Now that we've secured a sitter, and tickets, I'm so excited to say I'll be going to see The Descendants and The Chats in Berkeley tonight. Best I can tell they announced yesterday morning? Bananas.
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Issac Kelly
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I write about tools, tech sovereignty, making stuff. Parent of two littles. Previously: distributed private networking, a tiny satellite company, a tiny rocket company and a tiny secret society, and a small stint in moving money around various locales. Oakland
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So is peter parker wearing two pairs of shoes all the time or is spiderman kicking but in his socks?
I have switched to totally self-hosted email! Annoying! I'm happy about de-googling one more thing in my life.
I have a mail transfer agent on a dirt-cheap hetzner node. My home server connects to that via wireguard and all interesting decisions happen at home, inboxes and SMTP are only accessible via wireguard too
The only thing I expose to the internet is receiving mail, which feels good.
I already had hardware but over my lifetime I expect the TCO of owning to be lower than renting
The year is 2026 and I am finally trying to be my own mail transfer agent and mail server. Starting with a throwaway domain but I want to get deliverability to the big providers and then get off of Gmail for my personal stuff. Party like it’s 1999 (+dmarc and spf and domain reputation like credit reporting…..)
Just heard @scottjenson@social.coop say "It's not rocket science" about one of his desktop prototypes. It's at least as inventive as most of the rocket science I've seen! I've always been enamored with the idea of personal timelines, I didn't know there was so much prior art.
Today was “bike to wherever” day in alameda county and we got at least one family to change plans, walk away from their car and hop on the bike by having a boisterous, joyous, bike bus and a similarly happy neighborhood energizer station. Feeling so great about that.
In response to a new version control system coming out, I have started Jiu-Jitsu. The real one where you roll around on the floor and your joints hurt. At least that’s the part I know after three classes
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite it’s hard to beat the convenience of e-bike lights that are built in and bolted on. On my analog bikes I use usb lights with quick mounts and I try to have an extra one in the garage in case of battery-out situations.
I own high vis gear but I tend to only wear that on group rides with lots of kids
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@cda@macaw.social Old Twitter was wildly chatty and I liked it. Late Twitter had me not responding unless they were questions directly targeted at me (or close friends) -- Throwing stuff at space together puts us closer to the latter but I still carry around lot of self-consciousness.
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@cda@macaw.social oh and one more I haven’t been able to be coherent about yet but a toot reminded me. Agents are good for my RSI. Natural language to computer interfacing will be an accessibility aide enabled by LLMs forever now. Maybe that’s the only good they’ll do but they are already doing it. https://social.lol/@bw/116574628811389639
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@cda@macaw.social I think someone there is fairly close to “you could run a reasonably competent agent, kind of slowly, on $5k of specialized hardware and 250wH or so”
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@cda@macaw.social yeah! I am in a little discord where there are some of these experiments going on with the open models and agents and accessible or rentable hardware. Trying to get a little bit of “dollars and watts per …. Some kind of output” without the VC subsidies. There is some promising output, but it’s a load of hardware, and the cost of acquiring hardware is getting complicated.
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Moved it to the other side of the house. Hopefully people will still feel like they can use the bench.
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@cda@macaw.social I just realized I’ve moved this thread to thought dumping. Sorry, I’ll stop now :)
@lahosken@hachyderm.io thanks!
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@andrew@fedi.aeracode.org I have tried to stream from the workshop and I think it would take a load of work to even be watchable, more less good.
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@cda@macaw.social yeah and also discount that all three of them will be trying to sell you ~chuckle cheese coins~ “tokens” of output, and that LLMS bias writing new tokens/code, as you mention in judging planes by weight.
There definitely are interesting aspects to me about them, I just haven’t had many forums for having nuanced conversations with people more in the middle rather than people who have picked a side
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@cda@macaw.social also reading through the pi source code has been interesting. Turns out an agent is like…Llm inference in a for loop. Spending a couple days learning all the glossary words and basic architectures for the current boom has been pretty enlightening for where the complexity is.
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@cda@macaw.social and will keep asking to use sudo no matter how many times you say “lol, no”!