Ernie Smith
@ernie.tedium.co
Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com). See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/ “Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles
CloudFlare just dropped a “computer” and an “operating system” but what it actually dropped is neither. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-c...
Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer
Agents need more than just a container to scale. We're introducing @cloudflare/computer, an agent runtime that dynamically orchestrates between fast, efficient isolates and full Linux containers to gi...
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New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
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As one does, with a tweet sent out at 3:32 am
Politico@politico.com · 4h agoChuck Edwards says he will end reelection bid after censure recommendation
I should get one of those xteink readers because it would be basically the perfect size to turn this into a makeshift cyberdeck
Ernie Smith@ernie.tedium.co · 20h agoSeven months later, it here. Waited a long time for this thing, hope it's good
Haven’t heard modern day Eddie Vedder in a long time, he definitely looks his age. Anyway, lovely performance at Glen Hansard’s funeral. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlS...
Eddie Vedder, Markéta Irglová, Thomas Bartlett and The Frames perform at Glen Hansard's funeral
YouTube video by The Journal
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the funniest part of this is the single being on a label incorporated just for this one song specifically
Ernie Smith@ernie.tedium.co · 22h agoI must inform you that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” just went platinum, according to the RIAA. www.riaa.com/gold-platinu...
Seven months later, it here. Waited a long time for this thing, hope it's good
you'd think that if all you needed to make some gold was iron + wine that alchemists would have figured it out 500 years ago
Ernie Smith@ernie.tedium.co · 22h agoI found this out because I was looking for info about other artists who got RIAA certifications. Iron & Wine has a surprising number of Gold singles!
Gotta say Rebecca Black really did get the last laugh
I must inform you that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” just went platinum, according to the RIAA. www.riaa.com/gold-platinu...
By the end of the term the White House is going to one giant helipad
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 24h agoScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
While you read David Ellison’s lame defense of his attempted WBD deal in one tab, read this piece about how his company brazenly wined and dined FCC officials in the other. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterdayShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Man who has nearly everything slowly realizing that the last thing he doesn’t have is slipping from his grasp www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
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Respect to Bari because “failing upwards until your incompetence costs the richest people on earth billions of dollars” is a dream of every journalist
Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Shout out to Hughesnet for getting thoroughly disrupted by a trillionaire www.cnet.com/home/interne...
Hughesnet Files for Bankruptcy After Bleeding Customers to Starlink - CNET
Years of pressure from SpaceX's Starlink have pushed the legacy satellite provider into a Chapter 11 filing. Here's what it means for customers.
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Here’s how you do this: Don’t make overtures to conservatives. Instead, make it really easy for creators to monetize here. There are creators who are on Threads that would kick ass here who are skipping here because they think it’s small. AT Protocol is a secret weapon; use it!
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Personally I would love to see Bluesky expand. It shouldn’t just be the app for leftists who can’t stand Matt Yglesias! It should also be the app for liberals who can’t stand Matt Yglesias. And apolitical folks who can’t stand Yglesias. And, yes, even conservatives who can’t stand Matt Yglesias!
OF COURSE. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Yikes. Phil Collins spent seven months in the hospital recovering from years of alcohol abuse. He nearly died. “My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up. People were coming to say goodbye.” www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
Phil Collins says he nearly died in 2024 after years of alcohol abuse
“People were coming to say goodbye. But I don’t remember them coming. I didn’t have no idea this was going on,” the singer told The Times of London.
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It’s Monday afternoon. It’s lunchtime on the East Coast. While you’re at our desk avoiding the LLM which is trying to keep you productive, read a long piece about pricing guns. It’s a more interesting technology than you’d guess. tedium.co/2026/08/01/p...
Why Pricing Guns Stuck Around After The Barcode
In the showdown between barcodes and manually placed price tags, the pricing gun should have lost. But states, unions, and consumer advocates kept it around.
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When i got into the industry in 2004 it was widely accepted that the path to growth was to work at a small paper then travel to another town as you improved your craft. Now the goal appears to be “move the the biggest big city you can, because the farm system is basically dead.”
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agomore than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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What makes this photo is the kid’s eyes. They have a real “I’m seeing some crazy shit” look to them
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2d agois there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson
