Keir

Infosec, IT infra & Webdev.
Dundasso black belt.

[Keir @KeirD20]

Musk finding another excuse to bail on the Twitter deal

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In the resort town of Les 2 Alpes, in the northern French Alps there is a bike race which starts at a 3,400m-high glacier. 1/2

[Edith Mirante @EdithMirante]

Zayer (Zeya) Thaw has been executed with 3 other political activists by Myanmar coup regime. Before becoming politician he was groundbreaking rapper in 2000s Myanmar Burma hip hop group Acid. Relevant Tupac quote: “People die but legends live forever.” 🎤 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

[Kirill So @kirso_]

@Carnage4Life Yep, the game is brutal...

[Urs Hölzle @uhoelzle]

In this next episode of "Tales from the trenches of infrastructure", learn about the power of lasers...how did this piece of fiber get burnt to a crisp? (Hint: lasers!)

A thread.⬇️

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Look closely at the "smudges" -- the stretched out swaths seen here as pink-ish streaks. Those are some of the most distant galaxies, with their light stretched and distorted by the gravity of the cluster of galaxies in the foreground, in what we call gravitational lensing. #JWST

[Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/ @thai101]

A Thai language question via DM recently: when did ครับ /khrap/ and ค่ะ /kha become the gendered polite sentence-final particles? Maybe more recently than you think. Short version: the words are older, but became gendered in the 1940s by autocratic decree! The long version: 1/

[Estela Franco @guaca]

How old were you when you discovered that holding the shift key while hovering over a request on Chrome DevTools will highlight the initiator in green and dependencies in red? 😱

Thanks, @addyosmani, for the tip!

[St1ka @St1ka]

FINALLY! AN ANIME THAT SPEAKS TO MY SOUL!

[Josh Kurlantzick @JoshKurlantzick]

My latest on the weakening Myanmar military: Myanmar’s Military Losing Ground to Rebels and Ethnic Armies: Part 1 https://t.co/is006DfA8r via @CFR_org

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

During the last 10 nights of Ramadan, many Muslims spend more time in Mosques in contemplation & prayer.

Mosque ceilings are designed to reflect the magnificence of the universe.

For Ramadan, here are spectacular details of 24 Mosque ceilings from around the world…

A thread…

[Vadim Yuryev @VadimYuryev]

Exclusive: Apple's M1 family of chips comes with a design limitation that was overlooked by Apple engineers when they started working on the chips 5-7 years ago.

The bottleneck is the 32MB TLB. Thank you to @hishnash for the help in explaining how it works.

Let me explain.. 🧵

[Keir @KeirD20]

@bendb If you can easily source Holy Basil, then Thai pad krapow comes together in just a few minutes. Super easy and delicious 🤤 fish, oyster and soy sauce in equal parts. Crushed garlic + chilli. A large pinch of sugar and pepper. Minced meat. Holy basil. That’s all you need

[Corben Leo @hacker_]

In 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified document.

A list of infrastructure critical to U.S national security.

The government listed a Trans-Atlantic cable.

3 years ago,

19-year-old me gained ADMIN access to that cable (and another; shared codebase).

🧵Here's how I found it

[Insha | 📍Network school @Insharamin]

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-> working nomads .co
-> triplebyte .com
-> nodes .co
-> epic jobs .co
-> remotehunt .com
-> weworkremotely .com
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[Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk]

I have spent my entire career doing #OSINT and even I think it’s weird that we were able to see the first signs of the invasion using @googlemaps’s traffic layer.

[Panda🐼 @realcyberpanda]

Bad news 😭