, it's fun to work on when I can.
@crft Which one? The LinkTaco one has quite a few
I haven't had a ton of time lately but we just released a new version of LinkTaco. Lots of bug fixes but the big piece is the Pinboard API -> GraphQL bridge. You can now use all your existing Pinboard tools or integrations directly with LinkTaco.
https://linktaco.com/blog/new-linktaco-release-0.5.0.html
https://lists.code.netlandish.com/~netlandish/links-discuss/%3C20250719074538.OEOCFANOYMWV@thinkpad%3E
#pinboard #bookmarks #linktaco #graphql #api
When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history," Fuentes said. "And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were.
- Nick Fuentes (ex MAGA moron and still full time racist ahole)
https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-influencer-denounces-trump-epstein-liberals-were-right-2100489
They're slowly coming around to the what a con man their big orange god actually is.
#us #politics #trump
@codingjoe Nice to meet you as well. I'm not surprised, I sort of disappeared from the Python/Django community quite a while ago (time constraints), I don't use Github and I don't promote much.
The cool part is getting emails from dev's in big companies (small ones too) thanking me for the tool and how it helps them with their responsibilities, etc.
hijack looks nice! I've never actually used it. There used to be django-masquerade which was similar as well but I think it's been abandoned.
@codingjoe I think it's more like django-hijack is like django-impersonate (I think impersonate was the first one, which is why I wrote it originally) but I could be totally wrong. But yea, same idea/concept.
@nilix Hah it's embarrassing how it happened
I'm almost embarrassed to share this but so much love from Dimitris, I feel I have to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-ReE3qwE0
He did a quick video showing django-impersonate (which I created and don't give a ton of love to anymore these days sadly).
#django #python
For those of you who add animations to your website when moving the mouse (or whatever). I have one question for you...
WHY?!?!?!?!?!
Ever accidentally downgraded FreeBSD? I have. Surprisingly not too difficult to recover from.
"China has performed this miracle many times over. The world’s largest and most innovative producers of EVs (BYD), EV batteries (CATL), drones (DJI) and solar wafers (LONGi) are all Chinese start-ups, none more than 30 years old. They attained commanding technological and price leadership not because President Xi Jinping decreed it, but because they emerged triumphant from the economic Darwinism that is Chinese industrial policy. The rest of the world is ill prepared to compete with these apex predators. When U.S. policymakers deride China’s industrial policy, they are imagining something akin to the lumbering takeoff of Airbus or the lights going out on Solyndra. They should instead be gazing up at the nimble swarms of DJI drones buzzing over Ukraine.
China Shock 1.0 was bound to ebb when China ran out of low-cost labor, as it now has. Its growth is already falling behind Vietnam’s in industries such as clothing and commodity furniture. But unlike the United States, China is not looking back and mourning its lost manufacturing prowess. It is focusing instead on the key technologies of the 21st century. Contrary to a strategy built on cheap labor, China Shock 2.0 will last for as long as China has the resources, patience and discipline to compete fiercely.
And if you doubt China’s capability or determination, the evidence is not on your side. According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an independent think tank funded by the Australian Department of Defense, the United States led China in 60 of 64 frontier technologies, such as A.I. and cryptography, between 2003 and 2007, while China led the United States in just three. In the most recent report, covering 2019 through 2023, the rankings were flipped on their head. China led in 57 of 64 key technologies, and the United States held the lead in only seven."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html
#USA #Trump #TradeWar #Tariffs #China #Manufacturing #Protectionism #PoliticalEconomy
@durin42 @box464 I'm unable to vote but sadly I'm easily over 10.
Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.
The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.
The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).
#fediverse
Los Ángeles ayer. ¿De verdad alguien quiere algo así para su país?
External Attachment:
A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.
@tedu Appears they're losing because I can't load the page.
Dear United Airlines: I really want to respond to your quality surveys but you continue to send me down huge lists of questions and don't let me skip.
A few questions, a comment box, and that's it. I'm not going to spend 5+ minutes answering your million questions.
Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.
Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!
I know Paul Graham is not someone you generally want to take any advice from, but it's hard to not see truth in this:
By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.
And it certainly seems like it all applies if you replace "the Internet" with "AI" and "Yahoo" with "OpenAI".
I deployed a broken thing. Oops.
I switched to @alpinelinux as my daily driver a couple of years ago. It's such a solid and simple distro. Just updated from 3.21 to 3.22. Took all of 5 minutes and zero issues.
Technical Writer looking for work!
Previously worked at Red Hat on OpenShift and Ceph, and at various startups. Been contracting the past year, but it's a tough market out there, and I'm very much in need of work.
I come from a technical background (software engineer). Open to contract work and FTE.
Reach out here or fionn@kelleher.email. Happy with solo work, or joining a team of writers.
Boosts appreciated.
Yup. The new #Nicaragua national speed limit is now 50 kmh (or 31 mph)!!!!!
This is not the way to stop the rise in accidents or crash fatalities. I mean wtf!!!!
Thank god I'm flying home to LA tomorrow where I can have some normalcy (riots, etc.) for a while. It'll feel good to be home.
Now when I'm asked why I use #aerc (or #mutt) for email I'll show them this:
https://possum.city/notes/a935f25f5kl1007g
I gripe about this basically every time I need to do anything official but the bureaucracy is so god damn slow and inefficient here in #Nicaragua. Three days I've now wasted.
These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior
https://substack.com/@thiswillhold/p-165658733
Anyone out there now of a #postfix compat #greylist filter that checks if the connecting server is part of the SPF configured senders? So annoying when big senders send email from various IP's and my system keeps re-greylisting them.
"Builder.ai used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered, after hype now goes bust"
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/builderai-used-700-engineers-in-india-for-coding-work-it-marketed-as-ai-powered-after-hype-now-goes-bust-2734963-2025-06-03
LOL
"Hey bro, I've got a great idea! Let's destroy our city that we're so proud of!!!"
- Every teams fan base after they've won a big championship
#idiots #paris
I thought ghost kitchens were cool until I found out the name was very misleading.
In England do they call it Super Mario Bruvs
@stammy I have the Bose Quiet Comfort 45's. Love them but really mostly use them on airplanes. Too hot where I live to use them daily.
@tedu The first 6 def deserve a read. Skip the rest
God I can't tell you how much I hate the term "vibe coding"...
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025/the-hottest-new-vibe-coding-startup-lovable-is-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers
Seems like the SEO experts have found LinkTaco and are adding back links. Realizing I didn't place "nofollow" on the links. I'll get that fixed today.
Happy Monday
#medellin #colombia
How people still use Github is beyond me:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749
Use Sourcehut, Codeberg, etc. instead.
Could Nicaragua be a new "It" destination?
https://www.vogue.com/article/nicaragua-travel
#nicaragua #travel