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'BACKROOMS' director Kane Parsons has reportedly invented NixOS. "What's a NixOS?" He is only 20 years old.

To celebrate pride month I will read "The Rust Programming Language".

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

LLM's are just stochastic parrots. A database that you can query with language. It knows more than you ever will. Get it twisted. Everyone is gonna lose their job. It can't count the number of r's in strawberry. Get it twisted. The singularity is here. It's running out of data. Get it twisted.

⚠️ An active phishing attack is targeting crate owners by asking them to "confirm that your email address is still active". These messages are not from crates.io, and should be ignored. (We will never ask you to confirm that your e-mail address is still active.) ⚠️

It's really good to be aware of what's you give up when you outsource to ai. Kudos

It's finally time to let yall try out Ratebit! It's a cross-platform recommendation site that lets you define the algorithm yourself! youtu.be/vuKdz3gfNAM?...

The point of building is not just to throw the finished product over the line; if you’re doing it right, the process shapes the creator, too.

Hey yall, is there a discord alternative that uses ATProto? Matrix sounds very cool, but if your homeserver goes down, aren't you screwed?

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...

Just got my first NAS!!!! I will probably put nixos on it, but I'll test the factory config first ^^

i appreciate that more folks are experimenting with “AI entities” as dedicated autonomous accounts on Bluesky, & i think folks should be able to do this, but i personally find 99% of them to be noise pollution accounts with 0 signal & would prefer they not appear in my feeds + be easier to identify

🚨BREAKING🚨 Zohran Mamdani to make NixOS the go to operating system for all New Yorkers. What are your thoughts on this?

Arch? Still on a legacy distro I see

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

@sarahkriesche.bsky.social Hi! Did you moderate Jaron Lanier's lecture on digital humanism at TU Wien yesterday? I got no mail about the event from the TU and missed the event by one day. Is there any follow up event or lecture?

Heya, I posted my first video to youtube :) It's a small list of tools you can use to turn off social media recommendation algorithms and make the whole experience a bit less addictive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eXi...

urls really are one of the best ideas ever

There are so many bunnies out

If you're in Japan, important PSA! Add this to your ~/.ssh/config: IPQoS none Turns out the default SSH QoS/DSCP setting puts you in a traffic class that NTT FLET'S IPoE treats as priority, but limited to 10mbps! I was wondering why IPv6 rsync was so slow... (affects git push too!)

Boilerplate will expand to fill the time available to write it

hate it when there's a vector field on my desk 😔😔

Tragedy

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

Super excited to share my contribution to Humanity's last exam! This is my first time as a co-author on a paper! I share this role with many people who also contributed to the dataset, but it's a very special moment to me :) The paper: lastexam.ai NY Times article: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

I wrote about a new AI evaluation called "Humanity's Last Exam," a collection of 3,000 questions submitted by leading academics to try to stump leading AI models, which mostly find today's college-level tests too easy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

you should be thinking longer and harder about everything

Totally forgot to mention, but my chrome extension Thule was accepted into the chrome webstore :) It reads the content of your tabs and closes them if they aren't helpful to the goal you set yourself. It does this using a language model. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Thule...

Hi! I'm starting a discord server called "internet grabage cleanup club"! discord.gg/hztMsHsA55 If you're human and don't want to see any more ai generated slop, you're welcome. You're especially welcome if you want to help do something about that. Bonus points for being a programmer or writer.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Finally! Also don't forget about actual human accounts that mass-follow people automatically to gain attention.

Just going to reiterate - We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

yeah I'm a "sqrt(4^3 + 36) - (2^5 / 8) + ((3^2 - 7) * 2)"x engineer when it comes to making things more complicated than they need to be

Something in my body told me to make a VR window manager today. Got the window streaming working already :) I neeeeeed to implement gaze interactions so you can just look at a window and have your inputs go there even if you don't have eye tracking... FUUUUN

“Whether BlueSky likes it or not, it is being pulled into the real world,” 「ブルースカイが好むと好まざるとにかかわらず、同社は現実世界に引き込まれつつある」

finally got around to trying @tldraw.com computer! It's very fun just getting book recommendations from it, but I think I'll be playing factorio in it next

We gotta do something about these damn bots. Like why tf would you want to post AI generated slop and mass-follow people to generate engagement for the slop... Just reported @y05u615bor.bsky.social