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You’ve really embiggened this post with your cromulent comment.

IMO Frinkiac is hard to beat if you just want to caption a Simpsons image (or gif) and share it directly; particularly with a few words modified to fit the situation.

comb.io is good for those occasions where you need the actual clip with audio.

Just my own opinion of course!

Absolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.

Thank you for putting together and maintaining Frinkiac!

I use Frinkiac multiple times a week to share memes with friends. We all grew up watching S1-8 weeknights over dinner and can quote those episodes almost flawlessly.

Would love to read some blog posts on how the site works, anecdotes from 10 years of maintaining it, legal troubles faced (etc)!

I was surprised (and frustrated) that OpenAI’s and Perplexity’s browsers are both Chromium-based. I would have thought that they would have gone with a Firefox (or WebKit) fork given:

1. That Google is a competitor to them in the AI space.

2. That Google has such a strong stranglehold over the web, and Chromium/Chrome is a big part of that. I mean, why ultimately help your competitor here?

Agreed. I just don’t want to have to use a Chromium-based browser given Google’s grip on the project - but what alternatives are there if Mozilla goes under?

Safari? Orion?

100% agree. I would happily run a dedicated enterprise browser that blocks downloads, has DLP, has watermarking (etc) if it meant I could use my own PC. Not Browser Isolation or VDI - An actual enterprise browser.

My job is pretty much 100% in browser though, so I realise this isn’t viable for everyone.

Yes. The acronym is “ZTNA” (Zero Trust Network Access).

It is an alternative to a traditional corporate VPN that addresses a few architectural issues; namely:

- L3 connectivity (which allows for lateral movement) to the corporate network. - Inbound exposure to the VPN gateway (scaling can become a challenge, not to mention continuous vulnerabilities from… certain vendors) - Policy management can get convoluted if you want to do micro-segmentation properly.

ZTNA is essentially an “inside-out” architecture and acts (kind of) like a L4 proxy. I’m going to butcher this explanation, but:

1. Company installs apps/VMs/containers throughout their network. These must have network reachability to the internal apps/services the company wants to make available to its users.

2. These apps/VMs/containers establish TLS tunnels back to the company’s tenant in the vendor’s cloud.

3. Company rolls out the vendor’s ZTNA client to user devices. This also establishes a TLS tunnel to the vendor’s cloud. Hence the vendor’s cloud is like a MitM gatekeeper.

4. Company creates policies in the vendor’s cloud that says “User A can access App X via app/VM/container Z”

5. Even if App X is on the same LAN segment as App Y, App Y is invisible to User A because connectivity to the internal apps happens at L4.

It is an interesting architecture. That being said, ZTNA solutions have their own issues as well (you can probably already spot some based on my explanation above!)

(Note: I worked for a security vendor that sold a ZTNA solution as part of their ~4-5 years ago. Things could be different now.)

You’re absolutely right! It’s not just grating—it’s professionally reckless!

I've cancelled my Max 20x plan after hitting this and will try out Cursor Ultra or ChatGPT Pro + Codex for a month. Both are also $200/month.

The best thing to do is vote with your wallet; particularly if you're leveraging the tool for work.

That was my experience with them as well. There is a noticeable latency rendering the search results with Kagi as opposed to alternatives.

Firewalls and endpoint security are important, and Little Snitch is pretty good, but this feels like an ad being posted.

It’s just a link to the main page of their website: nothing specific to warrant discussion.

Oh wow, it supports directly specifying a Pydantic model as an output schema that it will adhere to for structured JSON output. That’s fantastic!

https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Google needs to be broken up. It's extremely concerning that a company that derives most of its revenue from internet ads, can use its control over the world’s most dominant browser to limit apps that are a risk to its bottom line as it pleases.

Isn’t this the whole point of working; particularly at a FAANG?

> It’s a shallow post-mortem

I respectfully disagree. It’s an 8 minute read. Sure, it’s mostly in dot-point form, but personally I’d rather that than some massive 80,000 word blog post that I’m going to drop 1/8 of the way through.

Since when does a personal blog post need to be a well constructed and lengthy document?

> Across SRX

Good lord. I don’t know whether I respect or pity you.

There used to be a saying at Juniper: If there was an issue with MX, it was likely a config issue. If there was an issue with SRX it was likely a bug.

Was incredibly accurate more often than not.

I miss Netscreen.

Shame to see another relic of the internet-past shutting down.

I used to use ZippyShare a fair bit to demo the DLP capabilities of a past employer.

Spring cleaning my bedroom and home office. My whole life feels too cluttered and messy and the moment... Its like I’m in a rut and can’t seem to find the motivation (or passion) to start anything new.

I’m hoping a clean-out might kick-start some change.