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What's going on in London this week?

You best start believing in dead internet theories...

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Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy

Installation is largely mechanical. Configuration requires considered decisions about security, networking, and long-term access. The two stages look similar on the surface and demand different kinds of attention.

Local port conflicts on the client are the number-one blocker after reboots, not failures on the server. Worth knowing before reaching for the logs on the wrong machine.

'Deep work’ is just ‘doing your job’ for people who’ve been on Slack so long they forgot what that felt like

The Lenovo Miix has a 64-bit CPU paired with 32-bit UEFI firmware. One odd manufacturer choice, and suddenly most standard Linux installers won’t even see the machine as bootable. Legacy hardware usually has a reason for being difficult.

The blast radius of a security incident is mostly decided before anything goes wrong. It gets set in the architecture: isolation, permissions, pathways, defaults. OpenClaw is designed with that in mind. More in the write-up linked in the bio.

A lot of technical pain comes from moving before understanding. This hardware issue only became obvious after stepping back, researching properly, and looking at the constraints instead of forcing fixes. In troubleshooting, haste usually extends the problem.

Once the remote access and security basics were in place, installing OpenClaw itself was the easy part: one command and done. That’s the pattern with a lot of infrastructure work. The hard part isn’t installation. It’s getting the surrounding decisions right.

A lot of ‘this old machine can’t run Linux properly’ problems are really firmware problems. In this case the fix was MX Linux: support for 32-bit UEFI with a 64-bit kernel. Same hardware, totally different outcome once the installer actually matches the device.

The biggest unlock in self-hosted AI usually isn’t budget. It’s methodology. A tablet that felt too slow for normal Windows use can still become reliable AI infrastructure if you know how to repurpose it. The constraint is often approach, not hardware.

A kernel panic in the middle of an update looks like hardware death until you slow down and test it properly. An overnight memory check said the machine was fine. The real issue was the interrupted update, not failing RAM. Most fixes start with narrowing the problem.

One of my favourite kinds of infrastructure is the kind you already own. An old Lenovo Miix that struggled under Windows is now running as a dedicated OpenClaw server with the lid closed, reachable over SSH and VNC. Repurposed beats discarded.

Running an AI server does not require a significant capital outlay. The hardware to do it may already exist inside the organisation — it just needs the right approach. From the OpenClaw implementation article

Existing configuration files were brought into a Claude Code session to generate a matching Tmux setup — same keybindings, one modifier key changed to avoid conflicts. Learning a new tool should not mean learning an entirely new muscle memory.

buymeacoffee.com/skillissues/from-message-action-how-openclaw-config-skills-tools-work-together

typical experience on X app

Still working on OpenClaw and Linux here: buymeacoffee.com/skillissues/from-installed-operational-configuring-openclaw-secure-local-use

any meta notification makes you "happy". you spend more time on the platform to get more of a good feeling, like sugar an X post makes you feel bad because of the lack of engagement. you want spend more time on the platform to escape the bad feeling totally different models

From Old Tablet to AI Infrastructure buymeacoffee.com/skillissues/repurposing-old-hardware-ai-server-a-practical-openclaw-setup

Every tech CEO right now: "We need to move fast and break things" The thing they're breaking: their own terms of service The thing they're moving fast toward: a government contract

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the chinese have their own space station?

what's stopping you monitoring your ai agents like this?

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

it's been a while since i was on bluesky. just downloaded it again. it looks like a lot has changed, and it is good

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So where do we go when twitter is down?

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The npm hack could have been huge (in some ways it was!) but the hackers made away with almost nothing. Their idea, to swap the address of a destination crypto wallets with their own and it worked **But** there are so few crypto transactions they made away with 50 bucks..

C if you want to build something Python if you want to do something Haskell if you want to make something

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remember that the internet is still free if you do a bit of research and learn a few things. stop complaining about the online safety act, nobody is going to make things the way you want them to be for you. build your own experiences

trying to vibe code but the vibes are off

This is an absolute must read and it is nothing to do with bikepacking... bikepacking.com/plog/when-we...

todays tech news (in tokyo night):

do emojis help with AI inference? Chat GPT just cannot avoid using them.

i read your book @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social i have a question: is the world really facing a population shortage, or is capitalism facing a population shortage?

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