Aleks Rudzitis

Principal Engineer at @aws. Ex @Stripe. Ex-AWS KMS. I work on things adjacent to cryptography. RFC 4880 nerd. Father of 2. All opinions are my own.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

I have aspirations of writing, and a lot of words to get out, but my responsibilities at work and at home with the kids have limited the time I have to spend on longer form writing.

I am going to be experimenting more with this micro-blogging thing.

[mormonsoak @mormonsoak]

@AdamSinger 😂 Reminds me of that classic Louis CK bit @ 2:00 https://t.co/g5thG7WPEL

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@mormonsoak @AdamSinger Immediately what I thought of.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@ClownWorld The real answer is that if the card was authorized for 104, there are limits in place that prevent the final amount from being that much higher.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@homelaber @windsurf More serious: while it lacks some of the polish of Claude code, I am legitimately productive with Kiro CLI. I also find the spec-based development features in the IDE to be a useful tool.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

Everything has either a 0% chance or 100% chance of happening. You just don't know which.

[rosey🌹 @thechosenberg]

This is my quant

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@amandawtwong Honestly, whenever people say this, I want to ask them if they also believe it about their school mates.

Most of my coworkers are not my close friends. But almost all of my close friends are former coworkers.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

but there's just no appeal to this as an adult

"something bad happens to a kid" is an intriguing plot element when you _are_ a kid

"something bad happens to a kid" is being forced to imagine the worst thing possible when you _have_ a kid

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@Madisonkanna It is expensive.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

Yup. This. When my mother started having unexplained symptoms (turned out to be ovarian cancer) we went through many hospital admissions with days in the ER. The ER was almost always done with its part in a few hours. Then you’d spend a day waiting for a bed upstairs.

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

1) Crowding is due to problems in the ER

Nope. ER crowding has fundamentally nothing to do with the ER. It's largely about HOSPITAL capacity and the boarding of hospitalized patients waiting for beds to become available on the wards.

This, in turn, is due to inadequate LTC.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

We started going to Red Robin when we noticed they’d be like “I see you have kids. Can I bring out a basket of fries for the kids while you decide on the rest of your order?”

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@patio11 Is that drawing a memetic attack or a convenient illustration of a memetic attack?

I’m forced to admit to still being confused about the idea while still very intrigued.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@patio11 Can you give an example of a memetic attack?

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@BriannaWu I feel like the answer is somehow involves fast cars.

[Rona Wang @ronawang]

three days until they ban that kesha song

[Conner Hafen @Conblob]

I constantly see zoomers say things like “I don’t care if China has my data, it’s not like Zuckerberg having it is any better” and it really has nothing to do with your “data.” The data isn’t the valuable thing! The algorithm capable of quickly influencing mass public opinion is!

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

Okay I love the pkg system and docs.

I dislike how emacs appears to be borked in the pkg repo for my arch. And I don’t have enough ram to recompile it all myself.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

First FreeBSD home server is up and running on a very old RaspberryPi. Honestly so much easier to configure than Linux so far.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@eigenrobot It’s funny, I always remember all the Sumerian language stuff way more than the futurism.

[Aleks Rudzitis @ajrudzitis]

@NJSimmondsbooks Why would someone want a second Boris Johnson book.