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jprdon Toyota promises 40-year solid-state EV batteries by 2028

Yet we as a species are doing our damn best to delay it, chasing LLMs and entertaining those who want to "drill baby drill".

jprdon Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites

BBC == OK Arab News == Not OK

What is your opinion on Al Jazeera then?

jprdon Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election

https://archive.ph/cIvCS

jprdon Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams

My mom did this in the '80s so we weren't kidnapped, even by a family member. I'm not going to share the secret phrase, but it has stuck with me and I use it with my kids too.

I know most of that was driven by the tragedy of Adam Walsh, but it was still great OpSec I'll never drop.

jprdon Sam Altman Subpoenaed on Stage

Not sure what it is about, but love to see it!

jprdon Claude for Excel

If Claude is going to work on the underpinning technology of every business in the Capitalist world, We should let Claude loose on the COBOL code out there too, I can't imagine anything going wrong.

jprdon Autism, A.D.H.D., Anxiety: Can a Diagnosis Make You Better?

https://archive.ph/0jytv

jprdon Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More

Wow, what the hell? This is absolutely unhinged nonsense from someone who's never had a struggle meal.

I know it is Thiel, so are we putting this here as a warning or a veneration?

jprdon He Made a Friend on Roblox. Their Relationship Turned Sinister

https://archive.is/IQb10

jprdon Traefik's 10-year anniversary

Sigh. Congrats and all that, but this just makes me feel old.

jprdon Intel Is Seeking an Investment from Apple as Part of Its Comeback Bid

I think at this point, Azure and their OpenAI partnership are enough to weather the transition to ARM. It is just software, and Apple has (TWICE) shown how to do it right.

That said, has anyone checked in with Lisa Su on this?

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I wish I hadn't clicked on this link, I do my best to avoid DHH so I don't have to say negative things. This screed is...something.

Those out there using the word "woke" in 2025 as some sort of windmill to tilt at should be avoided at all costs, it is a signal that they are the exact thing they claim to be warring against.

If someone is using their company blog to bitch about having to grow as a human because culture is progressing, they might as well be running the US gov't.

jprdon In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs

Exactly. It is a form of modern day slavery in many US states.

jprdon Nvidia to Buy $5B Stake in Intel

https://archive.is/Rxh7u

jprdon Elon Musk Buys $1B in Tesla Stock as Board Defends His Pay New York Times

https://archive.is/V6RSu

jprdon NASA finds minerals that could be from microbes in rocks from Mars

https://archive.ph/0zT11

jprdon Starship's Tenth Flight Test

They did it. Damn.

jprdon Elon Musk's XAI Sues Apple over Claims It Favors OpenAI

Imagine somehow being a big enough asshole that you can amass the largest personal wealth in human history and you are still butt hurt enough to sue everyone for not coming to your party.

We thought he was helping humanity, meanwhile he was just trying to know how it felt to be human.

jprdon Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Give U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business

Right, how does Intel "give" 10% of itself to the US Gov't? Will US be able to sell it? Will Intel see a tax/tariff relief?

jprdon Altman: Expect OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on datacenter construction

This dude just recently talked about covering the world with data centers, or BUILDING A DYSON SPHERE.

I mean, you can't just read a Neal Stephenson novel and use that as a business plan - can you?

jprdon Saab 35 Draken (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16XL

jprdon Internet Archive is now a federal depository library

I thought Archive just removed access, but kept the content. I know that from a user perspective that is a distinction without a difference, but for posterity it matters.

Does anyone have any facts/citations on if this is a myth/coping mechanism I created, or reality?

jprdon An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall

When I was growing up, I was always fascinated by a very similar installation at the Educational Center at the Five Rivers [1] park in Upstate NY.

The whole point of the place is to walk trails and watch the wildlife in different natural NY environments in the area, concentrated in one park.

The bees were always the first and last thing for me.

[1] https://dec.ny.gov/places/five-rivers-center

jprdon Elon Musk's Lawyers Claim He 'Does Not Use a Computer'

https://archive.md/uxJ3q

Gonna be hard to explain that Diablo 4 ladder now though.

jprdon Ford Mustang E-Bike

I'm trying to imagine explaining to a Mustang enthusiast around 1994 where this would end up.

jprdon Extremely Lifelike Dolls Cause a Frenzy in Brazil

I'm fascinated, yet this is terrifying to me. I'm not judging anyone, just...the dolls themselves freak me out on a deep level.

jprdon Bill Atkinson has died

HyperCard opened my mind as a kid in a way that I couldn't grok until the first time I took Mushrooms. What a genius.

jprdon Elon Musk's plans to go to Mars next year are toast

https://archive.is/z1ChR

jprdon My Cute Homelab

Old Chromeboxen from eBay. Mr. Chromebox UEFI[1].

I did this before the pandemic for a "real" K8s environment (history is 20/20, but this rocked for what I needed then).

Basically a super inexpensive and tiny i7-4600U laptops w/o display that I upgraded to 16GB of RAM and 256 SSDs. I still run a smaller fleet for different services and testing - both standalone and as part of a Proxmox cluster.

I donated to Mr. Chromebox for years, super awesome work.

[1]: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/