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Alessandro Mingione

@sonovawolf.bsky.social

☼ Designer at Tailscale ☼ Mostly thinking about croissants ☼ West of everywhere https://ale.fyi 📍 Oakland / Remote

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Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you are thinking about switching I've recently given kagi, brave search, and duckduckgo a try. they were all pretty good! and better than I expected going in. ended up with brave and haven't looked back. I only use google for images and shopping. for those it's still unmatched, unfortunately.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I appreciate @seanhollister.bsky.social 's reporting here about the latest step Google is taking in their quest to destroy the information ecosystem and disempower information seekers: www.theverge.com/tech/896490/... 🧵>>

Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Used Claude Code on a side project and it completely ruined it, and by ruined it I mean that it oneshotted it. Now I have this thing, but it doesn't feel mine at all, nor did I learn anything while making it… but the thing it made *is* very useful. AI can be all destination and no journey.

Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not only did I discover Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef today—mesmerizing, a must-listen, very approachable even for the uninitiated—but for the first time I recognized a Nujabes sample in the wild. Weird feeling!

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Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Surprised to be touched by a David Lynch movie as much as I have been having watched “The Straight Story” (1999). A tender and seemingly simple quintessential American story about an old man driving a lawn mower across state lines to see his estranged brother.

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Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sometimes if it sounds like a duck and it swims like a duck, it’s still not a duck, most people intuitively know that. And yet—for everyone’s sanity—we need to come up with a better definition of “consciousness” soon, or the few that think an LLM is conscious and has feelings won’t leave us alone.

Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Important to actually read the article. Proton *is* private and encrypted, *and* they support payment methods other than cards… which is what you should use if your threat model includes any government

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

sam henri gold@samhenri.gold · 11mo ago

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
jenny (phire)@phirephoenix.com · last yr.

I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...

kill the metrics in your head

Get in, loser, we’re doing an old fashioned conversation by blog post. Dan Sinker wrote recently about the Who Cares Era: The writer didn’t care. The supplement’s editors didn’t care. The biz people o...

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Alessandro Mingione@sonovawolf.bsky.social · last yr.

apparently the GBUAPCD (Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District) monitors air pollution with camera that take pictures every 30 seconds. they also compile them into videos at the end of every day… you can just pick a location and a date and watch the clouds move over the sierras 😌