Whyrl
whyrl@furry.engineer
<p>Three eagles in a trenchcoat.</p><p>wildlife volunteer | software engineer | former CTO</p><p>F1 fan | cat herder</p><p>FreeBSD | Perl | reformed C developer</p>
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*slaps roof of agent* This baby can generate so many bugs.
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Earthworks!
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BIG ROCK https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/huge-boulder-rolls-down-river-in-deadly-nepal-flash-floods-/107088928
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Oh no they designed the cargo door on the DC10 just like the 747
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Floof
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Remember the days of the old school yard? We used to bark a lot. Oh. Barkbarkbarkbark bark. Bark! Barkbark. Bark, bark. Bark?
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A microcomputer that fits on a single desk!
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There ought to be a Hierarchy of Troubleshooting/Debugging, with “PEBKAC” being the most likely culprit.
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UNIX and, like
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Ugh fidgety
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me: &quot;Why aren&#39;t my meds doing the thing?!&quot; my meds, still in the pillcase:
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Who requested logs?
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Pondering whether pairing maroon with lime green is a crime against art.
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🐝 🐝 🐝 https://wlos.com/news/local/truck-carrying-approximately-1-million-bees-crashes-in-knoxville-tennessee-north-carolina-mark-nagi-tennessee-north-carolina-knoxville-department-transportation-swarm-abuzz
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Q: What&#39;s the difference between LLMs and astrology? A: At least astrology had some thought behind it.
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*watching a flyover video of a completed highway section near Huntly, New Zealand* *notices the flood plain* me: Oh yeah. The Waikato River used to empty into Hauraki Gulf. me: I wonder when and where the river was diverted to its present course?
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I feel like the rest of the eagles in my trenchcoat are about to hit the one singing ‘Africa’ on loop with a brick.
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Trip planning
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Self employment sucks when your boss doesn&#39;t know what you should be doing.
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A more inclusive world would be nice, but I&#39;m not holding my breath. https://thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/the-world-is-laughing-at-us
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I wonder why DNS_NAT isn&#39;t used to connect private IPv4 networks to the public IPv6 internet.
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Three eagles flew past my house as I was making coffee.
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I feel like I&#39;ve appeased some trickster deity this week
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Aaaaaa I&#39;ve just watched a Youtube episode about AI and I need to info dump my Opinions! • GenAI is not The Next Big Thing; that&#39;s just hype and recency bias • LLMs are at the top of the curve; any improvements are diminishing returns • The entire AI industry is a house of cards and will vanish overnight once the bubble bursts • Neural networks are not magical and won&#39;t herald AGI • In fact we have no path to AGI based on our current (lack of) understanding of intelligen...
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Iran is threatening to destroy an AI data centre in Abu Dhabi. I really hope this is not an idle threat.
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God dammit I need to learn to draw
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LLMs may seem like magic, but they’re really a magic trick, AKA an illusion. There’s zero intelligence behind it. It’s merely a statistical probability trained on human text.
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Why the hell is my weather app asking for age verification??