Lexas (Alexis Christoforides)
@thenull.net
Computers, Cyprus, comics, cats. Lead OS hacker on Meadow, the .NET IoT computer @wildernesslabs.bsky.social Ex-Xamarin/Microsoft, ex-cancer genomics research. Indoors/outdoors. Boston Area, USA. https://thenull.net
Wonder what the Internet Explorer moment will be for the AI wave. We won’t be paying for AI subscriptions in a few years. One of the big companies will integrate a top-of-the-line agentic LLM to their OS and offer it for free. The rest will have to follow a similar path. You’ll always need the OS
Putting Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 minutes probably brilliant. Not gonna watch the whole thing ofc, this one’s for the clips online
I will now defend myself by paraphrasing jack nicholson in that scene from a few good men, who is the hero of that movie btw
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoQ: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike? HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
Time to start doing my wintry mix sports in Boston! Not-skiing, not-cycling, not-even-doing-any-walking, etc.
I think Google will win this GPT thing and Microsoft will eat OpenAI in 5 years and be a close second. But who knows
Best decision of my academic life might have been to not take NLP too seriously in grad school… what a wiped-out subfield, GPT definitely took those jobs
Dog mountain is a charming place of remembrance. Much concentrated evidence of love for dog. Definitely visit if you are around it
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9mo agoOwners can find solace in pet cemeteries and on Dog Mountain, a pet-centric pilgrimage in Vermont. Every year, hundreds of dogs show up here for a celebration of life. Thousands more arrive in spirit.
The Riyadh Comedy Festival was, actually given context, one of the most progressive events of the last ten y— *trips, stumbles, and falls down a set of stairs and straight out of a window*
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10mo agoEveryone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
It caught me by surprise how quickly eugenics became acceptable, in different dimensions, by both the right and the left in America
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 10mo agoAt the end of the day, so much of these moral panics are driven by eugenics and the belief that certain people shouldn't exist.
Aaah people are buying property on debt again from what I am hearing 😮💨
Living in an exurb must be so grim. Their whole engagement with culture is big box stores and chain restaurants. This is what they feel nostalgia for because this is their whole life.
This particular cursed fake Reddit map hits hard for me
My favorite agentic task I have given successfully to software builder LLMs is “Fix the build”. Not the most impressive or interesting. Just my favorite
Proud of this one! Just some API redesign that I finally had some time to do, and now we have seamless full OTA on any app.
Wilderness Labs Inc.@wildernesslabs.bsky.social · 12mo agoMeadow.OS v2.3 is out and includes an awesome new feature: Automatic OtA! Simply register your device with the cloud, enable updates in config, and off you go! Read more about it in our blog: blog.wildernesslabs.co/meadow-os-v2...
Reddit has a formatting bug on my phone that slightly slants conversations, creating this wobbly effect… I kinda love it
It can’t be said enough that the Democratic Party isn’t strictly real. America doesn’t have real political parties. The Democrats are a loose affiliation of donor networks and elected officials that allow you to use their brand name if you win an election.
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · last yr.The Democratic Party did not try to clobber Mamdani. A faction of the party did. The Democratic Party just nominated him for mayor.
Hear me out C# people: implicit maximally-scoped try-block if you have a catch{} or finally{} without a try{}
Another beautiful piece of our platform just dropped 😍 No one likes to develop edge computing on-device if they can help it!
Wilderness Labs Inc.@wildernesslabs.bsky.social · last yr.Introducing Meadow.Blazor - Build rich hardware UI's with Blazor WASM. Build on the desktop for speed of develpment, and deploy on @raspberrypi.com for real world deployments. Read more on the blog: blog.wildernesslabs.co/bringing-bla... #DotNET #Blazor #MeadowIoT #RaspberryPi
