What a weird, dystopian advert by - checks notes - the Singapore Prison Service. The photos say “you gonna get your skull cracked by my truncheon” while the copy is all sunshine and roses.
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Coffee, technology with a focus on SAP, craft beer and whisky. Usually in that order for best results. Likes taking nature photos far more than editing them. 🇪🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬
When looking from Singapore, Lake Ontario retains the correct name. So now there is one reality for the US and one for everyone else. Just like with weights, distances, volume, etc, I guess…
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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I hadn’t heard of this before, but it also resonates as someone who is fond of the “T-shaped people” concept.
John Patterson@jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 9mo agoPaint Drip People - specialization is an emergent property of curiosity, not a pre-planned destination tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip...
Round 2 tonight with the second half of the fillet. Higher initial oven temps and a shorter baking time meant the exterior of the fillet didn’t overcook. I preferred this.
Bit of a mammoth prep, but the home-made Beef Wellington was worth it in the end. Merry Christmas folks!
interesting detailed read about Twilio trading operational complexity of microservices for SPOF risk of a monolith - risk mitigated with monorepo, dependency management and strong automated test www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
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This is what happens when facts meet marketing hype.
Kevin Beaumont@doublepulsar.com · 11mo agoCrowdStrike 2025 European Threat Landscape Report is out. You'll notice all of the initial access methods don't involve AI, and generative AI or GenAI isn't mentioned once. Which is interesting... considering it contradicts their own narrative a few weeks ago.
All of this, and asking “what are we trying to achieve here?” a lot :-)
John Patterson@jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 12mo agoHow to Lead in a Room Full of Experts idiallo.com/blog/how-to-... good reminder that leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about knowing what questions to ask and how to communicate across different perspectives.
How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts idiallo.com/blog/how-to-... good reminder that leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about knowing what questions to ask and how to communicate across different perspectives.
First time making xiao long bao by myself. Bit of a marathon effort making everything from scratch, but despite the wonky shapes they turned out well. 5 hours of prep time, and all gone in 10 minutes 😋
Lucky Inbox. Maybe there’s a message from a Nigerian Prince waiting for me?
The joy of sitting at the counter of a great #cocktail bar and talking to the staff about what _they_ would choose next. Valentin from L’Artchimiste in Lyon suggested a Champs-Élysée which I’d never heard of before, but hit the spot with its deep, dark, subtly spiced and quite herbaceous flavour.
Due to the UK’s new age verification law, I had been locked out of Bluesky DMs while in the UK for the last ~10 days. Now in the land of liberté 🇫🇷 and everything works again as it should. How is this UK law about protecting kids?? Feels a tad Orwellian… #freespeech
tldr humanity needs to engineer buildings around filtered air replacement rate and it's not even that dramatic but for dramatic results
Barry Hunt@barryhunt008.bsky.social · last yr.⬆️ ventilation = ⬇️ Covid HAIs Increasing from 1 to 6 ACH = 50% reduction (~40% to 20% attack rate) Increasing from 6 to 10 ACH = more reduction (~20% to 10% attack rate)
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
#SAP folks: I'd appreciate your vote on this innovation idea to enable FX valuation at month end for multiple company codes at once, rather than executing one by one: influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/id... 🙏
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Teamwork Sunday dinner with @jae28.bsky.social: reindeer fillet on celeriac purée with a smoked bacon & sage tartiflette and cranberry compote. What an end to the weekend!
You are underestimating the compounding awesomeness of continually fixing small broken things.
I guess the Paris public transport uses HTML as a layout? Or at least tries to?
@marekkowal.bsky.social Happy birthday! I hope you’re having a good day in sunny Queensland!