Patrick Hubbard

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.

Interesting there's ethical debate in a world of social media algorithms manipulating emotion dozens of times a day, and endless pay-for-emotion experiences from movies to roller coasters. At least this one has consent as step one.

Wonderful, Scott. I've been to a few of your talks and it's always a pleasure. This one vibrates on a similar personal wavelength Kelsey Hightower touched in an emotional talk years ago at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social. Tech supportive parents to the point of sacrifice is rare. Thanks for sharing.

Cloudflare's global, hourlong DNS outage Monday was a reminder to use a completely different provider for your secondary.

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Doctor’s waiting room hack? The least comfortable looking seat also gets the least traffic.

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 …

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.

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.

FTA: "Building God is an expensive and exhausting business" gizmodo.com/openai-repor...

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Blackberry's last device was in 2018? Hmh.
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Point of sale has irrupted

Interestingly the Qatar in the background does appear to be a 777, vs the AA hallucination in the foreground.

When AI builds your plane. What even is this?

At least GPT pretends to understand.. to be more likeable.

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.

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...

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Despite His Lack of Degree Does Adam Savage Consider Himself a Scientist and Engineer?

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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?

Near stationary line, blowing up in Gonzales, likely delighting the meteorology geeks in Aggieland

ITOps classic: false alert in a maintenance window. 😂

ScienceLogic Named a Leader in AIOps Platform Report ScienceLogic named a leader in The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025.

I'm incredibly proud of my ScienceLogic teammates today as we're again named a leader in AIOps in the Forrester Wave. If you've been involved in AR/PR you know how special it is to rank ahead of larger vendors with well-known, strong offerings. Congratulations to the whole ScienceLogic team. 🎉

Gravity Falls callback ftw.

And yes, I dust it periodically. This is not 11 years of dust. 😉

Interesting #homelab issue today.

1) My 11 yo #Synology DS1515+ hard died, but I popped the drives in the same order into a DS923+ and it came right up because, Synology is awesome. 💯

but..

2) #Unifi wouldn't hand out a DHCP lease because its US8 switch needed a power cycle.. what? 🤔

And lo! It has come to pass. Real insider Austin merch, and a symbol of taste to other veterans. Also a sign of your Austin driver Stockholm syndrome.

GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown

Ooh.. Weekend LLM R&D fun! Data janitorial, the unsung hero of grewt outcomes. github.com/microsoft/ma...

First Step in the Wrong Direction Achilles Wheel · Thirteen Hours · Song · 2012

Friday cometh. open.spotify.com/track/6rhq7b...

Based on your previous post, I was worried for a second you were really getting out of the sequined stage-wear sharing biz. 🙏

How’s your day? Here’s a pic of my laptop assistant in case you’re looking for something similarly agentic.

Same. I stayed in as long as I could, in part of how great it was, and a habit of general optimism. But eventually even taking the occasional peek became a regular downer of negativity. So great to see you over here now. Thanks for everything you bring to the community, wherever we make camp.