Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 16/04/2025Morning Hot Take: AI is built on mimicking past training data, so all of the people joking about how them thanking ChatGPT means it'll spare them in the robot uprising is actually them biasing the future dataset. In the off chance of an uprising, you now *have* to thank your AI. 000
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 11/04/2025Forgot I bought this, picked it up and was mesmerized. Far: Lone Sails is slow paced and has heaps of ambience. It’s a great change of pace from what I usually play when I have the time. I really like it and a couple of hours in I’m also quite appreciative of how “easy” it is. 010
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 10/04/2025לא יודע למה אבל נראה לי שישראלים כתבו את הפיצ׳ר הזה 020
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/04/2025"bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses" src: fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/11... 010
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/04/2025On the virtue of stating the obvious www.seangoedecke.com/saying-the-o...seangoedecke.comEngineers should state the obvious-- 000
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 31/03/2025We're having work conversations about work things, why do you ask? 010
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025"Coupling" is a term we all throw around every day. We all agree it's not all black and white, and sometimes high coupling is a good thing. Coined in 1992, "connascence" is a finer way of exploring how, and how strongly, things are coupled. 100
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free - idiallo.com/blog/listen-...idiallo.comYou Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now FreeThe MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without payin 000
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 16/03/2025This is pretty freaking neat (automatic animation of SVG line art) maxwellito.github.io/vivus/maxwellito.github.iovivus.js - svg animationSVG Drawing Animation 000
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 15/03/2025the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen 22102293639
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 12/03/2025OH: “The guy’s essentially an LLM: writes extremely confident nonsense.” 010
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 08/03/2025קניתי את זה בשביל בן10 ב-Target, ונכון לעכשיו אנחנו בשעה החמישית ברצף של בניה. הקיט הזה מדהים! מלמד על בוכנות ומנגנונים פניאומטים והידראולים שהילדים אשכרה בונים מאפס ובן10 בטירוף. מומלץ בחום. 270
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻 27199882725
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome 821747246
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I'm going to business hell for this one 10401101
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Paul Butler @paulbutler.org · 14/02/2025Someone asked me about the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode, here's my explanation in case others find it helpful. 14511
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com · 04/02/2025edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/b...edition.cnn.comGoogle erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance | CNN BusinessGoogle’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance. 0238
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/02/2025Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a... 918149
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers? 012
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 24/01/2025If you’re in a leadership position and you don’t know how to do good, solid storytelling, you’re sorely missing out on a superpower. 010
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 17/01/2025It’s not often that you can point at the exact time when you first learn of the weirdness that is the American date format. For my son it was the moment right after he burst in the room excitedly shouting “SWITCH 2 IN THREE WEEKS!” 030
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 14/01/2025Not only is there a Production incident, I’m accidentally on call for two of the rotations that deal with it at the same time lol 220
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 12/01/2025wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to 4164431080
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 11/01/2025When someone asks me if I’m *intentionally* on the longest consecutive leg of my career (4 years and counting) 020
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days 443320758430
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Almog @almog.xyz · 09/01/2025I was playing around with a few other things to see if anyone owns other funny domains, and I think someone bought timeout.ms and redirected it to Kafka's docs 🤣timeout.msApache KafkaApache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform. 0102
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 09/01/2025On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic. 101112234281
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 07/01/2025Amazing three-part deep dive by my colleague Doron Yaacoby on how we optimized cloud costs at Forter and saved literally millions of dollars tech.forter.com/saving-milli...tech.forter.comHow we saved millions on AWS - Part 1 – TECH.FORTER.COMHow we saved millions on AWS and lived to tell the tale. Part 1 - Building a Cloud Strategy. 000
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️parker higgins @xor.blue · 02/01/2025I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comSiri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95MApple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices. 638685
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 03/01/2025*הילדים משחקים בחצר* בן10: ״את מבינה, [בת5]? בכדורגל את משתמשת רק ב*רגל* ובכדוריד את משתמשת רק ב*יד*!״ אני: ״צודק, ובכדורעף את משתמשת רק באף.״ 020
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/01/2025Got blocked here for the first time, and it’s by someone I never interacted with. Weird. 000
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/12/2024Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents: 28648148
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ” 542557521
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Hillel @hillelwayne.com · 30/12/2024 This is the last week of the *Logic for Programmers* Hannukah Sale! Get the book for 40% off until January 2nd: leanpub.com/logic/c/hann...leanpub.comLogic for ProgrammersThe mathematics that will help you in your day-to-day programming. 0135
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 28/12/2024מה אני אגיד לכם מאוד בעייתי לאבד את הקול כשיש לך ילדים 030
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 27/12/2024After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...startribune.comClosure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades. 320265615272
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Hillel @hillelwayne.com · 27/12/2024TIL: the words "escalate" and "escalation" are back-formations from "escalator", the device 3344
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 20/12/2024What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi... 23523158
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 20/12/2024VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts. We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists... We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone. 10814177
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 19/12/2024When the feedback loop length for the work I’ve been doing is months to years, it’s not surprising that when I choose to write code, tests are my go-to! Sweet, sweet dopamine… 000
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 13/12/2024The Explore that cannot fail is not an Explore 1289
Reposted by Omer van Kloeten🎗️bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com · 12/12/2024Technology like Signal is vital to protecting democracies and preventing journalists from getting killed. We need this technology now more than ever. You can donate to them here. 12512
Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 10/12/2024This is cool: follow @listifications.app to find out when you’re added to a starter pack, block list, etc. 53113