Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 15hReplaced fuel pump and filter on the R1100. Test started, no leaks. Ran it several times up through the rev range and waited for the temp to come up, then shut it off. Put on gear and bike will not start. No idea what’s going on; you can hear the pump. Everything feels so hard these days. 350
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 23hlol. Driver “training” in the largest state by population consists of a 15-question tests and a short road test if you don’t already have a license from another state. US licensing standards are hopelessly flawed. 110
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This happened to me with a retailer; they refused to refund my shipping despite their ShipStation URL showing incorrect info the entire time the package was en route. Asked for the shipping costs back; they refused. Did a chargeback for deceptive practices. 020
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The wheels really highlight the poor choices, imo 110
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Meta is out there proving that content moderation at scale cannot be done with accuracy. These are all automated hits; no actual human beings find any of this content objectionable. 030
Reposted by Captain CapybaraCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The only difference between the entertainment press and the tech press is the entertainment press understands the industry it covers 347956
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m kind of curious what your take would be about companies like Weber in Palatine, Illinois. At least from my viewpoint, PE is slowly burning that company to the ground and eating at their core competencies. 100
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The only reason this happens is because people that your boss knows or used to work with have convinced your boss that they will get a big raise. If everybody uses this. It’s bullshit. Today, AI has a narrow range of useful applications. It’s capability for chaos is almost infinite. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is there not a circuit breaker for the lights to be activated separately? 100
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I once had someone argue with me about the reason that humans are especially sensitive to blue light; our eyes are very good at seeing blue light because humans evolved as diurnal hunters; our prey often lived in shadows, which are illuminated by the sky. Sky is blue. 000
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Given that Siri uses private cloud compute and Apple doesn’t do anything with the data that they can’t see… 000
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have a friend with the EV blazer who is really annoyed at the number of bring-back recalls. It’s too small inside. Et cetera. I think dealers hate selling them as well; it’s an opportunity for ongoing service revenue lost. 110
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wearing a PA (penis-haver-stuff) and traveling in a kilt is something I’ve done since 2003. Because fuck em. 030
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s looking good so far. Thank you I’ve had some problems with anxiety lately, and yesterday was bad. 020
Reposted by Captain CapybaraJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853362186
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mobile device management is popular in the Mexican domestic market. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does anyone remember Pointcast and “Push” web content? This was 1998-etc. I feel like AI-as-a-thing you constantly use is going to turn out the same way. It’ll atomize and be a quiet service on the consumer level; not a thing you constantly use as an endpoint, per se. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And the tools to do it right and safely are so cheap now…. 010
Reposted by Captain CapybaraBen Subeck @bensubeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The volume of 747s flying through O’hare is frankly incredible. 1121
Reposted by Captain CapybaraRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour. 44757239
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I will bet we all remember what happened in Yosemite that year. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah, unfortunately my ex who worked at Meta didn’t pay her taxes on the millions of dollars in RSUs that she got. How the IRS won’t accept this sort of excuse from me. 130
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is, unfortunately, one of the reasons that sexual assault survivors refuse to speak to our local police. Practically every cop is a dude, and the female identifying cops are trying to impress the dudes. by acting like them and assuming their attitudes. 030
Reposted by Captain CapybaraHalide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're excited to bring you our first Fall update to Halide. For iPhone 18 Pro users, we've added variable aperture control! This update extends beyond the hardware, and includes two new looks! www.lux.camera/halide-apert...lux.cameraHalide 3.2: The App for ApertureWe're excited to bring you our first Fall update to Halide. For iPhone 18 Pro users, we've added variable aperture control. This update extends beyond the hardware, and includes two new looks. 1152
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last weekend was the outlaw-coded “street vibrations” here in Reno. Let me just say that tricycle based vehicles are far more dangerous than the two wheeled versions of bikes that don’t turn or stop well. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My other vehicles occasionally get good treatment, but not… my utmost attention. 030
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It isn’t clear to me what it would take to retrofit a modern refueling aircraft to carry the fuel that Blackbird needs or to keep up with it when that occurs. That is after you have solved all the problems of airframe sitting in the desert for over 20 years with no maintenance. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of all the things that I’d like to see happen that will never happen, probably this is number one. Being realistic, there is no economical way to put those airframes back in the air, and even spending a shit ton of money won’t make it easy. 120
Reposted by Captain Capybarae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes 18567129
Reposted by Captain CapybaraJustin Stach @stach.uk · 29/09/2026Fuck me sideways, Meta really is a fucking toxic business. Totally ignoring the privacy and hoovering 187,000 lines from a journalist’s Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off. 022
Reposted by Captain CapybaraKen Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“The Model 3 contacted 34 advertising, tracking, and analytic domains, as well as 37 domains from apps integrated into the infotainment system.”arstechnica.comThis study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your dataBetween the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers. 121
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is one of the best books of the last American century, and I think everybody should read it. Coincidentally, a professor at my university was the one who got it published; JKOT’s mom brought it by. 120
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Can you imagine Apple confirming that they were going to sunset iOS and iPadOS in a few years? I literally don’t know what’s going on there, but I know a few people who work there and honestly, they’re just in love with new things to the detriment of their customers. 001
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Google makes some good things. As a company, they are led by a madman and they can’t seem to focus long enough and well enough to bring anything fully to market. 110
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of the stores they are closing in Reno opened six months ago. 000
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just got an interesting push poll here in Nevada; wonder if Joe Lombardo is worried. 010
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Everything I can find about them says not to point them at people. 110
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 29/09/2026LED flashlights don’t burn the retinas of people volunteering at a festival. Handheld lasers can. That’s a thing that’s happened to friends of mine. We are still fighting to get adequate protection in place. 120
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026See, the merchant only ever sees the real tracking information from the postal service. The customer sees a completely different set of info that is merely estimated, not tracked. When your stuff comes in too late for the expensive trip you planned, no one is responsible. 000
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last week I ordered a thing. Merchant sent a link in an email that is maintained by ShipStation, which is a bit of a scam. ShipStation sends a tracking number but never actually shows the actual tracking info, just an “estimated” delivery day. Then the merchant says “you should have checked USPS”. 100
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But they’re gonna launch hundreds of these a day by 2030! 120
Reposted by Captain CapybaraLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Whistleblowers with famous funders sometimes get listened to. Independent whistleblowers who do not hire white shoe law firms etc. less so. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/t... I think about how the Gensler SEC failed to interview these whistleblowers at least weekly. Gigs and gigs of company data? Meh.cnbc.comTesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here's what the complaint saidTwo whistleblowers' complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk's automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards. 03211
Captain Capybara @vought.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think in my experience it’s not so much of the staff and principals there, but the way that scene(s) was hijacked by men (and a few women) with money. One person notably highlighted for his interview technique at Google X a few years back is a perfect example. 010