the only extremities i want sam wendover talking about are my hands. why tf are they always so cold.

okay I'm going to try to move my pds wish me luck

turns out the rsync developers are not, in fact, "vibe fucking up" rsync who could've known that a github issue with only a screenshot of a tweet and no additional context or commentary would be totally wrong?

Duolingo just suggested I get in touch with someone who passed away last year to suggest reviving her streak 🙃

big fan of this model of the human body

this is what good ai policy looks like btw

I should get a new pfp at some point

turns out any game can give that zachtronics hit if you try hard enough :D youtu.be/SlAu3xnLH9g

they oughta make a first principles tech tree

time to see if 4.8 will deadname me left and right

My hot take is that the human-written jokes about "It's not x — its y" or "I apologize, I said I x, but I didn't x" are equally annoying to look at as text output from models trying to be passed off as human writing. Alternatively: y'all aren't funny emdash merely obnoxious.

honestly a pretty good piece. good to see anthropic expressing concern for some of the more practical issues*. let's see if that brings us anywhere good. (*: economic safety of everyone, fair access and distribution in a world of nation states that aren't all on favorable terms)

happy wheat monday to those who celebrate 🥦

sog. eiskalt geniessen but the fridges are all 4-7°C. who are we fooling here

ran into that thing y'all are always on about

funniest modern tech quirk: I have been trying to tune pebble time 2's dynamic backlight, and taking pictures of how it behaves in various scenarios. during that process I noticed that my phone's laser autofocus (which is always on) being pointed at it causes it to detect significantly more light

Pixelsnap is so cool, now I can attach razor blades to the back of my phone.

gonna make a captcha that just asks if something is centered to just oneshot every single llm-based captcha solver out there (without the permission to run arbitrary code)

what was miyazaki thinking when he added the toothbrush scene to mononoke

as a kid i used to think good laws came from honest politicians. as an adult i found out it was my parents putting them under the tree.

any male living space enjoyers here?

took 10 years but it's finally here

touching things is so cool imo. big fan of closing my eyes and making out the shape of something, or just even having just enough touch to know something is there. I wonder how much of this is the autism (reducing noisy stimuli by closing my eyes and focusing on touch instead)

wake up oomfs we're doing competitive circle drawing

lisdex is too good sometimes. got 3 hrs of sleep yday and it's 3am now and I am not crashing somehow. (and then some days it doesn't even wake me up right and I end up being a zombie at work)

i got a what

getting the good old shoulder pain again :D here's to hoping my arm doesn't lock up in place again.

ok google successfully sold me on the idea of their prompt api and happy to report that fully local and offline alt text generation is viable

yaaay finally got this year's reichelt catalog

this decision keeps paying off (also hoping the best for any UK oomfs, it's fucked out there)

Actually I agree now, chrome *is* wasting 4GB of space, because they're shipping their last gen junk model instead of their newer, better open weight model. wtf? (I get this is likely bc this has been in there for 10 releases and the timing with gemma 4 is a coincidence, but come!!! on!!!)

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/xai-... which I got from www.gem.wiki/Colossus_1_p... Note that the connectivity is scheduled for the future (from the article’s perspective) so it’s possible there’s a delay, but even last year MLGW approved their connectivity request

they should make a thing in the next kingdom hearts where they bring the all the cids from all of final fantasy together. they could even call it the cool cids club.

been designated EA by the infrasound guy... guess I'll have to go to givewell and buy malaria nets or fund developing vegan food alternatives or shrimp welfare or smth

object (singular) obtained! officially a permanent resident of germany (well by issuance date seems like I've been that since 10 days ago). process of getting a legally accepted ID that matches my legal gender (and now my residence permit) goes on :)

who out touching grass

apparently ctranslate2 added rocm support in late feb which is pretty neat, can finally stop having a massive 70gb copy of rocm6 locally to run fasterwhisper at reasonable speeds. (amusingly their code also has the same rocm7 bug my fork did, but they have a published workaround)

Uh based alert? jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-d...

was watching old tom scott videos and ran into this one again, rewatched it again youtu.be/jPhJbKBuNnA pretty impressive how on point he was tbh. I remember really liking thinking about the curve and where we are on it, I remember thinking we surely must be in the middle or near the top by now.

✅ replaced a billion batteries around the house award

need to buy less yoghurt next time i make tzatziki so i end up making less tzatziki... had too much, tummy hurty...

good things do happen sometimes!

this set off a series of events leading to my new endo halving my hrt dose that I had for 4 years, because endos are like that

one day I'll read up on what epistemic means and it'll be over for me

lol why's claude blocked me over this. tragic.

hmm. they made opus 4.7 really eager about guessing things based on your email, and my ant account is on my google account which has my deadname (google doesn't let you change the email). so far it has both tried to override my git config for commits with it (?!) and wrongly assumed my timezone.

eurosky predictions 84005a3317234efb0a48b5b468371f72edb4bbeb8d5f6f061c74f61105d45511 fff107f39fbee0c28e71dc203c8b346cf69920947746085ddb3024ef03a0087b 98f1a9342c45dc14a83f4b921549642d02ba682187801917e1d818e4e455b5a9

so called human labor appreciators when they don't like your labor that they receive for free