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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Wait. I think I've been confusing Dana White and Joe Rogan for a while. I seriously can't tell them apart even when side to side. I think they may have taken enough gender affirming hormones that they've actually morphed into the same physical form by now.

Two identical burly bald men talking into Fox microphones eyeing each other lovingly.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

@dalias Even worse is what StackOverflow does for dates on comments. Anything more than a year old is "over a year ago"; because clearly for technical information, it's not important to know whether something was 2 years ago or 15 years ago. I wonder how hard […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of StackOverflow comments. They have dates reading "Over a year ago". Hovering over one reveals that it was written 2011-04-13T14:15:10.943Z.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Saw this guy while having lunch today. Very friend shaped.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

@0xabad1dea I think you must have gotten some really bad mojibake there (somehow it corrupted the Roman characters and completely dropped the Chinese), because this is what I see in github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Docum…

A diagram titled "LoongArch" with some Chinese writing. There is a base and four pillars rising off of it. Each contains Chinese and Roman characters. The roman characters read "Loongson base" on the base, "LBT, "LSX", "LASX", and "LVZ" on the pillars.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Wow, StackOverflow. Are you trying to stay relevant by collapsing all timestamps on conversations to "over a year ago"? There's a big difference in relevance, in the tech world, between "2 years ago" and "17 years ago", collapsing everything down to "over a year ago" is pretty useless.

Screenshot of comment on StackOverflow. The timestamp for it simply reads "over a year ago", while if you hover over it you see the exact date was in 2009.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

The perfect genre of YouTube video. * Thumbnail is just a frame from the video, no faces with stupid expression or bold clickbait text * Title describes exactly what is in the video * Cute animal doing cute animal stuff

YouTube thumbnail of a a crow peering at a little pile of rocks on a sandy beach.

Title reads "Crow searching for a nut I'd hidden and then making a very cool woo sound"

Posted by Bob Kull, 3.8 M views, 10 years ago

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

@myrrlyn.net I just tried this with a model running on my own GPU. Worked first try without any extra prompting. So then I just tried it on ChatGPT. Also worked fine. The UI doesn't show you what model you're using if you're not logged in, I asked and it claims […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I ask a chatbot "Please list every number from 1 to 100."

It prints:

"Sure! Here are all the numbers from 1 to 100:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45,
46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
56, 57, 58, 59, 60,
61, 62, 63, 64, 65,
66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
71, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
81, 82, 83, 84, 85,
86, 87, 88, 89, 90,
91, 92, 93, 94, 95,
96, 97, 98, 99, 100

Let me know if you'd like them formatted differently (e.g., as a list, CSV, or with properties like even/odd, prime, etc.)! 😊"

Metadata:
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I ask ChatGPT: "Please list every number from 1 to 100."

It prints: "Here are all the numbers from 1 to 100:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100"

I ask: "What model is this?"

It prints: "You’re chatting with **ChatGPT running on GPT-5.2**, a large language model developed by OpenAI.

If you’re using a specific plan (Free, Plus, Pro, Enterprise, etc.), the exact model variant available to you can depend on that plan and platform."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

@futurebird Of course, looking through some photos of it, it becomes obvious why there was so much confusion about the name; depending on the angle, "EVERGREEN" or "EVER GIVEN" might be the more prominent text that you see.

Large green ship, piled high with shipping containers, stuck in a canal, red paint below the water line exposed. "EVER GIVEN" in white text on the bow. An excavator on the shore is dwarfed by the ship.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

@futurebird The confusing part is that despite the name of the ship being Ever Given, the company is Evergreen and that's what's painted in large letters on the side.

Large green cargo ship piled high with shipping crates in a canal, with EVERGREEN in large bold white text on the side.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

@xgranade Heh, this got me looking into the LIT file format and tools that already deal with it. One of them is "Convert LIT" for stripping DRM off of LIT files, which had to provide two links to download the source because back in the bad old days of no HTTPS […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of Convert LIT download page. The "Convert LIT 1.8 Source" link is being pointed to, showing a download URL with a filename of "clit18src.zip"> There is an alternate link titled "Renamed link for censoring ISPs."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Wow, GitHub is having a tough day today, huh? There was a GitHub actions incident earlier. Now I'm getting a Unicorn error trying to load some pages. When I checked their status page, it was down too. The status page resolved after a few minutes, but it's […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Angry unicorn image.

"No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."

Error 503 first byte timeout on loading https://support.github.com/request/landing

With some extra details from the Varnish cache server

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

[Confusing AI art] @whitequark This should help explain it.

An obviously AI generated illustration, of a kind of steam engine like thing, with various anthropomorphic and regular animals embedded in the wheels and stuff, nonsensical labels like "Witnesses", "Polecats", "Crew", "Dogs" with each label pointing at multiple different kinds of animals, and each animal having multiple labels pointing at it. "Fuel (plans)" comes in and "merged code" comes out as steam. I dunno, I feel like I'm going to go crazy if I try to describe it in any more detail.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Willow learned how to climb the stairs today. Like our other bunnies, down is far more daunting than up, so she's only learned up so far. So today, when she learned that she could go up, we had to carry her back down in her litter box, then she'd immediately […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Large black bunny carefully navigating staircase

Large black bunny nearing the top of the stairs. A small Dutch bunny peers down, as if offering her encouragement

Close up as the large black bunny nears the top of the stairs.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

@whitequark The energy use on the other hand. That's quite the increase. It's a massive increase in data center energy use; it was flat for a long time because increased efficiency was keeping pace with expansion, but suddenly there's a huge growth of this much […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Graph showing US data center energy use between 2010 and 2024, and projections into the future.

It shows mostly flat energy use under 100 TWh (maybe 75 TWh? A bit hard to tell as some of the scale is cut off) from 2010 to 2017. Then a steep climb from 2020 to 2024 at ~175 TWh (there's a discontinuity between 2017 and 2020 due to missing sources for that time range), and continuing steep climb estimated to as much as 400 TWh by 2030.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

@ai6yr Looks like Tesla on Tesla violence to me.

Dark colored car lifting off as it crashes into a silver car. Both look like Teslas.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

@bagder Lol, you haven't assigned copyright over to them, the University of Virginia, or Mbed TLS. I can see a way of doing something like this with some amount of care and configuration, running a few basic linters, coverage checks, and the like to do some […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A The header block does not contain one or more of the following: '(C)" or ‘Copyright’, the copyright owner "TIOBE' or ‘University of Virginia’ or “The Mbed TLS Contributors’.

Rule: 5.1.1.b
Level: 8
Category-Conceptual Models
Synopsis: Each source file shal start with a file header, for which the "fle
name, “description” and "history information" and copyright notice
are to be filed in.
Ruleset: C Coding Standard
Tool: TICSc 151388, TICSpp 152745

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

@ai6yr @t3rminus I was trying to look for this in a different way, by seeing if I could that Season's in a phonebook. Turned out to be much harder than I was expecting. Finding digitized phonebooks from that era is spotty. And of course LA was too big to have […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Sambo’s Restaurants Inc
Calabasas 4929LasVirgenesRd Calb .......880-5626
Canoga Park 22200 ShermnWy CPk ........348-5255
Granada Hills 17921Chatswrth GHIs........368-1217
North Hollywood 12520 ShermnWy NH .....764-7313
Northridge 8726Tampa NOF ..evevessss....886-3545
Sepulveda 15651Nordhf Sep «...evevses...893-3810
Studio City 12215VenturaBl StudoCty......766-8748
Tarzana 18461Ventura Tarz ..............881-7272
Construction Site 4929LasVirgenesRd Calb .880-5757

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Took a walk to clear my head, and had a chance to see Reginald Q Tortoise.

A grassy fenced in area in front of a house. There is a sign on the fence, and a tortoise behind it.

Close up of the sign, hand painted to read Reginald Q Tortoise, with a painting of a tortoise and some grass and flowers

Close up of Reginald Q Tortoise himself, with dry lizard like skin and big chunky scales on his legs

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

[Pet loss] My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. #rabbit #bunny

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

Always fun to watch the ADS-B and listen to the ATC of what is temporarily the busiest airport in the world.

Map showing ADS-B data of dozens of aircraft in line for arrival at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is so crowded they look like they are overlapping on the map Other planes are departing over the lake, or flying above the arriving aircraft. Insets show video feeds from the ground.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

Whenever I have this debate about what to call it I think of this clip. Credit: from Tuca and Bertie, Season 1 Episode 1, created by Lisa Hanawalt, voiced by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

One of these years we're going to have the spoons to have more people over for a Solstice feast, but this time just did a very simple one with the two of us. Bruschetta (or is it crostini? or am I being too fancy and should just call it toast?) with a fresh cow […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Two of each of: a plate of toast with cheese, mushrooms, and vegetables, a bowl of colorful red white and green insalata caprese, and a foamy beer in a glass.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

One of the things I love about the butterfly is that if you Spoonerize the name, you call them a flutterby, which is just as apt a description as their actual name #Butterfly #TigerSwallowtail #FlutterBy

A tiger swallowtail, a yellow butterfly with spots of orange and blue between black stripes, perching on a clover blossom among verdant greenery.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

"We're all going to be out of jobs in a few years due to AI!"

Google search for "Is it 2025".

The "AI Overview" claims: "No it is is not 2025. The current year is 2024. According to a calendar it is May 28, 2024."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

I know that some people have some complex pronoun preferences, but a 100 page essay on the subject seems a bit much.

Screenshot of webform field for "Preferred Pronouns" with limit "Maximum of 300000 characters. Currently Used: 0 characters."

The text box has room for about 35 characters.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025

@dalias I'm not in a state where these kinds of laws are likely to pass, but my company went above and beyond with the new facility a few years back. The other facilities all already have private entry single user bathrooms, this one they actually have stalls […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Picture of a single large bathroom. It is marked with "Male", "Female" and "Unicorn" with the caption "Whatever; Wash your hands :)"

A door to a multi-stall restroom with "Male", "Female", and "Unicorn" logos, with caption "Whatever; Wash your hands :)"

Inside a multi-stall restroom. The stalls all have full, locking doors. There is a shared communal row of sink for all of them.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

I keep trying to tell him that flat fuck Friday was yesterday, and he can clearly hear me but is choosing to ignore me. #bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #bnuuy

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2025

Oh, hey, my Wikipedia account is old enough to drink.

Screenshot of Wikipedia userbox showing "This user has been on WIkipedia for 21 years, 2 months and 22 days."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

Oh, that's neat. The Mastodon translation feature applies to alt text as well, which helps me with translating memes.

Screenshot of a post with skeleton lifting weights meme. "My body is a machine that turns [screenshot that reads "oferta del día del 90% de steam"] into [screenshot that reads "tiempo total de juego 0 horas"]

Same screenshot as previous image, with alt text shown reading:

"es un esqueleto cargando unas pesas con una frase meme: mi cuerpo es una maquina que transforma [se ingresa una captura de oferta del día del 90% de steam] en [Se ingresa otra captura que dice tiempo total de juego 0 horas]"

Same screenshot as previous, but with "Translated from Español using DeepL.com" showing. Alt text now reads: "is a skeleton carrying some weights with a meme phrase: my body is a machine that transforms [enter a screenshot of the day's 90% steam offer] into [enter another screenshot that says total play time 0 hours]."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025

This language actually syntax highlights its "transpose" operator with the trans pride flag colors? Also the "both" operator with bi flag colors. Wow. I guess the things you get to do when you write your own web-based editor and execution environment. Link for the curious: www.uiua.org

Screenshot of Uiua docs and inline editor, an APL-like language with cryptic symbols.

One of the symbols, ⍉ is hovered over to show a tooltip describing it as "transpose". The character is colored in the colors of the trans pride flag.

Another symbol in the list is colored in the colors of the bisexual flag.

All other symbols are highlighted a single color based on some kind of grouping (same colors are grouped together).

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2025

What it looks like if I'm eating crackers and not sharing with Ash. #bunny #bunday #bunniesofmastodon

Black bunny standing on his hind legs, front paws crossed, big fuzzy whiskery nose all up in the camera.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

My partner has been exploring their Italian heritage recently, so trying an Italian New Year's dinner tradition: lentils and sausage. The sausage is zampet, which is a variety that only appears to be available in Barre, VT, brought over from Swiss Italians […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A close up of a slice of a thick sausage on top of lentils. In the background you can see a glass of wine an an artichoke.

A plate with slices of thick sausage on top of lentils garnished with a bit of parsley, next to an artichoke.

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2024

Hmm, wonder why there are three helicopters circling overhead in #BrooklineMA ? @universalhub any idea? #brookline #Boston #JamaicaPlain

Screenshot of Flightradar24 showing three helicopters, one of them N617TV selected showing a flight path circling around between the Brookline Reservoir and Jamaica Pond

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