CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Nvidia’s market cap is equal to over 17% of the US GDP. That is wild.

@aircooledcafe I'm not aware of any problems - I host dns with dnsimple and their status page isn't showing any problems (https://dnsimple.statuspage.io/) and all the checks I can run come back without a problem:

dig infosec.exchange @ns1.dnsimple-edge.net

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> infosec.exchange @ns1.dnsimple-edge.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15656
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;infosec.exchange. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
infosec.exchange. 3600 IN A 151.101.3.52
infosec.exchange. 3600 IN A 151.101.67.52
infosec.exchange. 3600 IN A 151.101.131.52
infosec.exchange. 3600 IN A 151.101.195.52

;; Query time: 12 msec
;; SERVER: 2620:111:8004::53#53(ns1.dnsimple-edge.net) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue May 12 14:42:29 UTC 2026
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 109

You know, if I had it to do over again, I would probably not have adopted pets whose average life spans coincide with when my kids were likely to move out of the house. It creates a lot of emptiness all at once.

Never forgot rule 4

@gsilvapt there should be comfortable dress sweats and dress shorts as options these days. If we can’t have flying cars or interstellar travel, this should at least be a thing

Honestly, one of the things I like least about traveling for work is having to wear pants. Seems like we should have moved past this expectation by now

@Viss @lerg I think that’s a good point. I leads me to another idea in a round about way: most companies probably won’t vibe code anything. Even if it’s easy. Which means there will still be a market for apps and SaaS, but it seems like we are going to run into a paradox of choice situation when everyone and their dog can create niche industry vertical apps with little investment.

I retract my comment about IT - we will always be needed to find the any key, to reimage hosed up computers, fix the WiFi, etc.

@lerg in all seriousness, I do wonder what this change will drive. Cloud led to consolidation of compute into datacenters and gave rise to SaaS. Blockchain gave rise to, well, bad example but whatever. There will be a time of peak horror show resulting from vibe coded apps, and then a reduction and it settles in and there will be a long tail of little horrors. Just like we still have with SaaS and cloud today.

But it makes me wonder: what becomes of IT when all the infrastructure is in the cloud and all the apps are bespoke stuff running in some sort of safety container in the cloud? I think there will be a coming resurgence of business analysts who figure out how to focus vibe coding into actually useful apps and not a bunch of distracting science experiments.

@lerg if 35 years in IT has taught me anything, it’s that somehow Intel will profit off of this.

Getting some stock trading ideas from the locals

@jkmcnk I was told my casual shoes with suit pants would be a grave faux pax

TFW you get ready for the meeting and realize you brought two different dress shoes and now have to cosplay Tim Cook at an iPhone launch

@artcollisions @tinker about 95 minutes

Being this close to the whitehouse must be like what it felt like for the hobbitses being so close to Mount Doom

Looks like I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque

@mikesiegel it feels like governments everywhere are starting to do this. Once we get a few companies that offer those services and they hire lobbyists, the movement will go into overdrive. It very well may become too legally perilous to operate the services. Hopefully not though.

I saw watched a video about the first successful synthetic DNA and what it could mean for the future. I’m hoping for dogs that purr and plant based food pellets that taste good so I don’t have to pick what to eat

@zcutlip thank you

Rainiest day of the year, but best day ever.

Youngest son’s wedding about to start.