looked into the costs of hosting a “local” LLM comparable to, say, opus 4.6 in the cloud, and accounting for only running an on-demand instance on a typical 9-5 m-f schedule, it comes out to roughly the same monthly cost as claude code. and outright buying equivalent mac hardware is about the […]

dealy stan

can’t do a war crime if it’s not a war

quick question: how do i stop my nose from…doing that

#photography #bloomscrolling

me: [fidgets with my hair nervously all day] apple watch: great job standing for 8 hours

beyond the dangers and losses of having AI write docs for you, a good discussion about the purpose of documentation: communication of intent and reasoning between humans who need to know. machines can’t read minds, so they miss the point. @zeblarson […]

@exchgr adding some new ooves to my oovre

recording again 😈

Wow, that’s a framing choice right there.

my many ooves and ouches

RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/new-york-bat3un55z/-/a-zC0VVn3URMiiQu4l7cFojQ%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0 i see so many ridiculously fast standing e-scooters, their drivers not even wearing helmets, dangerously weaving and zipping past already fast road bikes, often in the wrong direction. do […]

how do i get back *on* kilter though

some video and photos of us playing https://exch.gr/music/the-fricatives-house-of-abundance-2026-04-18-video-and-photos/

The fact Instagram and all other social networks now have some AI slop feature that allows you to generate captions or whole posts with AI, but NO FEATURE TO GENERATE IMAGE DESCRIPTION / ALT TEXT should tell you all you need to know next time one of these ghouls pretends their new technology […]

#photography #streetphotography

today we take a deep dive into the man behind the ai boom: who is jensen huang, and just why is his crocodile leather jacket so shiny?

[scott bessent voice] buhhhh rigged pharma

messing around with some local LLMs (gemma, qwen) and it's really reminding me how silly these things are. with these, you really have to constantly remind them how concepts work

what you think AI does: cheap code, things break fast but also get fixed fast what AI actually does: subsidized code that will become extremely expensive very soon, things break fast but you don't notice and the bugs accumulate, losing your customers' trust in your product

car dingbat on the street keeps pressing the lock button with a door open. how can i tell without looking? beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

me: [swipes vertically] iOS: oh yeah she meant to swipe horizontally. time to navigate back!

Might be missing the finer details of this discourse, but it seems like people don't want to accept that GLP-1 drugs are getting pushed on people in a big way, and that there are issues with that, even if the drugs themselves are on net hugely beneficial, with few side effects.

the entire point of separation of powers is that the legislative branch mostly decides what to do, the executive branch mostly does it, and the judicial branch mostly decides whether it’s ok. what we have now is an executive that doesn’t care what’s ok, decides what to do, and does it; a […]

there is a perfect casting choice in widow’s bay s1e5 that i cannot reveal because that would be a spoiler, but when i saw it i held my hands in front of me at the tv with my mouth agape for like 5 minutes straight

they should invent a kind of sonos speaker that’s simultaneously small and full stereo

ai is actually really useful. just this morning i had it drink my water for me. that’s one annoying chore automated

it’s only a hamburger bun if it’s grown in the traditional region of hamburg. otherwise it’s just sparkling bread heels

hell yes. scene on radio season 8 is coming https://sceneonradio.org/the-news/

ira glass once said that as a beginner, your taste exceeds your skill, which is why you’re your own worst critic and give up too easily. so then it stands to reason that if you’re both skillless and tasteless, you also can’t judge yourself, and you might never feel the need to give up. this […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/116615313359261320 dangit, stephen colbert also made a ham radio joke in the same 24 hour period

if you believe an LLM is like a calculator or compiler or loom, i have a bridge to sell you

hearing jeff bezos say “it’s a skills issue, andrew” before my coffee’s kicked in has me hacking my lungs out at how hard i was laughing

youtube for apple tv: i support playing normal videos & shorts youtube for iOS: i support playing normal videos & shorts, and i can control youtube for apple tv me: oh cool so i can use youtube for iOS to play a short on apple tv, right? youtube for iOS: no sorry i need to completely […]

RE: https://ohai.social/@SecularJeffrey/116620992119587310 they probably flattened a building for this

that google search result for “disregard” would be funnier if it were not so fucked up tbh

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116621506289858690 marie concentrationkamp-perez strikes again

the past is not coming back

weird how claude mythos is too dangerous to release to the public because [checks notes] it can find existing security holes, but not a word is said about how many security holes claude generates on the regular

brain logic: oh you’re sleepy? guess you don’t need any more sleep then

it almost didn't happen, but then it did https://exch.gr/photography/recap-the-fricatives-at-house-of-abundance-10th-anniversary-2026-04-18/

that’s a pretty cool economy you’ve got there. why do i say that? oh, no reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6YzlY_8tM

richard gaddamn

[weird deviated septum stuff] i have bent a paperclip into a device that holds both my nostrils open and also makes it look like i have a nose ring