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Glen Akins

@bikerglen.bsky.social

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Building gadgets, riding bikes, and fighting the good fight for municipal broadband. Chip designer by day. Some days you're a mountain goat; other days you're a fainting goat. 🐐

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The S3thn3ss @s3thn3ss.bsky.social · 1h

a man wearing glasses and a beanie is saying as you should cameo

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a beanie is saying as you should cameo

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1h

Now I wish I had one of the 303 campaign flyers to share with everyone because it was a goddamn wall of small text.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1h

Contrast this to their opposition's campaign. 2H won. 303 lost.

Light blue and light green campaign yard sign with simple bold text and easy to interpret graphic icons.

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1h

While we're on the subject of political campaigns and graphic design, may I present the unabomber manifesto of campaign yard signs. They lost.

A white campaign yard sign covered in red and black text with ample use of small fonts, long sentences, underlined text, and way too many graphics to even know what they are.

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 11h

I broke my hand for this video.

The S3thn3ss @s3thn3ss.bsky.social · 14h

It took me way longer to make this edit than it took @bikerglen.bsky.social to break his hand. Twice
#enduromtb #orthopedics #brokenbones #mtb

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The S3thn3ss @s3thn3ss.bsky.social · 14h

It took me way longer to make this edit than it took @bikerglen.bsky.social to break his hand. Twice
#enduromtb #orthopedics #brokenbones #mtb

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 15h

10 years ago almost to the day, Fort Collins voted out of SB152 so they could study municipal broadband. 8 years ago, Fort Collins voted to start their municipal broadband network. Today, Fort Collins Connexion has over 23,000 customers with symmetric gigabit or faster fiber Internet connections!

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 15h

Sounds like they did run fiber all the way then. Spectrum's up won't be anywhere near that fast.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 15h

Yep, that's DOCSIS on an HFC plant. What's the ATT service if it is not fiber? DSL? DOCSIS is usually, but not always, better than DSL.

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

Just think of all the great things that aren't getting funded because people keep shoveling money into data centers that will be obsolete in three years.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

I don't but I'm suspicious anytime any cable company claims to offer fiber. Is it really fiber? What are the upload speeds?

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

so yep completely unreasonable

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

547 HP in an overweight TRD that's going to handle like an overweight TRD. Lol. Also, Toyota invested in hydrogen when everyone else went electric. Oops. More lol.

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language s...

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