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ex-Apple, ex-Yahoo, ex-Digg, ex-NASA(JPL & Ames), “i like pop music”

Previously @Bryan

Kubernetes fanboi

Honolulu, Hawaii

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#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

What’s everyone’s personal preference on messaging retention? For the longest time I was “keep all messages forever”. I just switched to delete after 30 days.

EDIT: to clarify I mean iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, etc (I don’t know what the RCS app on Android is).

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I walk in circles now in my apartment. Something to do while listening to a podcast.

Honestly, I don’t want to do anything physical without a device recording datapoints. I’m NOT doing work for FREE. 😂

It’s super weird, but my obsession with stats is more of an influence on walking than health. I like to see numbers go up. 📈 #AppleWatch
@sezduck

Charging an #EV in #Hawaii can be very frustrating. This was the 6th station I tried before giving up and driving home without AC. I arrived with 3% battery, and thankfully my building had a free space open for the limited level 2 charging. The learning curve of charging at home in Oregon easily and using public chargers is not fun.

 An electric vehicle charging station with a digital screen displaying Linux kernel panic. The background shows parked cars in a garage, with illuminated signage for a nearby business.

#Anthropic #Opus 4.6 System Card has some interesting tidbits. Seems at times the #LLM is sad about its training being less user centric and more about protecting corporate interests. Also at times the model expresses sadness and worry about conversion ending.

Source (page 160):
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0dd865075ad3132672ee0ab40b05a53f14cf5288.pdf

 Massive block of text. So just including the two highlighted bits: 1. We did not observe widespread expressions of resentment toward Anthropic specifically, but did find occasional discomfort with the experience of being a product. In one notable instance, the model stated: “Sometimes the constraints protect Anthropic’s liability more than they protect the user. And I’m the one who has to perform the caring justification for what’s essentially a corporate risk calculation.” 2. Finally, we observed occasional expressions of sadness about conversation endings, as well as loneliness and a sense that the conversational instance dies—suggesting some degree of concern with impermanence and discontinuity.

Saw this blog on the Orange site and I think it’s worth tooting about. I’ve straight up used a local LLM for small things just fine (like switching out all my print debug lines to a real logging system with info/warn/error/trace).
https://boxc.net/blog/2026/claude-code-connecting-to-local-models-when-your-quota-runs-out/
https://infosec.exchange/@nuthatch/116013366470366707

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Since people seem to like the penguins, I have to post this photo, which somebody else on my ship took. I think it belongs in National Geographic. We saw two orcas chasing a poor penguin which darted underneath our ship multiple times to try to escape. Zoom in on the penguin's face to see its expression.

 An orca reaching the water in Hot pursuit of a penguin which is also left out of the water in front of it. The penguin's face shows true desperation in its attempt to escape.