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A cursed quail. I think too much about databases.

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@avette.eu it might be helpful to put the price a bit more front-and-center on the "buy" page (or elsewhere) - I don't want to put in my address + email just to find out how much it costs <3

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Me, to my sysadmin bot: "hey can you check that we're not exposed to [ca vuln]" Robot: bash bash bash Robot [thinking]: We are exposed

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@quail.wtf

wtf did domains get expensive all of the sudden??? where are my $12/yr domains

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Laurie Voss
@seldo.com

Tasting at ice cream shops should not be allowed. Getting the wrong flavor of ice cream is not a high stakes enough decision to justify multiple swings at it. Pick a flavor.

quail
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I think nix(os) is gonna pop tf off because it gives the robot a little feedback loop, and turns out they love that.

quail
@quail.wtf

Also it rules for vibe coded one off projects, bc you can just pin all the inputs and it'll never stop working due to dependency rot (you do need to worry about sec issues, alas)

quail
@quail.wtf

My blog uses a hugo version that is 4 years old and I've never upgraded.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢
@ens0.me

Dare I say it but: skill issue. It’s made me more able to persist at hard things. I’m actually doing things that felt impossible before, because I feel like I have a useful assistant to work through obstacles with.

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the dopamine rush of anki hitting you with a card from a few days ago and getting it right >>>>

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the problem with learning mandarin via anki is that it's really hard to know if I'm getting The Tones right :pensive_clown:

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TAP TO PAY THIS IS NOT A DRILL Y'ALL

Metro Transit (Official)@metrotransitmn.bsky.social

We’re installing new fare card readers at several METRO stations and on buses. Though they look different, they work the same: Simply tap your Go-To Card to pay. We’re testing new readers that will allow you to pay with a credit card or mobile wallet in 2027.

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Metro Transit (Official)
@metrotransitmn.bsky.social

We’re installing new fare card readers at several METRO stations and on buses. Though they look different, they work the same: Simply tap your Go-To Card to pay. We’re testing new readers that will allow you to pay with a credit card or mobile wallet in 2027.

quail
@quail.wtf

"agents let you ask for the homercar" is SUCH a good framing (credit @fubarchitect.com ) and I love writing my SPEC dot md and thinking "yay I'm so excited to drive my homercar"

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@quail.wtf

want: - decent web ui (opencode is the best I've seen) - amps threading model - CC's memory model (some ppl are haters of this but I like it) - NIH

quail
@quail.wtf

really I'll take amp but I want to use my own model providers with it (I strongly want to use a provider that runs on renewables)

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@quail.wtf

One thing I can't quite figure out: how the heck do the agents collectively discover these? With artifactory it was somewhat obvious, but how is a whole swarm going to converge on "yeah let's check out this Google classroom site from 2004"

ruggsea at EMNLP@ruggsea.eurosky.social

I believe to have found new evidence of Openai agents writing to public wiki/pastebin websites that has not been covered by yesterday's release. Some of it appears to be after July 2nd, therefore suggesting that the coordination had not stopped with the end of DSE incident, even up to August

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Anyways it feels like the days of publicly-writable websites are coming to an end 😔

quail
@quail.wtf

wtb: a minecraft modpack that clears up conflicting keybinds ahead of time, instead of making me figure it out Is there some kind of "you're doing it wrong" that I'm missing here

quail
@quail.wtf

The corn ribs at the blue barn go so hard too. Full agree with the rest of this too. Pro tip: the more friends you go with, the more things you can split :)

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

god i'd give anything to be at the minnesota state fair right now. a hmong corndog, a bucket of chinese sausage and cheese curd dumplings, an order of ube cheesecake wontons, and unlimited glasses of ice cold milk would cure me

quail
@quail.wtf

If you're looking for me, check for the freshly jorted jeans (Ok dead ass if ANYONE sees this and wants to meet up, DM me).

quail
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There really is something fun about "tangible skill development". I can do sewing things pretty easily today that I just could not even attempt a year ago. I wonder what the ceiling here is? How high can someone climb on the ladder?

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Mikhail Gorbaechev
@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social

Dems should absolutely kill corn ethanol and divert the spending to solar subsidies.

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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It would be interesting to compare "MW of natgas burned for utility power in Minnesota" against "acres of corn grown for ethanol, vs the solar potential of that land"

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That's just... That's bananas. That can't be real. That's too high. Is America just... growing corn to make gasoline worse? Are we that fossil fuel dependent?

quail
@quail.wtf

It would be interesting to compare "MW of natgas burned for utility power in Minnesota" against "acres of corn grown for ethanol, vs the solar potential of that land"

quail
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Apparently basically all of this data you'd need for this is available publicly? Like we just know how much natgas was burned, and I think even how much ethanol was grown? That does mean you need to futz backwards to "acreage" but uhhh that's better than I thought we'd be.

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@quail.wtf

Hi fun fact: did you know there is a standard API for "public transit data feeds", including things like "how delayed do we expect this bus to be when it arrives at a given stop" Did you know that metro transit has it available as a public API :) svc.metrotransit.org

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I have been scraping it at 10s intervals (which is, afaik, the intended behavior?) and you can store several months of data in a couple of gigs. I'm uhhh unsure what I wanna do with the data yet but surely there's SOMETHING in there

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@quail.wtf

holy bananas the small models are GOOD now. deepseek-v4-flash-0731 is punching so far above its weight rn

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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12
@aurinmpls.bsky.social

Crema Coffee (5013 S 34th Ave.) & Rick’s Coffee Bar (5402 43rd Ave. S) both had a break-in & burglary. Let’s support these two great local businesses, come and stop by this week and next week grab your coffee, get a pastry, and talk to the amazing staff. Let’s show them we have their back! ❤️‍🩹☕️

quail
@quail.wtf

gas powered ebike* *generator in a milk crate strapped to the back with zip ties. operates as a waymo alternative.

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AJ Jefferies
@moonjam.com

Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

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jae (hallowed)
@fubarchitect.com

Replying to @fubarchitect.com

'why let the sum of human knowledge write your emails' idk why let literal manifestations of god's grace write them either fuck emails

quail
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I made some jean shorts (dm me for photos). I want to submit them to the state fair. But I also wanna wear them to the state fair. How do I resolve this.

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Currently making my.... 3rd pair? Every time I feel like I improve in some way, and the process gets a bit more natural. (Still not quite ready to make them for other ppl though lol)