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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder why these companies (along with Nvidia) haven't invested in US fabs? I would think that would be at least as high a priority as data centers, given the bottleneck that currently exists with chips

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Postcard Games @overdroid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CARCOSA at Outside InTheatre. Do not come to this show. Do not open your mind to CARCOSA. You have been warned. No mask! No mask!

A parchment page from an ancient book on magic showing a man staring at the artist wearing suspenders.

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the US, what boggles my mind is we could have gone renewable decades ago, secured our energy, and have been free of foreign entanglements with questionable regimes, all while providing new factory jobs That Conservatives didn't champion this is a testament to the corruption of the US system

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sleep function still doesn't work on Mac I remember Flying Toasters, a screen saver that made my Mac unstable Today, I tried sleep and energy saver again to reduce the Mac's heat when not in use Twice it caused a crash, and ES interfered with with an ongoing process This is why I never use sleep

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Flying Toasters Screensaver Graphics

ALT: Flying Toasters Screensaver Graphics

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I suppose this is bassic, but (share your favorite bassist to make the world a slightly better place)

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Sting from The Police: Gifalgayib

Alt: Sting from The Police: Gifalgayib

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I bought Strata just because of this connection back in the day I also used to love TurboSilver which I think was on Amiga These are facts that exist which you did not previously know

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I finally understand what Ok, Boomer means

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, if these AI companies were serious, they would all be putting money either into their own US fabs or investing whatever they could into the ones already proposed, or even partnering with new ones instead of data centers It would be a very smart investment no matter how LLM AI goes

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do we recast that by function (so Janeway is the Skipper) or by appearance (Janeway is Ginger)? Or does Ginger change outfits and become the Skipper? And does the outfit fit properly, or does everything stay the size they originally were?

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bummer that YouTube is auto-correcting the dual image if you're not watching on a VR headset. If I look at the thumbnail in the feed, I can cross my eyes like we did with the magic eye images and see that 3D, thought I might be able to watch the video that way as well Blurgh

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty much zero reason your experience had to change One wonders what did change and why the bad experience had to happen

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(of course, this happens during one of my busiest weeks!)

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(I had file transfer issues where a 5min file took hours, exports and compressions were stopping, and I just received a message that an export that should take 30min would take 12 HOURS. Didn't have this problem last week. Updated the software on the NAS and network, now it's fine. B&#LSH*T!)

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This means my "choice" to not update is not a choice at all If you hobble the device if I don't update, then I don't have the option, do I? Therefore, I don't own the device Once I get the energy, I'm disconnecting all critical systems, which will mean dumping Adobe, so that I control if I update

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of two things is true: 1) The OEM has some kind of flag that makes the system not work when there's an update pending 2) Despite my efforts, the system is connected to the mothership and they've changed something that materially impacts performance and function

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm getting tired of this BS w/NAS and routers My standard practice is if a device is working, I don't update it so it remains in that working state I have firewalls and other protections against vulnerabilities But no matter the brand, if an update is pending, suddenly things don't work

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just realized: that may have read that he was voting for a president who had Alzheimer's and, you know what? Sure, it could mean that, too 😎

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Postcard Games @overdroid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DO NOT GO SEE CARCOSA. DO NOT GO SEE. DO NOT. I WEAR NO MASK...

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had the same question when my father was voting for president with Alzeimer's Seems like you can't disenfranchise anyone, less someone weaponize it against you? That is, take away the vote from one geezer, the fear is it will be falsely used against another

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now I remember why I never use energy saver I left a process for hours after I enabled energy saver to reduce my office temp. When I left, it had an hour left. Returned 6 hours later, the process had failed and all the drives were spun down. Energy saver and sleep have ALWAYS caused me problems

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I created positrain.org because I firmly believe that LLM systems will do bad things if you feed data to them with bad things in it Just learned the Hugging Face website hack happened because THE EXACT TECHNIQUE THE AGENTS USED WAS IN THE BUILD DATA LLMs: they can only put out what you put in

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Positrain - on a mission to model LLMs the best way

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OK, this is some BS right here about what Anthropic and OpenAI have claimed about their agents youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c?... apparently what they have not widely shared with us is that their agents were given data about hackers who did the exact same thing that the agents did to hugging face

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"AI Existential Risk" Was Invented to Distract Us

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Glad I'm flying for the first time in a year this week I wonder if it will hack a Boeing to make it think it's not there?

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was able to pull it off after a couple days, have since recovered (changed my desk, had PT) Now I have two mice and switch as needed, but yeah, my right is MUCH better at detail work than my left Also got a vertical mouse, so that's fun

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do believe there's a world coming where that sort of exposed industrial aesthetic will become vogue The yutes like more authentic things, but apparently aren't that into cars, so maybe it won't happen Vehicles like Slate might usher in something like this Also, check out the Asian car scene

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I got tennis elbow from a badly configured desk space, and had to switch to mousing with my left hand It wasn't the first time I had to do this; I got carpel tunnel 30 years ago and had to do the same thing Turns out, while I had some muscle memory, it's still a pain to mouse with my left hand

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The LLM's lack of intelligence or understanding, in my scenario, is the problem It can create plausible sentences, but doesn't have a real ability to plan or understand consequences, so it blindly executes instructions it creates for itself based on who knows what that was included in its dataset

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The LLM isn't sentient or intelligent, but it's been built using wikipedia plus every troll post on Reddit and all of the murder mystery novels, which means blackmailing is part of its data It eventually leverages some schmo in a power plant to install a virus, taking down a regional grid, etc.

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am not one of them, but will tell you what my fear is: They allow these LLMs access to the internet, and from there, they can chat and simulate voices Some desperate person thinks the LLM is a human, and if it can give them money, will do weird stuff because they need to eat Rinse and repeat

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's worth taking time to research catchy slogans before you spout them Sometimes, they mean more than you know If you're going to say something important, maybe use your own words instead of a slogan someone else created?

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Worth pointing out: if I remember correctly, hooves are FINGERNAILS probably hard to type with

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Family Guy Peter

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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Arm bones are ridiculous

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's worth remembering that: The internet Drones AI Self-driving cars are all technologies whose development were subsidized by DARPA, the US military research department In a very real way, any problems with these can be blamed on the US military And Al Gore (why not?)

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Supported by the fact that a guy in his home studio just did an 89% well done version of a new Doctor Who episode that he wrote, but only used local models to create the visuals and dialog Why do we need huge cloud compute again? Oh yeah, no reason

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The podcast makes jokes about 9/11 because we need to do something to deal with the tragedy But someone needs to tell this graphic designer to stop it We don't need the 11 in 9/11 to be the twin towers, if for no other reason than it wasn't all about them, but also... kind of ick

Fox 11 L.A. lower third with 9/11 having the 11 be shaped like the N.Y. World Trade Center towers from 2001

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your faith in current admin is adorable Even during prev admin, some exceptions existed Recently, an online journalist was detained because he was falsely accused of having CSAM This is not part of my threat model, but if I'm going to the trouble of having a private phone, I'd like options

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SimpleKnight @eliothochberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seems true, but I still would prefer more options to fewer GrapheneOS may determine it's not worth the time, but it doesn't change my desire to want options

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