Screenshot of a segment of a Slack chat. Ken Keiter said: I heard a rumor that Opus 4.8 gets rid of the effort level setting entirely, and you just use the `--fresh-water-l` and `--rainforest-m2` flags to specify the amount of fresh water (in liters) you're willing to consume and Amazon rainforest (in m^2) you're willing to burn to handle the prompt, and it works within that budget. Ken Keiter said: ... I think that might have been too dark (void emoji) Ken Keiter said: [begin shell code snippet] $ claude --fresh-water-l=10 --rainforest-m2=3 "what are some signs that a joke has crossed the line from funny to mildly concerning?" [end shell code snippet]

folks at work were excited about Opus 4.7

this is a great bit to commit to

A custom PAM module that uses an LLM to pose a complex riddle that you must solve in order to sign into your machine

Name names

If I could have one superpower, it would be making close friends as an adult.

Screenshot of Claude's uptime. It shows 99.24% for claude.ai, 99.45% for platform.claude.com, 99.28% for the API, and 99.52% for Claude Code. Claude for Government (lol) shows 99.86%.

Screenshot of ChatGPT uptime. 99.99% for APIs, 99.91% for ChatGPT, 99.95% for Sora (deadpooled lol), and 100% for FedRAMP 😑

It would be a bummer if we were betting our entire economy on this uptime

Yeah – definitely worth the $20!

FWIW, I did find out that T-mobile has a business-class router that they allow to operate on their 5G service (the Inseego FX4100) – but not a single person at T-mobile can seem to tell me how to get one or use it with my account 🙃

Thanks! One *massive* disappointment is that there doesn't appear to be a bridge mode for this device – so I'm double-NATing. I also have to do some weird tricks with UniFi to allow my switch to act as the PoE PSE for me, but I think you've nicely sidestepped that issue :)

Wall-mounted cabinet with LTE router and PoE converter.

Weirdly, I installed the exact same setup at a building recently as a backup connection.

Atopile and JitX come to mind.

there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

Hate it when I accidentally end up at Pirates of the Caribbean when I actually meant to go to Pirates of the Caribbean

Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.

Hey look! One of my predictions from a few years ago came true – ethics donors for AI: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

This is the worst possible time to announce this, but: I'm looking for a new job! ✨

If you (or someone you know) is looking to hire, I love software engineering, design (IxD and UI), and electrical engineering.

My friend @kriskowal.com just released Yay! In his words, it's "more than JSON, less than YAML, and better for it" – and exactly what I'm looking for.

kriskowal.com/yay

Faustian Bargain Basement

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

space, a famously good environment to reject waste heat into

A reminder that Twitter's "X Chat" implementation involves the client trusting the key storage server and as such it can easily be subverted. Signal does not, and can't

the world turns strange in a geomagnetic storm. fixed things slide loose. all is malleable, just a little bit, if we will it to shift in our favor.

we hope and dream and pray and wish as our field is assaulted by sunstuff, bowing and shrieking, guiding heavy radiation down into the air

OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) President Donald J. Trump has boarded a C-32A with the 89th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Andrews, now going by the callsign Air Force One, and has once again departed the United States bound for the 56t...

xcancel.com/sentdefender...

People talk a lot about how Miyazaki has a thing about flying and airplanes and stuff but his other thing is pretty clearly: Getting Yelled At By An Animal

One cringe of so many 🥲

His form is absolute shit, too 😆

I used to ride a velo bike in NY for ~the same reasons. Crazy like a fox ;)

Eclectic!

WOW!!! Congrats!! 🍾🎈

the algorithm knows

Life really catches up with you 🥲

Just involuntarily let out a yelp as I accidentally closed a browser window filled with tabs (my precious tabs!!!)