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iamacyborg··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Hard to take this seriously when it has all the hallmarks and annoying tics indicating it has been written by Claude.
iamacyborg··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
> And AI chatbots are very much targeted at the second group, not the first.

I suppose this is why the AI labs are famously not releasing developer-oriented tools.

iamacyborg··on Substack writers, you need a website
> It was never any better than Myspace, and gradually got much worse.

I might be misremembering a bunch but myspace never had a feed that showed you your friend’s updates.

It also wasn’t able to magically show you the people who were at that random house party you went to the night before that you hit it off with but were too drunk to get their number.

iamacyborg··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
You might want to read Hamilton’s defence of Elgin to understand how they saw the difference between legitimate and illegitimate acquisition of antiquities.
iamacyborg··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
I’m quite fortunate on the family history side of things. Not sure a chatbot is what’s needed but I’d be happy to make digitised files public that relate to things that are in the public interest. This ancestor for example was key in the acquisition of the rosetta stone and the parthenon marbles and was the recipient of one of Canova’s “Ideal Heads” that can now be seen at the Ashmolean in Cambridge. There’s a lot of history associated with those 3 events.
iamacyborg··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
They’re not “friends”, they’re people paying a small fee to conveniently access pirated media.
iamacyborg··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
There are lots of folks self-hosting the music app Roon and paying for it.
iamacyborg··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
They’re at my aunts house, I’ve just not had a chance to read them or ask my cousin to digitise them and send them to me.
iamacyborg··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
One day I really should dig up my great great great great grandfather’s[^1] diaries to see first hand how he justified bringing back so much stuff to the UK.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Richard_Hamilton

iamacyborg··on The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
> The real solution to this would be to give everyone and their dog a standardised online server with legally enforced privacy, and have sandboxed apps manage data in and out in a interexchangeable format, but I feel like I'm asking for peace on earth.

That sounds like Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

iamacyborg··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
No, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.
iamacyborg··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
I am aware, that’s why I don’t have one in my flat (and I don’t own a car for that matter so none there either) but they’re still a hell of a lot of fun.
iamacyborg··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
If my Instagram feed is anything to be believed, apparently we all need to be taking extra electrolytes in now.
iamacyborg··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Subwoofers are really fun though.
iamacyborg··on Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages
Calling it a “fucking idiot” seems to do the trick
iamacyborg··on Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages
I swore at it a few times and it did the same thing.

It seems to be getting distinctly dumber and pulling more and more irrelevant context from historical conversations.

iamacyborg··on Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Oh very cool, thanks for the link
iamacyborg··on Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Not movie related, but this let’s play of the JP game Trespasser also goes into a lot of detail and is generally super interesting

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0058A651EB882B48

iamacyborg··on Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
I always like looking at this one https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization
iamacyborg··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Shit, I missed that my home town was burning
iamacyborg··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Nature is more than just plants.
iamacyborg··on Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit
Yeah I had to go back to M3 to salvage the madcat before I was able to finally get past it
iamacyborg··on Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit
That damned Vulture in the base in the second demo mission was rough. I hit a serious wall in the campaign in Op1M5 when you had to defend the farm. It’s almost a shame that MC2 is so easy in comparison
iamacyborg··on Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit
Dear god I loved this game when it came out. It was hard.
iamacyborg··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Breaking Bad is a work of fiction.
iamacyborg··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
I’m not saying otherwise, but look at how it has to be applied to an artwork.
iamacyborg··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
Which is all a dumb marketing stunt because it was never a pigment artists could paint with anyway.
iamacyborg··on Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
And much like the 41st millenium, there are no good guys, just the eternal laughter of hungry shareholders.
iamacyborg··on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
> Squats or deadlifts are hard even when not at limits, one feels used body parts for a day or two.

That’s just regular ‘ol DOMS and not a problem.

Tendons tend to respond well to both heavy load or high reps, albeit adaptation in either case is very slow.

iamacyborg··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
Someone's been reading Money Stuff.
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