Nicolás Alvarez
@nicolas17.xyz
Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit. Argentina 🇦🇷
All Cats Are Babies <3
January 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM
All Cats Are Babies <3
@freya.bsky.social neat!
📢 v1.114 is rolling out!
Today, we're expanding access to the Live Now beta to everyone.
This experimental feature lets you add a temporary LIVE badge to your avatar, helping others discover that you're currently live-streaming on Twitch. They can click it to land directly on your stream page.
Today, we're expanding access to the Live Now beta to everyone.
This experimental feature lets you add a temporary LIVE badge to your avatar, helping others discover that you're currently live-streaming on Twitch. They can click it to land directly on your stream page.
January 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
@freya.bsky.social neat!
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We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.
@lookitup.baby a friend just sent this news
"25% tariff on imported semiconductors that are not used domestically"
and commented "does this achieve, like.... literally anything except making digikey and mouser lose half their european customers?"
"25% tariff on imported semiconductors that are not used domestically"
and commented "does this achieve, like.... literally anything except making digikey and mouser lose half their european customers?"
Live updates: Senate rejects Venezuela war powers resolution as 2 Republicans flip
The Senate sidelined a war powers resolution that would have checked President Donald Trump's ability to carry out further military attacks on Venezuela.
apnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
@lookitup.baby a friend just sent this news
"25% tariff on imported semiconductors that are not used domestically"
and commented "does this achieve, like.... literally anything except making digikey and mouser lose half their european customers?"
"25% tariff on imported semiconductors that are not used domestically"
and commented "does this achieve, like.... literally anything except making digikey and mouser lose half their european customers?"
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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like, i think it’s telling that they have a rule for ‘stop telling people not to use LLMs’ but no rule for ‘stop telling people to use LLMs’
i could understand having both rules, but if your goal is to ‘accommodate different choices’ then surely LLM proselytisation is equally disruptive at work
i could understand having both rules, but if your goal is to ‘accommodate different choices’ then surely LLM proselytisation is equally disruptive at work
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
like, i think it’s telling that they have a rule for ‘stop telling people not to use LLMs’ but no rule for ‘stop telling people to use LLMs’
i could understand having both rules, but if your goal is to ‘accommodate different choices’ then surely LLM proselytisation is equally disruptive at work
i could understand having both rules, but if your goal is to ‘accommodate different choices’ then surely LLM proselytisation is equally disruptive at work
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"LLM shaming" spare me. 🙄 Tech dipshits trying to 'it's actually a form of bigotry to not like LLM slop.'
January 10, 2026 at 10:02 PM
"LLM shaming" spare me. 🙄 Tech dipshits trying to 'it's actually a form of bigotry to not like LLM slop.'
Just got rickrolled by the restaurant smh
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Just got rickrolled by the restaurant smh
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I was about to take a picture of my foster kitty Sullivan’s toe beans when he stretched a biiiig stretchy all the way to his toes.
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I was about to take a picture of my foster kitty Sullivan’s toe beans when he stretched a biiiig stretchy all the way to his toes.
@lookitup.baby taking the kitty to see the auroras www.instagram.com/hai_tang01/r...
Hai Tang on Instagram: "Finally Haitang and I saw the great aurora outburst in the Arctic—cat’s world tour.终于我跟海棠在北极看到了极光大爆发（2）"
29K likes, 429 comments - hai_tang01 on December 27, 2025: "Finally Haitang and I saw the great aurora outburst in the Arctic—cat’s world tour.终于我跟海棠在北极看到了极光大爆发（2）".
www.instagram.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
@lookitup.baby taking the kitty to see the auroras www.instagram.com/hai_tang01/r...
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the same box does both and he is funding it. i don't find "the spam machine may be destroying the internet and chewing at the edges of what makes life worth living, but it helps me resolve a merge conflict ten seconds faster, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not" especially compelling
January 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
the same box does both and he is funding it. i don't find "the spam machine may be destroying the internet and chewing at the edges of what makes life worth living, but it helps me resolve a merge conflict ten seconds faster, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not" especially compelling
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Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
"each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best"
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
"each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best"
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The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.
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Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
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Am in that dark bit.
Still on year-end/new years holidays.
I pop into work twice a week to shake inks and do maintenance cycles on printers so they start up smoothly - takes about an hour each time.
Print shop aircon is *FIERCE*
think I'll stay here a few hours extra just sitting!
Still on year-end/new years holidays.
I pop into work twice a week to shake inks and do maintenance cycles on printers so they start up smoothly - takes about an hour each time.
Print shop aircon is *FIERCE*
think I'll stay here a few hours extra just sitting!
January 8, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Am in that dark bit.
Still on year-end/new years holidays.
I pop into work twice a week to shake inks and do maintenance cycles on printers so they start up smoothly - takes about an hour each time.
Print shop aircon is *FIERCE*
think I'll stay here a few hours extra just sitting!
Still on year-end/new years holidays.
I pop into work twice a week to shake inks and do maintenance cycles on printers so they start up smoothly - takes about an hour each time.
Print shop aircon is *FIERCE*
think I'll stay here a few hours extra just sitting!
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Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.
@nanoraptor.danamania.com image-edit shitpost idea: Apple AirTags attached to earrings, labeled "EarTags"
January 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
@nanoraptor.danamania.com image-edit shitpost idea: Apple AirTags attached to earrings, labeled "EarTags"
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“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 PM
“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
“oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X