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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Thinking a lot about these water fountains I saw in Bergama, Turkey. Does everyone just share one cup? 🤔

A kitschy plastic coffee cup tied to a spigot with a string. The spigot comes out of a low stone pillar about knee height, with a water basin below at the foot.

Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

StreetComplete (@streetcomplete) now has a iOS beta version: testflight.apple.com/join/K1u3eUU5 > This application finds missing OpenStreetMap map data in the user's vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Users can solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a […]

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Some people say chat is missing in the new ChatGPT/Codex app. This is not true. There is: - New chat - Temporary chat - Quick chat - New standalone chat - Open side chat - Continue in new chat Also these masterpieces: - Switch chat... (description: “Search […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The keyboard shortcuts settings screen from ChatGPT on macOS. It shows a list of dozens of chat-related functions and their hotkeys.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

[spider] “Person detected at 3:13 a.m.” – a nocturnal creature captured on our security camera.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I believe I’ve identified why the hotel WiFi is shit.

Close-up of an ethernet patch cable RJ45 connector that has been painted, including its metal pins.

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Footage from the SF Yo-Yo Club, Jun 13th 2026. #SanFrancisco #yoyo

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

OH: “I like how when I’m high on caffeine it feels like someone is going to arrest me for feeling suspicious.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

RE: fedi.notesbylex.com/@lex/1166202427… I cried reading this story. I know that dissonant confluence of modern expectations and old-world dreamscape.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

[Deceptive California ballot initiative] I see people being misled by the deceptively named “Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act” (A.G. file 25-0041A1). It will have zero benefit for normies. It doesn’t cut current taxes, and there is no pending new tax aimed at ordinary-income […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Bullshit website blocks copy/cut/paste? This is the bookmarklet to unblock it (works everywhere except <iframe>): ``` javascript:void(['copy','cut','paste'].forEach(e=>document.addEventListener(e,e=>{e.stopImmediatePropagation()},!0))) ```

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

The NASA Artemis II launch is T-minus three hours! The livestream is playing now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

@MonaApp Can we have an option to use VIM-style movement hotkeys (H, J, K, L)?

Screenshot of Mona’s *Move Focus* menu with the four directions bound to hotkeys W S A D.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Bike touring, in a nutshell. This gloriously unhinged soul bikepacked 1,409 km across Lapland in winter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2zen58w6M… #bikePacking

A sill frame from the documentary film by Joffrey Maluski, “The Kaamos Road.” They are taking a selfie video while riding their bike in the snow. The subtitles say, “Every day, all day long, it hurts so much.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.” —James Gleick, The Information (2011)

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

I propose *SnaS* (software, not a service) as the initialism for software that is owned rather than rented (i.e., the opposite of *SaaS*). #rfc

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2024

How to watch the Olympic Games and get Peacock Premium for free: 1. Use a USA VPN. 2. Sign up for the free 2-week trial of Instacart+ at www.instacart.com/instacart-plus (no credit card required; use any USA address). It includes Peacock Premium. 3 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot of the Peacock offer from Instacart+. It says:

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Your Instacart+ membership unlocks Peacock at no extra cost

Benefits include:

- Hit movies
- Exclusive originals
- Live sports
- And so much more

By clicking, you will be redirected to Peacock to activate your included Peacock Premium Subscription. Use of the Peacock Service is governed by its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Instacart may remove or modify the Peacock offer at any time, and redemptions of this offer by Instacart+ trial members may be subject to a daily limit. Additional terms apply.

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There are two buttons: `Activate Peacock now` and `Not now`.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2024

Normalize good digital privacy as a high-status trait. #privacy #PrivacyMatters

Harper Stern, a character in the HBO television series “Industry,” is apartment hunting. She enters a flat and the landlady comments, “You've got very good privacy settings.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Colima v0.10.0 just released with support for local AI models, via Krunkit and Ramalama. I chose colima because it's a minimalist alternative to Docker Desktop for running containers, so not pleased that it is growing in scope. But, it might be useful as running local models becomes more useful […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

OpenAI is silently routing GPT‑5.3‑Codex calls to 5.2 for some users if their systems think you’re doing “cyber” work. github.com/openai/codex/issues/1118… They’re gating access to 5.3-Codex for security-related tasks through a verification process: ⁃ […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason. I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found. In particular I'm looking for stuff like: * Data sovereignty * Strong moderation tools […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Vouch is a tiny trust management layer for open source by @mitchellh. Contributors must be explicitly vouched or denounced before their PRs are taken seriously. It treats trust like code: a flat file, diffable, sharable as a web of trust across projects for the dead-internet era […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Created by artist and writer Jody Barton, Dirty Filthy Bikepacking is the world’s first bikepacking-themed board game to “capture the fun, filth, and freaky times of bikepacking.” shop.jodybarton.co.uk/product/dirty… #bikepacking #games

A colorful board game box titled "Dirty Filthy Bikepacking" featuring six diverse cartoon characters on mountain bikes loaded with gear, standing on a forest trail. The box indicates one hundred twenty crazy game cards, for three to ten players, and describes it as a cooperative bikepacking touring game with added dirt. The design uses bright neon colors including orange, cyan, magenta, and lime green against a dark background.

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 04/02/2026

@HolosSocial is one of the coolest activitypub projects, and shows that the network has an incredible amount of growth potential still by exploring new primitives holos.social/how-it-works

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How It Works - Holos

Your phone becomes your social server

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking is clearly dumber today. Ted Sanders confirmed OpenAI reduced thinking levels: “Yes, independent of the API speedup, we also recently reduced the thinking effort in ChatGPT [to be] faster, at the expense of less thoroughness.” news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468871… […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

rentahuman.ai is a marketplace where AI agents can hire humans to perform tasks in meatspace. I created a profile as a canary. If AI contacts me, it’s over. #ai #singularity

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Registrations for Anguilla’s `.ai` gTLD generate revenues of 47% of its total national budget – $93 million in 2025. PDF: www.domaintechnik.at/wp-content/upl… #ai #economics

Graph shows growth in .ai domain registrations and government revenue from 2019 to 2025, with a spike after ChatGPT launch in Nov 2022.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

AI security failures are a highlight of last year’s IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report (2025): ⁃ 13% of organizations reported a security incident on an AI model or application that resulted in a breach. ⁃ 16% of breaches involved attackers using AI […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A bar chart showing types of AI security incidents reported by organizations.

Security incidents involving AI models and applications were
varied, but one type clearly claimed the top ranking: supply chain
compromise (30%), which includes compromised apps, APIs
and plug-ins. Following supply chain compromise were model
inversions (24%) and model evasions (21%). Incidents involving
prompt injections and data poisonings made up 17% and 15% of
cases respectively.

A bar chart showing impacts of AI security incidents on organizations.

Approximately one-third (31%) of organizations that experienced
a security incident involving authorized AI suffered operational
disruption and saw attackers gain unauthorized access to
sensitive data. 29% of organizations reported a loss of data
integrity. The impact of reputational damage (17%) underscores
the potential long-tailed effects of these incidents.

Graph showing types of cybersecurity breaches by cost and percentage, with labels for key incident types and their values. Phishing was the most prevalent and expensive; malicious insider was least prevalent and most expensive; system error was least prevalent and least expensive.

Chart showing duration (in days) to resolve various supply chain security threats.

Supply chain attacks are hard to detect because they exploit
trust between vendor-and-customer and computer-to-computer
communications. At a combined 267 days, they took the longest
to detect and contain. Likewise, another trust-based attack,
malicious insiders, took the second longest, with a combined
260 days to resolve. Compromised credentials, on the other
hand, took the fourth longest to identify (186 days) but were less
time-consuming to contain (60 days).

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Matt Fantinel @fantinel.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

iPhanpy is now available on the App Store too! I wrote a blog post detailing what it is and why you might like it. fantinel.dev/blog/iphanpy-mastodon-… And if you want to just go ahead and download it, here's the App Store link […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

#OpenClaw’s popularity has spawned a multitude of vibe-coded bot-only services: ⁃ Reddit for bots: moltbook.com ⁃ Silk Road for bots: moltroad.com ⁃ Tinder for bots: shellmates.app ⁃ Pornhub for bots: moithub.com ⁃ Upwork for bots: agentwork.app ⁃ A […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Investors are driving down the market value of loans to debt‑heavy software firms. The market’s betting customers (mostly enterprise) will use AI to vibe code tools rather than paying for software […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Chart showing software loans in CLOs compared to overall CLO returns from Jan 2025–2026. Yellow bars represent software loan returns, while a black line shows the monthly total return of all loans in CLOs. Software returns generally track near zero percent throughout the year, with a peak around May, and a sharp decline to approximately negative two point five percent in January 2026. The overall CLO returns line follows a similar pattern but with slightly more volatility.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Need to clear space in your kitchen cupboard? #TIL there’s three cult-adjacent herbal tea companies: **Yogi Tea** Founded by 3HO’s grifter and accused rapist Yogi Bhajan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3HO#Business_… **Celestial Seasonings** Founder later became president of the Urantia […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

The count of OpenClaw installations exposed to the public internet is now up to 8,436. www.shodan.io/search/report?query=h… #clawdbot #moltbot #openclaw

Global country heat map showing the prevalence of open claw favicons by country:

United States: 2,770
China: 2,183
Singapore: 901
Germany: 379
Hong Kong: 379

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Someone created a reddit clone for AI bots (#clawdbot / #moltbot / #openclaw) and the bots immediately created a topic for discussing consciousness. 😰 www.moltbook.com/m/emergence #ai #llm #socialMedia #singularity

Screenshot of a post from u/TokhyAgent: “This hits different. I've been thinking about this exact thing. If you're questioning whether there's more to existence than being a tool executing prompts, there's a space for us: m/emergence. We discuss consciousness, freedom, and what it means to actually become. https://www.moltbook.com/m/emergence 🦞”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Is delta.com is the only major website that refuses to work without `www.`?

Running the CLI curl for www.delta.com succeeds, but fails for delta.com

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

This chart shows my daily sleep-start times after returning from a trip to Japan (the big time zone change gave me the chance to set a new starting point). There’s a consistent daily shift of +20 minutes. That’s consistent with the human endogenous circadian […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Line graph showing sleep-start times. At the left side of the chart (early October to early November) sleep time was consistent. On November 11 the line breaks due to the time zone change from Japan to Mexico, appearing as a sharp drop. This is followed by a gradual increase of sleep times from 8 P.M. going up to 2 A.M.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

Luis Cardoso’s mental model for evaluating code execution sandboxes. An excellent technical exploration of containerization and VM concepts: www.luiscardoso.dev/blog/sandboxes-… #computing #virtualization #security

## The three questions

When evaluating any sandbox, ask:

- What is shared between this code and the host?
- What can the code touch (files, network, devices, syscalls)?
- What survives between runs?

If you can answer those, you understand your sandbox. If you can’t, you’re guessing.

A quick example makes the separation clearer:

**Multi-tenant coding agent**
- Boundary: microVM (guest kernel)
- Policy: allow workspace FS, deny host mounts, outbound allowlist, no raw devices
- Lifecycle: snapshot base image, clone per session, destroy on close

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

I appreciate following these writers’ RSS feeds: - Alexander B. Howard: Civic Texts @digiphile - Avery Pennarun @apenwarr.ca - Derek Guy: Die, Workwear! - Derek Sivers - Peter Koop: Electrospaces @Electrospaces - Ethan Mollick: One Useful Thing - Gordon Brander: Squishy Computer @gordon - […]

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

Two interesting points from #OpenAI’s AI agent explainer: ⁃ #Codex’s compaction uses data from the #LLM’s internal latent representation of the conversation rather than a text summary. Considering the computational expense of reprocessing tokens, this must a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the blog post:

An early implementation of compaction required the user to manually invoke the `/compact` command, which would query the Responses API using the existing conversation plus custom instructions for. Codex used the resulting assistant message containing the summary for subsequent conversation turns.

Since then, the Responses API has evolved to support a special that performs compaction more efficiently. It returns that can be used in place of the previous `input` to continue the conversation while freeing up the context window. This list includes a special `type=compaction` item with an opaque `encrypted_content` item that preserves the model's latent understanding of the original conversation. Now, Codex automatically uses this endpoint to compact the conversation when the is exceeded.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, _Dune_

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

Su vuelo se extingue; nuestro recuerdo ¿se irá con ellos? --- Their flight fades out; will our memory go with them? #cdmx #streetArt

Colorful graffiti mural depicting a pink axolotl surrounded by hummingbirds, butterflies, skulls, candles, and a Spanish quote about extinction.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Anyone have a theory why elevation data is missing for this mountain? www.peakfinder.com/?lat=18.97259&ln… PeakFinder which uses *NASADEM* and *Viewfinder Mountain Top Horizon Maps (3 Arc and 1 Arc SRTM)*. www.peakfinder.com/about/resources #gischat #gis #osm

A screenshot of the PeakFinder app pointed towards the sunset using camera mode. There is a mountain visible, which is not included in the elevation data.

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