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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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Speaking of AI. We're in a tight spot. "We", as in tech workers, I mean.
A bunch of things are true and they all pull in different directions.
- It works. I'm not really willing to entertain the argument that it doesn't, anymore, after having built several large and small projects with it. For coding, it is a lever that can provide a dramatic productivity increase. I'm comfortable saying 3x+, overall. Maximalists are saying 10x or 100x. Even if it's only 3x, that's industry shaking.
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Friend sent me this when we were chatting about the #news… 😂
What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
Test from my mastodon iOS prototype app.
Saw on Reddit
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.
What a time to be alive.
#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).
me boosting my own toot
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
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
Saw Lindsey Vonn crash out immediately on woman’s ⛷️ downhill. They took her away on a helicopter straight to hospital. 🚁 hope she’ll be ok!
#Olympics
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.
#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
When people say Shakespeare isn't relevant to modern life it's good to have people like Sir Ian around to prove them wrong:
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
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.
