The folks at watchTowr were *immensely* helpful this past week. Very clever & kind folk.
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Hey, 2008 called & want's its financial crisis back. Banks pkging + offloading credit risk is literally what happened before 2008. When lenders can immediately xfer default risk to 3rd parties, it removes their incentive to properly underwrite loans. They get the origination fees but someone else eats the losses. https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/morgan-stanley-explores-offloading-data-center-loan-risk https://archive.ph/6HNIS#selection-1245.0-1263.74 image
"AI" ruins everything it touches
OpenAI crashed global memory supply - Sync #546
Plus: Gemini 3 Pro; Anthropic reaches $350B valuation; bad week for tech stocks; Grok 4.1; GPT-5.1-Codex-Max; Bezos is back with AI startup; Waymo ...
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The Register *BETTER* have an article abt this titled something like "Microsoft Loses WINS Support" View quoted note β†’
As a rural Mainer, and a former Seattleite, I can attest to and affirm, that y'all who are literally addicted to cities are 100% "doing it F'in wrong". But, you won't care. You won't reconsider. You wont' reasses. b/c that's what city folk do. Deny. Nature. Deny. Truth. Deny. Reality. View quoted note β†’
I have more like a "confuse @npub18c7w...er9d" thing today. Was staring into the expanse that is the untagged sessions in our fleet and eventually plotted a course towards the ICMP system, which eventually led me to a planet that was beaconing with some oddly large payloads. So headed down into the gravity well to have a look at the PCAPs. (DuckDB can read PCAPs directly but my version is ahead of the ones that both PCAP community extensions were built for). 1/n
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Folks, be the cool human who deletes ALL the phone profiles from the automobile console when you return the rental, not just yours. Take care of your uninformed human siblings.
Drop #735 (2025-11-21): RetroΒ Edition The Friday Drop highlights three retro resources: Microsoft's open-sourcing of Zork I-III for interactive fiction preservation, DOCTYPE magazine which revives hands-on web coding, and Retro Game Coders offering tutorials for 8-bit game creation. Each resource emphasizes education through tactile engagement with technology, preserving historical programming techniques.
Drop #735 (2025-11-21): Retro Edition – hrbrmstr's Daily Drop