Tim Misiak

When do we get the Legal Eagle video about the implications of an LLM accepting a EULA for you?

Textured vegetable protein wins the prize as the best food with the worst branding.

How to Turn on the Surveillance Layer 👁️

Reverse engineering some old programs with claude is absolutely wild.

Just put together a framework laptop 12. Beautiful device and assembly.

Wonderful google search feature I just discovered: Search for a TV show and the AI summary will helpfully give you a spoiler for the biggest twists.

I find it very funny that models like Opus are heavily trained on the idea of measuring coding effort in terms of "days" and "weeks" that correspond to human developers. Yes it *could* take weeks for a human to convert this code from WebGL to WebGPU, but I bet Opus does it in one prompt.

I used to have weird dreams like this while working on the windows kernel debugger team.

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

Just got back from Texas. Really weird to land in Texas and have bluesky tell me "you need to upload your driver's license to keep using this app". How is anyone OK with that? Also, how is anyone OK with the temperature getting to 107?!

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

More vegetables need to have personality traits. Cool as a cucumber. Spiteful as a zucchini. Vengeful as a carrot. Angry as a radish.

Apparently this is what happens when you contribute code to a repository that goes to the "Arctic Code Vault" which then later gets disabled due to a TOS violation.

Anna's Hummingbird at the arboretum this afternoon.

Cedar Waxwings this morning at Marymoor Park

Mermaid diagrams are now built directly into VS Code. 🎉 No extra extension required. 🙌

The driver docs repo (including windbg documentation) got suspended for a TOS violation? So msft violated its own TOS and suspended itself?

Medina Park is quite a nice spot to get some bird pics. The heron nests can be seen from the walkway, and you can see the chicks with binoculars or a zoom lens.

Kind of impressed with Qwen 3.6, but it has this funny quirk where it's convinced it's the year 2024.

Oh wow, they've managed to turn my brain into an LLM.

Building a Debugger is part of the Humble Books Bundle for the next couple weeks! www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...

My cell connection is 63x faster than this hotel wifi.

Anyone ride the 2 line today? Couldn't make a trip today but looking forward to seeing how the ride is sometime soon.

Started using Claude exclusively instead of ChatGPT (for obvious reasons), and laughed out loud when I saw claude say "oh wait no my bad" in the middle of an explanation.

Anyone who made fun of the windows file copy progress dialog owes someone an apology. My rsync has been sitting at 95% for 12 hours and is still making solid progress copying to my new ZFS pool.

If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

This OpenClaw thing is amazing. It helped me corrupt my database in a fraction of the time it would've taken me to do it by hand.

Incidentally, I think reasonable people can still differ about whether this counts as thinking or understanding, but frankly either possibility is weird. Either a machine can think and reason really well, or you can somehow solve very hard open math problems without thinking/reasoning/understanding.

Parents - check your halloween candy carefully. Someone may try to teach your kids the C programming language

I'm switching to Anthropic for an app I'm building because OpenAI doesn't have an IPv6 endpoint... in 2025. Sorry, I'm not going to pay $45 a year extra just so I can have an IPv4 address to talk to your API.

If you just heard a really loud sigh, it's because I just saw the library book my son took home. It's about a kid who time travels to the distant past... to the year 1993

🐞 Building a debugger = learning how computers really work. On today’s #GOTOpodcast, @timdbg.com & @tartanllama.xyz unpack: 🔍 The hidden complexity of stack unwinding & stepping 🖥️ Windows vs Linux debugging ⏳ Time travel debugging & the future 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Feels strange cancelling my subscription to a VPS I used for some side projects, after being a customer for 20 years. Now I feel really old.