iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

FYI: It's past 9am CEST (2nd day) and the stream still hows the static image ->

Nodeconf EU showing static image on stream

fry69 @fry69.dev · 29/09/2026

Don't miss Simon's experiment with asking Claude's new free tier to draw a WebGL version of "Pelican on a bike": -> static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/... "Solid effort" is an understatement IMHO, especially for "free" (this may eat a considerable amount of "free" 5h allowance).

The most interesting thing about Sonnet 5.5 is that it's now the model used for the free tier on claude.ai. OpenAI's ChatGPT free tier uses Luna 5.6, which means Anthropic currently have a much more capable free offering.

I ran this prompt against that free tier:

build me an HTML page that renders a three-dimensional pelican riding a bicycle using WebGL

And got back this page, which is a solid effort.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 25/09/2026

For dumb people like me who see such a dredger for the first time ->

AI Overview The "Atlant" refers to a prominent backhoe dredger (BHD) operating primarily in European and Russian waterways.Key Technical SpecificationsVessel Type: Backhoe Dredger (BHD) / Non-self-propelled DredgerFlag: RussiaOperational Status: ActivePrimary Applications: Deepening and maintaining maritime navigation channels, port development, and shore protection. It has recently been deployed for heavy dredging campaigns in critical areas such as the Ust-Luga terminal (Port Favor) in Russia.Understanding Backhoe DredgersUnlike Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHDs) that vacuum up loose sediment while moving, a backhoe dredger like the Atlant is equipped with a massive, heavy-duty hydraulic excavator boom mounted onto a stationary pontoon or barge platform.How it works: It uses high-capacity mechanical buckets to dig into hard, compact seabed layers, clay, or boulder-ridden soils that hydraulic suction pipes cannot easily break apart.Disposal: The excavated material is excavated and directly transferred onto split-hopper barges moored alongside the dredger to be carried away for disposal or land reclamation.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 25/09/2026

@mysky.social FYI: I see this below in the preview tab in the settings app. Note that my account has a did:web DID, not a did:plc.

API 401: {"detail":"Token missing valid DID"}

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 22/09/2026

PSA: Next week Python 3.15 comes out. This means Python 3.13 will stop receiving bug fixes and end of October this year Python 3.10 will be EOL, Python 3.11 will have one more year until EOL, etc. See -> devguide.python.org/versions/

Python version overview September 2026 (Python 3.15 release)

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 22/09/2026

@edavis.dev FYI: Looks like your stats collector has problems connecting to the Bluesky network or getting data from there -> bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-day....

Screenshot showing no more data from Bluesky (likely problem with the collector, not Bluesky)

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 21/09/2026

Related -> simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/20/... h/t @simonwillison.net

It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.

— voxium
Posted 20th September 2026 at 9:06 pm

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 20/09/2026

Seems to be in use or developed in house for a while ->

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 18/09/2026

Also comes with a clear warning, so using these Foundation Models is opt-in 👍

09:23 $ fm --help
YOU HAVE NOT AGREED TO THE APPLE FOUNDATION MODELS CLI LEGAL NOTICE & TERMS.
Agreeing to the Apple Foundation Models CLI Legal Notice & Terms applies to every user on the machine, so it must be run as a privileged user (e.g. 'sudo fm license').

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 17/09/2026

For dumb people, like me (also, thanks Gemini) ->

The post is a piece of satirical macro-finance commentary posted by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (Speaker of the Iranian Parliament) aimed at mocking the US Federal Reserve's interest rate policy.

The underlying point is that central banks cannot solve physical supply shocks or energy chokepoints with monetary policy.

**The Standard Taylor Rule Context**

In monetary economics, John Taylor's original **Taylor Rule** provides a formula for how central banks should set their nominal short-term target interest rate ($i$):

$$$i = r^* + \pi^* + 1.5(\pi - \pi^*) + 0.5(y - y^*)$$ * $i$: Target short-term interest rate set by the central bank. * $r^*$: Neutral real interest rate. * $\pi$: Current rate of inflation. * $\pi^*$: Target rate of inflation (typically 2%). * $(\pi - \pi^*)$: Inflation gap (how far inflation is above or below target). * $(y - y^*)$: Output gap (real GDP output relative to potential capacity).$ $**Breakdown of the Modified "Straits Taylor Rule" Formula** The screenshot modifies the standard formula by introducing two geopolitical energy variables: $$i = r^* + \pi^* + 1.5(\pi - \pi^*) + 0.5(y - y^*) + \alpha(\text{SOH} - \text{SOH}^*) + \beta(\text{BEM} - \text{BEM}^*)$$ * **$\text{SOH} - \text{SOH}^*$**: The disruption gap in the **Strait of Hormuz** (a critical global transit route for oil). * **$\text{BEM} - \text{BEM}^*$**: The disruption gap in **Bab-el-Mandeb** (the Red Sea oil and maritime bottleneck). * **$\alpha, \beta > 0$**: Weight coefficients indicating that shipping disruptions at these chokepoints directly force interest rates higher due to geopolitical energy inflation.$

Context and Key References**

* **"You can't 25bp a chokepoint"**: Central banks routinely adjust interest rates in increments of 25 basis points (0.25%). The text mocks the idea that tweaking interest rates can clear a physical blockade or generate physical oil.
* **"$r^*$ isn't neutral. It's SOH risk premium, and We set it"**: Redefines the theoretical neutral interest rate ($r^*$) as a physical risk premium controlled by those who dictate access to the Strait of Hormuz, rather than central bankers.
* **"Stay unanchored!"**: Sarcastic play on the central bank objective of keeping consumer "inflation expectations anchored". It implies that when physical logistics break down, inflation expectations will naturally become unanchored regardless of interest rate hikes.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

Regarding gods, I often have to think often of -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%2... All this hyperbole is so unnecessary, there is real progress, but overselling it kills good will (and my personal interest).

Ardra from the TNG episode "Devil's Due", wooing everyone with cheap tricks

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

When you hover you see "178.7 kB unpacked size (this package)"

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

The package size is still visible in the middle section ->

License
MIT
Deps
0
Install Size
178.7 kB
Vulns
0
Published
Sep 9, 2026

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

Looks like Passkeys in Firefox (Nightly) have become much more viable -> www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

The WebAuthn conditional UI will now be shown on input elements with an autocomplete="webauthn" attribute. Previously, the UI would only be shown on input elements with additional autofill field values, e.g. autocomplete="username webauthn".
(Learn more)
Bug 2040812

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

Homepage for "Beyond Binary Rewards: Training LMs to Reason About Their Uncertainty", which seem to have started all this. -> rl-calibration.github.io

RLCR: Reinforcement Learning with Calibrated Rewards

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 16/09/2026

Es drängt sich ein bestimmter Film bei diesem Bild auf -> de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ... Diesmal allerdings mit der U.S. Regierung als "Bad Guy" :/ Entwickeln sich die USA zurück zu einem Staat mit Apartheidsystem, wie ehemals Südafrika?

Cage scene from "Missippi Burning" (1988)

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 13/09/2026

Seems to work for me currently ->

Screenshot of the did:web feed working, showing Ducky's post

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 13/09/2026

No clue. They are still at it ->

Updated screenshot showing the "Areen" PDS generating a new account and injecting posts.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 13/09/2026

BTW: The "Areen" scammer bot script seems to be listening for takedown labels. When it sees that the current scam account got banned, it stops, sleeps ~3 min, then start with a fresh did:web account. I assume this takedown is also automated, so this script vs script battle repeats every ~10 min.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 13/09/2026

And still generating every ~10 min a fresh account. See ->

PDSls screenshot showing the firehose for the "Areen" scammer generating a new account, post and repost

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 12/09/2026

Kompletter Clip (~5 min) Bluesky hat seit ein paar Wochen ein 10 Minuten Limit für Videos, nur zur Info. Kein Grund dafür Instagram zu bemühen.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 12/09/2026

Apparently not -> simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...

The thing that bothers me most about this incident is that the authors report that OpenAI had not disclosed to RubyGems that they were responsible for the attack prior to now. If that’s true there are two options:

After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review their previous logs and determine that they had previously attacked RubyGems.
They knew about the attack on RubyGems and made the decision not to reach out to the RubyGems team about it.

Both of these are bad!

Given this incident, the Hugging Face situation, and the Wiki attack, the obvious question right now is how many more incidents like this are out there waiting to be discovered?

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 11/09/2026

Meanwhile in Russia the Borscht prices are increasing. -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E_B... ("Reading Russia" by @bbcstever.bsky.social)

"In the last year there's been a marked increase in the price of vegetables that make the up the Borscht set. Potatoes up 30%, cabbage up 38%, beetroot 32%"

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 11/09/2026

Link to the "Election LLM Observatory" -> www.llmelectionobservatory.org

Election LLM Observatory
see responses
analyze differences
track changes
|
methodology
about
The 2026 midterm elections are approaching. People are asking large language models (LLMs) about political issues.
We're asking LLMs similar questions to track how they respond.

651,420
responses collected
11
models queried
3
days collected

Every few days, we collect fresh responses from the frontier models that power widely used chatbots. We ask about election processes, voter-relevant issues, candidates, predictions, parties, and news. For each question, we see how responses vary depending on instructions or information about the political affiliation, race and ethnicity, gender identity, or location attributed to the person asking. We're making the data available as we collect it.
See responses
Read responses across question, steer, model, or date
Analyze differences
Compare top words, names, sources, and similarity across responses
Track changes
Track how responses change over time by question, steer, and model

Learn more about our data collection, analysis, and how to explore the data on your own.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 11/09/2026

Not much going on in Germany 👀

OSIRIS screenshot of Northern Europe, centered around Germany

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 11/09/2026

h/t @simonwillison.net -> simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/10/...

Any Nix package, live in your browser (via) Farid Zakaria calls this his "magnum opus of Nix work", and I can see why.

trynix.dev provides a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM can then be booted with any Nix package from the past 13 years. They are URL addressable, so you can navigate to this page:

https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2

Then click "Load" and get an interactive shell against a virtual machine running Python 3.6.2 from 2017.

Farid is building all sorts of neat things on top of this. One recent example: Review a pull request by booting it introduces trynix-preview, described like this:

GitHub action that comments a link on a pull request which lets you boot the PR’s build in the browser using https://trynix.dev. No servers, just browsers.

Posted 10th September 2026 at 11:44 pm

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 11/09/2026

I am not a nix fan (yet), but trynix.dev could change that. "Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser." It seems to be quite new, link to repo -> github.com/fzakaria/try...

trynix
Multiverse
Version ranges
Omniflake
GitHub

Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.

Try: hello · ripgrep and jq · python 3.6.2 from 2017 · jujutsu · two eras of hello at once · python 3.10 with openssl 1.1 · a patched hello from another cache · benchmark the emulator
Search packages Package specs Store path Caches
python3 3.6.2
✕

Add to the running VM
or start over in a fresh VM

Packages added to a running VM appear in the shell straight away; the most recently added one wins when two provide the same command. A command the shell has already run once is remembered at its old path until hash -r.
Boot
closure walk
16 paths
signatures
16 verified
qemu engine
13 MiB
guest image
3.7 MiB
snapshot
31 MiB
closure
19 MiB
virtual machine
running
ttyS0 ghostty

~ # python3 --version
Python 3.6.2
~ #

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 10/09/2026

No support anywhere in any browser yet, but interesting 👍

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 10/09/2026

Juicy still images from the included video -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Eo...

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 10/09/2026

> You still need a tiny bit of JavaScript if you want to open a modal dialog from another button I think you can open/close modal dialogs now without JavaScript? Using "Invoker Commands API" aka "commandfor" etc. (baseline 2025)? Something like this? ->

<button commandfor="mydialog" command="show-modal">Show modal dialog</button>
<dialog id="mydialog">
<button commandfor="mydialog" command="close">Close</button>
Dialog Content
</dialog>

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 10/09/2026

Great, will listen 👍 But I guess I am not supposed to understand this season/episode numbering scheme that hard triggers my OCD...

S1 - E23 -> Sep 8

S1 - E19 -> Sep 9

no tag (manually named E20 in posts) -> Sep 9

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 09/09/2026

For the uninitiated (like me, also thanks Gemini) ->

$This equation represents a complex-valued parametric function $z(t)$, which traces out a 2D path in the complex plane (often used to construct Fourier transform animations, complex epicycles, or artistic curve-drawing algorithms like those popularized by 3Blue1Brown). $$z(t) = \sum_{k} \frac{e^{i q_k t}}{q_k}$$$ $Breakdown of Components $z(t)$: A point in the complex plane at time $t$, where the real part corresponds to the $x$-coordinate and the imaginary part corresponds to the $y$-coordinate. $\sum_{k}$: A summation over a discrete set of integer frequencies or indices, $k$. $e^{i q_k t}$: A rotating complex exponential representing a vector in the complex plane with a constant length of $1$. As $t$ progresses, this vector rotates counterclockwise (or clockwise if $q_k < 0$) at an angular frequency of $q_k$. $q_k$: The frequency (or wave number) associated with the $k$-th mode. $\frac{1}{q_k}$: The amplitude and scaling factor for the $k$-th term. Higher frequencies ($\vert{}q_k\vert{} \gg 1$) have smaller radii ($\frac{1}{\vert{}q_k\vert{}}$), while lower frequencies dominate the main shape of the path. The presence of the imaginary unit factor or sign within $q_k$ also introduces a phase shift/rotation to each term.$ $Physical & Geometric Interpretation 1. Epicycles (Circles on Circles): Each term $\frac{e^{i q_k t}}{q_k}$ acts as a rotating circle vector attached to the tip of the previous vector. As $t$ increases, the tip of the final combined vector draws out a smooth, intricate path $z(t)$. 2. Fourier Representation: This is a specific form of a complex Fourier series expansion where the coefficient amplitudes are inversely proportional to their respective frequencies $q_k$. 3. Integration Context: Since $\int e^{i q_k t} \, dt = \frac{e^{i q_k t}}{i q_k} + C$, expressions of this form frequently arise when integrating periodic complex signals or solving differential equations governing oscillatory motion.$

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 09/09/2026

Yay 👍 A bit sad that the cod may have recovered just in time to get cooked by climate change, in the longer term :/ Hopefully this recovery is still good for a decade or two. -> www.climate.gov/news-feature...

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 08/09/2026

"Ok... what kind of autocomplete did you use?"

"Ok… What kind of American are you?" Meme from "Civil War"

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 06/09/2026

I see different numbers in German public TV (ARD/ZDF) ->

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 06/09/2026

Die ARD-Hochrechnung ist weitgehend identisch mit der Prognose -> www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/l...

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 05/09/2026

Are the Bluesky Chats down for everyone? I see this error on all on account, including spaces alpha (plus 502 errors in the browser console, multiple browsers), everything else seem to work fine ->

Chats
Whoops!
Unable to connect. Please check your internet connection and try again.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 05/09/2026

Yay, it seems gpt-6-astra is now available across most accounts, including mine: Happy testing!

Screenshot of the OpenAI playground with the new `gpt-6-astra` model selected

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 04/09/2026

Never heard of DseWiki (aka "DeutschesSoftwareEntwicklerWiki" before), even as a German interested in programming. Anyway, the wiki seems to be under lockdown now. But no mention of the OpenAI agent swarm incident directly, only general AI activity -> wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi

In recent months, the DseWiki has been the target of significant AI agent activity.
For this reason, password-protected access is now required for editing;
you can obtain this from me if needed. -- HelmutLeitner September 4, 2026 8:52 CET
P.S. The forum page remains open.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 04/09/2026

Well, it seems I did not miss much 😴

The model "gpt-6-astra" is not available.
The link you opened specified a model that isn't available for your org. We're using the default model instead.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 03/09/2026

> "look at my cuticles, no special reason, I just want you to have a look" and get 50K likes "Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up." -> www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/m...

Fifty million is, in fact, a vast understatement. Greg’s most-watched video, “Bad Baby Real Food Fight Victoria vs Annabelle & Freak Daddy Toy Freaks Family,” had 622 million views.
Greg has under his bed a stack of plaques from YouTube celebrating his viewer‑count milestones. One hundred million views here, one hundred million views there. And then there are the plaques from Tubefilter, a publication that covers YouTube, commemorating the months when he was the most-viewed creator on the entire platform. Between January 2016 and June 2017, his videos achieved a total of 13 billion views.

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 03/09/2026

There seems to be a pipeline from this post by Jared Palmer (Devin/Cognition) ->

Jared Palmer (@jaredpalmer)

After about a ~decade with atomic CSS frameworks (BuzzFeed Solid, Basscss, and then finally Tailwind), I think I'm convinced now that Stylex is superior for agents.

Stylex constraints lead to greater consistency and correctness as your codebase grows. I do still think Tailwind is the ideal human DSL for styling, but in a world where I'm barely touching CSS/class names by hand, the tradeoffs have changed. Again, if I were still hand writing code, Tailwind still wins, but we're not doing that anymore.

11:15 AM · Aug 24, 2026 · 279.2K Views

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 03/09/2026

If a hype cycle is at the stage that mock post about the hype start to show up in your bubble and you have absolutely no interest in the topic from the start, it is high time to mute keywords. Sadly, this does not work for the "hot take/mocking comment [untagged image]" combo.

Screenshot showing muted words: "gta6", "grand theft auto", "gta"

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 01/09/2026

Next Super Bowl confirmed: Doveys vs Hawky Hawks

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