Running local LLMs to try to parse alerts from NJ Transit. They do work but, man, are some models dumb as rocks. Apparently "into and out of Penn Station" are two different locations that don't include Penn Station. Also one of them was saying "in my experience..." which is funny as hell.

Shiny wheels!

Delightscrolling.

Great news to go to bed to, and hoping for even greater news to wake up to!

It's gonna be DELICIOUS to watch the tech billionaires.

Saying that I wrote or built something when it is substantially the output of an LLM doesn't sit right with me. Lately I've been saying that I "produced" such code. Like producing a movie, or producing a rabbit in a hat. Mentioning it in case someone else was struggling with this too.

The IRS and the Social Security Administration sending emails to promote Trump is gross.

I have the sincere theory that every 10-15 years we get a new generation of kids who have adopted a new foundational thing (Web3, JS in the backend, Linux, microprocessors) and they essentially reinvent the whole ecosystem without even checking what the olds were doing.

Jacobo Tarrío@jacobo.tarrio.org · last wk.

Not surprising after seeing what passes for sandboxes and firewalls in their world. It is their turn to make everything old in computers new again: the NPM debacle of 2016, the Windows security debacle of 1997-2003 and, if they keep going, the 1983 video game crash.

Este cara pensa que é João VI. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Bolsonaro claims he is Brazil's true leader after fleeing to US

Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro insisted Wednesday he is his country's rightful leader, after fleeing to the United States to start a self-imposed exile.Rogerio Ma...

yahoo.com

Recordando esos carteles en contra del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo que aparecieron en Compostela un día y que se sabía que venían de algún grupo estadounidense porque afirmaban que la ley "es un travesti" y animaban a llamar a su congresista.

Laquintacolumna@laquintacolumna.bsky.social · 2w ago

Está claro que los judíos conocen la idiosincrasia española por las pelis de Tom Cruise.

Some 4 years ago I wrote an S3M player because I wanted to remake "Second Reality" for the browser (didn't go past the explosion.) It was an "only needs to play one song" affair, but last year I cleaned it up and wrote some tests to make sure it worked properly... and then I got busy or something.

My completely uninformed hypothesis about today's computer news is that they ran some testing stuff on prod by mistake, overwrote the certificates, and when they realized, they tried to pretend everything was well until they could rotate them discreetly. Would love to know how far-off I am :-)

And THIS is why judges don't go all guns blazing, issuing sanctions left and right, like so many commenters on this place would like to see.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's is Judge Reyes' ruling last night denying the govt motion to have her recuse herself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... /4

We totally went crazy when the Internet came. It's exactly like that, today. jacobo.tarrio.org/2026/to-all-...

"LLMs were shit six months ago but now they are great, they've fixed all the issues" and other bullshit I've been hearing every 6 months like clockwork.

I just had a radio contact with France, but I only used 15 watts on accident. Doesn't matter, he heard me :-)

I have a day off so I'm spending it updating my server to the latest Debian stable, like in old times.

Pensáis que estáis desconectados de la actualidad cultural por tener 47 años, pero imaginad eso y además vivir fuera y un día leer una noticia que da por supuestísimo que sabes que existe una película llamada "La Bola Negra", alguien llamado "los Javis" y alguien llamado "Guitarricadelafuente".

I wrote about how PASM, my self-hosted Intel 8086/8088 assember for DOS, works. github.com/jtarrio/pasm...

pasm/HOW-IT-WORKS.md at main · jtarrio/pasm

A homemade DOS assembler for the Intel 8086/8088 processor - jtarrio/pasm

github.com

What if you realize you've been engaging in post hoc rationalizations of the positions you favor in order to justify them within your framework that would reject them otherwise? Don't worry! Post hoc is proper hoc 👍👍

Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · last mo.

We definitely do not have to worry about this.

I've added an INCLUDE directive to my assembler, with infinite (more like 200, approximately) nesting levels. I think I won't be adding any more functionality after this. Now I want to improve the "how it works" writeup, and then I'll move on to the next cool project. github.com/jtarrio/pasm

GitHub - jtarrio/pasm: A homemade DOS assembler for the Intel 8086/8088 processor

A homemade DOS assembler for the Intel 8086/8088 processor - jtarrio/pasm

github.com

Suddenly I remembered when someone at Google stood up on stage at TGIF and began with something like "it's been a tough year", went on to "so to thank our facilities team who take such good care of us" and ended with "we bought this marble machine!" Damn thing stayed in a building lobby for years.

Turns out you can only go so far on spite alone.

Jacobo Tarrío@jacobo.tarrio.org · last mo.

Jokes aside, I think I'm finally (FINALLY!) out of my mourning period. (It's normal to mourn when someone takes away something you cared very much about and they don't even acknowledge how important it was to you, right?) Now I'm motivated by spite, which will work great for the rest of my career.

I've published a release of PASM, my Intel 8086 assembler in 9336 bytes! github.com/jtarrio/pasm... (It is sure to grow, but let me enjoy its tinyness while I can.)

Release Version 0.2 · jtarrio/pasm

Adds support for uninitialized data (DB ?, DB 1024 DUP (?)).

github.com

A street in my town has been repaved and the new road markings include chicanes and people on FB are complaining that it looks dangerous now and they can't go as fast as before :-}

Yay! I've written up how my DOS assembler for the Intel 8086/8088 microprocessor works: github.com/jtarrio/pasm...

pasm/HOW-IT-WORKS.md at main · jtarrio/pasm

A homemade DOS assembler for the Intel 8086/8088 processor - jtarrio/pasm

github.com

Today in "you must think me an absolute moron."

My consolation is that real AI specialists are as fucked as we are. "I need to classify these documents" Real AI person: "oh, I'll use NLP with an autoclustering model which..." AI dweeb: "LLM'll do it" "I want to extract data from this printed page" Real AI: "OCR and a ..." AI dweeb: "LLM"

I've been working on my 8086 assembler and after implementing hash tables and optimizing hot code paths, I got it to build itself 6x faster. After that, I improved the README with bootstrapping instructions and an offer that I really hope someone will take me up on. github.com/jtarrio/pasm

This is why, even if I do write my assembly code by hand, I like using LLMs to review it.