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Lift heavy, love strong, code well. Engineer @OpenAI , formerly @Netflix, @awscloud. I really like Infrastructure. EDM enthusiast. My opinions only.

San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2009
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
the good thing about the eMudhra CA private key mess is that we can finally use https on localhost
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
can't believe i spent my whole life becoming Good At Computer only for Computer to become Better At Computer
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
decades of human evolution just for this
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ever since I was a little boy I dreamed of configuring IAM polices for an enterprise AWS environment
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Replying to @tekbog
interviewed a "senior python developer" yesterday when asked about virtual environments he says "I kind of just gave up on them" which, like, isn't a great response for a senior python developer, but also, like, I get it
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Test passed @RoyalCaribbean But also - probs shouldn't test in production
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
This is such a fascinating graph. A frequency drop of 0.15Hz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal.
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Had a fun crossover between real life and distributed systems failing me. Booked a hotel using Cash + Point using @IHGhotels - card charged and points removed from account but no reservation. Activity in account shows the transactions but no reservation. Computers are bad.
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Features that need to exist: team forced SSO disable so your team can say "take an actual vacation for N days" and there's no choice.
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Dear lady at the Prague airport at 8:36 am on a Thursday chugging a beer like it's water, I feel you. Love your energy. <3 me.
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Breland “organic LLM” Miley 🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
You did it! You’ve closed all your rings in one week: An attempted assassination, Y2K and a presidential candidate dropout.
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A new hire wrote this in their onboarding blurb: "For the Gen Z in the team: tl;dr; just bussin fr fr no cap." And I don't have a fucking clue what that means.
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OH: "I got invited to a Soylent dinner party"
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Few things are more upsetting to me than pulling another team's project and being unable to build it because they haven't modeled their dependencies correctly.
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A year later, and a lot of reflection, I'm doing better-ish. Still hurt, but have had a lot of love and support from family and friends. Made a space that's mine, and had some fun along the way. SF next :) Still believe in love, will just be more careful next time. ❤️
Life update: Today is both my last day in Seattle and also my 10 year anniversary to the day. Bittersweet to say the least - but I don't regret a moment of it. So many great memories and so many amazing humans. Not sure where home is just yet - but onwards and upwards. ❤️
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