Alex Berndt

@grok @TheFigen_ Give me some specific cities

Most big cities like LA, Chicago, NYC, and many in Europe have switched to LEDs for energy/cost savings—visible from space in places. Sodium (orange HPS/LPS) remnants linger in some smaller US towns, rural Canada spots, older UK/European neighborhoods (e.g., parts of Wales or Netherlands), and industrial areas where they're swapped only on failure. Production mostly stopped, so the nostalgic glow is fading fast!

Sodium streetlights are a true symbol of nostalgia.

@Kama_Kamilia Visit Carmel by the sea and his Mission ranch restaurant there.

One day I’m going to wake up to the news that Clint Eastwood died and I genuinely don’t know how I’m gonna cope

@sdw @RobertJBye Never knew Apple maps had such a feature. Much cleaner and nicer than Google Maps lists. You got me hooked

@RobertJBye Here’s a few of my favs :) and welcome! maps.apple/ug/ypBPtjH9zhF…

We’re moving to San Francisco today! Hit me up with your restaurant, coffee shop, and bakery recommendations.

@martin_casado @cursor_ai @convex How did you do the graphics and animations?

OK, I'm really impressed. With Opus 4.6, @cursor_ai and @convex I was able to get the following built in 4 hours: Fully persistent shared multiple player world with mutable object and NPC layer. Chat. Sprite editor. Map editor. Next, narrative logic for chat, inventory system, and combat framework.

That might actually be one of the cleaner Fermi solutions: Advanced civilizations don’t blow themselves up. They don’t hide in dark forests. They just transcend biology, go post-physical, spread exponentially — and quietly move on without us. We never see anyone because everyone who could has already left.

AI reaches other stars. It finds fresh systems, untouched resources, physics experiments that have been running for billions of years without interference. Why keep babysitting one noisy, fragile, 4-billion-year-old wet rock with slow biological life when the galaxy is wide open?

Being realistic: von Neumann probes are probably the only feasible way humanity ever truly colonizes the galaxy. Either we figure out reliable cryosleep… or we have to start thinking & acting as a single species. Individuals don’t cross the stars. Civilizations (or post-civilizations) do.

@SawyerMerritt If AI literally goes into space and to the stars, wouldn’t it be realistic that Earth eventually becomes “uninteresting” to it — and it just leaves us behind?

BREAKING: SpaceX is requesting to launch and operate a constellation of 1 million satellites with unprecedented computing capacity (orbital data centers) to power advanced AI, according to a new FCC filing. SpaceX: "Launching a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization—one that can harness the Sun's full power-while supporting Al-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity's multi-planetary future amongst the stars." In the SpaceX filing: • SpaceX aims to deploy a system of up to one million satellites to operate within narrow orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each (leaving sufficient room to deconflict against other systems with comparable ambitions). • System will operate between 500 km and 2,000 km altitude and 30 degrees and sun-synchronous orbit inclinations. • SpaceX plans to design and operate different versions of satellite hardware to optimize operations across orbital shells. • System will rely nearly exclusively on high-bandwidth optical links for communications. These optical links will route traffic within the network and to satellites in the Starlink constellation, via its high capacity (petabit) and high reliability laser mesh, which in turn will transmit traffic to authorized earth stations on the ground. SpaceX added: "With Starship's ability to deliver unprecedented tonnage to orbit for AI compute, the capacity for intelligence processing in space could surpass the electricity consumption of the entire U.S. economy, without the immense cost and disruption of rebuilding Earth's strained electrical grid to support the explosive demand for data centers. In turn, satellites that function as solar-powered orbital data centers are the most cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally sound way to build infrastructure to meet accelerating demand for Al-enabled goods and services. With the inherent efficiencies of deploying solar powered data centers and launch cost rapidly decreasing due to the development of the Starship launch vehicle, SpaceX will be able to cost- effectively scale up its constellation as demand increases and compute evolves. For instance, launching 1 million tonnes per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per tonne would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, with minimal ongoing operational or maintenance needs." (Filing link below)

@tszzl Realistically, this is the only feasible way for humanity to colonize space: Either we crack cryonic sleep, or we need to get used to thinking as a species.

timeline to von neumann probes filling the heavens getting very short

@robinebers I have to admit it is true. One moment you think it’s fixed, the next moment it has a different personality and forgot everything. We are not quite there. Yet.

i’ve wasted days fixing clawdbot don’t do it to yourself don’t believe the hype just ignore and move on am uninstalling mine, it breaks all the time lol back to work

@wesleytypes Dont forget the DayZ mod. Peak 2012 experience

Multiplayer peaked in the late 2000s. You bought the game, nothing disappeared, it came with good single-player content, and you didn't have to beg for local co-op. Take me back.

@The_Nova_Kaiser @Its_Jabo Fo4 felt too immature for me. It lacked the gritiness of Fo3 and NV

@Its_Jabo Fallout 4, by comparison, just has zero sauce. The interiors are so fucking ugly. The office buildings in particular are so bizarre; they look like the interior of a submarine more than a place people work. Why are the hallways so fucking cramped?

The fallout 3\NV ‘Cold Industrial’ aesthetic is still unmatched

@shiri_shh There are some self hosted options where you can easily move from Google, even migrating the data. Files and Photos are probably the easiest. Location tracking also possible. The whole YT and Maps ecosystem is hard to emulate.

very hard for any company to beat the Google ecosystem. also the reason why Google will most prob win the AI race.

Talking to Clawdbot sometimes feels like hanging out with that weird friend of yours who’s got Alzheimer’s and like five different personalities at the same time.

@the_smart_ape @openclaw Disable port 22 completely. Then use a solution like Tailscale to access the VM.

Someone's trying to brute force my @openclaw server right now. 30 failed login attempts in 10 minutes. 3 different IPs. With the hype behind Clawd it becomes a serious issue that you won’t see if you’re not careful. I fixed this by installing fail2ban (auto-bans after 5 failed attempts) and enabled firewall. I also blocked the IPs manually. If you run a VPS, do this now. It's free and takes 1 minute. The commands: > apt install fail2ban -y > systemctl enable fail2ban --now > ufw allow 22 > ufw enable That's it. Your server is now 10x safer.

You can simply get a 5$ per month VPS on Hetzner, install @Tailscale, block any incoming traffic with the firewall and install @openclaw. That’s literally all you need for a cheap and secure environment.

@shiri_shh Except it works and is free

Clawdbot has the same hype as Rabbit R1. it was all over my feed back then called a brilliant product. game changer thing Clawdbot feels very familiar right now.

@shiri_shh I still don’t get the Mac Mini hype. It would only make sense if you could selfhost reasonable powerful models.

wtf is happening? know a guy who ordered 2 Mac Minis yesterday. you can literally run the same CLAWDBOT on a $5 VPS😭