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Neil Kandalgaonkar

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22h

It’s Election Day for the city of Vancouver. I was up until 2am last night digitally organizing all the get-out-the-vote actions that OneCity is doing this morning. I am told there are 250 volunteers out there. This experience has been a highlight of my year. I got to experience my city and all […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Those of you who think Canada is a refuge from fascist politics, be aware the provincial Conservative party nominated a teenage Nazi Holocaust denier in my riding. In my circles there has been a consensus that we owe the kid some grace; but in my opinion, not so for the party that was certainly […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

X really is more interesting than the Fediverse. A car crash on the highway also causes everyone to slow down and look, but it doesn’t make your day better and doesn’t get you where you want to go

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@b0rk typo when googling for Tig Notaro

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Good things can happen. A few years ago Hungary was the model and resource hub for fascists looking to corrupt democratic countries, worldwide www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vg9nj…

Hungarian parliament scraps Orbán's anti-LGBTQ measures

LGBTQ and human rights activists warmly welcomed the move, but call for changes to other Orbán-era laws.

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

That said @0xabad1dea is also right The thing is, source control is a kind of social technology to defer coordinating what we’re all doing and how we’re doing it. So saying “we wrote this new source control system b/c we are going off madly in all directions” is, from a narrow technical […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I for one do extensive surgery to repositories constantly and both git and Claude need to be assuaged that I am not making life difficult for “downstream” users (literally only me or maybe three other people I am in a Slack channel with anyway)? Claude is theoretically right because you can […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

This seems very interesting. www.anthropic.com/engineering/redes… Caveat: press releases about internal tools are always happy talk. I guarantee that Scion is not universally beloved. New systems (esp replacing battle-tested tools) always have misdesigns and […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-is… Good post that gets into the futility I feel when I try to do something creative online anymore. I'm less and less motivated to do things like write a blog or build software tools. I've found myself without much of a creative community since 2020 […]

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

[vanpoli] The ruling ABC party - and the sitting mayor, Ken Sim - have a longtime feud with Sean Orr, leftist councillor. They keep trying to cancel him for “dirtbag left” Twitter irony circa 2012. Now they’ve released “The Orr Files”. On Grok. theorrfiles.grok.me Looks like someone* […]

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 09/10/2026

On Wednesday morning as our volunteers were out bright and early campaigning for safer streets, the keyboard warriors in the mayor's office were simultaneously putting out a release promising to remove hard-fought and life-saving traffic calming. (1/3)

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Boyle is a left-yimby bicycle advocate who works the housing and indigenous reconciliation portfolios; ABC’s leader is a Bitcoin bro promising to rip out the barriers introduced by the Safe Streets program I have no idea what that person who put up the lawn signs for both was thinking. But […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Your regular reminder that normal people have every possible configuration of political preferences, regardless of what insiders and political news junkies think I do not have a picture for you but somebody in this city has a Christine Boyle / NDP lawn sign next to an ABC Vancouver sign

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Buckle 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.

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

meanwhile, at conferences that are not Software You Can Love

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It’s very refreshing to be among a small group where the language creator is introduced as being a very kind person, and he stresses that the goal of the Zig Foundation is to educate people. And the talks are full of people talking deep systems knowledge and art Quite a contrast from the norm […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

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

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.

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

So, in this way, I'm just like an Anthropic engineer

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

I assume these videos are meant for internal audiences, even if we get to see them Perhaps in 1987 the NorCal executive's dream was to be in a brown-hued, brass-rimmed universe. With a giant house, a giant desk. To be an LSD veteran who still smokes weed on the weekends, still a bit of a rascal […]

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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 · 30/09/2026

@julian As for Fediforum, maybe? I might have a relevant project. Thanks for the note

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

@julian Yeah I’d like to add that I am trying to be charitable to this view. Suspicion of origin is often appropriate (anything that’s venture-backed; anything that Meta does). The mistake, in my view, is considering that origin is *everything*. You can start from anywhere as long as there’s a […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@manlycoffee Some people feel that they are fighting insidious forces (capitalism, AI, racism, etc etc) and change can only come from purity. They also can’t or don’t make anything for themselves. Therefore, they yell at the people who actually do stuff to be perfectly pure. I actually saw a […]

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

For the perplexed: If Google Authenticator was a physical device, it would look like this. There'd be a keyhole, and a six digit display like a slot machine. Inside, there would be complicated gears, connected to the key tumblers and to a clock. Every 30 seconds, the clock ticks, and the […]

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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 · 27/09/2026

@pojntfx Nice. I was doing some document processing yesterday and was struck by how wretched LibreOffice’s UX is. Worst of Microsoft Office circa 2018

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@pojntfx Yup it is obviously that

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.

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

That said, I _am_ very good at computering and I think they recognize that Like I started pulling in Levenshtein distance and other off-the-cuff ideas for partial records matching and that has led me to the subfield of Record Linkage, which has algorithms I've never heard of like this […]

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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 · 25/09/2026

@manlycoffee Well you’re not NOT a bad person

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 · 22/09/2026

@pojntfx We are all in our own bubbles though. You and your colleagues do wonders with AI. I am a (formerly?) smart person who is slowly falling down the scale from cool tech to ordinary companies and cosplay startups. The mainstream is exactly like this now. I could have written it […]

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

@pojntfx With regards to AI, I am only on here because I want exposure to old school technologists and principled AI refusers. Similarly I sometimes peek at X to find out whatever the cool AI researchers and the most disgusting fascists is doing this month, and BlueSky to find out what the mid […]

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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

a shelf of books

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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?

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

Greetings from Vancouver, BC, Canada, Europe

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]

An image of Main Street Car Free Day

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@ben What if Canada beats you to it?

Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[idf, genocide, gaza] RE: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/11726255819573…

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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José Albornoz (valid bearer) @eljojo.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

wow, rubygems seems to have gone through automated attacks 😬 www.rubyhack.ai

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.

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

By coincidence, today we got a flat denial from a Biden administration official about Andreessen’a story. They say no government takeover of AI was communicated, and go out of their way to make a16z look like clowns who understood less about AI, and math, than the government did There’s a […]

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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"

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

I’m half serious though. What other industry has CEOs and even ordinary employees yelling that they are an imminent threat to the species’ survival? With zero fear of someone from the government saying “ok I guess we’ll nationalize you?” If I recall correctly, Marc Andreessen alleged that […]

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