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tw04··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
Because you’re in the minority. The vast majority of the population views the build quality and materials of the macbook pro to be the standard by which all others are measured.

The only thing that’s surprising is that you see 30-40% of the laptops at a Linux conference are macbooks given how poor to non-existent the Linux support is for the newer Apple silicon models.

tw04··on OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
Once they start selling things, you’re actually going to trust they suggest the item you’re looking for over the item they get paid for you to buy?

What in the history of Sam Altman has lead you to believe he’ll do the right thing instead of the thing that makes him the most money?

tw04··on Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
But everyone won’t have skin in the game. We’ve played this game before. The uber wealthy and politically connected kids will either get outright deferments, or cushy positions that never have them sniffing any danger beyond carpal tunnel.

It’s no different than the republicans that are violently against abortion and then you find out they’ve funded multiple for their mistresses. They’re perfectly fine with a law banning it because they know it will never apply to them.

tw04··on The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment
The right is desperately trying to figure out how to get their commoners onboard but the only narrative they’ve got so far is: this will help us kill “terrorists. That story is ringing pretty hollow when the orange one campaigned on no new wars and they’re trying to blame AI for their decision to bomb an Iranian school.
tw04··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
Absolutely horrible? He absolutely lost his ass on the purchase and is one election away from fraud charges.

I guess congrats you bought Twitter and then spent half a billion dollars just so you could temporarily dismantle the regulators who were preventing you from committing open fraud?

Or, you know, if you did manage to permanently dismantle the regulators it means you’ve destroyed your primary source of revenue.

tw04··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
> Sure, we know the hotshot CEO of COMPANY_NAME_HERE has to put on his pants one leg at a time, but the similarity ends there.

That’s probably because we know consciously or subconsciously that in order to get and maintain a position of power at a multibillion dollar firm the person either never had a moral compass or quickly had to find ways to justify ignoring or compromising it.

Any one of us who has worked for one of those companies is pretty confident the person running it views other humans not in the way you describe, but as numbers in a spreadsheet who can either justify their continued employment by other numbers in a spreadsheet or not.

Most of us can’t imagine viewing and treating our fellow humans that way.

tw04··on An Interview with Pat Gelsinger
Much like a president, most of their decisions take years to really be felt. The major changes Pat made weren’t going to change the balance sheet for years.

What exactly has Intel done that’s dramatically different than Pat’s vision that you feel is increasing share price?

Or is it just that they sold their soul to Trump combined with Pat’s choices finally bearing fruit?

tw04··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
I didn’t mean to imply that tape is dead despite the 40 years of insert new technology claiming they’ve finally killed tape.

I more meant we no longer have room sized libraries unless the cloud providers have commissioned something custom and not available to the public. I believe the last installed powderhorn I’m aware of was decommissioned almost a decade ago now.

https://www.iscgroupllc.com/products/storagetek/storagetek-p...

tw04··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
> You probably don't want to have to need a separate device to read and a device to write.

I don’t think this would bother the average enterprise in the least. We used to have entire rooms dedicated to tape libraries that housed dozens of tape drives and thousands of tapes each.

The read and write speed are absolutely critical but having to utilize multiple devices isn’t anything new at all.

tw04··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
> it's the nicer alternative to descending on the boss's mansion with torches and pitchforks.

And those bosses are hoping a combination of drones and altman’s AI will keep them safe the next time. Meanwhile we’ve got Altman selling his AI to the military with essentially no restrictions telling us we just need to patiently wait for all the good things it’s going to do for the common man.

Just keep grinding and waiting, he can’t tell you what the benefit will be for you but he promises it will be amazing!

tw04··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Gaza has entered the chat

We are so far past there being any merit to “Israel would never knowingly target civilians/children/hospitals/etc” that you just shouldn’t even bother. Just own it, if your leadership thinks the only winning strategy is the annihilation of another people, or at least their complete displacement, own it. Stop trying to hide behind “it was a mistake” while simultaneously showing you have no issues putting a missile through a singular car window to assassinate people labeled an enemy. Nobody buys it anymore.

tw04··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
You weren’t a human shield. It would have been very easy for the US and Israel to not have blown up a school, the attack was intentional.

Notice they had 0 issues precisely striking the building housing Iranian leadership when this whole thing started. They didn’t “accidentally” hit the grocery store two blocks away.

tw04··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
> If not, why would the US concede?

Because Trump is already facing a bloodbath in the midterms and his next step is either a ground war or dropping a nuke, and both of those will ensure he not only loses the midterms but has a legitimate shot at seeing the inside of a prison cell.

tw04··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
I don't even need to read the article to know that he unequivocally can't be trusted. Every action he's taken to this point have shown he will say literally anything to get what he wants.
tw04··on France pulls last gold held in US
I do find it rather ironic that economists can pretty much universally agree on this concept. And yet when you point out the very existence of the billionaire class inherently causes the exact same issue you're suddenly a communits.

How is it good for an economy to have a small subset of individuals hoarding wealth through property, artwork, and offshore bank accounts - not spending it in the economy from which they extracted it? "Job creators" is a farse, the subset who you can point to who ACTUALLY create(d) jobs a-la Page and Brin have long since stepped away from that job creation and have joined the ranks of: number go up.

tw04··on Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
>America is as fully employed as just about anytime in the past 50 years.

And what percentage of those workers are Walmart or Amazon warehouse employees who don't have healthcare coverage and don't make enough money to actually cover their monthly bills without being on welfare/public assistance?

Because my linkedin extended network says there's an awful lot of highly skilled people unable to find jobs in their respective fields.

tw04··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
You’re assuming the alternatives don’t have just as many issues. There’s been exactly one “whistleblower” who is probably tiptoeing the line of a lawsuit. I wouldn’t assume just because there isn’t a similar disgruntled gcp or aws engineer doesn't mean they don't have similar ways.
tw04··on Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code
Huh? Their justification for "ofuscation isn't security" is by pointing out that the Claude source wasn't obfuscated, it was minified. And it could be "deobfuscated by claude itself" - even though, again, they said the code wasn't obfuscated.

So I guess, ask Claude to deobfuscate some code that's ACTUALLY OBFUSCATED if you want to claim obfuscation provides ZERO additional security.

>We analyzed this file at AfterPack as part of a deobfuscation case study. What we found: it's minified, not obfuscated.

>Here's the difference. Minification — what every bundler (esbuild, Webpack, Rollup) does by default — shortens variable names and removes whitespace. It makes code smaller for shipping. It was never designed to hide anything.

>Here's where it gets interesting. We didn't need source maps to extract Claude Code's internals. We asked Claude — Anthropic's own model — to analyze and deobfuscate the minified cli.js file.

tw04··on SpaceX files to go public
$50,000.

Gotta be accurate. Just saying 50,000 implies her incoherent rant was even a little bit based in reality.

https://youtu.be/WK12_IkAj2s?t=94

tw04··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
Take note of a project that’s about 15 years behind schedule and many multiples over budget finally progressed because we lowered safety standards to just launch?

I’m not sure how that’s proof the government isn’t gutted. Let me know what our schedule is for the next one and how that timeline has changed. Ignoring the projects that have been outright canceled…

You’re currently the guy saying “ya, all you haters that said I’d lose my house if I stopped paying my mortgage, who’s laughing now?” - one month into not paying your mortgage.

We’ll still be dealing with the after effects of doge 20 years from now.

tw04··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
It is absolutely true. I stated that Reagan is the reason that ATC are overworked and underpaid.

You proceeded to list a bunch of things that have absolutely nothing to do with ATC being overworked and underpaid.

"Automating more of ATC" would change absolutely nothing about the fact they're overworked and underpaid, there would just be fewer controllers with the same workload because they lost all ability to collectively bargain with Reagan.

Name an industry that has automated, and the end result was they kept the same number of employees, but paid them more and reduced their hours. Oh, and it can't be a unionized industry. I'll wait patiently wait for that list.

tw04··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
I’ll scapegoat a single politician. Ronald Reagan - he owns 100% of the responsibility for the current state of things when he refused to negotiate better working conditions in 1981. The entire US is still feeling the aftermath.
tw04··on BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor
We elected a narcissistic millionaire who bankrupted every company he was ever in charge of. His primary concern while in office was becoming a billionaire, rewarding the Russians that bailed him out of several of those bankruptcies, and trying to punish anyone he felt wronged him.

When the goal is to burn it down and you put people in charge who actively want to burn it down, they can. See: project 2025.

tw04··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-w...

They only get the money if they reinvest in oil and gas. It’s not just trying to kill wind, it’s actively trying to expand burning fossil fuels. We are being lead to our demise by idiots.

tw04··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
Every public library in the US has free wifi. Every Starbucks in the US has free wifi. Every public school has free wifi.

I can tell you don’t actually have to use it because if you did you’d know your statement isn’t accurate.

tw04··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
Calling them ewaste is a little dramatic. While sites like this are a cancer, there is free WiFi in basically every town in America. You can get data for free, even if it’s slightly inconvenient.
tw04··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
It definitely does not take an hour if you have an 800v car and an 800v EA station.

Can’t speak highly enough about lucid, but their current offerings are definitely not for the budget conscious, but that should change soon.

tw04··on Our commitment to Windows quality
So still nothing about local accounts, or disabling copilot entirely.

This is basically: we’re doing the absolute minimum possible to claim we’re listening to users while still pursuing exactly what we were doing before. We realized we just need to boil the frog a little slower.

If they were hoping this would help shake microslop, they’re in trouble.

tw04··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
The US thinks their laws apply globally so why wouldn’t Europe expect the same. We will be dealing with the fallout of Venezuela for generations.
tw04··on Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
There’s a reason he should be sitting in prison still. It’s not because he’s an honest human or a good businessman.
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