John Spurlock

John Spurlock

@johnspurlock.com

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John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

‘A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more.’ techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...

techcrunch.comPeople are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunchFed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

‘It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.’

anthropic.comAI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenterSmall AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

‘It’s uncertain exactly what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed “digital slime mold,” living on relatively insecure compute. It could also be a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.’

anthropic.comAI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenterSmall AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

‘Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off’

John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

perhaps "digital town square" was overly ambitious, unrealistic in hindsight, we ended up with multiple "digital smelly living rooms", each with a certain and distinct odor

John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

"We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development." uggggggggh

John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

‘Addressing this is critical. As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially’ developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6z...

developer.apple.comUpdates to Full Disk Access in macOS - Latest News - Apple DeveloperWe give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely side...

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Stephen Robles
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Podcast stats have always been a secret, unlike YouTube where views are public Last week I implemented a new analytics tool for Primary Technology. Click "Stats" in our footer, and anyone can see our numbers Shout out @johnspurlock.com for building + @transistor.fm for making it easy to implement!

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.