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Stacey Haysler @shaysler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

An interview with many useful insights from Christophe Pettus @chanticleer.com about managing #postgresql!

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 30/03/2026

"Good morning, Claude Code. Let's expand the API for Colossus to include a persistent connection to Guardian via QUIC."

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 26/03/2026

I deep respect the work you do, and you know this space better than I would in a century of research, so please understand that this question is in best-possible-faith: Is it possible to reign in Meta et al. in a way that does *not* do damage to the internet? What are some directions?

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 26/03/2026

There are 100 things you need to know about using AI productively in systems engineering, and 98 of them have the word "context" in them.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 28/02/2026

"Doing bad things" and "failing to do what you can to prevent others from doing those things" are both not-good things. However, the first is (in the technical sense) categorically worse than the second, and failure to realize this is kind of an Internet disease right now.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 28/02/2026

Hyperion has been sitting on my shelf unread since I bought back in the 90s. Good to know that I can move it off my TBR list!

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 19/02/2026

I've come to the conclusion that basically Abrams holds his audience in contempt regardless of what he's working on. There's this oozing sense of, "Oh, you like *that*, your dumb-asses? Here's more of it! You'll lap up anything, won't you?" in Lost, in his Star Wars stuff, his Star Trek stuff.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 06/02/2026

The activity menu on @dropbox.com has been broken since at least 2021. Their AI support chatbot is offensive. If a former CTO is boosting Claude, Anthropic is doomed. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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How Anthropic achieved AI coding breakthroughs — and rattled business

New AI-powered tools reduce time and cost of software development, threatening industries from law to advertising

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 03/02/2026

Welcome to the Federal rules on hearsay.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 21/01/2026

They're going to hand a huge pile of cash to a bunch of mafia goons on the promise that they peel off a couple of $20s for an anger-management class.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 21/01/2026

They're going to hand a huge pile of cash to a bunch of mafia goons on the promise that they peel off a couple of $20s for an anger-management class.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 20/01/2026

"If you don't buy that thing you don't want, we won't be able to afford to make it" is quite the sales pitch. Very compelling.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 20/01/2026

Every time someone says, "Look, I agree ICE is bad, but they aren't the same as the SS-Totenkopfverbände because of <some reason>," ICE reacts with, "Oh, right! Thanks for the reminder."

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 02/12/2025

That and "Can't Help Myself" are two of the most emotional pieces of art I've ever encountered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t...

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Can't Help Myself (Sun Yuan and Peng Yu) - Wikipedia

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 27/11/2025

Strong "suicide is a crime punishable by death" vibes here.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 26/11/2025

It's fascinating watching people who simply did not understand that most of what they thought of organic engagement was just the result of promotion algorithms, suddenly be confronted with an actual realistic distribution of opinions.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 26/11/2025

“ YIMBYs have a stranglehold on the left.” Counterpoint: all of coastal California.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 19/11/2025

OK, that's slightly better (very slightly better) than what I had originally understood, which was that they presented the original three count indictment to the foreperson. It's still astonishing incompetence, though.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 19/11/2025

"Hiring *an* engineer," emphasis mine. How hard can it be, after all? Just roll out MediaWiki on a GoDaddy VM.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 19/11/2025

"You are attempting to use the Federal court system of the United States of America to do *what*, now?" is the line that went through my head.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 19/11/2025

Anyone who thinks of Larry Summers, now or in the past, as on "our team" needs to seriously reconsider the team membership criteria. He has always been, publicly and obviously, a horrible person. on.ft.com/49nkoWe

on.ft.com

Lawrence Summers steps down from OpenAI board over Epstein emails

Scandal-hit former Treasury secretary had said he will withdraw from ‘public commitments’

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There are no words for how evil this is

In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight."
But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 07/11/2025

One of the great things about this modern world is that a statement can be both something a technologist actually said in all seriousness, and at the same time technobabble in that it really isn't meaningful in any serious sense, it's just what people say to each other to sound like they're smart.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/11/2025

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 05/11/2025

Ah, yes, Mississippi, that cerulean-blue state.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

I notice you never hear someone shooting a cop as, "Some say that the suspect's response to threatened arrest might have been heavy-handed."

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

"We are completely in favor of measures to end racism so long as they are time limited and [checks watch] that time ended about 15 minutes ago. What are the odds?" -- Five Supreme Court justices. (I hate Thomas with the heat of a thousand suns, but at least he's honest about what he's doing.)

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

Oops, sorry! Palomacy might still be able to answer questions, if you are still taking care of the pij.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

I mean, I'm not a Christian, but the one thing I know about Jesus is his consistent policy of, "Fuck the poor, they're getting what's coming to them."

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

If you still need a resource: www.pigeonrescue.org Kindness is the highest human behavior, cruelty the lowest. Thank you for caring about the pij.

pigeonrescue.org

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Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online · 17/10/2025

As gently as I can say this, “the kind of people who go to No Kings are not the kind of people who would ever do anything real like direct action in an ICE raid” is not a sentiment with its finger on the pulse of the American pissed-off normie

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 17/10/2025

"Look, Ms Pirro, if you have some guilty-looking ham sandwiches you'd like to indict, we're down for that, but stop bringing us this nonsense."

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/10/2025

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 16/10/2025

That is a swan thinking, “And I’d do it again.”

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 16/10/2025

I saw a post that claimed they saw a post, but I couldn't find a citation. The post was: Every programming language has one of two flaws: * it has macros * it doesn't have macros

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 16/10/2025

That is exactly correct. If Nvidia announced that their next generation of processor consumed half as much power as the current one, by this metric it would be a failure.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 16/10/2025

If you want an idea of how dumb quoting GPU capacity in "gigawatts" is, imagine: * "In August 2025, Ford Motor Company shipped 7600 gallons per mile of gasoline-powered vehicles." * "British Airways announced adding an addition 230,000 liters of aviation fuel per month of new routes in July."

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 16/10/2025

OK, there are so many things bad about the AI business model that this one is pretty petty, but: I hate that GPU capacity is now measured in "gigawatts."It feels like they are finally making it clear that the only purpose of the technology is to consume electricity.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 16/10/2025

It's amazing how many decisions like this are just petty inter-departmental politics, with the Teams and OneDrive product managers trying to juice their "SKUs shipped" numbers.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 10/10/2025

Even as a young nerd, I was seriously bugged by Tron. I mean: The Great Programmer, The Hero: Writes some video games. The Bad Programmer, The Villain: Writes an operating system that becomes sentient. Wait, what?

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 10/10/2025

Hi, @bitsight.bsky.social. I was very surprised that you have adopted a marketing tactic of just creating accounts on your service for people and sending them welcome messages. Of course, I would never do business with a company that shady, but you do you.

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

gem.coop

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2025

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

wheresyoured.at

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 30/09/2025

"Disingenuous, squalid, and dishonorable" is pretty spot-on as a description of this administration.

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Christophe @chanticleer.com · 30/09/2025

I don't have good adjectives to describe how pathetic this is. This is designing a military for photo ops rather than winning conflicts. This is a racist, sexist masturbation fantasy. The United States has become an embarrassment.

theguardian.com

No more ‘woke’ in the US military: key takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s speech

Pentagon chief railed against diversity and fat-shamed the troops as he directed his generals to fall in line – or quit

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