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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 · 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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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

@MichalBryxi Oh wow, it looks terrible on mobile (on my small phone the map is almost completely hidden). And no way to hide the panels – yikes. 😅 FWIW, this button activates the current GPS location.

The previous screenshot with the button to activate My Location indicated with a read arrow.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

@ElenLeFoll Unfortunately it’s impossible to test this now that the veracity of the study has been revealed.

ChatGPT GPT 5.5 on May 13, 2026:

“The term you’re looking for is bixonimania.

Important caveat: bixonimania is not a real, recognized dermatologic diagnosis. It was a fabricated condition planted in bogus papers to test whether AI systems would repeat fake medical information. Nature reported that it “doesn’t exist” outside those bogus papers, and that AI chatbots later described it as real.

Also, the broader claim is weak: a JAAD paper found that short-term blue-light exposure from electronic devices did not worsen melasma, and a later consensus source states there is no evidence that long-term exposure to very low-intensity blue light from screens stimulates pigmentation. “

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

@jerry The fun thing is you can scale this machine up to any size. Now the question is for you – to ponder while watching your machine run for a couple more hours – what is the minimum number of hooks? Here’s a photo of a larger version in the fantastic TextielMuseum in Tilburg, NL

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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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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 · 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

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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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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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

It’s hard work submitting bug reports. Developers – this is how you treat users who submit quality reports: 1. Implement the fix. 2. Reward their work. #indieDev #webDev #appDev

Screenshot of a Discord DM: “Hey! Wanted to thank you for all the valuable feedback you've shared, so I've granted you lifetime premium (got your user ID from the logs).

If it ever gets reset, just ping me via the contact form. Thanks for helping improve the app!”

Screenshot from Spokenly showing that Pro has been activated.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

@pj, @kevin, @Casey – FYI, theforkiverse.com is currently trending as the **Top Decentralizer** on @ricci’s arewedecentralizedyet.online. Milestone achieved??

Chart showing accounts on decentralized social networks, highlighting "theforkiverse.com" as a top host with 3,590 users.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

I'm in the middle of nowhere – just this one house – and there's 19 Bluetooth devices broadcasting. 😳

A screenshot of nRF Connect for iOS running a RSSI scan. There’s a long list of devices, most without names, and a plot of device signal strengths over the past few minutes.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Moss from the Before Times. Feather Falls, California, November 2006, Nikon D70s/18-200mm #photography #mosstodon

Luscious green moss growing on a log taken at an angle with a zoom lens so that only the center of the image is in focus. It is vibrant green, glowing healthfully.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Nice educational website about the risks of using public Wi-Fi. lolwifi.network #security #wifi #travel

# Security Risks of Untrusted Networks

**You cannot verify security configuration of an untrusted network before joining it.**

Yet the moment you join, your device is exposed to:

- WLAN membership/association attacks (802.11 layer)
- Layer 2 attacks (ARP spoofing, MAC spoofing)
- Network configuration attacks (rogue DHCP servers)
- Client-to-client attacks when isolation isn't present
- DNS manipulation and traffic analysis
- MAC address and device fingerprinting

This happens before any application-layer encryption (TLS) can protect you, and TLS does not protect against WLAN membership/association attacks.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

I never thought I’d see something worse than `curl whothefuckknows.com/yolo.sh | bash`. www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-st… > “Installing software is a task which should be left to AI” What’s wrong with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot from the website linked in the post. It shows a curl command piping instructions from a web-hosted text file into Claude CLI, with this text:

“Instead of piping an executable file into bash with absolutely zero safeguards on what gets executed or confidence that it will figure out how to work with your arch linux setup, you can instead send an install.md to claude and trust Opus to deal with the minutia for you. […] This works for any language or framework, whether your software is distributed as a binary, package, or script.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

How about you fix your shit first, then we’ll talk. #macOS #macOS26

Notification from Apple trying to persuade me to update to macOS Tahoe 26.2. The only options are “Restart” and “Remind Me Later.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

iOS 26 – the gift that keeps on giving. #ios #ui

Image of an iPhone keypad with numbers 1-9 and +*# buttons outlined; the 0 button is not outlined (it should be)

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

THE SCHOOL MAY BECOME THE MOST EFFECT IVE OF ALL THE FORCES OF CIVILIZATION #ashlandOR

A stone inscription on a building reads: "The school may become the most effective of all the forces of civilization," above a lantern.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Just thought you should know this is something that exists right now. #photography #ashlandOR #notAI

A child wearing snow gear and a mask is standing on a snowboard in a snowy ski resort with trees, a ski lift, and snow fences in the background.

A snow-covered tree with thick snow on branches, standing in a snowy landscape with a person skiing in the distance.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@MonaApp How to disable the rich text features of Mona? I frequently accidentally add rich text and don’t know how to remove it except copy-paste the text into a text editor and back. Also, it would be nice for the Rich Text dialog box (second screenshot) to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tweet from Quinn Comendant with links to models.dev and GitHub, discussing open-source SVG logos.

Dialog box explaining how rich text, including Genmoji, will be uploaded to iCloud and shared in posts, with options to Continue or Cancel.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

models.dev is an open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and capabilities. Includes an API for data and provider SVG logos. Provided by the people to made OpenCode. github.com/anomalyco/models.dev #llm #data #openSource

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Ok, so ice skating is fun. Also, this is what being in a Hallmark Christmas movie feels like. ✨⛸️ ✨

Aerial satellite view of Chico California’s central plaza with a GPS workout trace overlaid. The workout trace follows the oval path of an ice-skating ring, going in circles many dozens of times.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

The plot of Pluribus reminds me of the pop-dharma thought experiment, “Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you.” This appears to have originated in Jack Kornfield’s 1994 book “Buddha’s Little Instruction Book.” Later, Richard Carlson’s […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A woman with blonde hair, eyes wide open, mouth agape, against a bright yellow background promoting the TV series "Platibus" from Apple TV+.

"An uplifting quote about enlightenment and learning, accompanied by a watercolor floral design at the bottom."

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Those of you who use the internet with a non-residential IP address (#VPN, #Tor, #Proxy), how do you deal with embedded #YouTube videos? They won’t play because my IP looks botish, and “log in” doesn’t work with embedded videos.

Screenshot of a website with a YouTube video embed that will not play. When clicking the play button, it shows an error: “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.”

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

@MonaApp How do i enable the vertical menu like in the previous version? There was an option to use “Mona style” or “Apple style”. I liked the old Mona style with names. I know I can enable tab names, but I don’t want the names to appear on the bottom tab bar. And those names are quite small anyway.

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Quinn Comendant @com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Some news for you schadenfreude junkies. Cloudflare released usage trends for hostname lookups on their 1.1.1.1 DNS service for 2025: ⁃ Nazi bar rank dropped precipitously. ⁃ Mastodon ranked above Bluesky and Threads. Note that rank is relative, so X’s fall […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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