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A surprisingly complex markov chain. Digital maker. 🗣️ Writer, producer & voice of @lostterminal & @noboilerplate, 📔 Writer & producer of @phosphenecatalogue 🎧 Producer […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ namtao.com/@tris, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Totally agree with Marques here, retention isn't everything. As CJ the X says, "When you go viral, you are not in good company." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1q-TuHdc4Y
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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
So, I've had the #SteamFrame for a week now, and I have thoughts. 1. It's got a 2x faster CPU than the Deck, at least when compiling #Rust. 2. The battery life is not "an hour". it's "As long as you can keep swapping out the 2-3 USB C batteries you already have […] [Original post on namtao.com]
a VR screenshot of firefox showing my github profile and a terminal benchmark, with an overlay menu with Obsidian focussed
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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
RE: meow.social/@chirpbirb/117320837073… WHOEVER DIES WITH THE BIGGEST HOARD OF CABLES WINS!
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Xe :verified: @cadey.pony.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Happy birthday KDE! 🎉 (TIL that the "K" originally stood for "kool" and my day is thus ruined) kde.org/anniversaries/30
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KDE at 30
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
We have formal verification at home! Formal verification at home: bend-lang.com 🙄
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Bend
Bend: a fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof.
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
If you're a crate maintainer, be on the look out: :quote_red: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
after much thought I have figured out my #ai policy: humans are interesting and if you dont agree you can fuck off
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
If AI models are just a kind of compression, Disney's lawyers have the potential to do the funniest thing of all time...
comically bad AI slop micky mouse with a gun
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. ✨️
a json excerpt that says: "body_state": "hydrated"
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Love Audacity, what a milestone! github.com/audacity/audacity/releas…
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Release Audacity-4.0.0 · audacity/audacity
Audacity 4.0 Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows remain available...
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🌕 Modem Prometheus Podcast @modemprometheus.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
🌕 The Falcon Moon rises! 3.11 - Roots (part II) 🔉 Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/3-11-roots… 📄 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/modemprometheus/pos… #AudioFiction #Folklore #UKAudioFiction […]
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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Well! There it is, my first published fanfic. Dolly made me do it ❤️ 0atman.tumblr.com/post/826010696159…
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
New video! 🎉 :rust: My 2026 Rust Toolkit A demo of my 2026 toolkit for writing #rust, containing a dozen or so tools & packages that I use in every project, along with smart default config. Hope you like! :youtube_logo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlWnoRsGJNQ
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Now would be an excellent time to reread Fahrenheit 451. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/…
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AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC
Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Maestral.app (open source dropbox client) and the official Languagetool browser extension are now BOTH non-functioning. These two dying on the same DAY feels like they've targeted SPECIFICALLY ME! 🫠
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
I'm on the edge of my seat 😂 www.theregister.com/os-platforms/20…
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Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release
Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
well, obviously
a neovim prompt saying "add 'catgirls' to dictionary"
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Not the internet I'll be using. www.theregister.com/networks/2026/0…
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‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 05/08/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.9 - The past follows closely" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/22-9-the-p… 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
:rust: in #rust, it's easy to write code that never crashes ...so why dn't rust devs do this!? :youtube: youtu.be/usRlRCNIOG0
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Reminder: This is what the internet is supposed to be for. llm2human.pages.dev
an ad for LLM2HUMAN clinic
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 22/07/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.7 - It is possible to be too successful" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/22-7-it-is… 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Nominative determanism, but for logos. velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-th…
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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 15/07/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.6 - It didn't work" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/22-6-it-di… 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is […]
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 02/07/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.4 - I was incautious" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: speaker.com 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is: namtao.bandcamp.com/track/heaton #Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
If you're writing for a living, as I do, I think you should be writing in #Obsidian. youtu.be/BTuGvfQGOrY
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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Something I just saw on here put this in my mind
Mr Burns and Barney Gumble on the bus

Hey, aren't you that guy everybody hates?

Oh, my, no. I'm an AI CEO
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 24/06/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.3 - I think Meg needs help" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/22-3-i-thi… 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
:rust: This is why you should always enable `pedantic` lints in clippy - it'll even neg your markdown documentation! My lint recs here: www.namtao.com/rust/#strict-lints
A screenshot of the output of `cargo clippy` showing:
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error: item in documentation is missing backticks
help: try
33 - /// NOTE: initial() must exist in the context of an
33 + /// NOTE: `initial()` must exist in the context of an
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
Claude Code #burnout seems to be caused by running too many concurrent sessions during the work day. The solution seems to be *dialling back the parallelism a bit*, find your comfortable maximum concurrency and have a break. When I told my brother this, he wondered aloud what he should do with […]
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 17/06/2026
📣 New Episode! "22.2 - My girl should be OK" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: speaker.com 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/lostterminalpod/pos… 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is: namtao.bandcamp.com/track/dewey-dec… #Hopepunk […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
ME: Can I use the `rand` crate in my project? It's only 6k lines! MUM: We have `rand` at home! `rand` at home: ``` fn rand() -> usize { rand as usize } ```
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 10/06/2026
📣 New SEASON! "22.1 - I can't find Maddie" 🔊 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/22-1-i-can… 📓 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/posts/160501449 🎵 Today's SIGNAL is: soundcloud.com #Hopepunk, #Transhumanism […]
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:seth_logo: Lost Terminal Pod @handle.invalid · 05/06/2026
You can't stop the signal! electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-w…
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In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Wind and solar just hit a major global milestone: For the first time ever, they generated more electricity than gas for the full month of April. more…
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
It's so obviously an unscalable business model. Can we have our ram back please? www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme
OpenAI's clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they're asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don't blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
Delighted to wake up to Vimjoyer's intro video to devenv, which you should watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj9AxyiaVvU I've been using devenv for a year, combining the best of: - docker, - package management, - per-project toolling, - task running all without the overhead of containers […]
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🌕 Modem Prometheus Podcast @modemprometheus.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
🌕 The Blue Moon rises! 3.8 - A Day In The Life (part II) 🔉 Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.spreaker.com/episode/3-8-a-day-… 📄 Free transcript: www.patreon.com/posts/157051139 #AudioFiction #Folklore #UKAudioFiction #Huntingparty
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3.8 - A Day In The Life (part II)
Today’s story is the conclusion of A Day In The Life, and is about sacrifices made. Our next story is due on the Smoke Moon, 30th June. The devil makes wor
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Cool, now give us back dislikes. blog.youtube/news-and-events/improv…
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YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
Cracks in the bubble, they're all getting desperate. Emperor's new clothes. (I might be a lousy poet, but I write my own damn material) #ai
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
:youtube_logo: New video! An unusual one today, I came across Relationship Anarchy when researching a topic for @lostterminal last year, and found it gave a framework for many ideas I already had floating around in my mind. youtu.be/vaKeCPgay9I
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
:youtube_logo: New video! I've just published a tiny command-line tool called Savepoint. It's a command watcher that commits when you fix errors, automating a TDD workflow. I hope it's handy! (it's especially good for #rust projects!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBa3BK4Efcw
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
:rust: `bacon clippy` basically taught me Rust. I would not have the job that I do today without the work of the excellent @dystroy Denys also built #broot #dysk, #lazy-regex and a bunch of other Rust tools! The crazy thing? Despite this, he's currently looking for a job or freelance work - […]
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
We must all urgently stop using reCAPTCHA on our sites. reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-reca…
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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@hpod16/11653834471… We love to see it <3
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026
Dedicated #AI hardware eh? Yikes. Don't tell them what happened to the LISP Machines... taalas.com
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Taalas | The model is The Computer
We are creating a platform that makes it easy to turn any deep learning model into custom silicon quickly.
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Tris @tris.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026
Wait, VLC has had a built-in TUI this WHOLE TIME? AND IT RULES!? vlc --intf ncurses
a screenshot of vlc's terminal user interface, playing a wave file
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Who could have predicted this! www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anth…
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Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger
: Hackpocalypse deferred
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
#Accessability is vital for for SOME people ALL of the time, and ALL people SOME of the time. If your app or site is not accessible, it is broken. Not just for disabled people, but for me If I: - Have misplaced my glasses and can't read your grey on grey fine text - Have my hands full child […]
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