Tim Large

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

UNDEFEATED.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our intern just asked me why we don't use Kubernetes.

I said because we don't need Kubernetes.

He said everyone uses Kubernetes.

I said everyone TALKS about using Kubernetes. Most companies are running Docker containers on three servers and calling it a day.

We have 40 employees. Our entire infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling groups. It works fine.

Kubernetes is designed for companies running thousands of services across hundreds of servers. We have twelve services.

But he read that Kubernetes is "industry standard" so now he thinks we're behind.

This is what happens when people learn from tech Twitter instead of actual experience.

They think every company is Google-scale and needs Google-scale solutions.

We don't need Kubernetes. We need our MySQL database to stop running out of connections because someone wrote a query that doesn't close properly.

But that's not exciting. Nobody writes blog posts about "I fixed a connection leak."

They write about "How we migrated to Kubernetes and saved millions" even though the migration cost more than they saved.

I told the intern he should learn why tools exist before learning the tools themselves.

He looked disappointed. He wanted to put Kubernetes on his resume.

[Dillon Cheverere @DCheverere]

You’re laughing? Clavicular ran into an ASU frat leader and got brutally frame mogged and you’re laughing?

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

First day of the week and I'm already dealing with a "crisis."

Our Head of Sales just sent me an email at 7:45 AM saying we need to "urgently discuss" expanding cloud storage because his team is "running out of space."

I checked the usage logs. His team is using 40% of their allocated storage.

But I'm not going to tell him that.

I scheduled a meeting for Thursday at 3 PM. Told him I need time to "analyze usage patterns and evaluate our infrastructure capacity."

What I'm actually going to do: nothing. I'm going to look at the same logs I just looked at, wait until Thursday, and tell him in person that we have plenty of space, but I can "reallocate resources from other departments" to give his team more headroom.

He'll feel like I solved a problem. His team will feel prioritized. And I'll look like I spent four days doing complex analysis.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

My wife just asked me if I'm "done working" because her sister wants to FaceTime.

I said, "Yeah, the upgrade finished. Everything's stable now."

I haven't looked at a single work system all day. I've been playing Elden Ring for 4 hours.

But I made sure to leave my laptop open on my desk with a terminal window visible. Just black screen with green text scrolling. Looks very official.

It's actually just running ping google on repeat. But to anyone who glances in, it looks like I'm monitoring something critical.

We got on FaceTime with her sister. She asked what I was working on today.

I said, "Just some backend infrastructure maintenance. Nothing exciting."

She said, "You work too hard."

I nodded solemnly. "Someone's gotta keep the lights on."

My wife squeezed my hand. She thinks I'm dedicated.

The truth? I haven't done a single work-related thing since Thursday afternoon.

But the appearance of work is more important than the work itself. And the best part about IT? Nobody actually knows what you're doing, so they just assume you're doing something important.

Legacy building isn't about what you accomplish. It's about what people think you accomplish.

[Chrisman @chrisman]

My wife walking into the baby’s one year checkup knowing CDC has amended the vaccine schedule since her last appointment when the doctor called her “irresponsible” for not consenting to all 72 doses.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Absolutely insane headline

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

Is there really a pressing national security rationale for not letting me see the uncensored version of this?

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Last week I hosted family for Thanksgiving.

My 12-year-old nephew asked for the WiFi password.

He wanted to play Roblox on his iPad.

I looked at the device.

Unmanaged. No antivirus. No encryption.

I’m an IT Professional. I don't run an open network.

So I didn’t give him the password.

Instead, I spent 45 minutes provisioning a Guest VLAN.

I set up a captive portal.

I throttled the bandwidth down to 56kbps.

Then I blocked all traffic on ports 80 and 443.

He came back crying. He said it wouldn't load.

My sister screamed at me to "just let him play."

I told her that Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines.

We didn't have a "fun" Thanksgiving.

But we had a secure perimeter.

You’re welcome for the compliance.

[pilleater @realpilleater]

Some people, especially Western women, think the world is an amusement park full of misunderstood nice people, that the West is evil and racist, and that they know better, until they firsthand discover the differences that language barrier was hiding.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 EDWARD SNOWDEN’S CHILLING WARNING IS NOW UNFOLDING IN REAL TIME

What China built… is exactly what Western governments are quietly preparing for.

Snowden is crystal clear:

Every photo, every purchase, every message, every movement — all of it is being fed into algorithms that decide your future.

In China, AI “city brains” now track:

Where you live
Who you visit
How you dispose of your rubbish
Every step you take in public
Whether you “follow rules” or not

Break a rule?

A camera catches you from three angles.

Your score drops.

Your life collapses.

Snowden’s warning:

“If any of your activities differ from what the government wants, you won’t get on a train.

You won’t board a plane.
You won’t get a job.

An algorithm will decide your fate.
And what they are selling… is us.”

This is not a future threat.

It is happening now — in Shanghai, in Beijing… and creeping into the West through digital ID, AI policing, and “misinformation scoring.”

China built the prototype.

Our governments are importing the blueprint.

Stay informed.
Stay alert.
Do not let this system take root.

[George Roush @GeorgeRoush]

When I was a little kid, the school had me repeatedly tested to see where my IQ was but couldn't pin it down because I refused to complete the tests, so they just marked it as "at least 135" and put me into some sort of state controlled gifted program with additional monitoring.

The school then referred me to a specialist, and my parents would drive me very far to go see a special doctor. I liked it because the doctors would just watch me while I built Legos, and then we'd do some logic exercises that I enjoyed. There was always a counseling session attached to it as well where one doctor would ask questions and the other would take notes. I vividly remember being particularly interested in the fact that they had gold Legos, and the doctors wanted me to incorporate them into what I built- a task that I now recognize as testing to see how I handled off-nomimal instructions.

I always had fun because afterward, my dad would take me to Pizza Hut for the buffet, and the doctors would occasionally give me hot wheels cars.

Then, on the advice of these doctors, they took me to an experimental place where they hooked me up to machines to measure my brainwaves and try to "fix" my brain performance through a combination of lights, sounds, sensors, and shocks.

I had to go to this training where they would strap me into an (admittedly comfortable) chair for two hours with sensors all over my head, and I would get a mild shock every time I lost focus, and they would try to use sounds and abstract images projected onto a screen in front of me to try to help me "improve my brain activity". I would regularly complete tests and cognitive exercises as part of this.

I went there for about a year before it stopped. I asked why and all my parents said was that "it's a government program and the government doesn't want to pay for it anymore"

I don't really know how this all impacted me because I almost immediately buried all memory of it. I didn't regain memory of it until almost 15 years later, when I smelled an odor very similar to the office where I went. It caused me to have such a negative response that I was a wreck for months, and it seriously contributed to killing a four year relationship.

Now, I seem to remember it once per year around late October. I don't know why.

To this day, I still don't know who any of those people were, what their jobs were, or what the purpose was. My dad remembers taking me, but all he says is "they never really told me anything"

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Lmaooo. Trump gave the President of Syria a bottle of Trump cologne earlier this week when he visited the White House.

“The other one is for your wife. How many wives?”

“One.”

“With you guys, I never know.” �

[Brad Chadlington @BradChadlington]

The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl you know from wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zohran Mamdani on her story right now captioned “power to the people!!!” from her Soho apartment that’s paid for by her wealthy conservative father

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

These kind of women will look you dead in the face and complain about women being unsafe in public, and then vote for the guy that point blank wants to abolish prisons lol

[Ronald Dregan @_Ronald_Dregan]

@chooserich “Your autistic retarded cousin visiting from Bulgaria for the summer”

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The number one thing that artificially inflates the price of groceries is the food stamp program. The federal government is subsidizing groceries for 40 million people which obviously drives up the cost. That's why the increase in the cost of groceries tracks exactly with the increase in the number of people on food stamps. So as a functional, contributing, working American, you're getting scammed twice. Once when the government steals from your paycheck and gives it to EBT recipients, and again when you go to the grocery store. You're paying twice so that morbidly obese people can buy Doritos on your dime. Infuriating.

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

girls with autism- “ooo i’m kinda shy”

boys with autism-

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

AOC says "rivers were on fire" because of corporations like Deloitte "pouring chemicals" into waterways.

Deloitte is an accounting, consulting, and tax services firm.

No idea what she's talking about.

[Haley Muhfuggin Shane 🔥 Brand Designer @iamhaleyshane]

Why is it that every fucking third worlder that comes here on a floating door is an American, but I'm still in stolen land 400 years after my ancestors got here.