📺 Watched: Series 1,2 and 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer

Watching: Series 4 now.

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👁️ Problem of the day .. why is it so hard for Paste to keep it all in synch❓

Really? Is this right? I know nothing to be able to question - but it does seem to be an extreme that I would have heard about before?

The real problem is that Vercel doesn’t let you set a spending limit. Someone could DoS your app while you’re asleep and you’d wake up to a $10,000 bill with no recourse. It’s 2026 — AI crawlers and bots are everywhere, constantly hitting endpoints, triggering serverless functions. Vercel charges for CPU execution time, not bandwidth, so every bot visit costs you money. This isn’t a theoretical edge case. I couldn’t justify the risk anymore.

💬 Assaf Arkin

🔗 coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware — Labnotes

All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.

So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.

I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.

She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”

Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.

Back downstairs I came.

“Still not there,” I reported.

“Good grief, do I need to go?”

“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”

She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”

Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.

MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome

🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS

🔗 What data sovereignty means for New Zealand

Data sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it is a question of accountability: who has the right to access information, under what rules and in whose interests. For New Zealand organisations, the answer increasingly depends less on where data is stored and more on whose law governs it, who controls the infrastructure and whether those arrangements can be trusted to hold when they are tested.

💬 Bill Bennett

We are learning - fast - that our laws seem to count for less and less. If a country has no rights - imagine how the the citizens of that country are faring.

👁️ Sometimes it’s like wack-a-mole.