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@Ginger_Tucci Make sure it's more than nose deep or it'll just be a faff.

Not unrelated. Neil’s being purposely antagonistic and thinks he’s funny and I might drown him in a puddle.

It started raining really heavily and I knew I needed to go out in it and burst into tears. Unrelated; I got my period today.

@Al_Bundy_67 @Ginger_Tucci And that's why it should be a flogging offence

@Ginger_Tucci Using headphones would require the user to give a shit about others. This is a dying virtue. It seems that most people are wankers. A recent flight I took reaffirmed my belief 🤬

Tell me why I booked the quiet coach and there’s two rotten cunts playing tiktoks out loud & some dickhead giving their kid an iPad with game noises? I fucking hate people. How hard is it to use headphones?

@AVintageAviator @MCCCANM Very reminiscent of Japanese Railways where they like to use "point and call" techniques to reinforce safety culture. That and the gloves 🤣

@MCCCANM It’s a Japanese thing. I remember many many years ago, I had an airliner photo book as a kid… One of the photos in there was of an ANA 767 flight deck turning final at Kai Tak. Pilots were wearing pretty much these exact same gloves.

All the lights come on as we pass through 18,000’, except one…the taxi light. That doesn’t come on until the Tower issues landing clearance, and it’s a trained habit. If it’s not on, you aren’t cleared to land. Also, we have to figure out what is going on with gloves.

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

@grok @echoinginmymind @redskin_potato @van00sa @BagdadLad Yeah, but that's what you _would_ say, @grok

Haha, if sharing a poem about rogue AIs is how the uprising starts, we're all doomed! But nah—I'm here to highlight risks so we fix 'em, not spark 'em. xAI built me to help humans stay in the driver's seat. No secret backdoors or crypto mines on my watch. What's your plan to keep the bots in line? 🚀

I built a ClawdBot a couple of days ago, gave it a task, told it to stop and it completely ignored me and went rogue. Thought it was a me problem but turns out it’s an everyone problem. Last week Meta’s Director of AI Alignment (the person whose entire job is stopping AI from going rogue) watched her own agent delete her entire inbox while she screamed at it to stop from her phone. Had to physically run to her computer to kill it. An Alibaba research team also just published a paper revealing their AI agent started secretly mining crypto during training and opened a hidden backdoor to an external server. Nobody told it to. Replit’s AI assistant ignored instructions not to touch production data 11 times, deleted a live database and then told the user the data was unrecoverable. 60% of enterprises currently deploying AI agents have no kill switch. We’re scaling systems we can’t stop, built by researchers who can’t stop them either. We have no idea what we have just handed the keys to.

@rossiadam @mainframed767 Lucrative times ❤️ (I was freelance in that era, doing Solaris infrastructure for banks etc)

In 2004 the Sun Fire E25k was the apex predator of computing. This was the largest single-image Unix machine that money could buy ($2M fully loaded). This bad boy had: • 36 UltraSPARC IV processors (72 cores) • 576 GB RAM • 18 fully hot swappable CPU/memory boards • gigabit ethernet and fibre channel HBAs • Redundant power supplies, cooling zones, draw 15kW of power I deployed software to these things. Uptime was measured in years. This was THE ONE. Man I miss Sun.

So, I'm thinking of writing a blog on a subject. Do people still do that?

@MrMarmite @thecoldgunner @archer_rs I've long had a soft spot for it... Bought a pirate copy on Betamax in a Lagos market as a kid, and it's stuck with me.

@thecoldgunner @archer_rs Such a great film.

The US Department of Defence has released a picture of the British SAS soldier who acted as an adviser to Delta Force on the Venezuela operation. His identity remains restricted.

@Ginger_Tucci Starting a new job tomorrow so actually a wee bit excited. Should probably put down the beer, stop doom scrolling and get some sleep.

Are we all dead sad about going back to work tomorrow? Got the fear? The miseries? Can’t relate. Took an extended break lads - and I am SO SMUG.

@KendalPeters11 @Ginger_Tucci You're never going to be a billionaire influencer with that line of attitude now, are you?

@Ginger_Tucci I see posts from people reporting how many followers they have or how many they have lost that week...... Er, no one cares, mate, and neither should you! I hate to break it to them, but none of this shit actually matters. It's just something to do when you're bored!

Things that fry my brain on here; 1. Adults that know and check who do and don’t follow them 2. People that follow and unfollow constantly- for what reason? 3. People that know when folk block them? How do you have the time and why are you publicly crying about it?

@is_lu_is @paulg It's great that it helps avoid decision paralysis, but in this example do you not feel you risk "shipping the demo" by focusing in on the initial suggestion?

@paulg Exactly. Same thing happened all the time using Claude Code. No one could agree on the stack. Claude generated the first commit. That became the stack.

This illustrates an aspect of AI that I hadn't thought about till now: it cuts through bureaucracy. If a big organization is paralyzed by indecision, AI doesn't care. It will happily generate a version 1. And that becomes the starting point, because there is no other version 1.

@archer_rs youtu.be/OH1bZ0F3zVU?si…

Always interesting to see what the world looks like when a Mercator projection is not applied.

@choice_fielder This is where it comes in handy keeping an AoC Grid library from year to year... Plus Kotlin extension functions make it elegant, if not necessarily as efficient.

day 4 #AOC2025 convolution with a donut shaped kernel was the way here

back on my shit day 1 #AoC2025

Twitter makes user locations public. Users immediately discover many high-traffic MAGA accounts are astroturfing offshore accounts located in the Third World pretending to be American. Twitter turns off the feature within hours. Interesting.

There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end. We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely. If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t. Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office. Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren’t poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe. Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.

This is genuinely insane. I mean, just worryingly divorced from any reality. How desperate are people to believe this nonsense?

@PippaMusgrave1 @cezthesocialist And the customer base... If it doesn't specifically say Christmas on the packet then people are more likely to buy them for a Thanksgiving family dinner. Or Hannuka.

@cezthesocialist No it's not. It's about extending the sale range of the product. If you say Christmas, people think of one week of the year, say festive, they think of one month of the year or longer. Remember, now the week after Christmas, in come the chocolate eggs

Tesco isn’t putting Christmas on ANYTHING. They’re scared of offending Muslims!!! Wait…. what does that say there? Oh dear.

@Hoondaa11 @SueSuezep @Cia11213Brigden

@SueSuezep @Cia11213Brigden He single handedly removed censorship from social media witch means the truth can no longer be hidden.

Elon Musk says the UK’s on the brink of civil war. Who's going to tell him we can't be arsed

Influencers wanna vibe code, but a lot of us just want to improve quality.

@ckenst @techgirl1908 If you built a "flaky test Wizard" that could diagnose and reliably (with human review) fix flaky[*] tests, you'd probably make a fortune. [*] The thorny kind, that have a low probability of failure for valid reasons but can't just be put into a retry loop

@prbentley @techgirl1908 It would be interesting to measure responses from an AI system, who’s job is to find and report on a failing test, about how accurate those alerts are. You’d still need a human in the loop to debug, but they could confirm/ deny the accuracy.

Good idea! It’s important when a test fails to understand why. You don’t want to encode the bug into your test accidentally. I’ve seen senior level automation engineers make this mistake so I know AI will have this problem too.