Nicolás Alvarez
@nicolas17.xyz
Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit. Argentina 🇦🇷
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“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 PM
“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
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First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?
He had no idea.
He had no idea.
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc?
He had no idea.
He had no idea.
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A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 AM
A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 AM
A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
First time I see this particular confusion happen.
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as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
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January 5, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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A few things missing from the #Venezuela discourse on Bluesky:
1 Venezuelans
2 Willingness to recognize that most Venezuelans will be happy about the arrest of Maduro
3 Patience
Everyone jumping to priors. Yes, this could be a disaster but no one even wants to consider the possibility of success
1 Venezuelans
2 Willingness to recognize that most Venezuelans will be happy about the arrest of Maduro
3 Patience
Everyone jumping to priors. Yes, this could be a disaster but no one even wants to consider the possibility of success
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A few things missing from the #Venezuela discourse on Bluesky:
1 Venezuelans
2 Willingness to recognize that most Venezuelans will be happy about the arrest of Maduro
3 Patience
Everyone jumping to priors. Yes, this could be a disaster but no one even wants to consider the possibility of success
1 Venezuelans
2 Willingness to recognize that most Venezuelans will be happy about the arrest of Maduro
3 Patience
Everyone jumping to priors. Yes, this could be a disaster but no one even wants to consider the possibility of success
January 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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New year, new self-hosted blog, new content: What does "PC Compatible" actually mean, if anything? codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...
What is a PC compatible?
Wikipedia says “An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and its subsequent models”. But what does this actually ...
codon.org.uk
January 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
New year, new self-hosted blog, new content: What does "PC Compatible" actually mean, if anything? codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...
Both things can be true. This is dictatorship vs dictatorship.
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Both things can be true. This is dictatorship vs dictatorship.
January 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
@patigallardo.bsky.social Investigating a white-supremacist dating website (talk in German; English live translation available).
I don't want to spoil the epic ending 👀
I don't want to spoil the epic ending 👀
The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber
WhiteDate ist eine Plattform weißer Suprematist:innen, die sich an Rassist:innen und Antisemit:innen richtet – und auf veralteter Infrast...
media.ccc.de
January 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
@patigallardo.bsky.social Investigating a white-supremacist dating website (talk in German; English live translation available).
I don't want to spoil the epic ending 👀
I don't want to spoil the epic ending 👀
15 minutes after this post I found myself doing exactly this to figure out why my mom's iPhone refused to backup.
No need for a Mac to do the actual capture: to take a sysdiagnose, press vol up + vol down + side button simultaneously for 1 second, it will vibrate, and start saving logs. After a few minutes, Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data -> find a file named sysdiagnose_*.tar.gz.
January 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
15 minutes after this post I found myself doing exactly this to figure out why my mom's iPhone refused to backup.
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Starting the year by finding out the Medisafe app for iOS (which I've used for over 2 years) did a rug pull: it now requires a paid subscription for even basic functionality.
January 1, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Starting the year by finding out the Medisafe app for iOS (which I've used for over 2 years) did a rug pull: it now requires a paid subscription for even basic functionality.
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you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
Starting the year by finding out the Medisafe app for iOS (which I've used for over 2 years) did a rug pull: it now requires a paid subscription for even basic functionality.
January 1, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Starting the year by finding out the Medisafe app for iOS (which I've used for over 2 years) did a rug pull: it now requires a paid subscription for even basic functionality.
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
December 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
@steveklabnik.com this seems relevant to your interests media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-...
Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System
Xous is a message-passing microkernel implemented in pure Rust, targeting secure embedded applications. This talk covers three novel aspe...
media.ccc.de
December 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@steveklabnik.com this seems relevant to your interests media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-...
@matt.godbolt.org is this a compiler explorer competitor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-2...
Call the compiler, fax it your code
YouTube video by Computing: the Details
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
@matt.godbolt.org is this a compiler explorer competitor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-2...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls