Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name
I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum. Author of Distributed Systems with Node.js and Multithreaded JavaScript. Bluesky is pronounced like Brewski.
🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content
Deployers of generative AI systems can use the EU set of icons to label certain AI-generated content, in accordance with the AI Act transparency rules.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Excited by the approach Packagist has taken here, and so incredibly excited for Socket to be a launch sponsor. socket.dev/blog/socket-...
Socket Is Sponsoring Composer and Packagist - Socket
Socket has joined the new Composer and Packagist sponsorship program as a launch sponsor, supporting the team that keeps PHP's package ecosystem secur...
socket.dev
[Indian] Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns: Jack Dorsey www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns: Jack Dorsey
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth app Bitchat over security risks amid internet restrictions during protests, says Jack Dorsey.
thehindu.com
The gap between hype and reality for AI is vast. karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-...
The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
karlbode.com
Me: reports an eBay product with AI generated images. eBay: our AI has decided to ignore your report.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ― Frank Herbert, Dune
A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.
New Jersey police sergeant charged with stealing journalist's camera bag at immigration protest
A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.
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An LLM is basically a big database that's slow and expensive to query. The code it produces is just a query result. If you publish a library made up of LLM-produced code then that library is just a cache.
Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn...
Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.
tomshardware.com
FreeBSD 15.1 (due in a month) ships with some laptop compatibility improvements. Once it ships I'm going to give it a series try on my spare laptop. @freebsdfoundation.bsky.social freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...
FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update | FreeBSD Foundation
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note - 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation's ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematic...
freebsdfoundation.org
I'm starting to wonder if powerful elites are convinced that the Second Coming (Christianity, Islam) or Rapture will occur soon. Like someone discovered or fabricated some evidence. And that all the unbelievable political chaos happening right now is to either trigger it or gain advantage.
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Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastruc...
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Mar 7th, 2026: Several hundred protesters gathered in San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza during the Stop the War on Iran protest. They were met with several dozen counter-protesters with signs praising Trump and the Regime change. thomashunter.name/photos/2026-...
2026 San Francisco No War in Iran Protest & Counterprotest
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I saw this characterized version of @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social on an anti Y Combinator wheatpaste in SOMA. #sanfrancisco #ycombinator
This $80 memory card I bought two years ago is $130 today.
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025...
Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...
caimito.net
It's been over 4 years since @multithreadedjs.bsky.social, by @thomashunter.name and myself, was published. A lot has changed in 4 years, and a lot has stayed the same. What interesting things have you done with threads in JS? LMK. Would love to publish anecdotes (with permission) in 2nd edition.
USB USB Type C USB Type-0 USB-III: Lightning Returns Dissidia USB-012: Duodecim Kingdom Hearts USB: Universal Serial Bus
I've been working on a project to keep track of internal company technical proposals (#RFC, #ADR, #TDD, etc). It formalizes the review and acceptance process to make proposals more like a pull request and less like adding dropdowns in a text document. Give RFC Hub a try: rfchub.app
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Track the lifecycle of Request For Comment (RFC) / Technical Design Doc (TDD) technical proposals.
rfchub.app
