George K

@GeKalash
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Petition to ban noreply@ being used for sending emails. If your company can email me, the least you can do is make it easy for me to email you back.
📐Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0! 🎉 A stable API for process-level monitoring on Linux and macOS. Add it to your service in a few lines, plug into Prometheus or OTel, and start visualizing in Grafana. Contributions welcome! https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-system-metrics-1.0-released/
Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/voxtral-2/
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound

Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …

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This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.

Fair play to Minneapolis. This is the fight back the whole US needs.

#Minneapolis #generalStrike #fuckICE #MinneapolisProtests

Mac tip: If you can’t remember where a command is in the menu bar:
❶ Use Shift+⌘+/ (question mark) to get the Help menu.
❷ Type a few letters until you see the command you want.
❸ Arrow down to it and trigger with Return.
➜ You also get to see where the command is located for the next time.
#macOS
What asshat decided that user name and password should now always be on separate pages? How does this make anything better? Fuck you.
Merriam-Webster out here doing the lord's work.
⚙️ Swift Configuration 1.0 is here! 🎉 No more juggling environment variables, config files, and command-line flags separately. One unified, type-safe API to read configuration from any source, and swap providers without refactoring your code. More here... https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-configuration-1.0-released/