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dcmatt··on Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'
> More advanced models will require more advanced containment technologies that we need to standardize on.

How about yanking the cords, or maybe a big red “shutdown” button

dcmatt··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
Looks like he was just at Burning Man so this behavior tracks. https://ma.tt/2026/09/bm-snaps/
dcmatt··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Wow, lobsters seems refreshing! Invite only to contribute must be why they can run on sqlite so effectively. I've run into so many issues with WAL (real time market data) unless I'm painfully deliberate with reads and writes. Don't feel like jumping on the "ohhh invite me" bandwagon, but definitely subscribing to their feed.
dcmatt··on Omarchy Is Not A Distro
An opinionated person has different opinions than a different opinionated person
dcmatt··on Gas Town Decoded
Gas Town wasn't satire?
dcmatt··on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
I'm not going to stop using it because it's not "true open source." I'm going to stop using it because there's better databases out there.
dcmatt··on QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
QNX is owned by Blackberry?! Blackberry still exists?
dcmatt··on Cursor Acquires Graphite
I have such fond memories of Graphite's simplicity. Simply hit the server with a metric and value and BOOM it's on the chart, no dependencies, no fuss.
dcmatt··on Starship's Tenth Flight Test
Don't be bamboozled! This is an amazing time to be alive!
dcmatt··on Does OLAP Need an ORM
Just expose a way to explore hierarchies and measures, give me an ability to generate "alternate hierarchies" then let me run MDX and leave me alone! ORM and OLAP don't belong in the same sentence together.
dcmatt··on How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
Literally saw Obama's BlackBerries a week ago at the Crypto Museum! Great museum, worth going to if you're in the DC area and have access to a car.
dcmatt··on Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
No new Zelda, no new Mario. I don't know what Nintendo is doing but I am not a hyped up for the Switch 2 as I thought I'd be.
dcmatt··on You might not need Redis
"only 3-5x faster... rarely makes sense to use Redis" This is an illogical conclusion. 3-5x faster is substantial!
dcmatt··on Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM
Short sweet and to the point. Why isn't this a button in the bios, naturally hidden behind a few levels of menus? "Defrag your NVRAM" Other than power failures what would other failure modes be? I guess if the NVRAM has bad cells? Guess it's easier to just reset the whole BIOS whenever there's a problem?
dcmatt··on Show HN: OmniTools–A Self-Hosted Suite of Open Source Tools for Everyday Tasks
How does this compare to CyberChef? https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
dcmatt··on BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner
This is a fantastic product! It works really well for email servers
dcmatt··on ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers
Yeah, because every time I call they give me a new "deal" and lower my bill by $10 a month.
dcmatt··on Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go
Also Multidimensional expressions, popular in OLAP cubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiDimensional_eXpressions
dcmatt··on The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
Still amazing progress! Such a shame that Sony and Honda gave up on their bipedal robots 20 years ago. Imagine where we could've been
dcmatt··on A stalled Waymo brought Kamala Harris' motorcade to a halt in SF
This feels like I, Robot— except instead of killer robots in a tunnel, we’ve got driverless cars cluelessly blocking motorcades
dcmatt··on The Podcast Index
Really like what the Podcast Index is doing, especially with pushing Podcasting 2.0 (https://podcasting2.org/) and value for value! Just wish I could do v4v in currencies other than Bitcoin.
dcmatt··on I Hate the Term "Modern"
I have a similar feeling towards "Legacy." Aka "Everyone who wrote it doesn't work here anymore and I can't be bothered to learn how it works"
dcmatt··on Our great database migration
Game changer for scaling and costs? It’s an 80 MB database that needs to get duplicated by n developers and a test and production instance. They could get away with a $200 beelink under a desk. I see no reason to prematurely scale. I would focus on making things fast and creating a “duplicate database” button so devs can work without interrupting prod
dcmatt··on Our great database migration
"Overall, this migration proved to be a massive success" but their metrics shows this migration resulted in, on average, slower response times. Wouldn't this suggest the migration was not successful. Postgres can be insanely fast, and given the volume of data this post suggests, it baffles me that the performance is so bad.
dcmatt··on List of Generation Z Slang
This list is bussin, no cap
dcmatt··on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft
But theirs is a design mark, just the design is trademarked, not the letter "X" itself. Important distinction