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Pratchett Night Watch Cable Street That hits a bit harder now

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another thing i think is interesting is that the overwhelming majority of people who think llms are interesting buy into the fantasy of things it can never do or be, instead of appreciating llms for what is real about them. bc they *are* interesting! and will never be conscious.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 7h

I hear a little solder and magnet wire is just as effective

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 03/10/2026

@invoxiplaygames.uk, whenever I see your Discord credential theft PSAs, this thread is a lot of what I think of. I can think of ways, but getting Discord to play nice with them while still being user-friendly...feels overconstrained. Thought you might be interested in the thread, at least.

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Steve Syfuhs @syfuhs.net · 02/10/2026

In typical Windows fashion it's more than that and all the gooey bits are hidden for simplicity. There are multiple dimensions to the Credential Manager. 1. How do we protect the credentials? 2. Who uses the credentials? 3. Can I roam the credentials? Hot topics today, but we had it in XP!

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 01/10/2026

I think @garius.bsky.social 's Untitled History Podcast would be fun and @embeddedfm.bsky.social is unlikely but they did do jellyfish and I'd be fascinated to hear the hosts talk with you

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Catch me at the break outside for books and special, this event-only #monktoberfest Psychology of Software Teams stickers hand drawn by @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social with love for you all 🥰 !!

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Emery 🐦 Cafe Cafe @monzerol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest remix is out! ocremix.org/remix/OCR05077 It's also out on #Spotify this time, please consider listening to it there if you'd like to support Trainbeat and I! 😊 Thank you so much @ocremix.org for sharing my music once again! 💖 #VGM #GameMusic #remix #ChronoTrigger #SNES

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Chrono Trigger "No More Secrets" OC ReMix

OC ReMix presents a FREE video game remix MP3: Chrono Trigger "No More Secrets" by DaMonz,Trainbeat

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Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you hear a politician talking about saving small farms, just know that they do *not* mean the market gardener selling zucchini and corn at their roadside stand every Saturday. They mean a guy who inherited 500 acres and pays other people to work the land while he goes on hunting trips.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looove safecracking stories, plus good limits-based negotiation between SF FBI and Kink employees, win-win

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

gawd I hate how good of a summary this is

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Phantomarine is updated - Ch 7 p 69 Who are you, mysterious little godling? www.phantomarine.com/comic/769-po... #webcomics

A panel from Phantomarine. Cheth and Cheline look down on the Raven, who stands reverently between them. Cheline looks angry. Cheth looks wide-eyed but more neutral. Other acolytes look on, including the Canary.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 28/09/2026

Good to see Qualcomm keeping its commitment to Linux on its Snapdragon line

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Embedded @embeddedfm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We had Aaed Musa on to chat about building robot dogs, custom parts, and his YouTube channel! He tells us how he went from 3D-printing servo bots in his parents’ garage to using reinforcement learning to teach four-legged robots how to walk.

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534: I Think We'll Add a Head  — Embedded

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 25/09/2026

My recent anecdote on this is "the official YouTube upload of The Magic Schoolbus is higher quality than the DVD version."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so today I learned that Canadian engineers take a sacred oath written by Rudyard Kipling which is *clearly* worded to bind them as defenders against the fae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...

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Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 25/09/2026

The answer he gives, "to not stand out negatively from my friends," shrug? As a medical procedure, I knew a kid who had had polio and one leg was 6" shorter than another and paralyzed, so leg-lengthening made walking and balancing much, much easier. (See also gender-affirming care.)

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 24/09/2026

Hold on, asking Mythos to circumvent copyright prevention

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 24/09/2026

Wait 'til he mistakes a distinguishing phoneme is their language and gets mad about how he doesn't hear a difference

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 24/09/2026

Ah, just not evident from the title and blurb. Thanks! (Adding that to my Libby queue...)

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 24/09/2026

Ooh, could I trouble you for the title? Search of two kinds has failed me so far...

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 24/09/2026

I...I wasn't the only one? (OK, I managed to miss a lot of the bullying, but my mom had >30 of the novels in her library and I blew through them eagerly)

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The DOJ is intentionally drawing attention to this incident of mail dumping to sow distrust in mail-in voting, suppress votes, & motivate changes to the law to make it harder to vote. If you're amplifying and feeding that frame, even from the other side, you're a pawn in their information operation.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

That's probably faster-to-mitigate than patching the system SDB (the normal way to ship an app compat shim change), but I hope we do that instead very soon...

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

Ah, if The Internets are to be believed, it was indeed an out-of-band update (user 'garlin'): techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/... "certain games becoming unresponsive": support.microsoft.com/en-us/servic...

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

It's not out of the question for it to be malicious, but installation does require admin.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

My personal guess is that this was installed by IT, so it should show up via Search or Query (those may not decode, but they will at least enumerate with metadata): learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previo...

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

Asked around, and TIL about Compatibility Administrator which can be used to install custom app compat databases like this: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previo...

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

Feedback Hub is always the first step, otherwise there's no ticket to help ensure is routed correctly.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

(Unlikely to be unique, but special to me :)

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 21/09/2026

Did you get to do THE STREAM DANCE? :) In high school my biology class did a stream health assessment together, and it included stirring up the streambed upstream of a net and then counting what we caught. Stirring up the bed? "Stream dancing." Good times.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 20/09/2026

Of the eclectic set of folks I follow, @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social might know of something or might know someone who knows. (Not his professional specialty though)

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.

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Check if you're registered to vote at http://voterresource.org/saraht

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 18/09/2026

Another great thread by Phil

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 17/09/2026

Let's see him use a tee square, run a slide rule, letter a blueprint, and build a boiler that doesn't explode

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 17/09/2026

It's the SDB I'm interested in, personally. SdbInst.exe is baked in.

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 17/09/2026

That's a lovely albino GUID. Those aren't common. Does the file exist and is it signed?

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 17/09/2026

Can't say I can infer a lot of context here, but app compat is a weird and wild area. Which UI surface is this?

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Scott Sistek @scottseattlewx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

El Nino is just about a slam dunk to become historic in strength. Blog today shows what happened in #Seattle in past 3 strongest "Super El Nino"'s, and why you might just want to toss that script away... emeraldcityweather.com/super-el-nin... #elnino #wawx

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Here’s the ‘script’ Super El Niño’s have used for past Seattle winters. Now, toss it out. - Emerald City Weather Blog

Another month, another prediction from NOAA solidifying that the current El Niño under way will become historic and potentially record

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Jon Kunkee @jkunkee.daskunkee.net · 16/09/2026

Saw this in a reel at the Henry Ford museum the other day, it might be close: inpipeenergy.com

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InPipe Energy

Now is the time to turn your water into energy.

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Sean Dick @seandick.net · 16/09/2026

One of the oddest improvements over the course of testing was that making puppy truck handle worse made the game more fun

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026

Showing a co-worker what it means when an AI hallucinates imagery and cannot be relied upon for *any* information. Played NCIS ENHANCE ENHANCE ENHANCE from a pixellated construction site photo.

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