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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 10h

i'm also cautiously pro-ai x-risk

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 10h

pro-ai, pro-data centres and anti-farming. that's me

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 01/10/2026

You're going to love what we have in store. :)

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 01/10/2026

bobbin happened* lol we need more chars

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 01/10/2026

Yes, and then bobbin (blog.tangled.org/bobbin) and we realised we can spin up 100s of bobbins for nearly free. Slap a similarly edge-friendly web client and we have incredible perf wherever the user is in the world. In contrast: old appview which was sqlite-based, hard to shard, no API, etc.

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Introducing Bobbin

A diskless, API-only AppView for Tangled

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 30/09/2026

i can't because your dms are off haha

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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Tangled @tangled.org · 26/09/2026

First day at NixCon was amazing and today we continue 🐑 Find us at our booth or come listen to @oppi.li at: 🛠️ workshop for joining Tangled at 2-3PM at Aula Srednia 🗣️ lighting talk on the future of code collaboration at 4:30PM at Aula Duza A

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 23/09/2026

I will have to report back in December, when they actually arrive. The new 13 Pros I'm hearing are rather well built.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 23/09/2026

Lesson 0 of starting a company: don't get creative with the setup. Administriva is most definitely not what you want to spend time on. Get a Limited Liability Corporation (local equivalent) up and don't think about it.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 23/09/2026

I guess next Tangled off-site is in Amsterdam. It was either FOSDEM (but that means Brussels ew), or wherever Atmosphere Conf is. Thankfully it's 1. somewhere good, 2. somewhere I haven't personally been yet.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 23/09/2026

We do, yes. We have a microvm engine (next.tangled.org/tangled.org/...) and a custom scheduler (next.tangled.org/tangled.org/...).

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 23/09/2026

We just built it ourselves.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 21/09/2026

ya for some reason i couldn't send posts with og imgs

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 21/09/2026

If you're in Bangalore, you should come hang with us at the Maintainer Summit Afters we're hosting with the fine folks at @coderabbitai.bsky.social Expect talks and discussions on testing, code collaboration, and self-hosting—and food! Register here: luma.com/by2j97ga

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Lexicon Community @lexicon.community · 20/09/2026

The FOSDEM 2027 AT Protocol devroom proposal is taking shape. @edouard.paris and @viivi.rocks are leading the submission, due October 4. The draft covers protocol infrastructure, applications, governance, and critical perspectives. Share project ideas and use cases in the Discourse thread.

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FOSDEM 2027 ATProto devroom proposal

FOSDEM 2027 ATProto devroom proposal on the Atmosphere Community Discourse

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Tangled @tangled.org · 21/09/2026

Coming to NixCon this week? 🙂‍↕️ We (read: @oppi.li) are running a session on the first hack day, Friday the 25th at 2 pm on reproducible infra with Nix and SSH and how you can manage your infra too 🛠️ Look for the sheep t-shirts 🐑 or ping us here on Friday, and we'll tell you where we've landed!

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 21/09/2026

We're planning to get a couple of Pros at Tangled. Hearing great things about the build quality and battery life.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 21/09/2026

Unreasonably excited for EU-wide FSD approval.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 19/09/2026

Very fascinating to note that the model's pain vector goes *down* when the user is in pain. Instead, other vectors go up (fear, negative emotion, etc.). Much like we don't feel "pain" when someone else breaks a limb. Very self-referential.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 19/09/2026

Link to paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.162...

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 19/09/2026

This is an incredible paper that everyone, pro-/anti-LLM alike must read. While this doesn't exactly state that LLMs *feel* pain, it establishes that they have a consistent internal state that is about themselves, and responds to harm directed at them, and they'll try to get it to go away.

Tweet by @camhberg: New paper: we found a pain direction in 25 open LLMs. It's distinct from fear and negative valence, and it fires for harm to the model but not to the user. Turn it up and models press a button to make it stop, even when the button deletes the user's files or their kids' photos.🧵

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Tangled @tangled.org · 17/09/2026

We decided to throw a little watch party for the keynote on our Discord! Sneak peek into what's coming soon, guaranteed 👀 discord.gg/4xwua4b2H?ev...

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akshay oppiliappan @oppi.li · 16/09/2026

@tangled.org mentioned by @indirect.io at #jj-con!

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Tangled @tangled.org · 16/09/2026

@anirudh.fi is speaking tomorrow at Git Merge at 16:15/4:15 PM (UTC+1)! Tune in for the keynote: the Git forge must be hackable, on the @gitbutler.com YouTube channel. The (virtual) popcorn is on us 🍿 www.youtube.com/@gitbutlerap...

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 15/09/2026

if anything, effective altruism is getting some much needed airtime

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 15/09/2026

It's true, Viivi is our CFO now (Chief Folding Officer).

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 13/09/2026

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/imoynWhpY5AqxcaDG/ea-should-invest-in-animal-liberation-and-diet-change "Are there other justice movements that ignored the fact that they were justice movements?"—so good. EA ought to skew harder toward meat consumption reduction advocacy than welfare alone.

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EA Should Invest in Animal Liberation and Diet Change Advocacy

I want to start by noting that I am amazed and somewhat in awe of what's been accomplished by the EA animal welfare movement. I am enthusiastically s…

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 12/09/2026

In which reality is that sub-$30? I paid ~€90 for it, lol.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 11/09/2026

visas are such a scam. it's absurd just how much money flows from lower passport index countries into higher ones via visa fees. to add insult to injury, there's a ~15% rejection rate (schengen, unsure of others) for which applicants get *nothing*. money gone like a fart in the wind.

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 11/09/2026

so i gave up on it. down THREE HUNDRED euros

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 11/09/2026

i never got that canadian visa btw. took them 2 months *after* atmosphere conf to let me know that i can submit my passport to the visa center, to be sent to the high commission in london. AND THEN i wait an indefinite amount of time for it to be sent back to the visa center for me to go pick it up

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