Trevor Bruford

[Trevor Bruford @tsbruford]

@BrilliantMaps This map is low effort

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@JoshuaBarzon How about a better resolution? One that lets us read the words.

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Remember when they called it the Fauci ouchie? Yeah, that was so cute.

[Trevor Bruford @tsbruford]

The enshittification is real and I can't think of a single vehicle being made today that isn't designed to be disposable. I hope enough people can keep these types of vehicles going for years to come.
I agree with most of what you said, but "air ride shocks are $100 per corner and can be replaced in an hour." It's closer to $400 a corner and if you need a compressor its game over. Good luck with the valves and sensors as well. It can be, and has been, a nightmare for me. When that system goes it affects a lot of other systems.
Great vehicle if you are mechanically inclined, have a different daily driver and can adapt to failures and breakdowns.

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@LeContempIateur For some reason we are not worthy of the original video?

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@GigaBeers You fired first and now are asking questions?

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@EricLDaugh Billions of dollars stolen!
Millions of views worldwide!
Thousands of fraudsters caught!
One young intrepid activist journalist!
Hey @grok how many convictions?

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@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Can Optimus give a 100Kg human piggy back rides? If so how far?

[Daniel Colascione @dcolascione]

Lenovo has replaced the right control key on their otherwise-pretty-nice latest X1 Carbon (warranty replacement) with a copilot key. Fine. I won't begrudge some Microsoft PM "AI impact" in his self-review. But know what I do begrudge? The scancodes, plural.

See, the copilot key is defined to emit not only a new scancode (0x6e), understood as F23 key (which archeologists believed wasn't a real key, but a legendary signifier of excess), but also left shift and left meta (Windows key). When you type the copilot key, the PC firmware sends the machine left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up.

That's a problem for remapping the copilot key back to right-control though. Even if we interpret 0x6e as right-control, we get a bunch of other modifiers we don't need along with, a press of copilot-r gets read as control-meta-shift-r, which is not what I want.

Why did they do this? I have no idea. 0x6e by itself would have sufficed to identify the new key. All the other neokeys that seemed like good ideas at the time got normal scancodes. F23 would have been fine. The scancode 0x6e is so uncommon Linux had to be patched to recognize it.

I'm determined to have a right control key, however, so now I run keyd to present a fake virtual keyboard to Wayland. Whenever it sees a left-shift-down or left-meta-down, it waits a few milliseconds to see whether an F23 has arrived. If it has, it synthesizes a right-control press. If it hasn't, it forwards the modifier presses.

Now there's a whole new stage in the input processing pipeline, and extra input latency, that exists solely because AI is so special that it demands not only a new key, but for that ceremonial key to be carried on a litter of modifier bits as it parades into the OS and commands that inference happen now.

[Trevor Bruford @tsbruford]

The Krafts just like the Spanos and many other owners make it purely transactional. Professionalism has nothing to do with it. Plenty of extremely professional people have passion for the organizations they worked for, but when ownership shows their hand with greed, it becomes transactional.

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@DataRepublican @megbasham 💯 all day everyday for the last 15 years.

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@Mishi_2210 51181

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This is written by people who think the tech in a Tesla sucks.
The GSA was indeed futuristic and cool… in 1982… maybe even through 1992.

[Hagerty UK @HagertyUK]

How can a car from 1982 still look SO futuristic today? 😍

Love this onboard from @classic_car_glo

Citroen GSA 1982 - Sometimes the best way to unwind is a quiet drive with no destination in mind. A 1982 Citroën GSA gliding through the streets.

[Trevor Bruford @tsbruford]

@PicturesFoIder Shitty hacks continue through 2026

[Jimmy Carr @jimmycarr]

Jimmy's proudest moment?

Watch more: https://t.co/Q80RHJvU3S

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SNA gate assignments make flying to this airport way worse than it should ever be.

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@judsonsprinkler This is going to be some Nathan For You redemption scheme I can see it now 😝

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@judsonsprinkler Ok I’m in, but I’m pretty sure there are cheaper ways to get engagement. 🤣

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

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@stoolpresidente RIP Provo Dave