Nicolás Alvarez

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Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/nicolas09F9
LocationBuenos Aires, Argentina
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Nicolás Alvarez12h ago
Bridget12h ago
The untrustworthy AI agent you plugged into production systems without any safeguards that deleted important data didn’t “go rogue”, you’re just a dumbass
Nicolás AlvarezApr 21
Show threadBrian SwetlandApr 20
@dysfun @mntmn It is extremely disheartening how many people who I had respected have apparently utterly succumbed to "AI" brain worms.
Nicolás AlvarezApr 20
MacRumors.comApr 20
Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Taking Over https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/20/tim-cook-stepping-down/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Taking Over

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over, Apple...

MacRumors
Nicolás AlvarezApr 19
Nicolás AlvarezFeb 21
Reading this article again while waiting for Cargo to download its index https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.

Andrew Nesbitt
Show threadNicolás AlvarezApr 13

Okay, I uploaded the Artemis II stream to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/nasa-artemis-ii-primarystream

Will probably take hours for IA to process the file. And if a hundred people try to download from IA and it gets slow, well... that's why I posted a torrent :P

Nasa Artemis II Live Mission Coverage : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Internet Archive
Show threadNicolás AlvarezApr 13
Based on the number of likes/reposts vs number of actual downloads, I guess kids these days don't know how to use BitTorrent anymore. I'll try to upload it to Internet Archive but it will take a while.
Nicolás AlvarezApr 12

I saved the entire Artemis II video stream (60GB, 230 hours, 1080p) if anyone wants it.

Fire up your BitTorrent client and get this: https://data.nicolas17.xyz/NASA-ArtemisII-Live-Mission-Coverage-m3kR2KK8TEs.mkv.torrent

Nicolás AlvarezApr 10
RajApr 2

Apparently Vogue magazine is suing a dog-fashion magazine called Dogue: https://people.com/vogue-publisher-conde-nast-suing-parody-dog-fashion-magazine-dogue-11930022

Dogue has a circulation of < 100 and is free online. Also, it's about dogs. Having read the latest issue, it's also absolutely adorable. I'm happy to help Streisand this nonsense: https://thedoguemagazine.com/

Nicolás AlvarezApr 10
GlyphApr 9

“These apps will win awards at the next all-hands. In two years they’ll be unmaintainable tech debt some poor soul inherits and rewrites from scratch.”

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo
Show threadNicolás AlvarezApr 10
After dealing with several technical issues playing YouTube on my Raspberry Pi 1, my plan to leave the Artemis stream playing on the old CRT TV at the bar was ultimately defeated by another group taking the table in front of the TV before us nerds arrived. Oh well.