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  Oops, I did it again… #books #writing #networking https://www.bosatsu.net/blog/posts/modern-networking.html

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  I don’t have much use for generative AI images, but I saw someone say that GPT had upped its game, so wanted to try it out. I imagined modern Fish-era Marillion album covers. The first is a vast improvement of the last time I tried it. The second one was just inspired by…. <waves hands>. #marillion #ai #notreal

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  What is going on?!? New albums from Dinosaur Jr., Ministry, and now the Butthole Surfers?!? #music https://youtu.be/5w7U81r4tms

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  And the Pumpkins? #music https://youtu.be/ibnyH7sAiUg

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  GenX is going to countenance its senescence with the same attitude we did our youth. I was just listening to Sirius XM Lithium (90s alt grunge) and heard the station id which included: “Some of these songs are older than your interns. Deal with it!” #genx #music #getoffmylawn

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  Phish phan explaining to a non-phan: No, “Tube” was the first tube. “First Tube” is the second tube. #phish #sharinginthegroove

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  Sign of the times… the new Apple phone captures a reference image/digital signature for verifying the authenticity of an image. #apple #ai

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  How do smoke detectors know? Up until 1am teaching two weeks in a row. Tomorrow up at 5am to teach. Today, a bit of respite. 6am: <beep> Change the battery. <beep> <beep>

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  I’ve been working on something that I’ve been imagining for years. It’s early days and not quite ready for on-boarding new folks but it’s moving quickly. Enough people were asking that I put together a quick tutorial to show the basic ideas. The reality is much bigger and more interesting and I will be showing ever more of that in the coming days. https://ikigai-rs.dev/ The tutorial: https://ikigai-rs.github.io/ikigai-tutorial/ #ikigai #oss #emacs #web #linkeddata #roc #resourceorientedcompu...

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  Unpopular theory: AI is scary to many, but the hacking and calls for slowdown are intentional stories to make the autoregressive token generation seem more capable and to encourage US government regulation on the verge of OpenAI and Anthropic’s IPOs. They think they are going to cross the line and this is slamming the doors behind them to thwart competition and cheaper Chinese models. Tech journalism has failed you. #ai #openai #anthropic #llms

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  That thing where you discover that someone in your sleepy little mountain town is creating a satyr-headed, centaur-bodied, chainsaw-wielding fire fighting robot. #auburn #norcal #robot https://www.kcra.com/article/centaur-style-robot-satyress-auburn-three-halves/73324206

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  The first few slides of my agentic coding class for a customer quotes Shakespeare, Rush, my worst bug, and an extended metaphor around the Big Mac.

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  Tedeschi Trucks from Red Rocks on 8/1 is 🔥. Nugs.net is your best entertainment value bet to copyright infringement. It’s like a Parliament configuration fit the 21st Century. Embrace it.

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  Tonight @KNS made the famous cold Spanish veggie soup (it is 🔥). In honor of the occasion, I cite the worst lyric maybe ever: “Did you carry out those threats I heard Or were you only playing macho? And the stains on her Versace scarf Were they really just Gazpacho?” - Marillion

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  This is kind of funny. I have a codebase for my agentic coding class. The purpose of the class isn’t to teach what buttons to push or type, but how it impacts the SDLC, role, risk of skill atrophy, how to onboard junior devs, etc. There are several exercises where they look at a codebase and try to find bugs, predict where something needs to change, etc. to gauge their skills against the agents. It’s not to make them feel bad, but to show that their role remains judgement, prioritization, etc.

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  I don’t normally link to Twitter, but this is what Joe Biden would call a BFD: #science #climate #california #hydrogen https://x.com/CJHandmer/status/2084709069013778483

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  Every once in a while, the internet delivers sublime joy. #humor #foundontheinternet #magritte #comewithmeifyoufearthetreacheryofimages

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  Ole, Beloved of the Aesir and Vanir, wishes you a good morning. #dogs #dogsofmastodon #corgis #corgisofmastodon #goodmorning

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  We lost our little boy Loki very suddenly earlier this summer. We were shattered and not looking to replace him, but his sister, Freyja, was very sad and lonely. We were told about this little boy who needed a home. They met today and got along. He’s staying. Name TBD. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

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  The next time a company updates their privacy policy with long, thick legalese, let me give you this visual summary. #privacy #technology #eula

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  This is a terrific follow-up to their original episode. If you are interested in what is going on at the intersection of technology and society, please watch this: https://youtu.be/IiLGwsu5XVw #devrandom #technology

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  Last post about Phish at the Sphere (until they return, probably). What an amazing confluence of skills: #phish #sphere https://youtube.com/shorts/lc0LmTgIaI0

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  If you’re a fan of Grosse Pointe Blank, this is a really fun collection of facts/discussion. If you haven’t seen it, it is an absolute winner. https://youtu.be/OUs_23wPY4A

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  Waterfox, A new privacy-focused meta search engine with a commitment to zero #ai summarization and not stealing hits from content creators has entered public beta. No tracking across your search history. Free tier returns ads relevant to your search. There is a subscription model w/ no ads in the works. Definitely keeping my eye on this. https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-private-search/ #search #privacy #web

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  I just saw someone refer to the Agile Industrial Complex and I can’t stop laughing. #agile #scrum #xp #kanban

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  “Maybe we can live with oil trading at 100 bucks and a disintegration of the global defence order after all? The market value of Nato stability appears to be pretty much zero. Even if you anticipated a bright year for risky assets, this is really something to behold.” Katie Martin, FT Wow.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DanielSuarez/115948794413927935 This is a wild development, not just because Daniel wrote about it years ago. This is an exciting step forward.

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  WebAssembly in space! The wasmtime runtime is being used aboard a satellite payload. It reached orbit about a week and will start being used soon after a commissioning test: #wasm #webassembly #wasmtime https://www.federation-openspacemakers.com/en/participate/projects/phoenix-infrastructure-informatique-orbi/fosm-1/

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  Everything is so stupid. #music #pinkfloyd #internet #stupid https://youtu.be/Qrw-jLpTjtg

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  My Williamsburg Boy, Bruce Hornsby is so freaking likable. Tupac, Grateful Dead, Vampire Weekend, and more. I used to see him play ball on campus. This is a great interview: https://youtu.be/4OdpmPnv2Ek