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Adrian Chadd

@erikarn

* he/him * VR/AR prototype work at Facebook/Meta * KK6VQK when RF * Discord - therealerikarn * FreeBSD, WiFi drivers/stack, Retro Computing, Random Electronics, and occasional kid/puppy stories * https://erikarn.github.io/ for links to everything else

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oh not this shit again lol

07.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

omg GERIBATRIC

this is precious and needs to be kept going at all costs

07.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the "unified search / filesystem database" wet dream had some interesting implications yes, heh.

07.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yup! this was the 90s wet dream btw!

07.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hahahahah at least it wasn't a middle finger

06.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the sensor and the smog test saying "nope, efficiency is not good enough"

06.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

nope and for good reason

(and where i live there's already a huge problem in literally this)

06.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

honestly it's stories like this and the discussions that happened to get the Avery cameo, y'all (across all the current-trek) must really care about this stuff and it super shows. So TYVM!

06.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ok ok i gotta know - how the heck did y'all manage to swing this one? like, super amazing and all but i've been curious af ever since

06.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

honestly that's what i've been haha-but-cry.jpg about lately. work is measured in units of "tokens" now.

06.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

unfortunately california wants it fixed and the car works fine (and just had a major service recently) so .. off i go to get it replaced.

06.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

California checks that its working properly! So it's time to replace it.

06.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ah yes, the "oh shit I gotta replace my catalytic converter" phase of owning an internal combustion engine car for 15 years.

05.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 0

like they were teaching this to us in undergrad psych class in 2010/2011. we keep relearning this! sigh

05.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 1997 πŸ” 499 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 16

This person right here is like the best possible QA tester for the kind of work I do at work.

Including but not limited to "see these people exist can you please stop assuming things"

05.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

GPUs for kids, tim

05.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sir/etc i literally work on Meta's glasses I think I know ;p

04.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhereβ€”and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! β˜‚οΈ

03.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 428 πŸ” 239 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

ok now i need a nyah style modern cpu architecture book

03.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wait, you mean register files are just little tokyo hotel pod style arrangements of catgirls?

03.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"give adrian a diff to land and he can land it" is a great argument for freebsd too

(also I'm almost done getting a netbsd commit bit...)

03.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh god damnit fuck gnu info

03.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

instructions unclear, removing now wet balls from bowl of man cereal

03.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish they were louder about this in my undergraduate psychology class.

Because god DAMNIT you could see the wheels turning with some people...

03.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like, look at all of the companies adopting Claude code and OpenClaw agents that use Claude for their functional machinery.

What happens if they have a full AWS style data centre outage? How much global company infrastructure will .. halt?

03.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So tonight's mental exercise:

How much of the current AI explosion is underpinned by like, /just/ Anthropic?

If Anthropic disappeared for 24 hours for whatever reason - and just like AWS, I'm sure they'll eventually have an outage - how much of current AI/tech will just .. stop?

03.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

fuckers :(

02.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hows she doing now tho?

01.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember '02 because I remember that my dad lost his tech job and my parents were stressed about paying the mortgage

28.02.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0