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Tianon ✿
@tianon.bsky.social
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he/him; https://tianon.xyz

Setting expectations: I may post tech related things occasionally, but that's not what I'm here for (which is honestly mostly consuming human art and shitposts).

If you're a fascist, this space isn't for you. 🏳️‍🌈
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Tianon ✿ @tianon.bsky.social · Jan 3
Hug your loved ones every chance you get; life is precious and far too short.
tianon.bsky.social
Was not the #LoneMasker at the grocery store tonight, AND a stranger told me very sincerely that I was smart to wear a mask which made me feel good 💖😷
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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tailscale.com
Tailscale Services is now in beta!

This new feature makes hosting and scaling internal applications simpler and more secure than ever.

Blog: tailscale.com/blog/service...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELA...

Webinar 1pm EDT 10/30 on all the Fall Update things: tailscale.com/events-webin...
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
tianon.bsky.social
"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
tianon.bsky.social
@durrymusic.bsky.social have y'all considered doing "Derry Girls" crossover content? maybe it's too obvious, but it feels like there's something here: "I AM A DURRY GIRL!"
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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cpuguy83.bsky.social
Nothing against docker, of course.

Just... no one has ever, in the history of the universe, needed to copy the "docker pull" part but all the registries have it in that field.
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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cpuguy83.bsky.social
I have achieved my greatest accomplishment as a software "engineer".
I have successfully lobbied to have the `docker pull ` field in mcr.microsoft.com to just be ``

Other registries should follow suit.
Microsoft Artifact Registry
Microsoft Artifact Registry (also known as Microsoft Container Registry or MCR) Discovery Portal
mcr.microsoft.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
tianon.bsky.social
I am once again reminding y'all that it is BANDCAMP FRIDAY today! Please go support musicians in a way that really makes an impact for them. 💖
bandcamp.com Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · Sep 29
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday! On October 3rd, from midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels.
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday
daily.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
tianon.bsky.social
I've said it before but I'm saying it again, @durrymusic.bsky.social is great and y'all should support them

See www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qV7... if you need more convincing 💖

(one human buying one album gives them more than eight *thousand* streams worth of income - wild numbers; support humans ✅)
Why AI music will never win
YouTube video by Durry
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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lookitup.baby
OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States
September 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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cpuguy83.bsky.social
Let me complain about CVE's in a rootful daemon and then espouse rootless while completely ignoring the long list of CVE's, which have a much broader scope/impact, for unprivileged user namespaces.
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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hacks4pancakes.com
We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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yamino.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A posca paint pen art by Yamino with a lighter melting the words "Abolish I.C.E."
August 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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kaaileen.bsky.social
a reminder #art
Little illustration of a girl holding a pencil and the text "support human artists"
August 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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una.im
scroll-target-group is coming to Chrome 140 (stable next month)!

Building on CSS carousel APIs, scroll-target-group lets you "enhance" elements into scroll markers, enabling you to build this scroll-spy effect in 2 lines of CSS!

Makes for a great progressive enhancement!

una.im/scroll-targe...
una.im | Creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS
scroll-target-group is a new CSS feature that lets you create scroll-spy table of contents with basically 2 lines of CSS.
una.im
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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feytaline.bsky.social
Not to be one of those Tumblr reposters but this is THE chronic illness mood
medievaljournalist Jun 23 i wonder how the curse will manifest today
August 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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tianon.bsky.social
This Bandcamp Friday I'll spotlight @durrymusic.bsky.social in particular; "This Movie Sucks" is a masterpiece: durrymusic.bandcamp.com/album/this-m...
This Movie Sucks, by Durry
12 track album
durrymusic.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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cpuguy83.bsky.social
Registries: Please stop using `docker pull <image ref>` as a copy field in your frontends.
Just give the image ref.
Please...
With cherries on top... and chocolate sauce.

No one has ever needed to copy the "docker pull" and will use "docker run" anyway (assuming they need the ref for this reason).
July 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
tianon.bsky.social
Today is Bandcamp Friday!! Go forth and support your favorite artists today, especially the small ones, while the profit split is even more heavily in their favor than usual!
August 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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edzitron.com
We are in a bubble. We must admit we are in a bubble and prepare investors and consumers as such. And no, the cost of inference isn't coming down, nor are specialised "ASIC" chips going to save the day. Outside of magic and pixie dust, this bubble *will* burst.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
I'm Alarmed! I realize I've thrown a lot at you, and, for the second time this year, written the longest thing I've ever written. But I needed to write this, because I'm really worried. We're in a bubble. If you do not think we're in a bubble, you are not looking outside. Apollo Global Chief Economist Torsten Slok said it last week. Well, okay, what he said was much worse: “The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s,” Slok wrote in a recent research note that was widely shared across social media and financial circles. We are in a bubble. Generative AI does not do the things that it's being sold as doing, and the things it can actually do aren't the kind of things that create business returns, automate labor, or really do much more than one extension of a cloud software platform. The money isn't there, the users aren't there, every company seems to lose money and some companies lose so much money that it's impossible to tell how they'll survive. Worse still, this bubble is entirely symbolic. The bailouts of the Great Financial Crisis were focused on banks and funds that had failed because they ran out of money, and the TARP initiative existed to plug the holes with low-interest loans. There are few holes to plug here, because even if OpenAI and Anthropic somehow became eternal money-burners, the AI trade exists based on the continued and continually-increasing sale and use of GPUs. There are limited amounts of capital, but also limited amounts of data centers to actually put GPUs, and on top of that, at some point growth will slow at one of the Magnificent 7, at which point costs will have to come down from things that lose them tons of money, such as generative AI. Before you ask- But, Isn’t The Cost Of Inference Going Down? You do not have proof for this statement! The cost of tokens going down is not the same thing as the cost of inference goes down! Everyone saying this is saying it because a guy once said it to them! You don't have proof! I have more proof for what I am saying! While it theoretically might be, all evidence points to larger models costing more money, especially reasoning-heavy ones like Claude Opus 4. Inference is not the only thing happening, and if this is your one response, you are a big bozo and doofus and should go back to making squeaky noises when you see tech executives or hear my name. But Ed, What About ASICs? Okay, so one argument is that these companies will use ASICs — customized chips for specific operations — to reduce the amount they're spending. A few thoughts: When? Say OpenAI and Broadcom actually build their ASIC in 2026 (they won't) — how many of them will they build? Do they have contracts with companies that can actually produce high-performance silicon, of which there are only three (Samsung, TSMC, and arguably SMIC, which is currently sanctioned), and these companies typically have their capacity booked well in advance. Even starting a production run of a semiconductor product can take weeks. Do they have the server architecture prepared? Have they tested it? Does it work? Is the performance actually good? Microsoft has failed to create a workable, reliable ASIC. What makes OpenAI special? It takes a lot of money to build these chips and they are yet to prove they're better than NVIDIA GPUs for AI compute, and even if they do, are they going to retrofit every data center? Can they build enough? If this actually happens, it still fucks up the AI trade. NVIDIA STILL NEEDS TO SELL GPUs!
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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bolson.org
xkcd comic 2347 "All modern digital infrastructure" with one small important block near the bottom replaced with an inclusive pride flag
June 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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a-macaron.bsky.social
The #dailyart is more poking around at Ev & Az. You should read about them and leave me nice comments if you're into that kinda thing 🥺
Procreate screenshot. Sketch of Az helping Evelyn through a window.
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM