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jnleser @leser.io · 06/06/2026

'BACKROOMS' director Kane Parsons has reportedly invented NixOS. "What's a NixOS?" He is only 20 years old.

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jnleser @leser.io · 02/06/2026

To celebrate pride month I will read "The Rust Programming Language".

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

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jnleser @leser.io · 06/05/2026

LLM's are just stochastic parrots. A database that you can query with language. It knows more than you ever will. Get it twisted. Everyone is gonna lose their job. It can't count the number of r's in strawberry. Get it twisted. The singularity is here. It's running out of data. Get it twisted.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 08/04/2026

⚠️ An active phishing attack is targeting crate owners by asking them to "confirm that your email address is still active". These messages are not from crates.io, and should be ignored. (We will never ask you to confirm that your e-mail address is still active.) ⚠️

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jnleser @leser.io · 28/03/2026

Giraffes have a vestige called the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It's takes a >4 meter long detour through the entire neck to reach a different part of the head. As giraffes evolved the nerve got more and more wasteful. Vibe coding does the same to your codebase. leser.io/blog/vestigi...

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jnleser @leser.io · 10/03/2026

It's really good to be aware of what's you give up when you outsource to ai. Kudos

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jnleser @leser.io · 24/02/2026

It's finally time to let yall try out Ratebit! It's a cross-platform recommendation site that lets you define the algorithm yourself! youtu.be/vuKdz3gfNAM?...

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Introducing Ratebit

YouTube video by jnleser

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jnleser @leser.io · 21/02/2026

I finally did it, I put nixos on a microslop surface 10 pro. I feel like a mad scientist. Obligatory @isabelroses.com mention

NixOS running on a Microsoft sorface 10 pro

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/02/2026

The point of building is not just to throw the finished product over the line; if you’re doing it right, the process shapes the creator, too.

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jnleser @leser.io · 15/02/2026

Hey yall, is there a discord alternative that uses ATProto? Matrix sounds very cool, but if your homeserver goes down, aren't you screwed?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/02/2026

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account...

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jnleser @leser.io · 09/02/2026

Just got my first NAS!!!! I will probably put nixos on it, but I'll test the factory config first ^^

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dame @dame.is · 29/01/2026

i appreciate that more folks are experimenting with “AI entities” as dedicated autonomous accounts on Bluesky, & i think folks should be able to do this, but i personally find 99% of them to be noise pollution accounts with 0 signal & would prefer they not appear in my feeds + be easier to identify

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isabel @isabelroses.com · 24/01/2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 Zohran Mamdani to make NixOS the go to operating system for all New Yorkers. What are your thoughts on this?

a image of Zohran Mamdani with the american flag behind him

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jnleser @leser.io · 21/01/2026

Arch? Still on a legacy distro I see

Drawing of nix-chan looking down on you for using anything besides nixos

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/01/2026

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

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a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

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jnleser @leser.io · 05/01/2026

finally switched to #nixos :3

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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jnleser @leser.io · 22/10/2025

@sarahkriesche.bsky.social Hi! Did you moderate Jaron Lanier's lecture on digital humanism at TU Wien yesterday? I got no mail about the event from the TU and missed the event by one day. Is there any follow up event or lecture?

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jnleser @leser.io · 27/09/2025

Heya, I posted my first video to youtube :) It's a small list of tools you can use to turn off social media recommendation algorithms and make the whole experience a bit less addictive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eXi...

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How to Disable Recommendation Algorithms

YouTube video by jnleser

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

urls really are one of the best ideas ever

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 27/05/2025

There are so many bunnies out

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding prep!!! @lina.yt · 18/05/2025

If you're in Japan, important PSA! Add this to your ~/.ssh/config: IPQoS none Turns out the default SSH QoS/DSCP setting puts you in a traffic class that NTT FLET'S IPoE treats as priority, but limited to 10mbps! I was wondering why IPv6 rsync was so slow... (affects git push too!)

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Why @why.bsky.world · 24/04/2025

Boilerplate will expand to fill the time available to write it

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

hate it when there's a vector field on my desk 😔😔

a bunch of red physical arrows on Freya's desk arranged like a fluid simulation vector field

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

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Algorithms are breaking how we think

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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jnleser @leser.io · 24/01/2025

Super excited to share my contribution to Humanity's last exam! This is my first time as a co-author on a paper! I share this role with many people who also contributed to the dataset, but it's a very special moment to me :) The paper: lastexam.ai NY Times article: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

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Humanity's Last Exam

Humanity's Last Exam Dataset

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Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · 23/01/2025

I wrote about a new AI evaluation called "Humanity's Last Exam," a collection of 3,000 questions submitted by leading academics to try to stump leading AI models, which mostly find today's college-level tests too easy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

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A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It — Yet (Gift Article)

The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.

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cam forever @sincerely.cam · 18/01/2025

you should be thinking longer and harder about everything

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jnleser @leser.io · 15/01/2025

Totally forgot to mention, but my chrome extension Thule was accepted into the chrome webstore :) It reads the content of your tabs and closes them if they aren't helpful to the goal you set yourself. It does this using a language model. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Thule...

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Thule - Chrome Web Store

Thule, a cool tool (to stop you from wasting time on the internet).

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jnleser @leser.io · 13/01/2025

Hi! I'm starting a discord server called "internet grabage cleanup club"! discord.gg/hztMsHsA55 If you're human and don't want to see any more ai generated slop, you're welcome. You're especially welcome if you want to help do something about that. Bonus points for being a programmer or writer.

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Join the internet garbage cleanup club Discord Server!

Check out the internet garbage cleanup club community on Discord – hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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jnleser @leser.io · 08/01/2025

Finally! Also don't forget about actual human accounts that mass-follow people automatically to gain attention.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/01/2025

Just going to reiterate - We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

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jnleser @leser.io · 26/12/2024

yeah I'm a "sqrt(4^3 + 36) - (2^5 / 8) + ((3^2 - 7) * 2)"x engineer when it comes to making things more complicated than they need to be

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jnleser @leser.io · 26/12/2024

Something in my body told me to make a VR window manager today. Got the window streaming working already :) I neeeeeed to implement gaze interactions so you can just look at a window and have your inputs go there even if you don't have eye tracking... FUUUUN

a screenshot of my WIP VR window manager

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草野貴之 (Kusano Takayuki) @tkusano.jp · 26/12/2024

“Whether BlueSky likes it or not, it is being pulled into the real world,” 「ブルースカイが好むと好まざるとにかかわらず、同社は現実世界に引き込まれつつある」

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For Bluesky, Massive User Uptick Brings Growing Pains and Divisive Bots

It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division.

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jnleser @leser.io · 26/12/2024

finally got around to trying @tldraw.com computer! It's very fun just getting book recommendations from it, but I think I'll be playing factorio in it next

tldraw.computer giving book recommendations

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jnleser @leser.io · 26/12/2024

The Boox Palma 2 (or the first one) is amazing! I've only been using it for like a week, and I'm already on my second book on it :)

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jnleser @leser.io · 26/12/2024

We gotta do something about these damn bots. Like why tf would you want to post AI generated slop and mass-follow people to generate engagement for the slop... Just reported @y05u615bor.bsky.social

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jnleser @leser.io · 18/12/2024

People are following thousands of others in an attempt to generate engagement. I think we can do something about this. Here's my writeup leser.io/blog/massfol... I'm hoping to stop this as a community @hankgreen.bsky.social but also via the protocol itself @why.bsky.team, @samuel.bsky.team

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The Bluesky Mass-Follow Scam

Social media has a scam problem. Bluesky made it visible.

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jnleser @leser.io · 17/12/2024

This is a 3d graph representation of the people I follow and who they follow. Neat right? #dev #bluesky

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jnleser @leser.io · 16/12/2024

Has anyone made something like this yet? This is a bluesky 3d following graph visualization I wrote today. Very janky setup but good enough for a demo :)

An image of a 3d graph where each node is a user, and the users are connected via edges representing who a user follows. The size of the nodes is the sqrt of the follower count.

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jnleser @leser.io · 16/12/2024

I am playing around with visualizing the bluesky following graph and just said "let the size of the node be the follower count, no limit no nothing" and @bsky.app ate everything.

a follower graph visualization where the official bluesky account is so much bigger than everything else it bascially just ate every other account

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jnleser @leser.io · 15/12/2024

How do you report unlabelled AI accounts to bluesky directly? There are labellers of course but this has to be against TOS right? It looks like these accounts automatically follow a lot of people to (unsuccessfully) generate engagement. @samuel.bsky.team what do you think about this?

Screenshot of an AI generated account. At least it looks like one to me.

Another screenshot of an AI generated account by my standards.

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