Reposted by adgworm @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 8647961379
adg @nf.id.au · 01/10/2026Would love it if it just popped up a notification asking if I wanna pair bt audio. Is that so much to ask??? 110
adg @nf.id.au · 01/10/2026oh 100% I am the luckiest person I know and I am grateful. But I do think there is scope with this voice interaction technology to free a lot of people from their desks in general, and spend more time working with people instead of machines. 010
adg @nf.id.au · 30/09/2026I think the point (maybe not his) is you don’t need to be sitting in an office if your interface to the computer is voice. I get a lot done these days talking into my phone and reading its responses while walking around my garden. 101
adg @nf.id.au · 30/09/2026I think that point was the industrial revolution, but back then it was just called “industry“. 030
adg @nf.id.au · 27/09/2026If you follow this to its logical conclusion it leads to fully corporation-owned, locked down devices. No thanks. 000
adg @nf.id.au · 25/09/2026“SQL injection attacks work by tricking the backend into thinking-“ “NO!” 050
adg @nf.id.au · 18/09/2026My issue is every time I see Jev I hear Channing Tatum in my head say “MY NAME IS JEFF” 020
adg @nf.id.au · 12/09/2026It’s almost as if appearance is not the only thing that factors into a persons appeal. 021
adg @nf.id.au · 10/09/2026I think it’s because we are social animals and we are constantly assessing what the right thing to do is wrt pleasing/conforming to our group. That tends to generally align with “being good” but the definition of good is constantly in flux, and we are constantly monitoring those changes. 010
adg @nf.id.au · 05/09/2026There are several studies (even ones commissioned by car manufacturers) that show that touch screens are much more distracting for drivers than traditional controls. It’s not hysterical, it’s just practical. I can attest to my direct experience that this is the case, too. 12571
adg @nf.id.au · 05/09/2026Surely it’s clear to us by now the guy has a humiliation fetish right?? At least I hope so because the alternative is so, so grim. 010
adg @nf.id.au · 05/09/2026I really wish they would hurry up and just burn the weights into silicon chatjimmy-style. What would really be a neat trick is having a good enough model run 1000x faster. Who cares if its 5% better when you can run 10 of them to cross check each other in different ways. 020
Reposted by adgColin @colin-fraser.net · 03/09/2026attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you. 321127
adg @nf.id.au · 30/08/2026There is some stuff to be optimised in cgit itself, I think. I set the robot on it and it was able to make some improvements: github.com/nf/cgit/blob... The change to reduce the work in finding decorations on the commit page seems particularly promising. (github.com/nf/cgit/comm...) 060
adg @nf.id.au · 28/08/2026Oh yeah and I need at least 100Hz refresh rate. is this all too much to ask? 🙃 000
adg @nf.id.au · 28/08/2026I am really stuck with trying to figure out my new monitor setup. What I really want is a 32” (or larger) 4:3 monitor with the DPI of the iMac 27” Retina display, but they simply don’t exist? thinking about dual somethings but I get annoyed by not having one primary display. 100
adg @nf.id.au · 28/08/2026I have ~zero budget constraint and have the option to use fable or sol just as easily and usually pick sol because it’s way faster and I don’t notice a significant difference in output quality. I do use fable for code review though. 010
Reposted by adgBrad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 26/08/2026I can finally talk about this, 3 years later... github.com/tailscale/ta... It's a library + CLI tool that's like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane without any control plane (no accounts, no dependence on Tailscale the company, all open source) WireGuard + NAT traversal without IP addresses.github.comGitHub - tailscale/tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control planelike netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane - tailscale/tailcat 823836
adg @nf.id.au · 23/08/2026Also Google is reputationally screwed whatever they do whenever they release anything, unless they can somehow guarantee to make it available for free forever (impossible), so almost anything they put out has an alpha or similar label on it. 011
adg @nf.id.au · 22/08/2026Makes me think, the rolls of film you would need to capture an equivalent number of photos would probably be way more expensive than most lenses 110
adg @nf.id.au · 20/08/2026I got banned from a gaming discord for posting a helpful tool I made that was hosted under the exe.xyz domain. 🤷 030
adg @nf.id.au · 10/08/2026I think people don’t realise you can do basic maintenance on a fridge- ie, fully clean it out every now and then and replace the seals every decade or so. 000
adg @nf.id.au · 08/08/2026Many do leave. Others stay for security/money/stability, or because it can be a relatively stress free way to tinker with computers for a living, the products seen by the public being so removed from them as to be irrelevant. Also if you work in infra it can be fucking cool. 180
adg @nf.id.au · 07/08/2026Used to have something very similar to this, which I used heavily when working from my Mac on services deployed to cloud VMs with heaps of ram and disk. Yours is a lot nicer though. 😎 010
adg @nf.id.au · 07/08/2026If you think any of those software are bad because the code is bad then you don’t understand anything about how large companies (fail at making) software. Big companies ship bad products because of systemic management failures, not lack of talented employees. 3362
adg @nf.id.au · 04/08/2026It wild how going hard at a specific game can make a huge difference. I played quake nonstop in my teens and remember having a lan at a friends place with non-quake players. when we played TFC I was kinda in the same league, but when we played QW they couldn’t get a frag. And I wasn’t even good 😂 001
Reposted by adgrenee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 26/07/2026it's national tree day today #watercolour #nationaltreeday 0828
adg @nf.id.au · 03/07/2026My guess is named pipe to subprocesses. Not a file but has the same naming restrictions. No idea why they would use a user provided name as a file name though! 010
adg @nf.id.au · 30/01/2026RIP Catherine O’Hara. I still think about her performance in Beetlejuice all the time. youtu.be/Wl1kjzh4ZBAyoutu.beDelia Deetz’s (Catherine O’Hara) Crazy About Interior Design | Beetlejuice | TBSYouTube video by TBS 010
Reposted by adgJohn Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026It's an inflection point, a phase change, a new ability unlocked in creative ADS-B spoofing. We've seen primitive vector art before, but as far as I know never raster spoofing. (This isn't RF spoofing, this is sending bad data over the network to an aggregator.) x.com/thenewarea51... 416761
adg @nf.id.au · 24/01/2026So you have any issues with coil whine or psu noise on this thing? I got mine a week ago and it’s not nearly as quiet as touted and I’m sad. 110
