Reposted by KPirijan @pketh.org · 1hFound this online and couldn't not share it. Companies never needed AI to make software development miserable, the pain was inside them all along. 041
K @kerry.bsky.social · 1hwww.gearnews.com/custom-firmw...gearnews.comCustom Firmware: Elektron Pushes Back, Modders Keep FlashingCustom firmware for Elektron, Roland, Akai, and more: what's inside, what Elektron says, and what to know before flashing. Don't skip this one. 120
K @kerry.bsky.social · 2h*swoon* modwerk.appmodwerk.appModwerk — mods for Elektron instrumentsMods for Elektron instruments. Your firmware stays on your device. 010
K @kerry.bsky.social · 3hThis guy added a sampler and a bunch of stuff to the Elektron Model:Cycles (github.com/TinyGregAudi...). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v16v...youtube.comI added a sampler to the Elektron Model:Cycles (and a lot more) | Model-TGYouTube video by TinyGreg 010
K @kerry.bsky.social · 5hLove this: "Make Firmware, Not War." (Every open-source firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 in one place) fm1.designburgapps.comfm1.designburgapps.comMake Firmware, Not War – The FM-1 Firmware HubEvery open-source firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 on one page, always the newest release. No need to pick a side: one click each, and back. 230
Reposted by Kdaniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Buckle up. One of the pending #curl CVEs that we publish next week is graded severity HIGH. Considered the worst flaw found in curl in several years. Yes, found with AI. 43835
K @kerry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is how I felt when the internet arrived (for me) in the ‘90s! 140
K @kerry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hahaha, I clearly spoke too soon! Here's another new non-Sino model arriving days after I wished for more occidental LLMs. docs.mistral.ai/models/mistr... h/t @jrw14.whnc.medocs.mistral.aiMistral Large 4 - Mistral AIMistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It features 49B active parameters and 1.05T total parameters, and ... 010
K @kerry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had been wondering how Needle would make money: "3 fine-tuning runs for $19 once. Hosted compute and training-data generation included" cactuscompute.com/needlecactuscompute.comNeedle 3 - 8-29 MB foundation model for tiny devices | CactusA foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. One 8-29 MB binary that beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and matches 2-3x bigger models on ... 150
K @kerry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A new Occidental / Non-Sino model has arrived. bsky.app/profile/jrw1... 000
Reposted by KMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 04/10/2026Inspired by @huwupy.kawaii.social's post on building a personal bouncer using Jev + ATProto mod lists, I spent the day building it: Meet @skybouncer.bsky.social 🛡️ Set your house rules, and it bounces toxic replies, abusive QTs, and harassment. Here's how it works under the hood 🧵👇 4268
K @kerry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Spooky season cinema has begun! Hokum was not what I was expecting but like all of McCarthy’s films it was a lot of fun. (I feel like I recommend Oddity all the time) 000
Reposted by Kamos @fasterthanli.me · 04/10/2026whistle looks super neat! punching way above its weight cactuscompute.com/blog/whistlecactuscompute.comWhistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MBAn open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straig... 4695
K @kerry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ha! I was just looking into parakeet redux (178mb) and thinking it was small compared to the others. 17mb is crazy small. huggingface.co/moondream/pa... 040
K @kerry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Honestly, that is the most universally relatable statement in software development." 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026[ good to know ] 40 ways to send a file: getcroc.com/blog/compare...getcroc.com40 Ways to Send a File: croc and 39 AlternativesCompare croc with 39 file transfer tools by resume support, account requirements, browser and CLI transfers, encryption, availability, and transfer paths. 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New German model dropped: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/...huggingface.coAleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 · Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 121
Reposted by Kworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10260921706
K @kerry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Using Apple's FM model to narrate a video clip in real time. 😂 [10:00] A man wearing a red shirt is spinning a vinyl record on a turntable in front of a wall of records. [10:05] A man in an orange jacket speaks while leaning over a turntable with a blue record. Name that film... 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chase Bliss open sourced Chompi the other day (and the underlying code/firmware) and someone already made an webapp & plugin (VST3,AU,AAX) out of it! NIBBI combines a seven-voice sampler, sound-shaping controls, stereo effects, and a tape-style looper. www.temeculadsp.com/nibbitemeculadsp.comNIBBI — Download & User GuideDownload NIBBI and learn to sample, play, shape sounds, and build tape loops in your DAW. The Temecula DSP guide to the NIBBI sampler plugin. 010
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good catch and good point! Looking forward to whatever comes of the Poolside acquisition. 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"As for legality, receiving is generally fine, but sharing the content of private or restricted communications can be illegal in some places, and I'm not a lawyer." 100
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also, I had Gemini remove the panties because I wanted to find the Getty source. Didn't find anything exact, though. Anyhow, I think that's a Berlin taxi? 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I clicked through solely to find out who was responsible for this image. "Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images" (Aurich Lawson is the Creative Director for Ars Technica) The editorial image name is "no-boink-taxi.jpg" 😂 I guessed composite and found his explanation: arstechnica.com/civis/thread...arstechnica.comCan good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?Autonomous vehicle designers have to worry about riders getting frisky in public. See full article... 100
K @kerry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm certainly not opposed to the Chinese models, but I do wish there were more competitive *open* models from "The West." I understand why things are the way they are, but still... (Arcee, Bonsai, Gemma, Granite, Inkling, Liquid are interesting offerings, but lag behind the top Chinese models) 371
K @kerry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hmmm… Cloudflare’s “Clef is post-trained from Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B” & “Clef-Flash is post-trained from Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B” 010
Reposted by KCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable 628579
K @kerry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"You are completely right to call that out, and I apologize for putting you through that unnecessary detour." 100
K @kerry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026see also: exe.dev and Docker just announced a similar-ish thing (agentic-platform.docker.com).exe.devexe.dev - ssh exe.devBuild apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev. 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Doesn't look like you need it, but this is handy: libimobiledevice.orglibimobiledevice.orglibimobiledevice · A cross-platform FOSS library written in C to communicate with iOS devices natively.libimobiledevice is a software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV devices running iOS on Linux without the need for jailbreaking. 000
K @kerry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026uh... "Compliant Footpads Enable Terrain-Adaptive Hopping in a Monopedal Robot" www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVk2...youtube.comCompliant Footpads Enable Terrain-Adaptive Hopping in a Monopedal RobotYouTube video by CLIMB Lab, UofT 000
Reposted by KChristopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That didn’t take long. github.com/firelex/jeffgithub.comGitHub - firelex/jeff: Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classificationFine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff 18013
K @kerry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mixture-of-Agents?! "Send a request with "model": "mesh" and the proxy fans it out to every model available in the mesh in parallel, arbitrates their responses with deterministic logic, and returns one OpenAI-compatible reply." 010
K @kerry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Distributed Model Inference: Share compute privately or publicly. "Mesh LLM pools GPUs and memory across machines and exposes the result as one OpenAI-compatible API" "Large dense models can load as package-backed layer stages." meshllm.cloud & public.meshllm.cloud & github.com/Mesh-LLM/mes...github.comGitHub - Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm: Distributed AI/LLM for the people. Share compute privately or publicly to power your agents and chat.Distributed AI/LLM for the people. Share compute privately or publicly to power your agents and chat. - Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm 361
K @kerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026nysignmuseum.org 😉nysignmuseum.orgNew York Sign MuseumThe New York Sign Museum is a foundation dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of advertising and signage in New York City and the surrounding areas. 010
Reposted by KSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water 211004180
K @kerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a really fascinating and thoughtful take on ambient computing. 000