Ok now I’m really getting it. #Claude Dispatch is for when you want to check something on your computer while you’re on the toilet. That’s the primary use case.

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq surge after Trump indicates flexibility on Hormuz, says war won't last 'much longer' Fearful market sentiment pushed higher, while oil settled above $100 as the Iran war drags on.

IT'S TACO TUESDAY WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO! finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

I don’t really understand it. At 3x the price, you’re well into business class pricing if you shop around. And then the experience is better in every single way.

Ok so #Claude Dispatch is basically just #OpenClaw but branded and narrow?

$ alias yolo='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'

jazzband.co/news/2026/03...

Jazzband, a great collaborative community for #django projects is no more. What a sad day.

Lufthansa Loses Skiplagging Lawsuit In German High Court, Changes CoC LEGAL PRECEDENT: Lufthansa loses high profile skiplagging case in German High Court (BGH)

Those are both valid points, but it still isn't settled law that these carriage clauses are at all enforceable.

And I mistaken: Germany's Federal court already ruled against Lufthansa on exactly this: loyaltylobby.com/2025/12/08/l...

Would a US court rule similarly? We can't definitely know.

@abfabskylife.bsky.social I appreciated your article on Skiplagging. I might layoff the contractual angle though: United's lawsuit against Skiplagged failed and to my knowledge, no court has held these carriage contract clauses as enforceable. Not everything in writing is legally binding.

Atomium, Brussels

Location of the 1958 World’s Fair

Yeah it’s pretty shocking. It all started when Kim and I both smelled sewer gas in a pharmacy of all places.

Sewage-laden Belgian water worst in world | New Scientist Belgium has the dirtiest water in the world, according to a new report. The European nation's water quality was placed last in a list of 122 countries, ranking below India, Jordan and nine African countries that make up the planet's hydrological dirty dozen. The assessment is made in the United Nation's first World Water Development …

Noticed some surprising sewer gas smells around Brussels and that lead to some rabbit holes. Apparently the EU’s capital has the worst water in the world. 🤦‍♂️🤯 And Brussels dumps raw sewage into the river through the middle of the he city center.

www.newscientist.com/article/dn34...

Long weekend in Belgium. Did not bring my laptop! 🚫💻

When blue collar workers use forklifts to get a job done, no one yells “oh no do you know how much energy a forklift uses?”

But when white collar workers use powerful machines in data centers to do the same thing, it’s somehow a moral catastrophe.

Where is all the handwringing about forklifts?

Claude is down. Hard to say for sure, but I’m wagering a huge influx of new users.

Prediction: The Whitehouse will push data centers, TSCM, Nvidia etc to blacklist Anthropic, making OpenAI the only viable market option.

Result: The market winners are not the best ones. American AI loses its lead.

Claude is a little sluggish this morning. Influx of new users perhaps? 🤖

@kagi.com a friend noticed my Kagi search on my phone. I was going to send him a referral code but am surprised to not find a way of doing that? Is there no referral system?

I have a completely shaved, bald head. The only hair I have is a beard and mustache.

I’m in the kids pool with my daughter in Porto. And the lifeguard came over and told me I needed to put on a swim cap.

Oh, Europe.

Why the Economy Hasn't Crashed Yet

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4...

Worth a listen as a podcast (don’t need the video)

It's February 2026. As of this month, #BlueSky has been available for 3 years.

This remains true: only email-based 2fa is available.

No TOTP, no passkeys, no FIDO2. Just email.

I agree with this. As an introverted computer nerd, I wouldn’t have met my wife or bonded with my best friends without a social lubricant. Going out and learning darts, pool, and shit talking over a few beers vastly broadened my horizons in life.

Maybe I’m an idiot but that page doesn’t say where this will be? Lisbon? Palo Alto? Zoom? The moon?

Welcome back! The channel name strongly implies Apple though.

Fun fact: the stove pipe top hat was a clever way to get around Ryan Railways baggage charges.

Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.

The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.

A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.

A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

I think it’s healthy to have some skepticism about that.

The ACA for instance required hospitals post prices online, something they have often failed to do because they can’t figure out their own cost structures.

Any reason not to use a BeeStation Plus as a Time Machine target?

And before you say it doesn’t have RAID, #RAIDisNotAbackup and my only use case is backing up.

With Rewind.ai having become Limitless and then acquired by Meta, are there any good alternatives?

Pro-tip: fly as a single man with a moderately polite child. It results in free snacks and booze from flight attendants, among other perks.

Looks like it’ll rain most of the time I’m in Montana.

Rain. In Montana. In December.

Photo of side of beer can, with icon and label reading that the beer is 2.2 standard drinks in Australia.

What does this even mean? Are Australians lightweights?