Mastodawn

ICYMI, all of the arguments the mobile duopolists make to justify their chokehold over mobile software are bullshit, starting with security. Cutting off side loading furthers the coverup of native app insecurity:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/#the-security-argument

MADA hijinks (look it up), nerfing PWAs in Play, and failure to open up WebAPKs is a funhouse mirror of Apple's anti-web strategy.

Portability and interoperability are the duopolist's enemies, so a safe, powerful web is kryptonite.

/cc @owa @pluralistic

Naked Power

Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.

Alex Russell

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Alex Grant 5d ago

@zachleat

Endless fumbling around with plugs and sockets is cumbersome, too. We just put the live wires right next to the sink.

Alex Grant Mar 14

Alex Russell Mar 14

I'm seeing the active de-skilling happen in corners that were somewhat insulated from previous episodes of "yolo, what is an engineering?" (e.g., widescale adoption of React), but it's much more intense in the communities that already decided that evidence isn't an epistemic requirement.

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220372835116642

Alex Grant Mar 12

#lmstudio model loading panel has an extremely useful and time saving interface that shows you an estimate of the effective memory usage based on your model runtime parameter settings.

Great tool 🙏

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Alex Grant Mar 7

@slightlyoff

That's nothing:

Look what happens when the US military plans wars with AI.

"Grok, plan a war with Iran that costs the least amount of money and the least number of troops..."

I appreciate there's software disasters, but that seems like the least of our problems.

@nolan

Alex Grant Mar 2

Qwen35 is very very good.

Quantizer accounts with models you can run:
Bartowski and unsloth

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Alex Grant Feb 26

@JesseSkinner

If you add a timer (roundtrip a timestamp, check for minimum human time) you'll never get spam again.

Alex Grant Feb 25

Cloudflare is broken

Alex Grant Feb 25

Alex Russell Feb 24

If you've ever wondered why every brand in the world makes you download 50+ MB of gunk just to interact with them on your phone, give this brilliantly clear explanation by Alex Moore of @owa and @kateholterhoff of @redmonk a listen:

https://youtu.be/EOT0w7EwkVI?si=_fNa1Scqzdq-1qaK