If you are on the fence about voting, and even if you aren't, please read the article (gift link) from The Atlantic, a lot is on the line.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/11/escaping-communist-czechoslovakia-america/689232/?gift=KEx-r2KNd38SUiuTC8MOriqwPB3jjvsq7PynqFU2IRs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I don't know why @nprofile1q... works so hard, apparently he could have had his high speed switch designed by Koppar (https://koppar.ai/) 🤣

Ah the innocence of offering a "license" on software that was written by an LLM under your direction.

"Yen said this is the last year that Proton will hire engineers at all, and instead only hire people to build things with AI."

I strongly believe this will be on the tombstone of many, many dead companies.

see: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

It continues to amaze me that "high end" instrument makers like Tektronix, Keysight, and Rhodes & Schwartz ship products that take over a minute to go from "power up" to ready. I get that on temperature stabilized oscillators or something but this is just lame "we have load all these assets for our UX" kind of things. It is almost like they don't realize you can put 4MB off assets in a Qspi flash chip and map them into the address space so "instant" access.

I wonder if anyone has run a conference where they put out ahead of time, "these people will not be attending; a, b, c, ..." as a way of managing personality clashes.

Okay, ghostty looks interesting, except that I start it and the window opens on the display attached to the computer not the display I've invoked it from. (Yes, I'd like to use it over an SSH forwarded X11 server) anyone? #ghostty

And *this* is why the fediverse will always be better than oligarch owned social media. QED

This is too adorable a bit of brie 😍

It is remarkable to me when I meet an engineer who is *working at an AI* company and I realize that they have no idea how LLMs work. I don't ever recall knowing someone who called themselves and engineer, NOT knowing how the products their company produced worked, certainly in much finer detail than their customers did. Could you imagine an aerospace engineer saying, "Well I don't know how they fly, but man our latest plane is sooo cool."

I really should just stop thinking I can do a project for an event in November if it isn't "done" and ready to go by the end of September. I get so busy that I lose any opportunity to work on things!

Second person I know has contracted the current strain of COVID. Get your vaccines folks!