Atomium, Brussels
Location of the 1958 World’s Fair
09.03.2026 14:29
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Atomium, Brussels
Location of the 1958 World’s Fair
Yeah it’s pretty shocking. It all started when Kim and I both smelled sewer gas in a pharmacy of all places.
Noticed some surprising sewer gas smells around Brussels and that lead to some rabbit holes. Apparently the EU’s capital has the worst water in the world. 🤦♂️🤯 And Brussels dumps raw sewage into the river through the middle of the he city center.
www.newscientist.com/article/dn34...
Long weekend in Belgium. Did not bring my laptop! 🚫💻
When blue collar workers use forklifts to get a job done, no one yells “oh no do you know how much energy a forklift uses?”
But when white collar workers use powerful machines in data centers to do the same thing, it’s somehow a moral catastrophe.
Where is all the handwringing about forklifts?
Claude is down. Hard to say for sure, but I’m wagering a huge influx of new users.
Prediction: The Whitehouse will push data centers, TSCM, Nvidia etc to blacklist Anthropic, making OpenAI the only viable market option.
Result: The market winners are not the best ones. American AI loses its lead.
Claude is a little sluggish this morning. Influx of new users perhaps? 🤖
@kagi.com a friend noticed my Kagi search on my phone. I was going to send him a referral code but am surprised to not find a way of doing that? Is there no referral system?
I have a completely shaved, bald head. The only hair I have is a beard and mustache.
I’m in the kids pool with my daughter in Porto. And the lifeguard came over and told me I needed to put on a swim cap.
Oh, Europe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4...
Worth a listen as a podcast (don’t need the video)
It's February 2026. As of this month, #BlueSky has been available for 3 years.
This remains true: only email-based 2fa is available.
No TOTP, no passkeys, no FIDO2. Just email.
I agree with this. As an introverted computer nerd, I wouldn’t have met my wife or bonded with my best friends without a social lubricant. Going out and learning darts, pool, and shit talking over a few beers vastly broadened my horizons in life.
Maybe I’m an idiot but that page doesn’t say where this will be? Lisbon? Palo Alto? Zoom? The moon?
Welcome back! The channel name strongly implies Apple though.
Fun fact: the stove pipe top hat was a clever way to get around Ryan Railways baggage charges.
Byte magazine cover featuring a desktop with a screen showing a green landscape, next to a window showing the real-life version, which is ugly, industrialized, and smoky.
The original Star Trek crew are at a holographic museum of "ancient technology," watching a guy scratch his head while reading a retro computer manual.
A painting, a window, and a desktop computer are all lined up to complete the same view, a scene of a blue mountain range.
A white-bearded Robert Tinney stands near an easel with a famous Tinney illustration of a smartwatch that runs on a micro-floppy disk.
RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.
I think it’s healthy to have some skepticism about that.
The ACA for instance required hospitals post prices online, something they have often failed to do because they can’t figure out their own cost structures.
Any reason not to use a BeeStation Plus as a Time Machine target?
And before you say it doesn’t have RAID, #RAIDisNotAbackup and my only use case is backing up.
With Rewind.ai having become Limitless and then acquired by Meta, are there any good alternatives?
Pro-tip: fly as a single man with a moderately polite child. It results in free snacks and booze from flight attendants, among other perks.
Looks like it’ll rain most of the time I’m in Montana.
Rain. In Montana. In December.
Photo of side of beer can, with icon and label reading that the beer is 2.2 standard drinks in Australia.
What does this even mean? Are Australians lightweights?
I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but ChatGPT has been very impressed with the quality of my questions lately.
It’s shocking to me how super common this parking behavior is in southern Europe.
My heart wants an iPhone Air but my brain wants a Pro.
“Your employer’s remote work platform tragically unaffected by AWS outage”
Iron Maiden brand red wine, photo in a grocery store
Heh. What a weird time to be alive.
Sometimes I’ll be listening to classic rock and I’ll hear an alternative rock song come on and I’ll be like “hey this isn’t classic rock, it’s alternative, it’s from oh shit oh shit oh shit 30 years ago.”
They should call it “liquid ass.”
