Patrick Hubbard
@ferventgeek.com
Automation & AIOps pragmatist, pilot, reluctant tech marketeur. Currently ScienceLogic, fmr SolarWinds, Sun, AA ✈️, opinionated but not like Go.
Answer: Because that’s what it does. I’ll miss my Fitbit soon, me thinks.
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Google Discontinued Its Nest Brand - Here's Why - BGR
Google Nest is essentially discontinued, and smart home users will begin hearing less and less about it. We'll explain what you need to know.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Answer: Because that’s what it does. I’ll miss my Fitbit soon, me thinks.
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6 of 8 neighbors in my cul-de-sac dumped Spectrum for gFiber in the *first 4 days* it went live. There are dozens of contractor cars swarming the surrounding neighborhoods. It's an incumbent churn bloodbath unlike any infrastructure adoption I've ever seen.
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
6 of 8 neighbors in my cul-de-sac dumped Spectrum for gFiber in the *first 4 days* it went live. There are dozens of contractor cars swarming the surrounding neighborhoods. It's an incumbent churn bloodbath unlike any infrastructure adoption I've ever seen.
Running your Unifi Controller app under portainer.io on a Raspberry Pi makes upgrades a three-click affair. With linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest as your image, click "Recreate" on the container menu, check the "Re-pull image" option on the confirm dialog, and that's it. Done in 30 secs.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Running your Unifi Controller app under portainer.io on a Raspberry Pi makes upgrades a three-click affair. With linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest as your image, click "Recreate" on the container menu, check the "Re-pull image" option on the confirm dialog, and that's it. Done in 30 secs.
Ignore the Temu iPhone at the open, but the design language gag makes for a funny Duet short. Thanks, interwebs. (16 Pro here)
youtube.com/short T/qabaXO1IgBE
youtube.com/short T/qabaXO1IgBE
The new IPhone 17 pro Max looks weird 😳😳 #iphone17 #iphone16 #apple #iphone
YouTube video by Beepy Zoe Live 🎮
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September 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ignore the Temu iPhone at the open, but the design language gag makes for a funny Duet short. Thanks, interwebs. (16 Pro here)
youtube.com/short T/qabaXO1IgBE
youtube.com/short T/qabaXO1IgBE
The enshittification of search marches on. Check my EV for a loose gas cap, Roger.
September 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The enshittification of search marches on. Check my EV for a loose gas cap, Roger.
Well that was a nice little Lancer (B-1) Austin flyover. GE F101 quartet, no reheat. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Well that was a nice little Lancer (B-1) Austin flyover. GE F101 quartet, no reheat. www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
AI enshittification may break the attention stranglehold of media, social and otherwise. They can’t help themselves destroy their own platforms following dreams of empty desks. That, or AI knows we need to go outside.
September 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
AI enshittification may break the attention stranglehold of media, social and otherwise. They can’t help themselves destroy their own platforms following dreams of empty desks. That, or AI knows we need to go outside.
Google Fiber watch, day 3,752. Bootstrappy neighbor identifying missing box work to complete the conduit. After this they blow the fiber down the conduits.
August 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Google Fiber watch, day 3,752. Bootstrappy neighbor identifying missing box work to complete the conduit. After this they blow the fiber down the conduits.
Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary.
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...
Doctor’s waiting room hack? The least comfortable looking seat also gets the least traffic.
July 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Doctor’s waiting room hack? The least comfortable looking seat also gets the least traffic.
P. Terry’s in Austin is sending today’s profits to Texas flood relief. And there’s a line around the block. Great to see- thanks everyone helping in whatever way you can. www.statesman.com/story/entert...
P. Terry's, Kerbey Lane to donate 100% of Thursday profits to Texas flood relief. See list
Central Texas continues to reel from the devastating impact of recent floods. In these challenging times, the spirit of Austin shines through as …
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July 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
P. Terry’s in Austin is sending today’s profits to Texas flood relief. And there’s a line around the block. Great to see- thanks everyone helping in whatever way you can. www.statesman.com/story/entert...
Blaming GPT conditioning: I just used an em dash in a text message.
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Blaming GPT conditioning: I just used an em dash in a text message.
FTA: "Building God is an expensive and exhausting business" gizmodo.com/openai-repor...
OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent
An employee's public lament over poached colleagues and a company-wide shutdown reveal a difficult truth: the human cost of building AI is reaching a breaking point.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
FTA: "Building God is an expensive and exhausting business" gizmodo.com/openai-repor...
Blackberry's last device was in 2018? Hmh.
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BlackBerry Key2 - Wikipedia
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July 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Blackberry's last device was in 2018? Hmh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBe...
Point of sale has irrupted
June 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Point of sale has irrupted
When AI builds your plane. What even is this?
June 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
When AI builds your plane. What even is this?
At least GPT pretends to understand.. to be more likeable.
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
At least GPT pretends to understand.. to be more likeable.
TLDR; AI-train drones to recognize targets, pack them in custom, remote-opening containers, drive flatbeds 4500km, park near targets, click run back home. Defense is about to get interesting. (link, state media, purported pics) united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Inside Ukraine's AI-Drone Strike That Cost Russia $7 Billion and a Third of Its Bomber Jets
Ukraine's SBU conducted a sophisticated operation against Russian airbases, targeting strategic bombers from over 4,500 km away using AI-driven drones.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
TLDR; AI-train drones to recognize targets, pack them in custom, remote-opening containers, drive flatbeds 4500km, park near targets, click run back home. Defense is about to get interesting. (link, state media, purported pics) united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Late-stage Austinism.
May 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Late-stage Austinism.
Just jailbroke or at least escaped the topics guardrails of a virtual assistant on an ecomm site. Is the future social engineering your way in via enterprise chatbots?
May 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just jailbroke or at least escaped the topics guardrails of a virtual assistant on an ecomm site. Is the future social engineering your way in via enterprise chatbots?
Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland
May 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland
ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂
May 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂