thinking out loud

A week or so ago, BlueSky posted about penalizing dogpiling and harassment on the platform.

For a while, I’ve been hosting a number of personal-use-only services on a few Oracle Cloud Ampere instances.

I’ve been running across a lot of people lately who struggle to see where LLMs are useful, whether on social media or in everyday life.

On Insider amnesia, alluding to “the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect“: When some problem with your company is posted on the internet, and you read people’s thoughts on it, their thoughts are almost always ridiculous.

Ian Duncan has written a great post on CI orchestration called No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator.

I work from home and lately I’ve had both Maddie, the new puppy, and Phryne, our calico cat, in my office.

In this space, and online in general, I mostly talk about computers — as well as tabletop games, cats, dogs, baking, and other comparatively trivial topics.

Phryne watching the puppy run up and down the length of the house below her

But millions of people did not, in fact, go to bed reluctant liberals and wake up fascists.

Charity’s latest post, Bring back ops pride, is an excellent discussion (rant?)

It’s useful to compare Lewis’s book with two other recent ones about Silicon Valley executives: John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood and Sarah Wynn-Williams Careless People.