Les Orchard <[email protected]>

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  • 3 hours ago OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour | entropytown
    It is tempting to describe OpenClaw as a breakthrough in autonomy. That gives it slightly too much credit. The fantasy it sold was not subtle. Give the machine a goal, leave it alone, and return to discover that it has not merely completed a task but conducted a small campaign on your behalf. In the most vulgar version, the goal is simply to make money. So the demo feed fills with the same intoxicating little story: the agent notices a pain point, writes the code, wires up payments, deploys the thing, posts the link and begins, as if by administrative sorcery, to earn while its owner sleeps.
  • 2 days ago Your Phone is an Entire Computer
    Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.
  • 2 days ago “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
    This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.
  • 2 days ago Pivot to AI – It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
    It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
  • 2 days ago Silicon Valley Abuzz About Adding AI Compute to Engineer Compensation - Business Insider
    With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.
  • 2 days ago Digg - People. Places. Things.
    Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.
  • 3 days ago Portland Urban Coyote Project - Home
    At the Portland Urban Coyote Project, we seek to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.
  • 5 days ago About - Terminal Trove
    Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
  • 5 days ago Hi, would you like to talk about plants?
    The more intense my work and this political landscape has gotten, the stronger my urge to run away to the woods forever had become. But, as I said in my recent post, I’m not going anywhere. And when I decided that I wasn’t going anywhere, I also knew that I would then need to make my home more of the type of space I need to maintain some level of peace in my life. So I decided to build a garden.
  • 5 days ago Reset your GeekDesk · Todd Rafferty's Blog
    I have a GeekDesk, every now and then the display says «rSt» – I keep having to look up the PDF to find the reset instructions, so here they are: Initial System Reset / Reset Procedure Step 1: Hold down the “Down” button to lower the desktop until the desktop stops. Step 2: Let go of the “Down” button. Step 3: Hold down the “Down” button again for about 5 seconds.
  • 5 days ago Advice on broken GeekDesk V3? : r/StandingDesk
    Initial System Reset / Reset Procedure Step 1: Hold down the “Down” button to lower the desktop until the desktop stops. Step 2: Let go of the “Down” button. Step 3: Hold down the “Down” button again for about 5 seconds.
  • 5 days ago Build your retro library - 8bitcn/ui
    A set of 8-bit styled components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.

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  • 2 days ago
    D'oh, the new digg didn't last too long. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team." https://digg.com/
  • 2 days ago
    Stuck in my head today: Frank Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ2qi9KfEZ8
  • 2 days ago
    I keep getting sent job postings for Senior Electrical Engineer jobs, which don't apply to me, except sometimes I think maybe I need to change careers
  • 2 days ago
    RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@pikhq/116223422649983047 I still want that "Move Slow and Fix Things" tattoo.
  • 3 days ago
    "Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/
  • 3 days ago
    Keep hearing coyotes in my neighborhood. That's disconcerting kinda, if only because I worry about the outdoor cats #pdx
  • 4 days ago
    Drunk post: The Bangles
  • 5 days ago
    Apparently, recent revisions of ChatGPT have gotten obsessed with gremlins and goblins. I don't hate this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319285
  • 6 days ago
    Welp, I finally got around to soldering in a replacement pot on my Tempest PCB. The adapter blocks work great! Just turns out I used a 200 ohm pot in this spot where a 10k ohm pot is needed. Glad I didn't go ahead and replace all the other pots already 😅 Back to digikey for another order
  • 1 week ago
    Every time I see a wildlife video about cheetahs, I want to pet one
  • 1 week ago
    It was nice and sunny in California but my moleman eyes are glad to be back in cloudy Oregon #pdx #pdxtst
  • 1 week ago
    Since rides and cabs have been long waits all week, i thought i'd be smart and order one before I got down to the lobby from my hotel room. Turns out they were RIGHT THERE ALREADY and I managed to get to the car with 20 seconds to spare

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