I'm gonna make a blind guess and say Motorola. They're probably getting desperate to stay relevant, but they've got size and decent quality phones. No matter who, it'd be cool to have more supported devices (as long as Pixels don't get dropped in favor of a device with poorer specs). View quoted note →

I'm accepting applications for my newly formed biker gang, we'll ride around and annoy people by talking about protocols and operating systems. View quoted note →

The age of "free" online services might very well be waning:

Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage

The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.

Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage

The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.

On a similar note, Hamburg NY's continued failure to paint their water tower to look like a giant hamburger - as they voted to do years ago - is also up there. View quoted note →

Sorry to get political, but New York's refusal to use an Oxford comma is unforgivable.

Thanks ChatGPT, I wouldn't want to offend a fictional metal door. #ai #chatgpt

Toyed around with Gemini's advanced photo mode, seems to do pretty good with replacement and generative fill. Combined two of my photos: Into the following: Seems to have worked real well. A bit low resolution, but still pretty good (the input images I uploaded have been heavily compressed, their originals were higher res). However, it doesn't seem to like to do basic edits. I gave it the unedited original (at least the JPEG, it won't touch RAWs) of the milky way version and told it to do similar edits I did to the one I shared (dehaze, saturation, contrast) - and instead of editing it is just replaced the milky way portion with an AI generated image of the milky way that was fairly similar but obviously a new image. #photography #ai

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Lol, I swear, last night I was checking out some photos on my chomebook-turned-into-a-standard-laptop and wanted to transfer them to my main computer. There were a fair amount of them, and I didn't want to take up more of my limited space in proton drive, so I thought: "Hey, might as well use Onedrive. I don't have any files there, so I got like 15gb to spare, and it's not like the photos contain anything I'd care about encrypting (I'll probably post some of my favorites here and on my blog) so no worries about privacy or the lack thereof." The page wouldn't load, so I figured it was probably something on my end. Tried again this morning and it's still down, turns out they've been down for a bit now. Google nuked peoples drives accidentally not that long ago, and now MS is been down for probably nearly a day. I guess moral of the story, big tech isn't jank free. Syncthing, Proton, and my (no longer existing) Nextcloud installation all are *yet* to have any extended unavailability or data loss.

"Since I love a questionable analogy for LLMs Research Goblin is... well, it’s a goblin. It’s very industrious, not quite human and not entirely trustworthy. You have to be able to outwit it if you want to keep it gainfully employed."

Simon Willison’s Weblog

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at u...

View quoted note → View quoted note → Random goodies you might find handy. Plus a password manager, I forgot about that.

Took some photos of the Milky Way the other day, still trying figure out the best edits, but so far got this. #photography #astrophotography

RIP to my tomato and pepper plants. They survived last winter after I brought them inside, giving me a few tomatoes and peppers mid winter, but I'm moving and they're not going to be surviving that.

Random pro tip, pocket notebooks are really handy. They don't actually need to be kept in your pocket, if you regularly carry a backpack or purse/manbag you can toss it in there. I use my phone for reminders/alarms, and Joplin for syncing long form notes and more reference sort of stuff, but a notebook feels more 'accessible' (for a lack of a better term) and it's easier to flip through a notebook of random stuff than to scroll through an unorganized notes app. For me, I also feel a little more mentally organized having things written out over being typed up. Life's been busy, and having one on hand seems to have helped preserve a bit of sanity.

Yahoo News

World Economic Forum ‘rigged data’ to make Brexit look like failure

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been accused of rigging research to make Brexit look like a failure.

I've got no horse in the race on Brexit, but I can't miss the opportunity to clown on the eat bugs and rent everything guy. (Actually, I have eaten bugs once or twice. Mealworms tast pretty good when seasoned, although they're way more expensive than standard meats. If done at scale it might be a cheap source of protein that'd be healthier than chips or some other similar snack. But nevertheless that's my choice, and I'd rather not be forced to eat mealworms because all of my money is going to paying for my pod and uber to support my local megacorp; which costs more long term over buying a house and car).