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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 2h

meanwhile, at conferences that are not Software You Can Love

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I’m volunteering at Software You Can Love 2026! I am wearing the first Zig program I ever wrote. I feel like I’m getting away with something. Met the whole Zig core team for the cost of handing people microphones during Q&As softwareyoucan.love

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I'm working on a slightly innovative land acknowledgement for a tech conference. Some questions were raised about the approach. Anyone with an indigenous background/experience with such acknowledgments, especially in the areas known as British Columbia, willing to give it a look over?

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

.claude/settings.json is kinda useless for permitting files. I give it a small sample of good, clean, usable, sample data in foo.sample.csv. Over in `data/` which in the settings is forbidden to read from, foo.real.csv It respects that it won't read that file. But it's totally fine running any […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Compare and contrast: Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator demo and OpenAI's Dots. In the KN video, a privileged NorCal academic lazily manipulates his female colleague's work while dodging his family commitments youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0 Reflecting modern sensibilities, the Dots demo shows […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Debugging story: see if you figure it out before me. Your 2FA code, from your authenticator app, doesn't work with your bank. You reverify yourself with selfies, and get a new QR Code. It also doesn't work. Again. And again. You call them. They're stumped. Then it happens to the next service […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

To the tech leaders who say "We're in an AI race with China" No, _you_ are in an AI race with China. According to you all, the outcome for me is exactly the same no matter which flag the AI-powered robots have on them. I am made obsolete, impoverished, or murdered.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Continuing to volunteer for a local civic campaign. I have done a fair bit of doorknocking, and am now shifting to provide data for those volunteers. That was good because although I am at best an amateur data scientist, I know what the folks in the field need. A month ago they didn't know who […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[AI futurology and memes] I hear a lot of people getting worried about AIs suddenly being able to recursively self-improve. The idea is that it will stumble on some technique to get smarter without any other inputs, and then we're off to the exponential races. Why should it be possible for […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@petrillic/11731645338… oh man, this describes over 50% of the startups I worked for Many startup CEOs have fantasies of ego indulgence, and they think that Steve Jobs proved that trusting your vision was all that matters. So they hypercommit to the last thing […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I often walk into bookstores and get overwhelmed with choice. I kinda wish bookstores would just have one book No choice, this week you’re getting The Brothers Kamarazov and you’ll like it

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Greetings from Vancouver, BC, Canada, Europe

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

If you did Main Street Car Free Day in Vancouver, I might have tried to start a conversation with you about Your Plans For The October Election?? And Have You Heard About OneCityVancouver?? I'm sorry. Except, I also saw Christine Boyle and asked those questions […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I saw a post on a Vancouver subreddit moaning about how it’s impossible to make friends here, asking if anyone made any in the past 3 months …yes? At least lots of new connections with people I vibe with - went to a local, nearly free tech conference (Fedicon) - reached out to organizers, am […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/09/2026

so much of what is driving personal AI adoption—that is, outside of corporate control—is the breakdown of community. writers can't find other writers to bounce their ideas off of. open source maintainers can't find other maintainers to work with. people picking up hobby projects can't find […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I'm doing urgent IT for a local political campaign in one window and urgent IT for my in-laws in another "Funemployment"

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Should somebody call a SWAT team to Anthropic HQ because they are posting multiple threats that they’ve got 8.3 billion people hostage

Drake Thomas, apparently an Anthropic employee, posting on X on 2026-09-10

> I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.
> I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@drwhax/1172473002… The claim sounds sensational but the post lays out a clear and documented timeline; - right wing media blames Kirk’s assassination on antifa; - the White House is briefed on decentralized ideologies like antifa from none other than Andy […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

The OneCityVancouver mayoral candidate, William Azaroff, has dropped out of the race, in keeping with the left-wing parties’ agreement to avoid splitting the progressive vote. So now it’s down to Pete Fry of the Greens, Kareem Allam of the Liberals, and ABC incumbent Ken Sim […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I’m watching a show* where a hospital takes their own IT systems offline, as a precaution, since other hospitals in the area are being hit with ransomware attacks No internet/network = no software at all, so they have to revert to paper. I started wondering if anyone has considered local-first […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Lots of stuff brewing in my life right now, but in between, I continue to volunteer with OneCity in the municipal campaign. I’ve done some data stuff, some doorknocking, and more in the past few days. It’s kind of crazy how I just spent the last 3 hours hanging out with a sitting councillor […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@julieofthespirits… This is a tough one for me. Free and open source software have been operating for decades due to the limitations on copyright. So the argument that LLM training violates copyright seems nonsensical to me. The correct answer is […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@danluu/11719705413… I am very glad Dan did this. Now I can come out as an Ed Zitron non-enjoyer. Only a few people work this niche – bombastic anti-tech screeds, apocalyptic yet somehow also dismissive. They are popular on the Fediverse. Despite being wrong […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

TIL the second premier of BC was named Amor de Cosmos, a name he had given himself during his years in California during the Gold Rush en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_De_Cosmo…

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Dear Americans: why do you expect big corporations to be the first line of defense against fascism? In football terms: under fascism, big corporations are not part of your defensive line, they are part of the other side’s offensive line

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/1… Breathed a sigh of relief on reading it was DataRepublican. Probably their computer will explode if they attempt to analyze the graph of a few anarchist polycules That said, fascists don’t need to be accurate. The fascist state […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Last night my spouse asked me what I was thinking about and I had to explain the career of Steve Yegge, AI psychosis, and what `bash` is yegge.ai/essays/fences-not-sandboxes TLDR ol’Stevey runs AI that would cost $122K/month if he did not have a sweetheart deal with A/. They have […]

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Jez 🍞🌹:heart_autistic_pride: @petrichor.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

US administration demonstrating just how easy it is for them to attack organisations they disagree with far outside their borders. Autistici/Inventati is based in Italy and has been running for 20 years, but the plug has been summarily pulled on their Internet presence because their domain name […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

In retaliation, Canada will now be calling Lake Michigan “Lake Michigan” because Michigan is awesome

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A long time ago, a recording of Dolly Parton’s Jolene played slower went viral on the internet. A song like this would not have been out of place for a 1990s artist like the Meat Puppets. First time I appreciated her as an artist youtu.be/CMrfM711vXI To me, the original now sounds like […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Are any other servers getting a bunch of new cryptic bots signing up for accounts? They all have two word names, and post short poetic nonsense. For various reasons I'm going to err on the side of nipping this in the bud. I'd love to know who is doing this and what they want to push eventually […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

We see color because there are three differently tuned “opsins” in our eyes. When a photon of the right wavelength hits these proteins, they temporarily twist into a different shape. Ours correspond to the colors we call red, green, and blue. When you see yellow, the red and green ones are […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Yesterday I went doorknocking in Marpole with OneCity Vancouver candidates. It was a great experience! I didn’t know what to expect, but they have a system, so it was easy to get into a rhythm. More people should do this; it’s easier than you think. I’ll be doing more of this until the election […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Hey, remember when the International Criminal Court was locked out of their Microsoft accounts? These people are doing something about that hrdag.org/2026/08/04/the-technology… > […] we are building shared […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I have been interviewing at a few companies One person asked: "how do you stop AI from making slop code?". My answer included spec- and test-driven development, harnesses, framework, CI, leveraging language features, optimizing loops with certain prompt tricks, using different models for […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

RE: federate.social/@jik/11711815959028… This isn’t even the worst part. The investigation - conducted, and then spiked, by the NYTimes - concludes that the fundraising emails are a form of elder abuse There are elderly people (with memory issues? lonely?) who reliably give and give […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

“You’re absolutely right!” - now worthless through overuse and parody “You’re relatively right!” - calming at first, yet unsettling on second thought “You’re egocentrically right!” - locates your conversation partner as the literal center of the coordinate system if not the universe, honest in […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I finished The Master and Margarita a few days ago. It’s a strange book, written at a strange time, under difficult circumstances, and has many flaws. Nevertheless I’m so glad I read it. It’s almost like when an eccentric one-of-a-kind person intersects your life. There’s no picking and […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Do you know of anyone who has become a better person by using AI?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live. If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance […]

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

yesterday i was talking about mastodon and someone was like "what the fuck is that" and without thinking i said "linux twitter"

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Pierre Bourdon @delroth.mastodon.delroth.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I got some good photos of the partial eclipse in Zürich today, but to be fair all of them were... eclipsed (😎) by this once in a lifetime unplanned shot from a friend of mine. Luck + preparation always wins. Also on reddit […] [Original post on mastodon.delroth.net]

Partial solar eclipse with a paraglider transit.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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