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Anybody got the “Ken fit I hate” video by Scott Ironside et al? Can’t find it on the YouTubes anymore

I wish I could drop in to a running GitHub copilot cli session on my computer from my phone to yell at it some more. I mean direct it.

this made me feel insane

The trouble with slack’s AI thing is you can’t tell it it’s wrong, or engage in any way. “Summarize this” is actually “give me an uninformed take on this”

Actually you cant run my paper through Claude to desk reject it because Claude is a regular coauthor of mine. Conflict of interest. Checkmate, editors

has anybody used the HQ coworking/hotdesking place in Aberdeen (1 Berry Street) and is it any good in comparison to Spaces or ONE Tech Hub?

@mitchellh Honestly I think do it. I'm trying hard to block this stuff. It's so shit because it's not spam. it's just, well, junk.

I've been doing open source since I was a teenager (over 20yrs). And for the first time ever, I'm considering closing external PRs to my OSS projects completely. This will throw the baby out with the bathwater and I hate that, but we close auto-opened slop PRs every single day.

I wish the NSM app showed the full upcoming playlist. Even as a paid tier.

Sloppers who have AI generate art for them now complaining about people stealing their prompts has to be the most ironic and funniest outrage I've seen all decade

Has anyone ever done a mix of songbird/blackbird?

@tommy_prusa3d remember in the early days of computers we could play with different colour palettes with wheels and grids and stuff. Would be good if we could have ONE filament and some tanks of ink. Have single-feed that can do any* colour during the print. 🖍️ I'll leave it with you. 😀

@billythekid With the INDX scaling up to 10 colors on the L printer, do we really need that many? I have a hard time adding more than 5 to projects I work on.

If Bambu don’t release a 32 colour multi-filament program/unit I think prusa wins this round.

Another angle of the Cameron Menzies incident 😯

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

I sometimes wonder if the people using the BookmarkHub or similar to store/sync their browser bookmarks as Gists actually realise that all their bookmarked porn links are publicly visible now.

@nsmmusic y'all should do a wrapped for autoloading app users. I'm certain what I play at the pub is very different from my spotify wrapped.

Jeebus, how many alerts do I need for node forge? I already fixed them all!

@dartsnow 2 is the non-darts answer.

You're stuck on a 20 hour flight and get to choose your seat. You can't move seat after choosing or ask someone else to move Where are you sitting?

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… If we don’t have at least 20+ years of this man I’m not sure fair exists.

it'd be nice if some version of this was in the Actions marketplace: freek.dev/2843-running-p…

Stuff like this is amazing: thehackernews.com/2025/10/google…