using ellipsis unicode character — is the new em dash…

Google is some kafka-esque bullshit. Partner's phone screen smashed. So try to move sim to old phone. But can't just sign in normally, because it sends authorization to the smashed phone (which can't be turned off). Recovery email get's sent to gmail spam. Wonderful.

ok - burn out trigger for me to step away from computer. colleague slopping nonsensical llm text to reply to me instead of being normal. fuck this noise.

Some days you get lots done with agents and I t seems pike magic. Other days they seem thick as bricks and I want to punch something.

In an era of agents having superhuman coding ability - the professional skill that is most important in software teams now is the ability to communicate with other humans (and agents).

It really should be mandatory that NIWA provide climate data open access for personal use.

Doing some research, and running into the problem that NOAA archive has no data for 2026 due to DOGE. Thanks Elon you fuckmuppet.

Sadly New Zealand decided to reelect it's right-wing, racist and conservative coalition government #nzpol

Today's mission was to turn two broken 4090s into one working 4090. CUDA heavy workload took 45 minutes instead of 60 minutes on a 5070ti , and it didn't crash. Success! 🤞

The illusion of free will is strong. However, it is a very helpful illusion for being an effective evolutionary agent. Especially when part of a social species.

In 2026, Bsky is the only social media site that doesn't feel completely saturated with unlabelled bots.

anyone remember the app / company "yo", which just let you send the word "yo" to your friends.

Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks to Personal Backups

Huge PalmOS Development Archive Goes Online, Thanks to Personal Backups

Hackaday Article

hackaday.com

This issue is no different to computers and centralisation of information. In fact it is easier to do this without AI, you just choose what information to allow.

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 2w ago

“In our world, you don’t need to have a bonfire to banish ideas. You can banish them from the algorithm. You can program your AI to just never give certain answers.” – @naomiaklein.bsky.social on whether AI is a fascist technology, featuring @astra.bsky.social and @micahloewinger.bsky.social

"...the closest thing slopaholics have to a sponsor is other people looking at their work. ...The spell broke as soon as a friend asked which dataset you used. Explaining your work forces you to face all the parts of the work you don’t understand." thomasjiralerspong.substack.com/p/chasing-th...

Chasing the Karpathy Peak (and Falling Off Slop Cliff)

How I became a slopaholic, who’s most at risk, and how to avoid it (or recover)

thomasjiralerspong.substack.com

I have Withings WS-50 scale with wifi/bluetooth, but which I don't really like using because sending my health data is icky. Also they've sold the brand multiple times, so multiple corporations have the data.

If google just focussed on search and undid all their broken search changes, they would still have very functional search with ads. Many normal people would keep using it forever. But they gave up on search a long time ago.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w ago

The latter IMO. Take $GOOGL for example. If the cat is out of the bag on agentic search, you either sit and watch your whole business unravel or you hop on the train.

I care how beautiful your code is. You can make nice code with AI, you can also make horrible clusterfucks. AI isn't yet smart enough to fix it's own spaghetti systems. That doesn't mean you should stop caring about maintainable well-designed systems.

The Fresh Prince of Donair@erisianrite.com · 2w ago

Nobody cares how beautiful or artisanal or handcrafted your code is. They care that it achieves some business outcome and that it’s reliable. Everything else is just jerking off, and like jerking off, is best done on your own time

because websites are susceptable to pressure and legal issues, here is the icepick magnet. share far and wide. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5324eb5bb9a96fb03ae7768236b920561b4c6c2f&xt=urn:btmh:122088090fee24f8a57f4f9ec627f2fa22d045691ad81f417aafcf7d3a136bf1d7fb&dn=icepick.zip&xl=59968920

Power company said they are putting prices up, so I told them I'm also putting my solar power prices up. It's a demanding energy market, and I'm sure they understand.

"tcpip at a billion gigawatts" i do say some shit

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 3w ago

look it's a reasonable question

After a hiatus due to 7 year old weather station go awol (leaking batteries and growing lichen)... we now have our personal weather station reporting again. And weewx with belchertown theme is much nicer than what we had.

It is very annoying that New Zealand has become a launch pad for the US military.

I feel like an offline homelab enclave is becoming more attractive after the last couple of days.

joel@jmoonz.bsky.social · 4w ago

My current agent side project: Making my homelab able to bootstrap without the Internet via diligent caching of git repos, packages, repositories, and docker images.

Someone once told me (in the context of physical engineering) that everything leaks and it's all breaking all the time. It requires constant effort by countless professionals just to maintain the status quo. I think about that a lot, and it's even more true in the context of adversarial actors

man i wish we hadn't abolished the government agency that kept good track of CVEs huh

Proxmox is the good news there: its web UI is plain JavaScript in the browser, and the server side (pveproxy and the API) is Perl, not PHP. OPNsense is the one to watch.

while they are not exposed to internet, it is disturbing that both opnsense and proxmox have php frontends.

'Time poverty' is one of modern capitalism’s least discussed forms of deprivation. When a person has no hours in a day to see friends, to recover, and to relax, life becomes something squeezed around work.

Internet of Things -> Internet of Shit Brains in Things -> Shit for Brains

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS EVERYTHING WILL BE COMPLETELY SOFTWARE-DRIVEN AND AI-DRIVEN, AND EVERY COMPANY WILL BUILD BRAINS, INCLUDING THE BRAINS THAT GO INTO THE PRODUCTS THEY SHIP