acfoltzer

acfoltzer

@acfoltzer.net

fun: cats, flying, photos, synthesizers, strategy games work: computer

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hell yeah

New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social

Bloomington, Indiana Pop: 115,884 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomington,_Indiana Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14896697 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22126560 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74711688

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arguments around LLMs-for-code constantly bouncing between "it works" and "it doesnt" because both parties have very different definitions of "working" sure is something. let's put it that way, from my interaction with it at work (wish i could avoid it): it works*, and that's the problem lol

first attempt at shokupan went really well, aside from slight overproofing that made for a crunchy chef snack

a video of someone who's decided to use their pilot certificate exactly one last time

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

watching this again, I wonder if this was a bad attempt at a short takeoff. the brief pitch-up moment, settling back in ground effect for a beat, then committing to the Martha Lunken

he did his best to dodge ATC the whole flight, but it sounds like his home tower had a nastygram waiting for him

probably should've done this sooner. for boring medical reasons I'm supposed to keep track of my weight, and after slacking on that chore since early August learned I've lost almost ten pounds since then. folks aren't kidding about stress fucking up your body

acfoltzer@acfoltzer.net

[Johnny Cash voice] I quit my job today

Google product managers saying "hold my beer" to Apple's "Songs of Innocence" fiasco as they force a notorious transphobe's content into my phone OS update

we did the Bull Run Watershed tour today with the Portland Water Bureau. I highly recommend it, both for infrastructure nerd reasons and to witness this otherwise-forbidden view of Mount Hood over Bull Run Lake

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ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

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Promoting genocide is a bright line. Here is the email I sent to support@1password.com and business@1password.com condemning their donation. I encourage you all to do the same. Full text is in the alt text, to make it easy to copy/paste and adapt to your own message.

got a reply to my "I am cancelling because of this" message and... it sure isn't great. LastPass was in the process of falling apart when I switched to 1Password in 2023, so I guess Bitwarden is next to try?

writing my first logbook entry since mid-June, following a very silly and stressful project pivot at the day job. felt great to be back up in the air, and to grease my very first landing in the Grob 103. I had no idea ailerons could be that heavy

Caves of Qud

Possum Acquainter@possumacquainter.bsky.social

getting this done today, it's where they replace your skin with asbestos and widen your salivary glands so you can blast out 50000 gallons of water