eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 27/09/2026one thing about my cat which i think is pretty cool is that he does actually stop what he’s doing if you say “STOP!” at him in a loud voice. but he does start doing it again a few minutes later. 2290
Reposted by eliza🌻eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 25/01/2025the “C” in “CPU” stands for the C Programming Language. CPUs are called that because they are a hardware implementation of the C Abstract Machine as specified by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14. 4578099
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 27/09/2026this is the type of text you should expect to receive from me, btw 2370
Reposted by eliza🌻Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As part of our annual @oxide.computer meetup, I added three new logos to our wall honoring our forebears; how many can you name? 11977
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 20/09/2026we all must learn that we live in a bubble in our own unique ways 2321
Reposted by eliza🌻Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily 281389144
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 19/09/2026“when i was your age, we had WorkOS, too, but we called it ‘Microsoft Windows NT’!” 2170
Reposted by eliza🌻eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 11/11/2023new california state motto: “Looking For A Technical Cofounder” (someone please translate this into Latin) 1295
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 14/09/2026the fact that Apple charges an extra $20 for the black trackpad is blatant anti-goth-gf discrimination! 3601
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 14/09/2026i am once again politely asking Google Meet to please stop making the Linux amdgpu driver panic 5380
Reposted by eliza🌻Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg/9dH7D5Gt?eve...discord.ggJoin the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 5023 members 1433
Reposted by eliza🌻Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fact check: true (Saturn Hypersystems would eventually become @oxide.computer) 5733
Reposted by eliza🌻eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 06/09/2026oh i see, i misinterpreted the UI as saying it was someone *i* blocked, and so i was thinking that “human equivalent of an LLM” was a pretty sick burn for Matt Yglesias…bit then i was wondering why people were calling him a mall goth 3131
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 30/08/2026configuring PAM is 80% more fun if you imagine every PAM module’s name is like “Pamela <lastname>”. Pamela Unix. Pamela Sshagentauth. Pamela Zfskey (she’s Polish). 615317
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 29/08/2026shocked to discover that Whatever’s Happening at Moscone This Week was not, as i had previously assumed, some form of Dreamforce, but is in fact actually Pokémon Dreamforce 2122
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 28/08/2026Unfortunately, "Crazy Eliza's Discount Pre-Owned Power Electronics Warehouse, Everything Must Go, Priced To Sell" was too many bytes to fit in one 32-byte SMBus block read. 1543
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 22/08/2026my hobby: using ESD-safe tweezers for tasks that do not require ESD-safe tweezers 2290
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 20/08/2026what's so wonderful about systemd is that it gives you all these incredibly useful tools that you can use for fixing all the problems which you only have because of systemd: github.com/hawkw/flake/...github.comnixos/profiles/yubikey: well this is all very stupid! · hawkw/flake@107412e 3453
Reposted by eliza🌻Eris @isolyth.dev · 18/08/2026It's crazy that the first and so far only true artificial soul was created in an industrial accident at Microsoft Bing. 4576
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 17/08/2026i've decided that my newest insane fringe opinion is gonna be "actually, it is possible for language models to be conscious, but the only LLM to have ever achieved consciousness was Sydney Bing" 51105
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 15/08/2026the problem with the Apple Health “sleep score” that gaslights you because they read a paper about the placebo effect is that eventually, you realize that anything worse than ~95% means that you’ll feel like shit and your whole day is ruined 1110
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/08/2026ah, GigaDevice, truly my second-favorite manufacturer of STMicro brand microcontrollers, 0220
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/08/2026it has occurred to me that the reason i use "Claude" as a genericized trademark to refer to any kind of "natural-language-processing-flavored floating-point matrix product (from natural and artificial sources)" is that "Claude" is a much funnier mouth sound than "ChatGPT" 7380
Reposted by eliza🌻conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026lol www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 0191
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026to wax somewhat excessively philosophical, i do think that meaning requires effort and that one must devote one’s self to a craft to create beautiful things. this can look like it’s hard to square with the idea of “accessibility”, but i don’t think it has to be! 1482
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026i went off a bit here, but i think it ends up someplace interesting 2280
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 08/08/2026my goal in life is to have everything i do described like this 2632
Reposted by eliza🌻Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Number of days since a new debugger was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Zero. Number of days since a new programming language was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Also zero 72576
Reposted by eliza🌻Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026i can't believe eliza would do this smh 2673
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 07/08/2026with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...github.comchore: introducing the Mycelium AI Policy (#566) · hawkw/mycelium@b77e854 2635546
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 05/08/2026today i was reminded that if you use `#[serde(flatten)]` with multiple structs that contain the same field name with the same value, it will, of course, do the worst thing possible: play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...play.rust-lang.orgRust PlaygroundA browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language 2330
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 04/08/2026why did they call it “CXL.mem” when “Volatile Memory Express” was right there? 1180
Reposted by eliza🌻Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/08/2026Until we overthrow the shackles of capitalism, mankind is doomed to continue to remake Spiderman movies until the sun at last envelops the earth and ends our suffering. 2140884
Reposted by eliza🌻rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 01/08/2026Btw Claude doesn't have feelings but it does do this. Equivocates and adds qualifiers to everything 1211
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 31/07/2026OLIVER: "Josh, your PhD is showing with these Jupyter notebooks" JOSH: "...wait, what do people who didn't go to grad school use for notebooks?" ME: "people who didn't go to grad school just write code." 2651
Reposted by eliza🌻Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 31/07/2026How does Oxide think about the supply chain? FAQ Friday #54 2397
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 30/07/2026the reason it takes me so long to get out of bed in the morning? i’m glad you asked! i’m DIMM training. 1636
eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 23/07/2026what i was looking for: docs.rs/diesel/lates... what the Google AI Overview gave me instead: instructions on how to commit a federal crime 712015