Dan Lyke 23:32:09+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

We, humans, are already an attack surface, "social engineering" is the most effective compromise. LLMs allow others to leverage that attack surface.

Dan Lyke 21:58:58+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2417,-122.643)

Petition to turn this sculpture garden into a ropes course...

Dan Lyke 20:28:57+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

This is a lot, but it's important: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. Prosecute ICE is the centrist position. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/

Dan Lyke 20:08:57+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

With the Super Bowl, and with The Olympics, there have been a number of comments trying to separate dunking on the politics of the games from dunking on sport. And I have some dark dark news for you about what sport is and how the rules are created to support particular social structures.

Dan Lyke 20:01:28+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

So say you have an old power wheelchair chassis that you wanna hack into some sort of set of vehicles, that probably aren't gonna get used all that much. What's the best technology for 24v of battery to play with? Probably just a pair of deep cycle lead acid batteries, huh?

Dan Lyke 00:57:32+0000 (2026-02-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Spent the morning fighting with Gemini CLI to get it to do what I asked. As I see people talk about how productive they are with LLM code generation, I'm mostly struck by how overly complex we've made software development, and how it's been made inaccessible to people that should be finding it easy.