KalenXI 🏳️🌈
@kevinv.dev
Cis/Gay/GreyAce Programmer & Broadcast Engineer
“It was capitalism all along.”
Also available at: https://mastodon.social/@KalenXI
“It was capitalism all along.”
Also available at: https://mastodon.social/@KalenXI
I think it would be interesting for some of the people who have a new favorite coding model every other day to actually do a blind test and see if they can actually tell the difference when they don't know which one they're using. Because I suspect there's a lot of recency bias coming into play here
February 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I think it would be interesting for some of the people who have a new favorite coding model every other day to actually do a blind test and see if they can actually tell the difference when they don't know which one they're using. Because I suspect there's a lot of recency bias coming into play here
We better get a really mild summer after putting up with it being so cold this winter.
February 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
We better get a really mild summer after putting up with it being so cold this winter.
Honestly if it were 10 years ago and the subscription removed ads and all “suggested” items from my feed I’d probably have considered it.
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Honestly if it were 10 years ago and the subscription removed ads and all “suggested” items from my feed I’d probably have considered it.
macOS Tahoe's going great.
January 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
macOS Tahoe's going great.
I feel like my Apple TV remote is the only Apple thing I’ve ever actually lost and yet it’s also the only Apple thing that doesn’t support Find My.
January 18, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I feel like my Apple TV remote is the only Apple thing I’ve ever actually lost and yet it’s also the only Apple thing that doesn’t support Find My.
Why is Dunkin advertising this like an ad for a strip club? And why are they even advertising at all in a notification. I’m pretty sure that’s against Apples guidelines.
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Why is Dunkin advertising this like an ad for a strip club? And why are they even advertising at all in a notification. I’m pretty sure that’s against Apples guidelines.
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the anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them
sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this
sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this
January 9, 2026 at 11:51 PM
the anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them
sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this
sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this
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Maryland is hands down the best state flag
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Maryland is hands down the best state flag
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Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.
What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.
Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral
View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.
What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.
I noticed today that for some reason a bunch of people on Reddit seem to have very similar usernames like Adjective-Noun1234. At first I thought maybe they were bot accounts but their posts didn't seem like bot posts.
December 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I noticed today that for some reason a bunch of people on Reddit seem to have very similar usernames like Adjective-Noun1234. At first I thought maybe they were bot accounts but their posts didn't seem like bot posts.
What if the lyrics of La Vie Bohème but the music of We Didn't Start the Fire?
December 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What if the lyrics of La Vie Bohème but the music of We Didn't Start the Fire?
I wonder if after series 25 we'll get a Taskmaster Champion of Champions of Champions.
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I wonder if after series 25 we'll get a Taskmaster Champion of Champions of Champions.
Tumblr needs some more variety in their ads. I just got one ad for Temu followed by the exact same Amazon ad 8 times in a row. 🫠
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Tumblr needs some more variety in their ads. I just got one ad for Temu followed by the exact same Amazon ad 8 times in a row. 🫠
Initial impressions of FS2024 SU4 are very poor. Performance seems noticeably worse than SU3 and the first plane I tried (Citation X) none of the screens worked anymore. Then tried to install an update for the Citation and it just silently failed nothing happens when you click install.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Initial impressions of FS2024 SU4 are very poor. Performance seems noticeably worse than SU3 and the first plane I tried (Citation X) none of the screens worked anymore. Then tried to install an update for the Citation and it just silently failed nothing happens when you click install.
Even if this weren't AI, it's still a terrible ad that I'm surprised McDonald's paid for. Why would they want to associate themselves with the message "The holidays are awful, come to McDonald's instead."?
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Even if this weren't AI, it's still a terrible ad that I'm surprised McDonald's paid for. Why would they want to associate themselves with the message "The holidays are awful, come to McDonald's instead."?
I literally pay for Discord and yet I'm still getting ads. I don't even know what orbs are.
mIRC would never.
mIRC would never.
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I literally pay for Discord and yet I'm still getting ads. I don't even know what orbs are.
mIRC would never.
mIRC would never.
Interesting that Meta saw the buggy mess that liquid glass was and decided "We want the guy who made that."
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Interesting that Meta saw the buggy mess that liquid glass was and decided "We want the guy who made that."
@moonhood.bsky.social Do you guys plan to fix the bugs in The Midnight Walk? I really love the game and completed it in VR mostly without issue (though it did crash once). But now I'm playing it with a controller to get collectables and I keep getting stuck in wardrobes with no way out.
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@moonhood.bsky.social Do you guys plan to fix the bugs in The Midnight Walk? I really love the game and completed it in VR mostly without issue (though it did crash once). But now I'm playing it with a controller to get collectables and I keep getting stuck in wardrobes with no way out.
Wikipedia's math articles are a prime example of why teaching is a skill and why not everyone that knows something is qualified to teach that thing.
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wikipedia's math articles are a prime example of why teaching is a skill and why not everyone that knows something is qualified to teach that thing.
The existence of AI art is making me realize what percentage of my enjoyment of art was not just "This looks cool" but also "Wow, a person took the time and effort to make this."
Unsurprisingly the human effort is almost the entire point.
Unsurprisingly the human effort is almost the entire point.
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The existence of AI art is making me realize what percentage of my enjoyment of art was not just "This looks cool" but also "Wow, a person took the time and effort to make this."
Unsurprisingly the human effort is almost the entire point.
Unsurprisingly the human effort is almost the entire point.
As a normal adult I definitely do not know the ramifications and complexities of owning an enchanted scorpion.
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As a normal adult I definitely do not know the ramifications and complexities of owning an enchanted scorpion.
Pluribus seems interesting. Although it did take me out of it when one of their "scientists" said that 4-level PWM was so hard to crack that the signal might as well have been encrypted, when 4-level PWM is literally how UPC barcodes are encoded.
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Pluribus seems interesting. Although it did take me out of it when one of their "scientists" said that 4-level PWM was so hard to crack that the signal might as well have been encrypted, when 4-level PWM is literally how UPC barcodes are encoded.
I’ve found lately that I have less and less tolerance for clickbait on YouTube. I used to put up with it but frankly I’m tired of creators willfully choosing to make a platform worse because “the algorithm demands it”. The platform owners do that enough as it is. We shouldn’t be helping them.
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’ve found lately that I have less and less tolerance for clickbait on YouTube. I used to put up with it but frankly I’m tired of creators willfully choosing to make a platform worse because “the algorithm demands it”. The platform owners do that enough as it is. We shouldn’t be helping them.
Was Reddit always full of people going “This post is obviously an ad and I can’t believe all you dumb people fell for it” or am I just noticing it more now?
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Was Reddit always full of people going “This post is obviously an ad and I can’t believe all you dumb people fell for it” or am I just noticing it more now?