Tessera

People here standing in Church street, having ice cream, vibing to the dj at the pride event behind them and watching the World Cup, probably experiencing the most funmaxing I have seen.

church street toronto, with a dj playing dance music in the background, an ice cream truck, and a bunch of people at a cafe watching the Columbia vs Portugal match

Sad. It seems I just read an article on scroll.in that smelt mostly AI generated or at least extensively AI edited to the point you can make out common sentence structures. I expect most news outlets to at least run an AI scanner to remove smells

I don’t understand why some people don’t get it. The longer your AI post gets, the stinkier that AI smell emanates from it. Keep it short and you might get away with it. Even your fellow AI enthusiasts are unlikely to be with you on this one.

Didn't realize ChatGPT was a power git+lazygit user!

Screenshot of a ChatGPT response about Git worktrees where the AI bizarrely states 'I personally bind:' followed by custom keyboard shortcuts, mimicking a human developer's local workflow.

Pi + qwen 3.7 plus is such incredible superfast AI agent experience like no other. I just have to be careful to prompt pi (which is always in YOLO mode) so that changes always go through review.

Too much hype about GLM-5.2. I used it and it is good for coding, but very people are mentioning - *it is not a vision capable model*! If a model cannot see, there is a lot of feedback you cannot give to the model! I am back to Kimi and Qwen.

Codex, if your resets expire in a month, you are not really “banking” them, are you?

ooh. #ChatGPT made me an excellent image to use for the token merchant lords of our time.

A lavish Renaissance-style portrait of a wealthy half-human, half-machine merchant surrounded by mountains of gold AI tokens. Clockwork assistants unroll endless scrolls while token-counting machines, GPUs, servers, and ledgers fill the scene. Heraldic symbols reference AI and context windows. A rising chart hints at ever-growing token consumption. An ornate brass plaque below reads: THE TOKEN MERCHANT.

Unreal Toronto skyline last night

For people on ChatGPT Plus plans(~$20), stick to 5.4 instead of 5.5 to make your accounts run twice as long. I asked ChatGPT to do a cost benefit comparison and this is what it came up with.

A screenshot titled “Core comparison” showing a table of AI models with columns for Model, Type, Intelligence (relative), Speed, Input cost per 1M tokens, Output cost per 1M tokens, and Notes. Models listed include GPT-5.5 (highest intelligence, medium speed, $5 input / $30 output), GPT-5.4 (near-5.5 intelligence, medium-fast, $2.50 / $15), GPT-5.3 Codex (coding-focused, fast, $1.75 / $14), GPT-5.4 Mini (low-cost, very fast, $0.75 / $4.50), and GPT-5.2 (older, largely obsolete). Below is a second section titled “Intelligence level multiplier” describing settings (Low, Medium, High, Extra High) with increasing reasoning depth and cost (~1x to ~10–25x), along with suggested use cases. A note at the bottom explains that model choice and reasoning level are independent (e.g., a stronger model with low reasoning differs from a weaker model with high reasoning).

New viral chatgpt image generation prompt going around - drawing in terrible MS Paint form. Tried out my profile photo. Yuck. x.com/chatgptapp/s... (prompt in ALT text)

prompt: “Redraw the attached image in the most clumsy, scribbly, and utterly pathetic way possible. Use a white background, and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should be vaguely similar but also not really, kind of matching but also off in a confusing, awkward way, with that low-quality pixel-by-pixel feel that really emphasizes how ridiculously bad it is. Actually, you know what, whatever, just draw it however you want.”

src: mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/1164993...

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

Tip: If ur Claude Code token usage is burning up ur quota but you still want to use Opus, Opus 4.6 uses less tokens than 4.7 but is still pretty good Use this to start a new session: claude --model "claude-opus-4-6[1m]" Or this to switch in the middle of a session: /model claude-opus-4-6[1m]

Sometimes, I get so confused about who I am working with.

claude code conversation (opus).
...
me: yes, that seems safer for Dropbox. but again, everything is running locally and nobody is editing the same file on a different machine. would Dropbox sync cause this?

Claude: You're right — I was hand-waving. Dropbox doesn't modify file bytes; it just syncs them. With single-machine writes and no concurrent edits, Dropbox is not a plausible culprit. I
shouldn't have blamed it. Let me make the script robust and be honest about what I actually know.

ffs Apple Watch, stop telling me I am about to go deaf because I used a hand dryer. I can’t believe they still can’t figure it out yet

Oh man. I didn't use the app for a few weeks, and it seems that #booklore is already dead and I missed all the drama. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted... Just when I was liking the self hosted comics reader etc. Anyways I hope the migration to grimmory.org would be a drop in replacement.

Welcome to Grimmory | Grimmory

Organize knowledge. Preserve lore.

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#Obsidian says that it does a lot of things to make sure that the actual #markdown files are free to be read via any other application, but that's not true in spirit. There are a lot of Obsidian features that result in what can only be called broken markdown.

TIL that in Canada, if you have a job based on a work permit (similar to H1B in US), you can never get more than a 2% pay hike, regardless of your performance or inflation. gowlingwlg.com/en-ca/insigh...

Salary increases and temporary foreign workers: Are you compliant?

There have been many changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) over the last year, with an emphasis on employer compliance.

gowlingwlg.com

It seems that even the latest version of Claude Code has a bug around handling encrypted PDFs using its read tool. It gets wedged asking for the password forever.

claude code diagnosis of its encrypted pdf handling: The root cause was that the Read tool's encrypted-PDF error message acted like a system-level injection that overrode Claude's normal response — it kept
repeating "PDF is password protected" regardless of your prompts, because the error was being re-triggered on every turn.