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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 1h

I actually want this for iOS more.
I use Moonlight on my phone to see my computer screen when I am out and about. My headphones and mic connect through 2.4 GHz. I wish I could see that PiP even if I couldn’t interact.

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 1d

My homelab has better uptime (more 9s) than AWS. Sure, it’s only during the past 24 hours, but that’s something!

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 2d

So I am debugging a weird networking issue that happens when I stream only Parsec or Sunshine, but not both at the same time. How's your weekend?

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 2d

I love the text. I think its way more than enough really!

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 2d

Fantastic post. Honestly, I hope someone makes a YouTube video on this, because I feel like that has more reach for those that are not already bought into this.

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dan @danabra.mov · 25d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 13d

The Nix Repl is goated. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 22d

So Sonnet 4.5 is a downgrade when it comes to making buckets in Blender, even with the new screenshot viewer feature.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 22d

The iPhone 17 pro max sim slot is identical to the 15 pro max one, except the bottom bit is inverted.
So you can’t interchange them, but you can plug one into the other 90% of the way.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 23d

Broke 10k multi-core score on geekbench on my phone!

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · 24d

Why are these sort of errors so common on Windows? I'm so glad I only use it for gaming.

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 19

We had printers before screens. Now we’ve got folding 8K OLEDs… but my printer still refuses to print a PDF without a ritual.

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 8

I loved it. Funny how similar we are.

I also have the same exact views on LLMs as you’ve described.

I’ve also just presented running local LLMs to some people.

I also use Nix on a Mac.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 7

So that was a lie

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 7

So it’s 2025 and I am defragging my drives.
Why? Well, I’m on btrfs and because of CoW and the nature of the files I store there, everything tends towards chaos over time.
This wouldn’t be an issue with SSDs, but I cannot afford replacing my NAS drives with those just yet.

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 3

Funny how Americans call it physics, but maths is too far of an ask.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Sep 2

I'm very proud of coming up with this meme.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Aug 31

Apparently you can have biblically accurate eyes?

gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xey...

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Aug 24

You use gpt O3
I use gcc -O3

We are not the same

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Aug 20

Oh man, don’t you love USB-C?

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Aug 13

So @vscode.dev has this new homepage.

You can see in the background some binary, so I couldn't help but inspect the page, and yeah, the whole binary isn't repeated at random. It's all written in CSS.

So I decoded it to ASCII, and it says: HAPPY_CODING!

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Aug 5

Tried GPT-OSS locally on my RTX 4080 after work today.

Tool calling: rough. Lots of errors and loops.

Reasoning in chat mode: pretty solid. Even wrote working C code (with some hand-holding).

Mixed results, but interesting to see what runs locally now.

blog.tymscar.com/posts/gptoss

Running OpenAI's GPT-OSS locally: the good, the bad, and the loopy

My experience running OpenAI's new open source GPT-OSS model locally, from impressive reasoning to frustrating tool calling failures

blog.tymscar.com

Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Jul 24

Sadly I renew my subscription on a yearly basis so I need to wait till next April to jump ship.

Not ok Proton, not ok.

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Jul 24

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/p...

Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’

If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it. Proton Mail is a priva…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Tymscar 🧮 @tymscar.com · Jul 12