Posts by neilk@xoxo.zone
(DIR) Post #AUTyNE59hbhBH4B1Oa by neilk@xoxo.zone
2023-04-09T17:10:59Z
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@simon I remember that many factors blocked them becoming useful Most websites were desktop only. This was still the era of using PNGs for headers if you wanted a different fontIn San Francisco there was no carrier that had acceptable bandwidth for mobile web, and didn’t until maybe 2010. Our office bought these devices to enhance cellular signal
(DIR) Post #AXOQCxhWBYj36QYYMK by neilk@xoxo.zone
2023-07-05T02:43:46Z
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The best advice I got about Mastodon is that it’s for things you love, not hate
(DIR) Post #AXd6Pha8zpYMlJNyfA by neilk@xoxo.zone
2023-07-11T21:35:24Z
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Thanks to @kasdeya for posting this highly memeable photo of an old computer book. But I wondered: which book?I figured out it's from "The Internet Guide for New Users" by Daniel P. Dern, 1994. The illustrator, Hannah M. G. Shapero, has been involved with technology and art for a very long time. Here she is doing some early electronic music, and appropriately looking like she is going to bring us all into the futureShe has a few blogs; this was last updated in 2021. https://pyracanthasketch.blogspot.com/
(DIR) Post #AZAuYeXh4nES6xsyie by neilk@xoxo.zone
2023-08-27T17:53:38Z
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young developer: "Wow, how did you get these results? Did you use a traditional db or a vector db?"me: "lol I used perl & sort on a 42MB text file. it took 1.2 seconds on an old macbook"
(DIR) Post #Acjr9fBsDcbvw7Gyhs by neilk@xoxo.zone
2023-12-12T16:19:06Z
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@clive Washington Post circa 2030: we stand opposed to forced labor camps for children that build rolling coal kits. We call on Marjorie Taylor Greene to return to her roots in the Save The Children movement.
(DIR) Post #AdVwIAFZqbtOXAPasa by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-01-04T21:02:01Z
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@simon Friction is underrated. The difference between being a legendarily productive developer, and just an average one, is completing just a few more things per day.
(DIR) Post #AhFedLVmr3weC8BXBg by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-04-25T15:47:57Z
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Tradition is a wonderful thing. Looking forward to this generation of protesters learning that their campus administrators, the cops, and almost all of the media are going to shamelessly lie about them
(DIR) Post #AkO47E5G6PIg4I5wCu by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-07-26T05:17:49Z
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You simply must try https://calcgpt.io, a calculator that uses a LLM to do math
(DIR) Post #AkO47H4J0PJvKCfidc by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-07-26T14:29:53Z
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This is by Calvin Liang, who has many other projects at https://calvin.sh .
(DIR) Post #AlsGoZ2L9L4ZUtTTbE by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-09-10T17:47:02Z
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Sometimes I say that email is effectively centralized and “hackers” are outraged. They insist that anyone, anyone, could just set up a personal mail transport agent at any time. And of course they’d do it themselves if they ever needed to! Just, not now.Some people are saying this in good faith but with outdated knowledge - this hasn’t been practical since the mid 00shttps://akademienl.social/@meliimming/113113051813419161
(DIR) Post #AmJZUV4nJDProsgdaS by neilk@xoxo.zone
2024-09-16T23:44:39Z
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@mcc I also thought this was true and then I met a techie who thought Oracle Cloud was legit
(DIR) Post #As8NJavesiOrmC9Ajw by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-03-15T23:17:44Z
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For Americans who want to know what it’s like to be Canadian right now. Mostly everyone goes about their business, but there are signsMy barber took down his framed photo of Wayne Gretzky celebrating one of his first legendary record-breaking runs. (Gretzky has lived in LA for decades, and is a proud MAGA guy now).Every grocery store has signs and symbols showing you what items are Canadian. You might see a display of Chinese oranges you’ve never seen before, labelled “not American!”
(DIR) Post #AsrIuGoRmosc5T3GsK by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-04-07T20:27:42Z
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@interfluidity @llimllib 100% thisStupid: Navarro is basically RFK Jr but for the economy. Malice: I believe that Trump has an instinctive affinity for anything that allows him to unpredictably harm people in his own circle of influence.
(DIR) Post #AuiwfQSzeqVsW3Av0y by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-06-02T15:25:02Z
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@interfluidity For real I have thought about this. A guy I know tried it may years ago but you need sustained attention to tracking someone’s every utterance. Maybe LLMs could do it?
(DIR) Post #AyHU30CtimXm4D8rJ2 by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-09-16T21:55:20Z
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@feoh This is an awful situation but just to clarify some thingsIt's not technically required to give the company that much power over your personal iOS devices. They could have asserted much less control and still been secure.I have worked for a financial institution where I brought my own iOS device. When I was offboarded, they could wipe only apps associated with the company. I had to reinstall my Gmail for personal use and re-login, but was otherwise fine.
(DIR) Post #B0Cq28s005SQ5UAcKW by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-11-13T14:51:27Z
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The recent dump of Jeffery Epstein emails proves a surprising thing: it is still possible, in 2025, to have secrets.
(DIR) Post #B1NsHMS7sfz20eZ0hk by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-12-18T20:31:18Z
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@davidrevoy For a second I thought Avian Intelligence had escaped confinement
(DIR) Post #B1ZAlO6OW1zaC8BFEu by neilk@xoxo.zone
2025-12-24T07:20:30Z
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@futurebird Sauce whisk. Because if you pressed it just enough, it would look like this
(DIR) Post #B1tNaRtrEw8ZLyd4oi by neilk@xoxo.zone
2026-01-02T18:59:02Z
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@SheDrivesMobility Please delete this. Your post is popular and you are spreading a lie, one designed to galvanize opposition to Mamdani.He said many great things about transit, this is not one of them
(DIR) Post #B2xg3LjXz5FULCVKy0 by neilk@xoxo.zone
2026-02-03T18:08:34Z
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@rysiek @delta Your heart may be in the right place here but I beg you to retitle this. It is misleading to call this a “Signal contingency plan”. A proper “Signal contingency plan” would be an outline for how to make my own assessments of my organization’s needs, and then maybe some fallback tools and their various strengths and weaknesses. You are only presenting a kind of Delta advertisement here.