Bálint @szbalint@x0r.be

Dogs make everything better

XML is the George W. Bush of formats.

It was never good, we just have a sort of nostalgy for it after seeing lots of other nasty stuff.

Customer support is mostly useless, they can’t actually talk or leave a message to the delivery side of things.

Super pissed off that UPS couldn't deliver my model01 keyboard to the right address three times in a row.

[x0r.be] Fileshare issues resolved, we should be back up!

[x0r.be] Going down for maintenance.

Jack Dorsey privately met with Trump aides in DC to apologize for the platform’s liberal bias while the family separation horror at the border was unfolding (source: Pinboard)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/06/27/inside-facebook-twitters-secret-meetings-with-trump-aides-conservative-leaders-who-say-tech-is-biased/

Seriously, at this point Twitter should be torched. They can't stop capitulating to authoritarian people. Twitter doesn't have a "liberal bias", it's CEO just thinks it should suck up to would-be-Putins.

Please tell me there is a site/service that tracks and compares cloud provider/hosting infrastructure uptime and outages

In related news it seems GitLab is moving to Google Cloud because Azure is a lot less reliable.

"In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is a form of self-denial." —June Jordan

If your site adds support for FIDO U2F, but requires an alternate second factor auth to be present then your site didn’t really add support for U2F.

The whole point of the standard is improved unphishable security, it doesn’t work if anyone can just fall back to sms/google authenticator and then you didn’t improve anything. I’m looking at you, Twitter.

Ook ook?

This is exceedingly good: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-when-a-bad-tempered-distractible-doofus-runs-an-empire

Seriously, read this article from the first to the last sentence.

Go on.

This is eerily familiar.

So you’re wondering how Nigel Farage would be linked to currency manipulation?

Easy, he shorted the pound on the eve of the brexit vote: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/25/nigel-farage-denies-shorting-value-of-sterling-on-night-of-brexit-vote

That fuckstick had private exit polls but he said remain won, which led to the pound shooting up, which was taken advantage by him.

But sure, he’s just the chap you’d “have s beer with”, this fucking sociopathic monster.

Is...is this...now?