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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 9h

BlueSky was trying to make "skeet" not a thing, but I think this will do...

Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You forgot to mention that Oilers—who make up most of the engine room crew—start at $58,046.40 and are getting 0% raises through 2029.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is... not good. Our ferry system is basically in free fall at this point. The WSF mechanics and engineers somehow ended up with 0% raises through 2029 via an arbitrator. Staffing is at bare minimums, and relies heavily on overtime for normal operations.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This was all just backend batch jobs, so my customer didn't care about cold starts. (There's no concept of CloudFront or an edge network in AWS GovCloud; even Route 53 is limited to private hosted zones.)

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Be right back. Going to start hacking some database schemas to *require* an apostrophe in all last names...

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why do we even need the LHC? We'll just have Katie Mack position the particles where they're needed, fusing them as necessary. 😉

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm under an NDA. Neverending depression and anxiety... 😂

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the customer side, nothing was observable (other than slower cold-start times). As the solutions architect for the customer, I heard about utilization woes from the Lambda team, though!

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lambda before Firecracker was… not pretty. Lots of wasted CPU. In GovCloud, even if I had just one 128 MB function on my account that stayed warm, it would occupy a full c3/c4.large!

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm curious where this talk was taking this topic. Also, Brooke is an Aussie, not Kiwi, I thought?

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have to admit, it's tempting to just quit my job and move to Copenhagen to become a grad student again. 😆

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Weird, I had never heard of this before. And I had even switched over to a Mac laptop by then, so somehow I missed this entirely. I doubt I'd ever use it, but I still find it weird that Apple launched and crashed an entire social network without me even being aware.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey everyone! We fixed all of the issues with AI! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with making all-day spaghetti is the aroma tantalizes you all day.

A pot of spaghetti sauce in a slow cooker. Bell peppers, celery, and onions are visible atop a red meat sauce.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What is the colorful diagram on the right? Almost looks like somebody took colored pencils to a Smith chart.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As cute as the mobile lounges at Dulles are, I don't miss them (not needed for Alaska or Delta flights). Last few times was in the summer, with little/no air conditioning in them.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I shied away from academia because I didn’t want to spend my life writing grant proposals; now I spend my time writing contract proposals. 🤦 And it’s the same: little/no correlation between contracts awarded and quality of R&D delivered.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What do you mean by VFD here? I can only expand it to vacuum fluorescent display, which I can’t fathom how someone could make at home.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gets rid of those pesky Norwegians, though. (www.bram.us/2022/01/11/y... for those who haven't heard of this before.)

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember getting a peek at this on a behind-the-scenes tour as a kid. Reading up elsewhere[1], looks like it was 6502-based with Atari RIOT ICs (perhaps not surprising since both were founded by Nolan Bushnell). [1] github.com/palazzol/Cyb...

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I thought pretty much all of the AI companies distill from each other. Why is this even news?

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thinking back to the OpenClawd incident where an agent started making derogatory posts against a maintainer who wouldn't merge its work: how long before these break into a CJIS system and start falsifying criminal records to remove obstructions?

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is well established that Apple does not allow their devices to be shown being used by bad guys. State exhibit 41 clearly shows my client using his iPhone. This clearly establishes my client's innocence of these horrific charges."

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Commercial displays is the solution I've heard. They're more expensive; ads are subsidizing the household versions. (e.g., B&H: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/browse/Mul...)

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How do you get the volunteers to/from Midway? Boat from Hawai'i?

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not just autocorrect but sudden UI changes in general, like search results suddenly populating right where I'm about to tap. UIs should ignore clicks/taps/submits made if the UI element has been there less than some human-reasonable threshold.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Being murdered again in 2026 in Stockton, UK, was a bit of a setback, but I'm now a prominent real estate professional in Seattle. No wonder I'm always tired. 2/2

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Apparently, I was born in Wales, fought in WWI, joined the Royal Navy, and was assassinated in 1972. I didn't let this stop me, though; I then became a physician, serving in Antarctica, before switching over to Hollywood effects (Atlas, 2024). 1/2

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On par with this: OAuth logins that open up in something other than a standard browser, making it impossible to use my password manager or passkeys.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The house I grew up in would make all sorts of pops after the sun set. As I kid, I was certain there was some stranger on the roof. We moved into a newly built house in my teen years. Similar pops, except sometimes nails would shoot out from the drywall because the frame was drying and contracting.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the "special" materials were just regular ferr(i/o)magnetic materials, chosen so their coercivity was just right? That is, the current from X+Y would flip it, while current from just X or Y by itself was below the hysteresis point.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yo dawg! We heard you like retrocomputing so we put an Apple in your Apple so you can compute while you compute.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is supposed to be in the mid 80s in Portland today, and I'm not about to be wearing some scratchy space wizard cloak stuck to my sweaty skin. Rey's outfit seems more practical. Even up here, where the high is in the low 70s, cloak would be too much. Maybe later in the fall.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Once we're done migrating to IPv6 world-wide and turning off the last IPv4 server, it's time to start migrating from Referer to Referrer headers.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This seems like it would be a bit of a security nightmare given what we know today with speculative execution in one ISA affecting the other.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The two ideas I have: * Taking AWS' access management system (IAM) and making it applicable/usable anywhere: github.com/dacut/scratchstack * Connecting code and infrastructure-as-code together to do compile-time checks for breaking changes. (No work to show for this yet.)

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also, unless you own your own IP range, your traffic looks like it's coming from AWS' EC2 fleet, and a *lot* of sites block traffic from there.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I set this up for a couple labs, but it's only something you'd want to use if you have no other option (or have a perverse love of Microsoft RDS). Think: secured networks that aren't generally connected to the internet. aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ll have to take a gander. I have a few GAL22V10s that need to be programmed.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I envy your ability to say you're on just one OS. I have too many damn computers around me (and even more if you count virtual machines).

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

(Scans QR code...) Yep, exactly what I was expecting. I approve.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Is it still supported, or do you have to do bizarre things like scrape together Windows 98 images to get the development environment to work? I lament how CPLDs are falling by the wayside these days; they're perfect in hobbyist niches.

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Dave Cuthbert 🏔️🏊🏽‍♂️🌊 @dacut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Congrats! (For a second, I was trying to figure out how I came to follow you. Then I saw the Star Trek cosplay pictures and it all made sense. 😆)

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