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Laurențiu N.

@laurentiu.bsky.social
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DevOps architect by day, avid reader by night. Listening to history, economics and D&D. CET Standard Tribe. M/he/him.

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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The story is as old as dirt. The lamp. The genie. The three wishes. The world of pain and misery resulting from the fulfilment of said wishes. The dire warning at the end. We all know a version of this that doesn't get the Disney makeover, right? The AI genie is here. Careful what you wish for.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
That's all we needed, a born-again AI.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Your service becoming unavailable due to an expired SSL certificate is the IT equivalent of your car running out of fuel on the highway.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Proof positive that some humans were actually cats in a past life. No, I'm not clicking the damn link.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What he's saying is complete and utter nonsense anyway. Object storage needs to live next to your app / service / system, so there's always going to be a need for self-hosted object storage next to self-hosted services. Backup? Maybe, if you trust the cloud provider. Primary? Hell no.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
America has a puritanical obsession with sex and sex-related things, specifically hiding them / pretending they do not exist. Glorification of (gun) violence, mayhem and gore? Keep your naughty bits under wraps = no problem. Sex? Hell no! Book bans are a particularily heinous intstance of this.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is truly heartbreaking. I don't really remember my concerns, age 10, but I'm pretty sure surviving an armed assault was not one of them.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Darker read: maybe the endgame for jd is Ukraine's unconditional surrender, but he can't just come out and say it, so he uses this as a veiled metaphor.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A few years back I've decided to stop reading articles with clickbaity titles. No regrets.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"Normalize not having an opinion on things you aren't properly informed about."
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Respectfully, no. I've lived behind the iron curtain long enough to know how easy it is for this power to be abused. Even with the best of intentions, sooner or later there's going to be the wrong person making use of it. Just imagine Trump with access to this kind of power.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This could have been the West, but we were busy building up nuclear arsenals instead.
scmp.com
‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor
Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#SNL gonna #SNL... the nods to the show's S3 storyline were hilarious.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
At this point The Laundry Files feels practically solarpunk.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Assistant to the regional manager?
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
That certain megacorp would be much better served by adding actual live acting to the Gentleman Bastards and turning the whole thing into a TV series.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Once you're past the border and on a trusted network, connect to your home VPN and restore your data - overnight should be fine. Setting up the infrastructure for the above is widely documented, if you're non technical, ask a techie friend to help. You'd be safer for it.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Appropos of absolutely nothing happening at the US border at all, rules for travelling abroad with electronics: - pack freshly wiped phone and/or laptop - keep the rest of your data at home, accessible via a OpenVPN / Wireguard VPN - keep URL + password to said VPN in your head
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Recite the pledge of allegiance to continue."
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Because whatever moral high ground the US was standing upon - real or imagined - it has now crumbled into dust. And I don't see it coming back in my lifetime.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't know what kind of benefits outweigh the US loss of allies, prestige and honour, let alone the sacrifice of a whole country. But it better be gods damned worth it. When US was attacked in 2001, a coalition of the willing stood with it. Now the best it can hope for is a cohort of the coerced.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The fact that it does not means that there is a benefit for this administration in withholding aid to Ukraine. And it's not rare earth minerals, as exploiting those effectively would require logistics and infrastructure in place that cannot realistically be there before Trump's end of term.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Why do I say this? Withholding military aid is one thing. Withholding critical intelligence is quite another. US would be able to effectively whittle down Russia's military capability just by uploading HIMARS target data to Ukraine, at no cost to itself.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THREAD: By now I am convinced that Trump's actual objective is nothing less than an Ukrainian capitulation to Russia. The actual deal - the one between Putin and Trump - was probably made long ago. We are now witnessing its aftermath. Ukraine has been sold out wholesale.
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Iain Thomson @iainthomson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The legendary James Harrison - the man with the golden arm - has passed, after saving around two million lives through blood donation. His blood contained high levels of anti-D antibodies that have saved the lives of many younglings and he donated every two weeks from 18 to 81. Huge respect.
en.wikipedia.org
James Harrison (blood donor) - Wikipedia
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Something something suit wearing something respect Presidency something. Bloody hypocrites.
Elon Musk not wearing a suit next to Trump in the Oval Office.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What's even sadder is that the fate of nations is being decided by two angry "businessmen" and their hurt feelings over one brave man's refusal to kowtow, kiss the little ring and sell out his country.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/02/2025
Honestly, “What Would Picard Do?” is usually the right answer. He was a truly good dude who also understood the hard realities of living in a political system. I also vote for Columbo.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Only if you inherit from it.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Homeopa-tea.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I know Cory's opinion on BSky, but maybe you'll change his mind? His voice would be more than welcome here.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Implementing GDPR is a PITA, but it's infinitely better than the alternative.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Interesting point: melon is probably relying on the same handful of young coders because they're not old enough to know better.
talkingpointsmemo.com
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Yes, I do speak like the writers on whose works ChatGPT was illegally trained on, so nice of you to notice." Maybe we should normalize the casual use of expletives instead, Samuel L. Jackson style. There's no way this motherfucking paragraph was generated by AI.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Voting in elections is literally the very least you can do, politically speaking. It speaks volumes that a significant part of the population can't be bothered to even to that. And I'm under no illusions that the ones that vote do so in an informed manner. The informed votes are probably a minority.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Too good not to share.
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Watch @gimulnautti's loop on Loops.video
Too good not to shar... • 48 likes • 1 comments
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The people also want vengeance visited upon health insurance CEOs, apparently, yet vance made no mention of it in his speech. Curious.
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Yeah, we heard this one before... where oh where in history?
Arbeit macht frei (work sets you free) - Auschwitz gate.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Every time I find myself *truly* despising a character on screen, I take a moment to appreciate the actors and their art, for having made such a compelling personage. Here’s to Alan Rickman, Imelda Staunton, Javier Bardem, Jeremy Sisto, to name just a few. Without you, there would be no heroes.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Why do you ask?
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My commiserations, and may I introduce you to the wonderful world of noise cancelling headphones? Don't worry, they either grow out of it or they become Moby.
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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 05/02/2025
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get the shot?
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
... unless you want to, you know, break things.
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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"How convenient for you, to at last work with a species whose bodies are compatible with your bureaucracy." -- Becky Chambers, "the galaxy, and the ground within"
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I swear, this is part of some weird cocoon / nesting instinct. Most, if not all adults, seem to block any memory of having done such a thing at that age, and are really surprised when the kids pick up the habit. Anyway, here's my collection of matchbox cutouts I used to trade with my peers, age 11.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Yes. They're called "teens". They should hatch any day now.
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Laurențiu N. @laurentiu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The government should be smaller.
A 4 panel webcomic where the head of government declaims that" the government should be smaller, Smaller, SMALLER!" In each panel there are less ministers shown, until the final panel finds them on a throne with two armed bodyguards, happily declaring: "Perfect."
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