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andrew @plets.ch · 23d

It took me a while to get comfortable with how to use it effectively, and I'm still not convinced the trade offs are worth it, but it pushing non-full time devs past road blocks is my favourite outcome so far, going to lead to so many community projects that bring real value

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · Sep 17

It's pretty wild to watch the discourse decide that a failure to enforce strong MFA is an indictment of

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open source package repositories as a concept.

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andrew @plets.ch · Sep 12

The Wikipedia community isn't a huge fan of it, I don't think it's explicitly banned but certainly frowned upon from a conflict of interest perspective

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andrew @plets.ch · Sep 7

Watching Ertz score for Washington is tough 🦅

andrew @plets.ch · Aug 23

Nothing makes me want to pack up and move countries like having to use a VIA train

andrew @plets.ch · Aug 15

Jamaican patty as a croissant is a hell of a sales pitch

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andrew @plets.ch · Jul 27

Any idea on order out of the pits? Is it in quali order or based on new parts taken?

andrew @plets.ch · Jul 12

It’s a crazy experience seeing a decision you suggest be pushed to thousands of orgs, incredibly humbling

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Molly White @molly.wiki · Jul 3

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

The data showed that people who ate as little as one hot dog a day when it comes to processed meats had an 11% greater risk of type 2 diabetes and a 7% increased risk of colorectal cancer than those who didn’t eat any. And drinking the equivalent of about a 12-ounce soda per day was associated with an 8% increase in type 2 diabetes risk and a 2% increased risk of ischemic heart disease.

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andrew @plets.ch · Jun 28

Would make some of the cuisine easier to order as well, a plate of hot food in already hot temps is a tough sell but give me a guaranteed breeze and that concern goes away

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andrew @plets.ch · Jun 28

Booked a hotel in Nice last summer specifically for its AC, the lowest it would go? 27. It’s like they hate comfort.

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andrew @plets.ch · Jun 25

I prefer mine in .pdf’s

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andrew @plets.ch · Jun 18

Definitely the best player to come out of that program (not even really close) so makes sense

andrew @plets.ch · Jun 18

Maliata has been great but over Jason Peters?

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andrew @plets.ch · Jun 17

Most breaches are a result/or are made significantly worse due to org’s failing to do the basics consistently

Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

There is no single internet. It really is a "network of networks" that agree to let your data transit across them and could stop any time.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · Jun 9

I wrote a bit more about X’s new encrypted DMs and the Juicebox protocol. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a...

A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging

Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · May 25

I’m having way too much fun writing about Bluetooth.

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andrew @plets.ch · Apr 27

I see it as more about where these products live in a network vs what category the vendor fits into

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andrew @plets.ch · Apr 8

I like to think of it as clipboard between reboots

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andrew @plets.ch · Apr 3

Worked at one in a gap year, i had cars rejected on any aspect you can think of, country of origin, interior materials, expected gas mileage, colour, trim model.. and the entire business model relies on having most cars rented every day so you really don’t have a massive selection to pull from.

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Nique @domoniquefoxworth.bsky.social · Feb 10

I dont know the Andy halftime adjustment for THEY BETTER THAN US AT ALL THE SPOTS.

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andrew @plets.ch · Feb 9

This really is just Spags v Stoutland isn’t it

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andrew @plets.ch · Jan 26

It’s the exact sort of thing I was looking for in a NFCE championship game

andrew @plets.ch · Jan 22

That’s an expensive fuck

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andrew @plets.ch · Jan 4

This has always been the case, you have 10-20 seconds to get the viewer to commit to the first 2-3 minutes. Longer form videos need a reason to keep people there, either by making the video ‘background noise’ (ie podcasts, game play throughs) or by having content dense videos that require focus.

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