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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

To err is human but to really f%^k something up, you need #software..

Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

#meta really are their own worst enemy. I don't venture out much beyond #mastodon. I tore down my #twitter data years ago, but had 2 or 3 accounts I followed passively on #instagram occasionally. I signed up for #threads just to read the nytimes pitchbot account there (which is different from […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

I miss the era when you grab a window by the title bar and reliably drag it somewhere. The folks building #vscode have it developed more densely than a San francisco neighborhood and odds are high that if you misclick, you are going to get the editor in a state […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

There are credible arguments against #LLM usage being economical for coding near term (I'd not take that bet long term), so we might just be in a massive credit induced bubble, in which case, please take all that subsidized capacity and use it burn technical debt on useful open (or closed) […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

latest in the series of disastrous sunsets wracking the San Francisco, Bay Area. Must be AI.

Sunset, looking across the cranes over the Ucsf Parnassus construction site

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Subpar sunsets will continue until something gives.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I sense another substandard #sunset coming on #sfba.

Picture looking north across the bay from Buena Vista

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The thing about having both cats and dogs is that sometimes you can sense the tension between the two teams. This is what a cat thinks an empty bowl looks like and this is what the dog thinks about that. #CatsOfMastodon #dogsofmastodon

Labrador lying on the floor, lethargically staring at the bowls from
a distance

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Oh #msteams .. Nothing quite says Welcome more than "your account doesn't allow you to join a meeting due to policy" at the last minute (as a guest!). Teams pulls random #microsoft profiles off my desktop every time (minecraft, shared family calendar named after […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Join without using an account
The account you're using doesn't have access to this meeting due to org policies.
Dismiss Join without an account

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

„Who ordered the humidity?“ „Put it over Glen Canyon please“ #sfba #carlthefog

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Just made a small donation to the #lastditch bar. Whatever your stance on the situation, the owner seems like they are trying to do the right thing, it has been quite expensive and they could use some help. ko-fi.com/lastditchbar

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

ok to park on 9/26 ? Need an LLM to do a quick analysis

parking meter with 3 different signs on it with it then style logic.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I slept the sleep of The recently vaccinated last night two hours of REM sleep it was glorious. oh and I also get resistance to two major diseases for the season for free. What a deal. #vaccination

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I propose we give #nytimes a “raise (eyebrows|concern)“ budget each day that they need to live within. I half wonder if there is a #nytpitchbot competition internally to see who can get away it the most. . “Meta’s smart glasses are the latest in a line of products to raise eyebrows over privacy”

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#AIsafety it sounds from reading the article that the agents are starting to experience the same rage every data scientist has trying to get information downloaded from public government sites […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The software engineering field is masterfully pushing the #AISafety narrative rather than the "we are crap at this and everything we do is riddled with defects" narrative that honestly seems like a plausible alternative. I'm just shocked, shocked that we keep on finding sloppy programming […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

wait time at #kaiser #sanfrancisco french campus for #covid and #flu #vaccination is less than 5 mins. Way faster than catching the disease itself.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Just finished watching #BattlestarGalactica .. binge watched a large chunk of S4 over last two days . Having an #xkcd606 moment xkcd.com/606 . I liked how they wrapped it up. I was afraid they were going to #Lost the ending with no coherent plan but they stuck the landing.

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Cutting Edge

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

can’t avert eyes from car crash that is the latest #nytimes interview with conservative voters in Texas.

comment from interviewee on Talarico introducing same sex bathrooms in schools.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Stupid is as stupid does #Trump #WhiteHouse banned #Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes. The WH told Politico in a letter Tues that it had taken the unusual step of revoking its #press passes last week because the #news org had violated professional standards, including […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

But among the examples the White House cited was an article based on a #press call the #WhiteHouse hosted…. In the call, reporters were instructed to cite an anonymous “senior administration official” in relaying the news to the public…. The letter citing the report was 1 of 3 submitted by the […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In case you needed one more reason to not connect your refrigerator to the internet.. #firmware #refrigerator #samsung arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/own…

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Using #AI to lower customer satisfaction 101.. Step 1.. don't even let the customer finish their question.. Step 2.. ignore their request! (they are mistaken), they just need a trite menu.. #amazon

please don't waste my time with canned answers.
This package was
Got it.
Is the package itself missing? Or, was the package delivered but
items are missing?
Package is missing
Items are missing
Package was empty
I'm having trouble getting my order from a locker or counter
Thanks, I'm all set

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It's #UX like this from #asana that makes me crave a slider that moves beyond the simplistic Yes and Skip for now buttons and slides all the way down to "oh hell no, get me out of here immediately and wipe this from my brain"...

Asana AI teammates invitation splash screen with fuzzy colored blobs that look like blood cells attacking maybe...?

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Pretty sure if #skynet got loose today, it would run some janky #pandas / #python script, not 6502 assembly code..

terminator head up display showing 6502 assembly code scrolling past

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Hating #magiclink auth a little more every time I have to copy url to browser, type email address, switch to inbox, wait 5 minutes, click link or copy code back to web page to authorize an action inside my desktop tool... for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. Could have been a #passkey ...

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

As they say „Rome wasn’t prompted in a day“. I should be satisfied that my dna rendering is on the screen even though it’s cartoonishly wrong.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#office365 threat protection so advanced it can't check a simple claude login link right now.. Anthropic.. heard of those guys? They're the ones with the kludgey login infra

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#fruitfly #researchlab is open again for the weekend. The last model has done surprisingly well in the wild (well sitting tight on top of a compost bin that is spewing #drosophila as fast as it can). The brown print did >> than yellow. Have swapped the funnels to […] [Original post on sfba.social]

openscad model of fruit fly funnel inserted into jar

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Kind oi ironic when they warn you that quitting #onedrive will stop you seeing updates across devices, because running it certainly doesn't result is files syncing across devices..

@ Quit OneDrive

Quit OneDrive? |

If you close OneDrive, files in your OneDrive folder won't sync or
back up to the cloud so you won't see your changes across
devices.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Apparently sending 400 characters of text explaining just how shitty the #microsoft #onedrive client is, is a major network operation judging from the the spinny wheel..

SEnd feedback to microsoft dialog with spinning wheel

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

#alito equating the ham fisted #usps system to disenfranchise massive swathes of the US population using dodgy voter rolls with „other requirements for sending mail, such as the necessity to list a recipient’s address and affix a stamp“ is quite the pretzel but hey he has a fancy law degree and […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

someone testing #python again in a dense urban environment. tsk tsk.

ad for python fastening service showing shockwaves going through san francisco.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

they don’t like to talk about it but even a #hummingbird once in a while likes to take a break and just watch life go by.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

It blows my mind how easy #biology seems to be to people who don’t do biology but think we are one #ai prompt away from #doomsday. oh „AI is going to design a super weapon“ (but then 18 months later xkcd.com/683 ).

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Science Montage

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

#nope - I fled Australia to avoid this kind of crap. People rave about sunny weather, but in a rapidly warming planet, cool is a valuable commodity... (and yes, I know we are wimps...)

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

#msedge has 214 extensions available that provide A BLANK HOME PAGE.. because the walking piece of adware tracking shit that it is doesn't support it out of the box I wonder how many of these are malware (that's worse than #MSN ?

Microsoft Edge, page showing blank, tab, extensions.

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