Atomium, Brussels

Location of the 1958 World’s Fair

Noticed some surprising sewer gas smells around Brussels and that lead to some rabbit holes. Apparently the EU’s capital has the worst water in the world. 🤦‍♂️🤯 And Brussels dumps raw sewage into the river through the middle of the he city center.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3458-sewage-laden-belgian-water-worst-in-world/

Long weekend in Belgium. Did not bring my laptop! 🚫💻

When blue collar workers use forklifts to get a job done, no one yells “oh no do you know how much energy a forklift uses?”

But when white collar workers use powerful machines in data centers to do the same thing, it’s somehow a moral catastrophe.

Where is all the handwringing about forklifts?

Claude is down. Hard to say for sure, but I’m wagering a huge influx of new users.

Prediction: The Whitehouse will push data centers, TSCM, Nvidia etc to blacklist Anthropic, making OpenAI the only viable market option.

Result: The market winners are not the best ones. American AI loses its lead.

Claude is a little sluggish this morning. Influx of new users perhaps? 🤖

Trying to get a Pentagon GitHub experience?

I type faster than I speak.

I have a completely shaved, bald head. The only hair I have is a beard and mustache.

I’m in the kids pool with my daughter in Porto. And the lifeguard came over and told me I needed to put on a swim cap.

Oh, Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4wuiPeEQ

Worth a listen as a podcast (don’t need the video)

That’s a long commute.

That’s a lot of frequent flyer miles you’ll accrue though!

Fun fact: the stove pipe top hat was a clever way to get around Ryan Railways baggage charges.

Any reason not to use a BeeStation Plus as a Time Machine target?

And before you say it doesn’t have RAID, #RAIDisNotAbackup and my only use case is backing up.

With Rewind.ai having become Limitless and then acquired by Meta, are there any good alternatives?

Pro-tip: fly as a single man with a moderately polite child. It results in free snacks and booze from flight attendants, among other perks.

Looks like it’ll rain most of the time I’m in Montana.

Rain. In Montana. In December.

What does this even mean? Are Australians lightweights?

@gruber thought on CarPlay vs Android Auto: If a car has a weak or nonexistent infotainment platform, Android Auto is essential—even people who don’t care about their phones still want good maps and Spotify. Android Auto gives traditional cars those basics.

CarPlay, on the other hand, tends to matter most to iPhone users even when the vehicle already has solid built-in navigation and media apps. In those situations, CarPlay is a comfort and consistency preference for invested iPhone users.

DMA is going just great! 👍 🫠

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/06/iphone-apple-watch-wi-fi-sync-eu-ios/