dusty.ninja

“For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent. The agency has since apologized and says it’s trying to fix the problem.”
#AI
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/02/this-is-actually-crazy-callers-to-washington-hotline-shocked-when-pressing-2-for-spanish.html

Deep sigh. 😮‍💨

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo-had-one-note-for-the-pitts-upcoming-ice-storyline/

Ah the sad little guy missing #Hawaii !!  

Took new #Apple #Xcode for a spin today and it’s pretty spiffy.

First they came for #Anthropic
And I did not speak out
Because I can't write toots without #Claude

If you didn’t believe Jack was a psychopath yet, here is more evidence. Block cutting nearly half of staff because of #AI. 😵
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/block-laying-off-about-4000-employees-nearly-half-of-its-workforce.html

I bet they don’t run out of onions in the hotdog bar. #Costco

Sad and funny at the same time. Dude needed hard-disks in UK so he flies to New York to buy drives and fly back because it's so much cheaper in US vs UK. #Reddit #datahoarder
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1rb9ot4/decided_to_fly_to_the_us_to_buy_some_hard_drives/

Someone needs to add #DeltaChat channel support in #OpenClaw. I think it would be a great fit for getting more DeltaChat users. Although maybe the wrong kind?

Here is an issue. I think they accept merges for basically anything… so…
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/discussions/9255

I don’t like #hockey, but as a fan of #reddit r/prematurecelebration, I totally enjoy these Canadian YouTube and Instagram channels just completely trash-talking and then posting their reactions to the game where they lost to the US. It’s so satisfying, and I also don’t even care about the sport!

The #Olympics are just kind of magical. I guess back to 4 more years of never thinking about hockey.

Solid-state lidar. Excellent. All these car companies that didn’t abandon the tech are about to reap the awards with cheaper parts. #lidar #engineering
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas

Sunday night I went to Talk Kaimuki for #Jazz night in Honolulu, #Hawaii. The music was good, but I think it was too small for a full setup. It was kind of a bummer that there was no keyboard or brass. Probably not possible there because of the limited space. Going to try other venues in future.

I don’t understand why #Apple live translation doesn’t work on #iPadOS or #macOS. So dumb.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/123185

I can’t find corn tortillas in #Hawaii without guar gum. My wife swears they taste wrong, so she is thinking about making them from scratch now… so good? 😂

Straight to Jail. #colbertlateshow

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU8uJUmDdXF

I think I almost have this timeline nonsense fully working. I'm 95% there. The last 5% is going to be annoying.

Fixed so many problems today and created some new ones. Timeline positioning is a very annoying problem but needs to be perfect; otherwise, the app feels like 💩.

Getting gestures just right is painful.

I can tell some key features I want are going to be a pain to implement.

I should try to live toot as I work now that I spilled the beans.

I just gated premium features and didn’t finish so I can’t post from it now. Also it still doesn’t have a name. 😑

Friend sent me this when we were chatting about the #news… 😂

Test from my mastodon iOS prototype app.

#Google #Nest doorbell cameras, even without a subscription, upload video to Google where they are “deleted” after 3 hours. Except when government needs a copy they can reach back an unknown number of days as the files are just marked to be deleted. I wonder if there will be a “finding dog” feature soon?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/tech/google-video-nancy-guthrie