Do billionaires know how expensive it's going to be cleaning up all the stuff they helped break?
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Do billionaires know how expensive it's going to be cleaning up all the stuff they helped break?
If you publish a PDF with information in it, that information isn't redacted. Maybe you attempted to draw black squares also, good for you. But you published the information.
Even if it's metadata hidden inside the file, you still published the information.
Even if it's metadata hidden inside the file, you still published the information.
It’s been a while but just a note; if a pdf of scanned documents once contained OCRd text, and if the displayed bitmap part was edited to blacken out the pixels in the scan - sometimes the original OCR text is just sitting there inside the pdf. Drop it in a text or hex editor, run strings etc.
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you publish a PDF with information in it, that information isn't redacted. Maybe you attempted to draw black squares also, good for you. But you published the information.
Even if it's metadata hidden inside the file, you still published the information.
Even if it's metadata hidden inside the file, you still published the information.
May you live in interesting times. May you be recognised by powerful people. May you get what you wish for. May your name be redacted from The Epstien Files.
Ancient Chinese Curse.
Ancient Chinese Curse.
times.es - For Sale
times.es
December 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
May you live in interesting times. May you be recognised by powerful people. May you get what you wish for. May your name be redacted from The Epstien Files.
Ancient Chinese Curse.
Ancient Chinese Curse.
Trying to spend my money with intention, rather than whatever is easiest. Conscious consumption, I guess.
So that means less kindle reading, fuck Amazon, and more paper books. Plus this matches my shirt.
#anthonybourdain #booksky
So that means less kindle reading, fuck Amazon, and more paper books. Plus this matches my shirt.
#anthonybourdain #booksky
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Trying to spend my money with intention, rather than whatever is easiest. Conscious consumption, I guess.
So that means less kindle reading, fuck Amazon, and more paper books. Plus this matches my shirt.
#anthonybourdain #booksky
So that means less kindle reading, fuck Amazon, and more paper books. Plus this matches my shirt.
#anthonybourdain #booksky
Apologies to Mitch Hedberg, a beach can never get lost, it can only become more beach. Sorry for the convenience.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
The fight to save Australia's disappearing beaches
Most Australians live by the beach, but the coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes.
www.abc.net.au
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apologies to Mitch Hedberg, a beach can never get lost, it can only become more beach. Sorry for the convenience.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Went out for my after work (from home) stroll. It's 40°C, but feels like it's dropping.
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Went out for my after work (from home) stroll. It's 40°C, but feels like it's dropping.
I guess I won't be seeing Craig Thomson at the cafe at Terrigal any time soon.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I guess I won't be seeing Craig Thomson at the cafe at Terrigal any time soon.
@kottke.org I saw you reposted Machine With Concrete on your blog. 15 years ago I made one out of lego, and filmed it in a similar style to Ganson's original video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7k...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@kottke.org I saw you reposted Machine With Concrete on your blog. 15 years ago I made one out of lego, and filmed it in a similar style to Ganson's original video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7k...
It's crazy that Santa makes a list, and then checks it twice.
He should really create a better system for capturing the information first.
He should really create a better system for capturing the information first.
December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's crazy that Santa makes a list, and then checks it twice.
He should really create a better system for capturing the information first.
He should really create a better system for capturing the information first.
My work bought us Christmas hams, which I appreciate. This afternoon I will be carrying it home on public transport (with ice packs etc).
If there are sniffer dogs, I'm gonna get locked the fuck up.
If there are sniffer dogs, I'm gonna get locked the fuck up.
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My work bought us Christmas hams, which I appreciate. This afternoon I will be carrying it home on public transport (with ice packs etc).
If there are sniffer dogs, I'm gonna get locked the fuck up.
If there are sniffer dogs, I'm gonna get locked the fuck up.
Reposted by Brock Henry
PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
Reposted by Brock Henry
Beautiful remembrance by @stephenking.bsky.social.
Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Beautiful remembrance by @stephenking.bsky.social.
I used Edge as a browser. I started when it got vertical tabs, which I liked. Other browsers since adopted vertical tabs, but I stayed with Edge.
Yesterday, a new UI element popped up in the wrong place "Search with Copilot", and I accidentally clicked on it.
Yesterday, a new UI element popped up in the wrong place "Search with Copilot", and I accidentally clicked on it.
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I used Edge as a browser. I started when it got vertical tabs, which I liked. Other browsers since adopted vertical tabs, but I stayed with Edge.
Yesterday, a new UI element popped up in the wrong place "Search with Copilot", and I accidentally clicked on it.
Yesterday, a new UI element popped up in the wrong place "Search with Copilot", and I accidentally clicked on it.
It's the weirdest. Trump said something consistent with who he is, and consistent with everything else he has ever said, and people are surprised. What?
It's weird how the Reiner thing was the breaking point for some of the most abject Trump apologists
Rod Dreher—a close friend of JD Vance—is starting to acknowledge the pathology of the man in the White House. 1/https://x.com/roddreher/status/2000587916574118238?s=46
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It's the weirdest. Trump said something consistent with who he is, and consistent with everything else he has ever said, and people are surprised. What?
Reposted by Brock Henry
It's weird how the Reiner thing was the breaking point for some of the most abject Trump apologists
Rod Dreher—a close friend of JD Vance—is starting to acknowledge the pathology of the man in the White House. 1/https://x.com/roddreher/status/2000587916574118238?s=46
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's weird how the Reiner thing was the breaking point for some of the most abject Trump apologists
I have decided to hurl kubernetes into the sun. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #kubernetes
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I have decided to hurl kubernetes into the sun. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #kubernetes
I subscribed a few days ago. I've been a fan for a long goddamn time. ~2 decades ago a colleague visited the US (the city The Onion comes from, I think?), and brought me back a physical copy. It lived on my desk and I'd read it from time to time, until it got too many coffee rings.
Okay gang, The Onion is 80 sign-ups away from our 60,000th print subscriber.
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Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S.
So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you.
Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I subscribed a few days ago. I've been a fan for a long goddamn time. ~2 decades ago a colleague visited the US (the city The Onion comes from, I think?), and brought me back a physical copy. It lived on my desk and I'd read it from time to time, until it got too many coffee rings.
If a movie used a scene like this as an analogy for "this war is about oil", it would be entirely too on-the-nose. And yet, here we (well, you, not me) are.
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If a movie used a scene like this as an analogy for "this war is about oil", it would be entirely too on-the-nose. And yet, here we (well, you, not me) are.
Played and sang at blues jam last night. The more I do it, the better my singing and playing gets, which makes me more confident, which makes me sing better, which makes me more confident, and so on.
Someone took a video, and sent it to me. Sounds pretty decent.
Someone took a video, and sent it to me. Sounds pretty decent.
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Played and sang at blues jam last night. The more I do it, the better my singing and playing gets, which makes me more confident, which makes me sing better, which makes me more confident, and so on.
Someone took a video, and sent it to me. Sounds pretty decent.
Someone took a video, and sent it to me. Sounds pretty decent.
It's only a matter of time before RFK brings back the cigarettes with asbestos in the filter.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It's only a matter of time before RFK brings back the cigarettes with asbestos in the filter.
Technically, Hegseth is a serial killer, not just a murderer.
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Technically, Hegseth is a serial killer, not just a murderer.
Careful of the heat today! Remember: if you're thirsty, your friends are thirsty too.
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Careful of the heat today! Remember: if you're thirsty, your friends are thirsty too.