“We've invented an automated Internet hacking system!” …years later… “Gee, maybe we shouldn't put our automated Internet hacking system on the Internet.” 🙄

Warner Crocker@warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h ago

I don’t know why this makes me laugh. But it does. Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet #AI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009286/anthropic-is-cutting-off-its-internal-evaluations-from-the-internet

Dear Fedi brain trust: How are we feeling about Hetzner these days? Hoping it's a reasonable alternative to Digital Ocean? Any other recommendations? I've heard about Gandi, but I'm not sure if I feel entirely sold on them as a VPS provider. (Also doesn't seem like they offer automated backups.)

*That's enough LinkedIn stupid for today* I mutter under my breath as I emphatically smash that ❌ button on my browser tab. 😀

$600 million for doing fuckin what??

Honk if you know what this means: Trumpism 2026 = NAR 🤝 TESCREAL

I need to write out a todo list for all the movies I wanna see in theaters which are just about Big Tech moguls! 😂 - [ ] The Social Reckoning (Zuck) - [ ] Musk (Musk) - [ ] You Can See Everything (Holmes) - [ ] Artificial (Altman)

You know how bad all of the cybersecurity epic fails have been coming from the frontier labs? It's probably much, much worse. We are truly in unhinged territory. And as per usual, the threat we must face isn't "agents gone rogue" but corporations run by […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

You know how bad all of the cybersecurity epic fails have been coming from the frontier labs? It's probably much, much worse. We are truly in unhinged territory. And as per usual, the threat we must face isn't "agents gone rogue" but corporations run by […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

At some point, Bridgetown will be one of only a tiny handful of web frameworks which has a strict no-LLM policy and *welcomes* handcoders. If you'd like to ensure projects like this survive (and I can keep working on them!), please consider donating and becoming a sponsor of Bridgetown. I've […]

This is all extremely disturbing. Perhaps though it'll provide some much needed publicity for the movement to abolish the death penalty. 🤞 https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2026/10/06/christa-pike-conscious-speaking-failed-execution/92125122007/

This has been one of my most anticipated movies of the year for some time. Really looking forward to its release.

I've cycled past the Clinton Street Pub so many times, yet this is the first time I've stopped to go inside…and come back out to the street plaza seating with a pint. Ah. It's nice. Especially on a sunny fall day like today. ☺️ #Portland #PDX #AutumnVibes

What a terrible legacy this man leaves behind. Perhaps Zaslav was a better CEO of WBD than Bob Chapek was of Disney during his woebegone tenure, but that's not saying much. All of my feelings about David Z. are best expressed in Coyote vs. Acme. And I think we all know who's the head of Acme […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117377492674436402 Where there's smoke, there's fire.

I'm completely done with the Gunnverse. Listen, I *loved* Superman. I thought it was really good. Then Supergirl came out, and because the reviews were so bad I didn't bother watching it. Peacemaker *never* clicked for me, I'm not interested in the show. (Sorry.) I hear Lanterns has been […]

Fantastic new café/workspace/hangout spot dropped in the Richmond District (SE Division St.) called Modhaus. It's co-located with a bunch of awesome food carts including Jojo (which makes the best fried chicken in #Portland. There, I said it). And because I can […] [Original post on pdx.social]

OK awesome! Signal is working great on iPad making video calls, which make it easy for me to talk with a podcast guest while I record my mic via my Linux box (and they record their mic.) I'd be a little less nervous if I could capture the raw two-way audio, just in case the "double-ender" […]

RE: https://mastox.eu/@BernieSanders/117367796635113761 Yep. Being a progressive in America today is just a regular mainstream position.

Spread the word! ☺️ https://no-sloptober.com #NoSloptober

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This October 2026 we challenge you to abstain from LLM based tools entirely. Think of this as a fast for your mind! This is not a judgement of others, but a personal challenge to you.

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The willingness of "smart" people to rush to use Dots or Muse or whenever these shitty systems are called now never ceases to confound me utterly.

I say all this because anyone who compares how humans learn and know things to how synthetic digital computer software "learns" and "knows" things, as if we can compare the two at all, is either wildly misinformed or willfully attempting to deceive you. I find this all so basically obvious that […]

I can also tell you how I personally learned things, where I learned them, and even who I learned them from. I have a history. Earlier today I walked by a closed building that used to be a Starbucks, and in that Starbucks several years ago I first heard “Everyone Else” by London Grammar. My […]

Now it's true that we all walk around with plenty of knowledge that we haven't experienced firsthand. We got the knowledge secondhand by reading books, watching videos, by people telling us stories, by learning about a topic in a systematic fashion, etc. But all of that is built upon an […]

I burned my hand on the stove. No I didn't, thankfully! But I've done it in the past. I know what it feels like, because I have a hand, I have nerves, and I have memory. I know it feels terrible and to avoid it. I also know what someone else is going through if they have that unpleasant […]

I burned my hand on the stove. No I didn't, thankfully! But I've done it in the past. I know what it feels like, because I have a hand, I have nerves, and I have memory. I know it feels terrible and to avoid it. I also know what someone else is going through if they have that unpleasant […]

Took the Blue Line out to #HillsboroOregon for a bit of nostalgia. 😊 Today marks the 9 year anniversary of me & my family moving to #Oregon …and although we'd thought about settling in Beaverton, we decided on Hillsboro instead. It's a cool suburb to the […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/117356177777231786 OpenAI wants to be like Apple much more than Apple wants to be like OpenAI. Which is good for Apple twice over.

Latest on Vibe Coded: How would an LLM conversation go if you were running it inside of, say, Cyberpunk 2077 vs. “the real world”? What would happen if you were engaging in a conversation (of sorts) about events, persons, and problems occurring in that […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brettcodes/117355017965255373 If we had just a few more Bretts in the world, the software industry would be in much better shape. 🤝 Never give up! Never surrender! By Grabthar's Hammer!