Aaron Kimball

a reminder during election season, one way to minimize the marketing text/calls you are receiving is to opt out from the commercial voter file providers: • privacy.targetsmart.com/US/email/ver... • catalist.us/your-privacy... • l2-data.com/optout1-6674...

Yea I mean the dems will never get $1 from me again given what they've done to my phone and email; it's a completely contemptuous way to treat your donors. But also if this is what they're spending the money on?! I don't want to enable them to do more spamming!

Buddy they won't even let *me* fuck php.

Four unique keys. One shared hash value. The modern cryptography story.

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and post one that you like

The jaunty "YMCA" theme song blaring in the background makes this episode all the more ridiculous.

A bunch of bibliophiles answering this question, not beating the rep: xkcd.com/2501/

As someone who does community support at Burning Man--yes. You might be surprised how many people think "Burning Man is fun / a special place, therfore I don't need my brain meds here." In the scorching hot desert, at the sleep-depriving week-long festival. This goes.... Predictably.

I'm only partway in but this is excellent. As someone who knows the broad strokes of how LLMs work under the hood, I'm still learning a lot about the system internals, the dev process, and the weird path dependency connections to the rationalist mindset.

Pretty sure this video is exactly what social media was designed for. Perfect interjection in the doomscroll.

My copy of /The Secret Life of Circuits/ arrived today. Actually... Two copies arrived? Anyone want a book about electronics?

Automattic is now a fully @matt-levine.bsky.social -ass "who controls a company" style story. "Who's got superuser privileges on the company slack" is the new "who has custody of the chop."

Who says America isn't great? An immigrant can come here with their own heritage sausage and follow the American dream and mantra, "you can deep fry anything you want to and serve it at the state fair."

I didn't catch this part in the openai talk. Ability to do one tool call and spoof another in the msg transcript seems... Bad? (also wdym all the spoofs "we saw" were easy to notice... If they succeeded at a more subtle one, uh, are you sure you would you notice? 😅)

Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday

o7

People looking for inexpensive models for coding are sleeping on Xiaomi's mimo-v2.5-pro. It's no Kimi 3 but for well-scoped tasks it absolutely does the job. I've had it cranking on some small features/chores in a loop for the past two hours, and so far the bill racked up is about $1.50.

Do you get, like, negative CLE credits for reading this...?

As usual, when Alex Stamos speaks, he provides a very insightful read on the state of cybersecurity.

I was begrudgingly willing to admit that YouTube had me pegged as a middle aged guy when I started getting hair loss treatment ads. But now it's switched to all ads for for-profit college and... An online coding bootcamp accelerator?! Given my search history that second one's just insulting.

Meet Klorb! Our ambitions are modest.

@dollspace.gay I have been tinkering with building an agent/harness recently and started using chainlink. Adding the task tools / focus-reminder hook *really* dials up the competence by a LOT. Great cli tool - thank you!

uhm

Wow. I won't say more; just read it.

Omg they're perfect

I remember a stat about "Pct of men who think they could score a point on Serena Williams" (12.5%) and thinking (a) that's roughly 12.4% too high, and (b) misogyny is a shame. But this addition to the research field just makes me conclude half of us men are just fucking stupid.

Holy lol

My first time at burning man, someone set up something just like this in center camp. Amazing tripper trap; you'd pass thru at 2am and some hippie would be on the floor next to it, completely spellbound.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Imagine breaking the legendary 2:00:00 barrier, a world record, a believed limit of human power and endurance... In your first ever marathon... And winning *second* place on the podium.

The Great Old Ones were real

Everybody acting like bluesky downtime only happens because of AI code is showing their youthful naivete. Back in 2012 you'd see the fail whale on twitter all the time, with authentic, handcrafted server overload like mama used to make.

"THIS IS NOT ONCE IN A LIFETIME! WE ARE GETTING BACK INTO THE BUSINESS!" Hell yes absolute correct energy

We can go to the moon and back, but three-way phone calling remains out of reach of even our most brilliant explorers and rocket scientists