Tim Provencio

Gen-X autodidactic polymath. Author of dystopian fiction. INTJ with engineering brain. MENSA holdout. FFL 07/02 SOT. ISC2 CC & SSCP. Opinions are my own.

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

Pandora Desktop 16.1.0 has apparently reached peak modern software design.

Block https://t.co/NglBsFWBIY because you don’t want telemetry tracking, and Pandora stops authenticating.

So the music app works, the account works, the network works, but the tracking endpoint doesn’t... therefore you don’t get to log in.

Brilliant.

Telemetry is supposed to be optional. If your app breaks when analytics can’t phone home, you didn’t add telemetry. You added a dependency.

Details:
https://t.co/ri2SWuD8Ym

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

Last week, AI has fundamentally changed forever with the unstealthing of Jev from TypeSafe AI. But it'll also fundamentally change this week too with something else. #jev

[DHH @dhh]

The age of agents belongs to Linux!

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

@HermesWatcher Desktop on 2 MacBook Pros (M1/M3 Max), gateway on 12-core 2013 Mac Pro w 32GB and 1TB SSD that can also use local models from a Dell R730 it powers on/off with iDRAC 8 that has Tesla P40 & P100 GPUs (40GB VRAM), 128GB RAM, Dual CPU for 28 cores, and RAID 6 on 15k SAS drives.

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

Check out Muse, your personal AI agent. Redeem my code in Settings within 48 hours of joining and we'll both get 1 billion Muse tokens.

Code: 9GDH8O
https://t.co/sFCGdtynd5

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

Very interested in spinning up #omarchy when I have a little time. https://t.co/k1qfttf5ju

[Messi @Messia367558]

The high-tech robot dog thought it was the future, but one hit from the local ram sent it straight back to the past! 😂🐏💥🤖

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

HOURS REQUIRED TO ESCAPE POVERTY ON MINIMUM WAGE:

1. JAPAN - 11 Hours
2. UNITED KINGDOM - 23 Hours
3. FRANCE - 26 Hours
4. NEW ZEALAND - 29 Hours
5. PORTUGAL - 31 Hours
6. AUSTRALIA - 32 Hours
7. BELGIUM - 32 Hours
8. SPAIN - 32 Hours
9. IRELAND - 33 Hours
10. GERMANY - 37 Hours
11. LUXEMBOURG - 44 Hours
12. CANADA - 44 Hours
13. UNITED STATES- 90 Hours

YES, 90 HOURS. ONE PERSON ON FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE ($7.25/HR) WOULD NEED TO WORK 90 HOURS A WEEK TO ESCAPE POVERTY.

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

Seeing all this MUSE buzz and want to give it a try?

Redeem my code in Settings within 48 hours of joining and we'll both get 1 billion Muse tokens.

Code: 9GDH8O

https://t.co/euzhuJecIM

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

@mooseAGI @Muse Thanks!

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

I'm back.

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

"Later is a lie we tell ourselves to avoid discomfort." https://t.co/Q7mDtKM3JF

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

This hits me harder than I care to admit. Once you learn to see past the surface, you cannot unsee it. You still stand among people, still listen, and still observe, but some part of you knows you no longer truly belong there. https://t.co/VxVZmzWm0H

[Milaverse @liudmylk]

https://t.co/67Kq1lgcdu

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

"Influencers" bragging about how much tokens they spend on second brains and other AI cringe and I'm here thinking about how much I save running a local multi-GPU server and not even using useless visuals for markdown. The YT videos are more cringe than a boomer at a ComiCon.

[Elastic @elastic]

6,000,000,000 downloads.

If you've ever built on it, deployed it, broken it, fixed it, or shipped something with it: this one's yours.

Thank you.

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

There are so many that will be like "So?"

[WIRED @WIRED]

A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days. https://t.co/EnAqpypNnk

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

No one ever expects @JohnCena!

[Tim Provencio @TimProvencio]

My new favorite AI related term: "meat proxy". It summarizes one of the things I hate most about the widespread use of LLMs. Especially when it is used to look knowledgable.