Do you ever use SSH keys for authentication?

Passkeys are SSH keys but for the web browser. Seriously, it's the same tech.

TSMC Arizona started making 6 nm chips (better than anything China can make) in December 2024.

https://youtu.be/WHat_LYrpQE

TSMC Arizona started making a fabricator for state-of-the-art 2 nm chips yesterday, 1 May 2025, when AMD gave it substantial money to do so. Estimated to be complete in 2026.

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-starts-building-us-chip-factory-within-hours-of-receiving-permit-amd-ceo-says-2nm-hpc-chips-in-play/

I had all 7 managers and 9 architects sign a written petition at IBM Cloud Classic to not lay me off in September 2024 until December 2024, after the major guzzle migration project I was the architect and lead of was deployed, as they felt the project would quickly fail and they'd lose major billion-dollar contracts due to the guzzle vulnerabilities.

CEO Arvind rejected the plea. I was laid off for being more than 50 miles from an IBM office. I had started during COVID-19 and had a written and approved 100% telecommute permission enacted in 2022.

The guzzle project failed. In January, a major Big 5 bank pulled their servers off citing guzzle v4 security concerns. Then the mass layoffs started in March and my then-team of 3 shrunk to a team of 2 and more projects are at risk. From 6 devs in 2023 to 2 devs in 2025...

Since 2022, I have been living primarily in the Middle East (Egypt and Dubai) and my workday for American corps starts at 7 PM and ends at 1-2 AM.

It is absolutely fantastic!

Every weekend is a three day weekend (end work around midnight Friday night, start work Monday at 7 PM).
Every day I have tons of time to do whatever I want.

Arch Linux has had 100% reproducibility since at least 2010. I'm not joking. Every makepkg run sha256 and sha512 sums every single file. It's part of makepkg's core duty to extract the files in an in-memory, containerized file system and ensure everything behaves as it should, both at package creation time and installation time. If one little thing is off or the file already exists on the system, everything, the entire upgrade run (and all previously-installed packages) are unrolled before anything is permanently written to the file system.

But Arch is probably superior to Fedora in literally every technical way. Much better architects and engineers.

At least the swastika AC guy is no longer here.

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Since the image thing went viral, my own ChatGPT o3 API endpoints were suffering 10-25% failure rates from ~12 Noon to 4 PM EDT. E.g., Lunch breaks throughout America.

For the last day, error rates are back down to < 1%.

Why don't they have proper rate-limiting in place anyway? Image generation shouldn't shut down text generation.

So, I live outside of the US in various countries but sometimes I have to visit.

I visited for 1 week in April 2022 to get a new job (drug tests, mostly) and I drove a car for that week. On my 2nd to last day, I got a ticket for aggressively making a left turn in front of another car. OK OK.

So I knew I wasnt going to be back in the USA for months so I went on Google Maps for that city and found a traffic attorney with lots of positive reviews (~30). and I called him.

First Red Flag: He answered via his cellphone while driving at 2 PM.

Second Red Flag: He wanted me to pay him upfront to his personal Bank of America Zelle account.

I really hesitated, but I had read the reviews and he seemed legit, so I gave him $300 via Zelle.

He called me up a week later adn told me he had gotten the case resolved via deferred adjudication. I wouldn't even be in Texas, so 100% it would be dismissed in 3months.

4 months later, cops showed up to my parents house. There was a warrant for my arrest. No show at teh court date the lawyer said he'd covered me for...

I call teh lawyer, no answer, no answer. So I called another number listed for him that I found on Google maps, this one with more reviews, but a lot of negative ones.

"Oh, Mr. >redacted<. moved to Brazil several months ago and quit at this lawfirm!"

He had gotten one of these scam google maps listed on his own personal number and he pulled a Zelle scam, put all the income into USDT crypto and then fled to non-extraditing Brazil. He did this hundreds and hundreds of times to many, many people.

I contacted the State Bar of Texas, they did an investigation and reversed my warrant cuz of it all. He was disbarred and they're currently seeking justice. By our count, he got about 7,000 people over the course of 8 months, even after he'd left for Brazil, at $500 average or a good $3.5 million...Advertised in every major city in Texas. Kept telling us he'd delayed the court date and then resolved it. No one really found out til the police started arresting victims for outstanding no-show warrants, 5 months later.

It was DOGE coin and a bit of Ethereum.

https://crypto.news/47-ronin-director-allegedly-scammed-11m-from-netflix-to-buy-doge-other-crypto/

When he sold the DOGE in 2021, he went on this <strong>*wild*</strong> spending spree and supposedly blew $1.1 million in the first week and $20 million in the first 3 months. all sorts of things.

It was DOGE, back in 2018.

He sold it in March 2021 during peak Elon DOGE mania, and made a cool $36.7 millino profit off the $4 million....

But he legit lost $6 million of Netflix's money in 2018 gambling on a recession hitting that never came.

When Netflix found out about the $36 million profit, supposedly $44 million on the blockchain at one point, that's when they initiaed the legal proceedings.

I cannot believe that Gimp 3.0 was released before Half Life 3!!!

I honestly never thought this day would come.

Is there still hope for Valve??

I am currently living in Colombia.

I have a Virgin Mobile plan that costs 30,000 COP ($7.30) that has unlimited talk, 50 DMS, and 40 GB of 4.5 LTE at about 20 mb/sec

Is that good? What do you get in the USA for $10 and $50?

Mint Mobile users get deprioritized. In an airport, or other busy places like Downtown, you'll have extremely slow (dialup speed) internet and everywhere you go, your calls will randomly drop.

This is the second comment on this story that uses the acronym "IME" and I have no idea what it means, nor do I remember ever seeing it!