JulianCalaby
@juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy
Grumpy clown microdosing chaos. Petter of dogs. Hardware and software sadist. Applied specific curses to their own homelab for fun. Smashes code […]
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this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns
furry.engineer
October 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns
Back on my bullshit. This is a test print of the thumb cluster for a Dactyl Manuform style keyboard. Ignore the massive print failure, it detached itself from the bed for some reason, all I wanted to know was whether the keyswitches I bought would […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
October 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Back on my bullshit. This is a test print of the thumb cluster for a Dactyl Manuform style keyboard. Ignore the massive print failure, it detached itself from the bed for some reason, all I wanted to know was whether the keyswitches I bought would […]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
More HSBC griping: due to me being on the ball and reporting fraudulent transactions on my card before they went through, then following up once they had been processed and could therefore be disputed, HSBC blocked my replacement card before I received it and suspended my account.
Brilliant.
#hsbc
Brilliant.
#hsbc
October 4, 2026 at 7:03 AM
More HSBC griping: due to me being on the ball and reporting fraudulent transactions on my card before they went through, then following up once they had been processed and could therefore be disputed, HSBC blocked my replacement card before I received it and suspended my account.
Brilliant.
#hsbc
Brilliant.
#hsbc
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This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
October 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
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Reposted by JulianCalaby
really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY
September 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY
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It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]
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Reposted by JulianCalaby
September 24, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Just paid Aus immigration 1.5k for my Resident Return visa 😭
Why does this country hate immigrants so much?
*sigh*
Why does this country hate immigrants so much?
*sigh*
September 23, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Just paid Aus immigration 1.5k for my Resident Return visa 😭
Why does this country hate immigrants so much?
*sigh*
Why does this country hate immigrants so much?
*sigh*
MeshCore day 2:
✅️ am on the MeshCore Australia Discord
✅️ have received messages I didn't send
✅️ have about 30 different repeaters on a map covering pretty much all of central Victoria
❎️ I can only confirm that ~1 message out of about 30 has actually be received by a node I don't own
So […]
✅️ am on the MeshCore Australia Discord
✅️ have received messages I didn't send
✅️ have about 30 different repeaters on a map covering pretty much all of central Victoria
❎️ I can only confirm that ~1 message out of about 30 has actually be received by a node I don't own
So […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
September 24, 2026 at 6:59 AM
MeshCore day 2:
✅️ am on the MeshCore Australia Discord
✅️ have received messages I didn't send
✅️ have about 30 different repeaters on a map covering pretty much all of central Victoria
❎️ I can only confirm that ~1 message out of about 30 has actually be received by a node I don't own
So […]
✅️ am on the MeshCore Australia Discord
✅️ have received messages I didn't send
✅️ have about 30 different repeaters on a map covering pretty much all of central Victoria
❎️ I can only confirm that ~1 message out of about 30 has actually be received by a node I don't own
So […]
Card gets skimmed and some asshole makes a donation to Wikimedia, then 14 other random transactions, ~2USD each, mostly to Facebook.
Normally this'd be a pretty minor issue and would get resolved easily, but my card is with HSBC, so...
1. Switch keyboard to GBoard in another app so HSBC's app […]
Normally this'd be a pretty minor issue and would get resolved easily, but my card is with HSBC, so...
1. Switch keyboard to GBoard in another app so HSBC's app […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
September 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Card gets skimmed and some asshole makes a donation to Wikimedia, then 14 other random transactions, ~2USD each, mostly to Facebook.
Normally this'd be a pretty minor issue and would get resolved easily, but my card is with HSBC, so...
1. Switch keyboard to GBoard in another app so HSBC's app […]
Normally this'd be a pretty minor issue and would get resolved easily, but my card is with HSBC, so...
1. Switch keyboard to GBoard in another app so HSBC's app […]
So I guess it's finally time to actually write this down.
I've spent nearly a week with Meshtastic and I Have Thoughts.
I'm going to split this up into three big components with a bunch of smaller replies to cover more points as this is a big complicated topic. Anything that's starred is […]
I've spent nearly a week with Meshtastic and I Have Thoughts.
I'm going to split this up into three big components with a bunch of smaller replies to cover more points as this is a big complicated topic. Anything that's starred is […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
September 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM
So I guess it's finally time to actually write this down.
I've spent nearly a week with Meshtastic and I Have Thoughts.
I'm going to split this up into three big components with a bunch of smaller replies to cover more points as this is a big complicated topic. Anything that's starred is […]
I've spent nearly a week with Meshtastic and I Have Thoughts.
I'm going to split this up into three big components with a bunch of smaller replies to cover more points as this is a big complicated topic. Anything that's starred is […]
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live your life so you're not on this list
'weird little guys of FOSS'
https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
'weird little guys of FOSS'
https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
Weird little guys of FOSS
drewdevault.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
live your life so you're not on this list
'weird little guys of FOSS'
https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
'weird little guys of FOSS'
https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
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#harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #cognitivevirus”
"Think about how a #virus operates:
It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.
An #llm cannot execute, compute, or […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
"Think about how a #virus operates:
It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.
An #llm cannot execute, compute, or […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
#harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #cognitivevirus”
"Think about how a #virus operates:
It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.
An #llm cannot execute, compute, or […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
"Think about how a #virus operates:
It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself.
An #llm cannot execute, compute, or […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
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Cursed homelab nanoupdate:
Upgrading from Ceph 16 to 17 using Cephadm 18 is a bad idea. Don't ask.
#cursedhomelab #ceph #homelab
Upgrading from Ceph 16 to 17 using Cephadm 18 is a bad idea. Don't ask.
#cursedhomelab #ceph #homelab
September 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Cursed homelab nanoupdate:
Upgrading from Ceph 16 to 17 using Cephadm 18 is a bad idea. Don't ask.
#cursedhomelab #ceph #homelab
Upgrading from Ceph 16 to 17 using Cephadm 18 is a bad idea. Don't ask.
#cursedhomelab #ceph #homelab
Seeing people interact with Sashiko, Linux's (somewhat useless) AI code review bot like it's an actual human reviewer hurts my soul in a way I can't really put into words.
Like, peeps, it isn't reading your email, it isn't going to adjust it's review because you (correctly) told it that it's […]
Like, peeps, it isn't reading your email, it isn't going to adjust it's review because you (correctly) told it that it's […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
September 5, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Seeing people interact with Sashiko, Linux's (somewhat useless) AI code review bot like it's an actual human reviewer hurts my soul in a way I can't really put into words.
Like, peeps, it isn't reading your email, it isn't going to adjust it's review because you (correctly) told it that it's […]
Like, peeps, it isn't reading your email, it isn't going to adjust it's review because you (correctly) told it that it's […]
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Man I'm so sick of AI benchmarks lol. You're telling me GPT-6 got 98% on the PissX Ultramark? Well that plus the freaking 812 they pulled on the FPR EufRA EEE 4.2.3 means this thing is really gonna rip. I gotta say though I really was expecting a bigger improvement on the BSMT:3 (Big Scawy Math […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
September 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Man I'm so sick of AI benchmarks lol. You're telling me GPT-6 got 98% on the PissX Ultramark? Well that plus the freaking 812 they pulled on the FPR EufRA EEE 4.2.3 means this thing is really gonna rip. I gotta say though I really was expecting a bigger improvement on the BSMT:3 (Big Scawy Math […]
So let's continue poking at LoRa mesh things.
The big goal is tracking: I have a battery powered node and I want to know where it is in near-realtime.
Meshtastic: this appears to do everything I could want here, will meet my needs, and the hardware that's being shipped to me is supported […]
The big goal is tracking: I have a battery powered node and I want to know where it is in near-realtime.
Meshtastic: this appears to do everything I could want here, will meet my needs, and the hardware that's being shipped to me is supported […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
August 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
So let's continue poking at LoRa mesh things.
The big goal is tracking: I have a battery powered node and I want to know where it is in near-realtime.
Meshtastic: this appears to do everything I could want here, will meet my needs, and the hardware that's being shipped to me is supported […]
The big goal is tracking: I have a battery powered node and I want to know where it is in near-realtime.
Meshtastic: this appears to do everything I could want here, will meet my needs, and the hardware that's being shipped to me is supported […]
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Who says AI doesn't create new kinds of businesses: I would hire someone to re-transcribe all the LLM output I have to trudge through back into human language. I don't have trouble with the volume, I can just feel my brain trying to eject my temporal lobes out my ears as each passing word makes […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
August 26, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Who says AI doesn't create new kinds of businesses: I would hire someone to re-transcribe all the LLM output I have to trudge through back into human language. I don't have trouble with the volume, I can just feel my brain trying to eject my temporal lobes out my ears as each passing word makes […]
Following on from my previous post, I bought an original LilyGo T-Keyboard a while ago and haven't really done anything with it. This is an ESP32-C3, the standard Blackberry 10 keyboard everyone uses and a small colour LCD display in a handy 3D printed case. The demo code is an extremely basic […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
August 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Following on from my previous post, I bought an original LilyGo T-Keyboard a while ago and haven't really done anything with it. This is an ESP32-C3, the standard Blackberry 10 keyboard everyone uses and a small colour LCD display in a handy 3D printed case. The demo code is an extremely basic […]
So I may have made a mistake: I saw an excellent video from Saveitforparts on Youtube about using Meshtastic to track luggage on a train and was all 🤔: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6v8bVjrMAQ
We're travelling later this year and will be doing some travelling away from our luggage and I am […]
We're travelling later this year and will be doing some travelling away from our luggage and I am […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
August 26, 2026 at 11:22 PM
So I may have made a mistake: I saw an excellent video from Saveitforparts on Youtube about using Meshtastic to track luggage on a train and was all 🤔: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6v8bVjrMAQ
We're travelling later this year and will be doing some travelling away from our luggage and I am […]
We're travelling later this year and will be doing some travelling away from our luggage and I am […]