Today's work: adding a pagination option to the Bsky app, to not doom scroll.
Has anyone else found that Opus 5 is having more stupidly in the last few days? Or just me and @dbsmasher.com? It really went from a well reasoning system to spewing nonsense and having to correct itself A LOT in a weekend.
One day we'll get a band back together. I'm just not sure which one. But definitely one of them.
Post incident review: "And in hindsight, that 10x markup on services was supposed to be a multiplier, not an exponent. We're going to add a test to catch if it happens again."
Justin Garrison@justingarrison.com · last mo.AWS emailing customers they owe $7T
The saddest sight today was the look on the England fans' faces wen Argentina scored their second goal.
Capturing a great, complete image of the Veil Nebula complex is my one mission for this winter. This is a single 5 minute sub of the O-iii emissions of the West Veil Nebula. I'm going to need at least 20 hours of this, and another 30+ hours of various other emissions and colour bands...
"I regretted it immediately" - @dbsmasher.com , talking about something engineering, really could have be anything on a day ending in "Y".
Clacton, you have the opportunity to do something incredibly funny. Do not squander this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Clacton byelection likely to take place on 6 August – as it happened
Count Binface to be one of few challengers to Nigel Farage as major parties boycott contest
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When will people learn what trust boundaries are? You cannot have the same instance of an agent accessing things in two different security boundaries. In the worst case here you may need a completely separate instance of the agent for every private repo an org has. noma.security/blog/gitlost...
GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security
TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by pos...
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I have a Keychron Q6 Max keyboard which needs to go into my will to be bequeathed to a child in the future. But how do you decide which child gets it??
New achievement! RTFM as a Service! You found the documentation all by yourself. Don't you just feel like such a big kid now? Keep at it little one! At this rate you might be able to apply the docs one day too! I wouldn't count on it though. Reward... You've received a bronze I Can Read Now Box!
New achievement! Your Blueprint Is A Brownprint! Your idea was so bad we printed it off and used it as toilet paper! Reward... No reward! Rewards are for ideas that don't suck!
Engineer: This is why we invented load balancers. Engineer: The royal "we". I wasn't there. CTO: I was..
Me: They have all of the building blocks, but none of the glue. Putting them together is a shitshow. CTO: Like putting a home depot sign on a forest.
www.dezeen.com/2026/06/04/l... This LEGO set has over 12,000 pieces. And like the actual Sagrada Familia, it may take you 146 years to complete.
Lego reveals Sagrada Familia set to celebrate Gaudí centenary
Launched to mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death, the Sagrada Familia set is the largest ever created by toy brand Lego.
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And simon writes for the guardian
It just took me 10 minutes to buy Sudafed in this country. It would have been faster to find a meth dealer and get it from them
There are at least THREE ironies in this news feed snippet. AI writing about AI. AI saying what it's written may not be factual and you shouldn't trust it. And then AI mentioning human error in the context of air travel like it's not heard of decades of research on this topic.
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days Saturday, Sunday, Happy Days Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days Wednesday, Thursday, Happy Days Friday, Saturday, Happy Days Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days...
Friend: ah fuck, I'm an SRE @dbsmasher.com: We don’t choose the game. The game chooses us. Never in the history of "help, I've fallen into SRE" has there been as clear an answer on why this happens.
@nytguildtech.bsky.social Hey folks Can you help me understand why your games app, when I only played it for 20 minutes yesterday morning, continues to run in the background and use 10% of my total battery? As a percentage of my battery use, it's half the combined total of all apps. Pls help!
Maybe the best thing on the internet at the moment: * An AI PR pitching platform has confused Kyle Kingsbury, MMA fighter and podcast host with Kyle Kingsbury, software engineer and gay leather man * Good Kyle decided to start a podcast where he interviews confused manosphere influencers
The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast Podcast - Epsiode 02 Dave Rossi
YouTube video by Aphyr Null
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Goose: WHAT ALGORITHM Goose, pursuing: WHAT ALGORITHM, KENNEDY
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4mo agoFox News: "If you only watch one side or you only watch the other, you were doing great harm to yourself by not exposing yourself to more viewpoints. Well, take that and multiply it by a thousand. You know, that's what targeted algorithms do on platforms like Bluesky..." This whole clip is amazing.
What happened to this company is awful. There's another side to this though which I want to discuss. It relates to a story from my own past and there are lessons to be learned for the next few months and years. twitter-thread.com/t/2048103471... Back in 2008 I was doing some consulting work...
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. by @lifeof_jer(JER) | Twitter Thread Reader
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. A 30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's API, and an industry that markets AI safety faster than it ships it took d...
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Go watch Project Hail Mary. If you can get an early screening before the main release next week, go. GO NOW.