vito
@vitovitolo.bsky.social
I know this because tyler knows this
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In the film The Princess Bride, a spectacular duel is fought atop the Cliffs of Insanity between a man in black, who we will later know as the Dread Pirate Roberts (and still later as Buttercup’s beloved farm boy, Wesley), and Inigo Montoya, the Spaniard.
a man in a purple cape is walking down a dirt path
Alt: a man in a purple cape capers and spins down a dirt path - the caption reads "There was... a mighty duel"
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In the film The Princess Bride, a spectacular duel is fought atop the Cliffs of Insanity between a man in black, who we will later know as the Dread Pirate Roberts (and still later as Buttercup’s beloved farm boy, Wesley), and Inigo Montoya, the Spaniard.
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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
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Roomba maker iRobot is filing for bankruptcy after being steamrolled by cheap Chinese rivals. The 2023 acquisition attempt by Amazon got blocked by regulators because Amazon might favor iRobot while selling vacuums on its marketplace.
So instead we get… bankruptcy. Congrats? 🤦🏾♂️
So instead we get… bankruptcy. Congrats? 🤦🏾♂️
Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.
www.bloomberg.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Roomba maker iRobot is filing for bankruptcy after being steamrolled by cheap Chinese rivals. The 2023 acquisition attempt by Amazon got blocked by regulators because Amazon might favor iRobot while selling vacuums on its marketplace.
So instead we get… bankruptcy. Congrats? 🤦🏾♂️
So instead we get… bankruptcy. Congrats? 🤦🏾♂️
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In most countries, imports from China account for less than 10% of GDP, even where China is the top partner—
China is the top source of imports for many countries.
China is the top source of imports for many countries.
December 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In most countries, imports from China account for less than 10% of GDP, even where China is the top partner—
China is the top source of imports for many countries.
China is the top source of imports for many countries.
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Hoy @redelectricare.bsky.social ha introducido el autoconsumo en sus estadísticas.
Sorprende ver más de 47.000 MW solares instalados,pero realmente es lo que hay.
También ha cambiado la generación, estimando el autoconsumo. Con él, la fotovoltaica pasa a ser la primera fuente de generación de España
Sorprende ver más de 47.000 MW solares instalados,pero realmente es lo que hay.
También ha cambiado la generación, estimando el autoconsumo. Con él, la fotovoltaica pasa a ser la primera fuente de generación de España
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hoy @redelectricare.bsky.social ha introducido el autoconsumo en sus estadísticas.
Sorprende ver más de 47.000 MW solares instalados,pero realmente es lo que hay.
También ha cambiado la generación, estimando el autoconsumo. Con él, la fotovoltaica pasa a ser la primera fuente de generación de España
Sorprende ver más de 47.000 MW solares instalados,pero realmente es lo que hay.
También ha cambiado la generación, estimando el autoconsumo. Con él, la fotovoltaica pasa a ser la primera fuente de generación de España
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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The article: www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
Not to mention customer support is a far lower-tier group than engineering and they have no way to let engineering know what is broken!
And engineering+product has zero incentive and interest to fix this
You see it with airlines, banks all the time…
Not to mention customer support is a far lower-tier group than engineering and they have no way to let engineering know what is broken!
And engineering+product has zero incentive and interest to fix this
You see it with airlines, banks all the time…
They Signed Up for Citi’s New Premium Card. It Turned Into a Nightmare.
Strata Elite cardholders say they have been locked out of their accounts for weeks, unable to make purchases or redeem rewards that cost an annual $595 fee.
www.wsj.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The article: www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
Not to mention customer support is a far lower-tier group than engineering and they have no way to let engineering know what is broken!
And engineering+product has zero incentive and interest to fix this
You see it with airlines, banks all the time…
Not to mention customer support is a far lower-tier group than engineering and they have no way to let engineering know what is broken!
And engineering+product has zero incentive and interest to fix this
You see it with airlines, banks all the time…
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Hacking the Humane AI Pin | Discussion
Hacking the Humane Ai Pin
Skip to the technical stuff
Shutdown announcement On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP. I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually joined the Humane team to actively work on the device, but I ultimately knew little about them. I did know that they were small, ran Android, had good industrial design, and had a cool laser. I also have dreamt of a personal, local always listening device since I was a young teenager. I was a little more confident in my ability to help shape a niche device’s ecosystem after my experiences driving the Analogue Pocket’s growth, so I decided to go looking for disgruntled users looking to sell their devices.
writings.agg.im
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hacking the Humane AI Pin | Discussion
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Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.
Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.
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This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
🛰️ SATCOM Security
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
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There is now a growing class of freelance developers who offer companies fixes for inconsistent UI/UX design, poorly optimized code, misaligned branding elements, and features that feel clunky or unintuitive in their vibe coded apps.
I suspect this niche will be as short lived as prompt engineering
I suspect this niche will be as short lived as prompt engineering
After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'Vibe-Coded' Screwups
Fire human, use AI, fire AI, hire human.
gizmodo.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There is now a growing class of freelance developers who offer companies fixes for inconsistent UI/UX design, poorly optimized code, misaligned branding elements, and features that feel clunky or unintuitive in their vibe coded apps.
I suspect this niche will be as short lived as prompt engineering
I suspect this niche will be as short lived as prompt engineering
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The situation in Nepal is incredible. The government tried to ban social media last week which led to violent protests and the prime minister ousted.
Gen Z protesters then met in a 100K strong Discord chat where they elected ex-chief justice Sushila Karki as the interim prime minister.
Gen Z protesters then met in a 100K strong Discord chat where they elected ex-chief justice Sushila Karki as the interim prime minister.
Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The situation in Nepal is incredible. The government tried to ban social media last week which led to violent protests and the prime minister ousted.
Gen Z protesters then met in a 100K strong Discord chat where they elected ex-chief justice Sushila Karki as the interim prime minister.
Gen Z protesters then met in a 100K strong Discord chat where they elected ex-chief justice Sushila Karki as the interim prime minister.
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You win some and you lose some. While Anthropic won the copyright case based on training their AI from copies of books they bought, they've just settled a case based on training AI on pirated books.
The settlement is for $1.5B which works out to about $3,000 per book.
The settlement is for $1.5B which works out to about $3,000 per book.
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
You win some and you lose some. While Anthropic won the copyright case based on training their AI from copies of books they bought, they've just settled a case based on training AI on pirated books.
The settlement is for $1.5B which works out to about $3,000 per book.
The settlement is for $1.5B which works out to about $3,000 per book.
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I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
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«En cuestión 24 horas, el tráfico de @meneame.net cayó en torno a un 50%. No hubo sabotaje, no hubo manos negras: simplemente el algoritmo decidió que ya no convenía dar visibilidad a esa clase de páginas»
Réplica a Pedro Jota: lo que le pasa a El Español le ha pasado a Jot Down, a Menéame y a todo el que depende de las oligarquías tecnológicas
Estimado Pedro Jota, lo que has descrito en tu carta dramática sobre los ataques sufridos por El Español no es una anomalía única ni una persecución person
www.jotdown.es
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
«En cuestión 24 horas, el tráfico de @meneame.net cayó en torno a un 50%. No hubo sabotaje, no hubo manos negras: simplemente el algoritmo decidió que ya no convenía dar visibilidad a esa clase de páginas»
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Informe de ventas de coches eléctricos en España
JULIO 2025
Mes que rompe históricas tendencias de verano y que muestra cómo todo ha cambiado con la irrupción de más modelos y más accesibles
Todos los detalles en el 🧵👇
Informe de ventas de coches eléctricos en España
JULIO 2025
Mes que rompe históricas tendencias de verano y que muestra cómo todo ha cambiado con la irrupción de más modelos y más accesibles
Todos los detalles en el 🧵👇
August 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Informe de ventas de coches eléctricos en España
JULIO 2025
Mes que rompe históricas tendencias de verano y que muestra cómo todo ha cambiado con la irrupción de más modelos y más accesibles
Todos los detalles en el 🧵👇
Informe de ventas de coches eléctricos en España
JULIO 2025
Mes que rompe históricas tendencias de verano y que muestra cómo todo ha cambiado con la irrupción de más modelos y más accesibles
Todos los detalles en el 🧵👇
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Deadly heat in CHINA.
Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights.
In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia
Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks.
Unprecedented
Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights.
In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia
Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks.
Unprecedented
August 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Deadly heat in CHINA.
Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights.
In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia
Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks.
Unprecedented
Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights.
In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia
Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks.
Unprecedented
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El juez no solo imputa a antiguos altos cargos de Hacienda y a los dueños del despacho del exministro sino también a directivos de algunas de las principales empresas del sector acusadas de conseguir importantes rebajas fiscales usando su contacto directo con el exministro del Gobierno de Rajoy
La investigación contra Montoro apunta a cinco gigantes del gas industrial
El juez no solo imputa a antiguos altos cargos de Hacienda y a los dueños del despacho del exministro sino también a directivos de algunas de las principales empresas del sector acusadas de conseguir ...
www.eldiario.es
July 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
El juez no solo imputa a antiguos altos cargos de Hacienda y a los dueños del despacho del exministro sino también a directivos de algunas de las principales empresas del sector acusadas de conseguir importantes rebajas fiscales usando su contacto directo con el exministro del Gobierno de Rajoy
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
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El día del apagón varias centrales obligadas a regular tensión y que cobran por ello, no lo hicieron correctamente (nucleares, carbón y gas). Sus dueños parecen tener derecho a que se oculten sus nombres.
El mismo derecho que tenemos el resto a desglosar los propietarios de este tipo de centrales:
El mismo derecho que tenemos el resto a desglosar los propietarios de este tipo de centrales:
June 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
El día del apagón varias centrales obligadas a regular tensión y que cobran por ello, no lo hicieron correctamente (nucleares, carbón y gas). Sus dueños parecen tener derecho a que se oculten sus nombres.
El mismo derecho que tenemos el resto a desglosar los propietarios de este tipo de centrales:
El mismo derecho que tenemos el resto a desglosar los propietarios de este tipo de centrales:
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Just a few days ago, a reliable but anonymous source shared with me telemetry data from the day of the blackout, covering thousands of solar inverters deployed across Spain. www.reversemode.com/2025/06/a-ne...
A new Cyber-Physical Angle in Spain’s Blackout
Just a few days ago, a reliable but anonymous source shared with me telemetry data from the day of the blackout, covering thousands of solar...
www.reversemode.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Just a few days ago, a reliable but anonymous source shared with me telemetry data from the day of the blackout, covering thousands of solar inverters deployed across Spain. www.reversemode.com/2025/06/a-ne...
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New research from the University of South Australia indicates that remote work leads to happier employees.
Unfortunately for workers, caring about employee happiness was a zero interest rate phenomenon.
No amount of data will change companies wanting RTO so workers can be more easily micromanaged.
Unfortunately for workers, caring about employee happiness was a zero interest rate phenomenon.
No amount of data will change companies wanting RTO so workers can be more easily micromanaged.
Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United
Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes us
www.cmu.fr
June 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New research from the University of South Australia indicates that remote work leads to happier employees.
Unfortunately for workers, caring about employee happiness was a zero interest rate phenomenon.
No amount of data will change companies wanting RTO so workers can be more easily micromanaged.
Unfortunately for workers, caring about employee happiness was a zero interest rate phenomenon.
No amount of data will change companies wanting RTO so workers can be more easily micromanaged.