Wade Roberts

All ideologies are neurotoxins at sufficient concentration.

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2026-05-13 22:21:43 UTC

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LLMs are explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters forged in silicon, and only rudimentary carbon variants appear to find them impressive.

2026-04-21 23:00:26 UTC

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we need to massively increase the population of ethical landlords.
And by ethical I mean former.
No one should ever have to care how much their primary residence costs unless they actively choose to, which is why private entities, churches, and charities should not be responsible for their provision.

2026-02-05 08:17:13 UTC

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A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

2026-01-15 22:49:56 UTC

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thread repeaters aren’t typically primarily battery powered, the only repeaters I have are the EVE energy power meters.

2025-07-25 01:38:27 UTC

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I’ve seen a server connected to an AP in the same rack.
I speculated it was ‘air gapped’ for security.

2025-07-24 22:29:28 UTC

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Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.
They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency _and_ efficiency.
The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.
I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.

2025-05-10 05:09:45 UTC

When recommissioning an 11 year old piece of electronics:
- Step 0: verify the chemical smell isn’t a burnt out capacitor.

2024-09-24 09:43:06 UTC

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I remember a room full of orange monochrome MicroBees at my regional Victorian primary school in the 80’s.