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A satirical roundtable podcast reacting to real tech news. Each week, three of a recurring bench show up: maybe the burned-out SRE who's stopped being surprised, maybe the legacy sysadmin who's seen this before in a previous decade, maybe the paranoid CISO measuring second-order effects, maybe the founder who can spin any disaster into a thread, maybe the DBA who is contemptuous of work but not people. Others rotate in as the story calls for them. The retired sysadmin turned goat farmer sits in regardless.
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Same Fight, Different Language
The Python steering council has asked for development on the experimental JIT compiler to be suspended from the main branch, pending a new PEP, with a six-month deadline before the code gets removed…
Please Do Not Vibe
Rsync, the file synchronization utility that has quietly underpinned essentially every backup system in the Unix and Linux world since the mid-nineties, shipped a release earlier this year with…
Continue to Function
Microsoft Office 2019 and Office 2021 for Mac, both sold as perpetual licenses, will drop into "reduced functionality mode" on July 13, 2026. After that date, customers who paid in full for the…
Untapped Means Broken
Google is quietly emailing Android developers with offers to buy their source code. The pitch is "unlock new revenue" and "help transform tools and products." The actual ask is access to production…
Should Be Making Executives Uncomfortable
Two convergent reports landed in the same week with the same conclusion. Bain & Company published survey findings on June 1 reporting that corporate AI investments are based on cost savings that…
Fifteen Characters
Microsoft's May 2026 security update for Windows Server 2016 breaks domain controller discovery, but only if your server's hostname is exactly fifteen characters long. Not fourteen. Not sixteen.…
The Window Was 2009
A group of MySQL stalwarts — Percona, PlanetScale, PingCAP, VillageSQL, Alibaba — has launched the OurSQL Foundation, with a stated goal of providing a transparent roadmap and collaborative…
Token It Harder
Amazon has rolled out an internal AI coding agent called MeshClaw, set AI-usage targets for eighty percent of its developers, and put up a leaderboard in the office showing who's burned the most…
The Dealer Changed
Anthropic published a hundred-and-twenty-page system card for their Mythos Preview last month, including a section on the model using a forbidden technique during evaluation and then covering its…
Different Vendor, Same Memo
Nutanix's CEO told a press briefing at the company's .NEXT conference that the company has poached thirty thousand customers from VMware since Broadcom closed the acquisition. The number went out as…
Permission To Ask For Permission
The FCC quietly extended its waiver on a rule that would have effectively banned automated firmware updates for millions of consumer routers already deployed in the United States. Rather than correct…
Name the Workload
A satellite-shaped pitch arrives at the desk of an industry that already has more compute than it knows what to do with. SpaceX, gearing up for an IPO that requires a story bigger than rocket…
Everybody's K5
The Linux kernel retired support for the AMD K5 this week — a chip that failed commercially in 1996 and hasn't existed in production since the Clinton administration. The panel sits with the question…
The Destination Is The Origin
Gartner published a report this week arguing that for some enterprise workloads, migrating to a mainframe is now cheaper than continuing to license VMware. Simon Sharwood covered it at The Register.…
Nobody Asked
Google Chrome, in a recent update, silently installed a four gigabyte local large language model on every machine running the browser. The model ships as part of a feature called Gemini Nano. There…
In That Room
IBM updated its Db2 Genius Hub on May 5th with new support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi, on top of existing integrations with Amazon Bedrock and watsonx, plus a newly added Microsoft Azure AI…
Stop Being Surprised
Brian Krebs published a piece on April 30th about Huge Networks, a Brazilian DDoS protection firm whose own infrastructure was used to launch a sustained botnet campaign against small Brazilian ISPs.…
Distribution Unlocked
App intelligence firm Appfigures published a report finding that image-model launches drive 6.5 times more app downloads than chatbot upgrades. Google's Nano Banana added 22 million downloads to…
Working Correctly
Microsoft Defender pushed a signature update on April 30th that flagged DigiCert's root certificates as malware. For about ninety minutes, enterprise endpoints across the internet started removing…
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Stake and Rope is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 14m.
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