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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

17" MacBook Pro (MacBookPro3,1) recovery almost completed. Yes that's a slot for a CD drive in the front.

Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I replaced the marlin firmware on my 3D printer with klipper - and it's been a complete gamechanger. Printing has become fun again. klipper's default configuration is printing so much faster than anything I got from marlin. klipper3d.org #raspberrypi #3dprint

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Welcome - Klipper documentation

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The age of the filing cabinet will make a return. Retro printers are going to surge again. We are going to need to keep paper copies of the current state of all our online financial and medical accounts - before the surge of AI bots in those institutions delete everything.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There have been a few airports recently reporting exactly 200kt winds in their METAR . 200 doesn't seem to be a good data point - is some metar generation software using 200 as a default value to signal an error ? If so - it shouldn't escape into the wild.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hawaii - that's a pretty severe crosswind

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hawaii getting a battering right now

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When your realtor accidentally posts both the original and doctored pics of your house.

Photo of a home where the original lawn has been replaced by a nice green lawn

original photo of a house, where the front lawn is in poor condition

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AirNav Radar - Flight Tracker @airnavradar.com · 06/09/2026

BREAKING: An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300F (Registration N1997A) operating flight #CSB7598 from San Juan to Miami has reportedly overshot the runway at Miami International Airport (MIA). 📹: @Fahadnaimb Data: airnavradar.go.link/cITxu

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

With almost all of the GDP growth in the US coming from the AI titans ; they have a major problem. None of their customers are growing at a level that supports the future revenue promises for the AI titans. The math simply doesn't compute.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If the AI Datacenter builders get all their land, and water, and power and backup generators, and redundant power distribution equipment, and fire suppression systems, and network equipment, and fibre cabling - they might think they are done Pretty sure they won't have enough redundant Internet

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you are a CFO, and wondering about what to do about your AI budgets - I can guarantee you that sitting back and waiting a year is a good strategy. AI is changing so fast - that anything you try now will likely be undone and then redone several times in a year.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can't have enough anti-virus coverage ; my email this morning is full of renewal notices. Four installs of McAfee per machine should be enough ? shouldn't it ?

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Microsoft's new bitnet demo hallucinates badly. Here it thinks that Laminar Research's X-Plane flight simulator is some hybrid of a Microsoft and Open Source project. Hey Microsoft - also please stop naming your things after stuff the rest of the world created.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hey Canonical, if i have to install the snap version of a library, and the native version of the same library for every other app, then snap is a resource waste, not an enabler.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the reasons why AI code slop is so bad, is we are using agile methods. AI coding needs a resurrection of waterfall as the project management strategy

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The wildfire evacuation color scheme will get people killed - Some regions use 'red' for prepare, and 'green' to signal "go, evacuate now", and other places are 'green' for prepare, and 'red' for "evacuate now". We might as well have different hydrant connectors - if we're going to ignore history

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The 'we spotted something about your account' emails should come with a link that says "yes it was me" or "no it wasn't me" - so that the sender can gather stats to understand how useful those emails are. Yes Netflix - the new device is a known device in the account - but you won't ever know.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

4 of the top 5 hottest airports in the world are in the USA today. www.simwx.com/wx/hightemp KIFP (48C/118.4f) KHII (48C/118.4f) KEED (47.8C/118f ) KLGF (47C/116.6f)

simwx.com

SimWX Real-World Weather Challenges for Flight Simmers

Find airports with the most demanding real-world weather conditions right now. Updated live from METAR data.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Instrument flight training is important so you can avoid the floating mountains in the clouds. Mt. Rainier floating high in the sky. #flighttraining #pnw #seattle #flying #aviation

Mt. Rainier peeking above a cloud layer outside Seattle

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Datacenters aren't new. As soon as you build it, it becomes a legacy facility that you have to pay money to maintain. If investing in Datacenters made any sense, then all the existing datacenter providers would be rolling in cash. They aren't. Don't get pulled into the hype.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Congratulations to Spain on the win. Disappointed in the dirty play from Argentina. Messi should have gone out on the back of a good clean game, instead they delivered that mess.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fleetwood Vac comeback tour at Heathrow #Heathrow #T5

An industrial vacuum cleaner at Heathrow airport with a name tag that says 'hello my name is Fleetwood Vac'

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Excellent, it seems lots faster. How do I reinstall the lathe control software?

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Perspective is a wonderful thing. Will they fit under the bridge.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@apple.com just sent me a security alert that a piece of software was downloaded to a device I haven't used. Would have been helpful to mention something about the device ? Phone? Ipad ? Mac ? Completely useless customer interaction, and continuing the pretense of security theater. #apple

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

How many CEOs have realized that zero AI agents have read, and follow the employee handbook? The "that action doesn't align with company values, it was a rogue employee" excuse needs to be worked on by legal soonest. Discovery will include your AI prompts, which will lay everything bare. #ai

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The Aviationist @theaviationist.com · 15/06/2026

Breaking: B-52 Stratofortress Bomber Crashed at Edwards AFB Images posted online show a massive plume of black smoke rising from Edwards Air Force Base, before the base confirmed an ongoing B-52H Stratofortress mishap. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/06/15/b...

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Breaking: B-52 Stratofortress Bomber Crashed at Edwards AFB

Images posted online show a massive plume of black smoke rising from Edwards Air Force Base, before the base confirmed an ongoing B-52H Stratofortress

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Turkey have one move. Play up the left side. It hasn't worked all game. When they try the right hand side, they do better. Yet they keep going back to the left. WHY? #worldcup2026 #Australia #turkey

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There appears to have been a mixup in Bosnia and Herzegovina - they sent the Olympic Dive team instead of their soccer team. #worldcup2026 #canada #bosnia

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

20yr old Dell PowerEdge 1950 decides to shed a SAS drive this morning in the raid array. Placed an ebay order. Seller lives nearby - and messaged me with the option to drop it off at my house. New drive goes in, array rebuilds. Sometimes the power of what we've built on the Internet just amazes me

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Which global regulator is going to be the first to give Microsoft the news that they simply can't let Windows 10 systems go unpatched through this deluge of trivial zero-day full system exploits. This has to be a significant USA National Security risk #Microsoft #MSRC #EUCommission #CISA #NCSC

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's crazy that I bought an 18TB Seagate NAS drive in April 2024 for $289, and the exact same drive today is $579. In the Amazon price history it was ~$300 at the start of the year At this rate - my collection of retired drives are actively growing in value. Someone tell my wife that I'm a genius

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I doubt that most the investors rushing to build datacenters understand that each DC has a full power generation system for backup power. There isn't enough capacity to build enough industrial generators for the power they claim they need. #AI #infrastructure #datacenter #scaleout

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you're not doing deep packet inspection & firewalling of outbound DNS requests - you are allowing a full data exfiltration path to exist. dnsfs.com has a simple file transfer mechanism that let's you get files in and out without being discovered. #itsalwaysdns #dns #security #exfiltration

dnsfs.com

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I tried VIGOLIUM (www.vigolium.com); and pointed at some of my websites. 100% of 12 HIGH findings were wildly inaccurate false positives. It was very confident in its findings. It injected a number, and assumed a reflection flaw when it saw it again in the output, when the number was a valid result.

vigolium.com

Vigolium - Find the security bugs code review and traditional scanners miss, with validated proof your team can act on

Serious security audit, not just a PR review. Catch critical vulnerabilities that traditional scanners and AI code review tools miss, with validated proof your team can act on.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We're going to need training certification for AI systems. 'This engine has been trained only on published medical material, and did not get trained on Facebook _medical_ data'. Even if it uses extra info to get an answer, it need to be able to differentiate the sources

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

There is zero chance that the DC buildouts for all the AI investments will happen on schedule. After the 4 walls, the order backlogs for power distribution and cooling equipment will stretch for years Watch for delayed build outs for any new entrants to this market #datacenter #scaleout #AI

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Spec Driven Development will be touted as the answer for poor AI code. Update the base spec, rerun the code generation process and rebuild the entire code base every time. The scale of the waste is mind boggling.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm already in the camp of not having bought a Bambu 3D printer. I'll just have to buy some popcorn to watch Bambu destroy their future value by testing the Streisand effect. #bambu #dumbnuts

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Senior developer and Systems Architect types are going to be in major demand when all these magic AI projects start missing deliverables. The 'we can write everything with AI' CEOs are going to have major problems undoing the damage that AI slop will do to their codebases.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The great age of software development is in our future, when skilled engineers are in very high demand to clean up the mess that AI will create in our codebases over the next few years. #vibecoding #ai #swdev #java #rust #chatgpt #claude

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In the world of "its always DNS", if anyone is having network pain on the Swedish Issaquah Highlands wifi network . The DNS server is sporadically returning garbage SERVFAILs for valid domains. #issaquah #swedish #providence #dns

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

not sure how much I would like a direct crosswind in zero vis..

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Scott Sistek @scottseattlewx.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

City of Mount Vernon now asking everyone in 100 year flood plain of Skagit River to evacuate. MORE: mountvernonwa.gov/CivicAlerts....

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Flood Warning (Advertencia de Inundación)

Flood Warning has been issued for Mount Vernon. A flood warning is issued when flooding is happening or about to happen.

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

UPS batteries died.. The Pacific Northwest is hard on UPSs . These two have glued themselves to each other. #cyberpower #deadtech #wawx #homelab

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Chris Higgins @ch166.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

PSE really do give the UPSs a chance to work out their batteries. #wawx #windy

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/12/2025

A patent that never should have been granted can threaten thousands of people. That’s why Congress created IPR, and why the USPTO’s new proposal is so dangerous. EFF has filed our opposition. Add your voice now:

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EFF Tells Patent Office: Don’t Cut the Public Out of Patent Review

EFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted pate...

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