Kate Pearce

Hahaaa oh no fill me in.

Guessing it’s the ironic fact (vs above) that they’re being badly pumped out at scale using these tools and that’s not exactly seen as a good thing?

Claude code and codex and such are enabling romance novels of the software world!

I’m not saying that as a bad/good thing, I’m saying it as an economics/democracy lesson.

Sure LLM coding enables “trashy” code that wasn’t previously economical, but mostly it just makes it cheap to produce and opens it to a new wide audience.

You didn’t have cheap mass paperbacks when books were written/copied by hand over weeks by trained experts.

I’ve worked out how I conceptualise LLM/agentic programming: a printing press moment.

It’s taken something that was previously very specialist and expensive and made it cheap.

I know I regularly joke about it being DNS.

But it sure wasn’t DMARC.

Important note about cyber security and media interaction during active incidents:

When those who know the details can’t talk, those who can talk won’t know the details.

*taps sign*

Oh damn. I thought it was obviously planned! 🙃

Tips on improving my combat-roll technique?

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

The extra interesting thing about this article is whatever someone’s first reaction is when they read it: spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.

Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.

It was me.

I’m floating around kawaiicon. If you’re looking for me sometimes I’m the bright yellow person.

You’ll see what I mean in the sea of hackerblack.

(Do make sure to introduce yourself as I’m peopled out from this last week and might have facial recognition failure)

Show you wrote it an not AI, fill it with speling and grandpa errors

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Multi-Path TCP: Revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) leverages multiple network interfaces, like Wi-Fi and cellular, to provide seamless mobility for more reliable connectivity. While promising, MPTCP is still in its early stages,...

Huh. A new article on MPTCP?

Protocols move so slowly - I was talking about this in...

*checks notes*
…2012…
*feels old*

blog.cloudflare.com/multi-path-t...

a cartoon drawing of a teddy bear holding a bunch of money ALT: a cartoon drawing of a teddy bear holding a bunch of money

Wave 1 tickets, merch, and event tix are up, y'all: kawaiicon.org

Don't worry, there will be another wave next week if you miss out today! We will announce the day/time once we recover from the gauntlet of con things this week :D

A gov.uk webpage screenshot saying: HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME • Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden. • Fix a leaking toilet - leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. • Use water from the kitchen to water your plants. • Avoid watering your lawn - brown grass will grow back healthy. • Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving. • Take shorter showers. • Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

Who needs cloud seeding when you can go cloud deleting.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Know your data terms!
Data
Data base
Data warehouse
Data lake
Data lake house
Data lake house boat
Data lake house jetski
Data lake house scuba dive
Data lake house scuba dive coral reef
Data lake house scuba dive coral reef clownfish
Data lake house scuba dive coral reef clownfish AI

👆 Another post that probably isn’t about what you think it is.

But if you thought it was then it could have been… so think about that carefully.

Science and tech/AI aren’t magic. You cant go making unsubstantiated claims and expect them to be accepted because “Advances in [science/tech/AI] will save us”.

They might, they might not - but just blindly trusting or giving assurances is called something else entirely.

Science and tech/AI aren’t magic. You cant go making unsubstantiated claims and expect them to be accepted because “Advances in [science/tech/AI] will save us”.

They might, they might not - but just blindly trusting or giving assurances is called something else entirely.

Turns out that the evil bit should have been an evil vector.

Figure 1: Persona vectors and their applications. Top: Our automated pipeline takes as input a personality trait (e.g. “evil”) along with a natural-language description. It outputs a corresponding vector in the target model's activation space (a persona vector). Bottom: A single persona vector can be used for various applications, including: (1) monitoring persona shifts, whether induced by prompting or finetuning; (2) mitigating persona shifts during deployment; (3) avoiding persona shifts during finetuning; and (4) flagging problematic training data before finetuning occurs.

Wtf sort of timeline have I found myself in.
…
“In this paper, we identify directions in the model's activation space—persona vectors—underlying several traits, such as evil, sycophancy, and propensity to hallucinate.”

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509

I mean at least they blank the home address bit…

Did you know they put the phone number and email address of nz’s local government candidates online for anyone to access.

The 2022 lists are still online too.

One the one hand great transparency, but on the other hand I did not know doxxing was a requirement to stand?

I fed the #internetnz #agm2025 into a free range open source local LLM and it made this song. #nzpol

What day is it? Oh yeah, the next day.

Too wired. Being in camera for an agm of 1100 while also posting gifs in slack turns out to wind one up!

🤣

Catching up on the #InternetNZ agm skeet’s give me big Covid era watch party vibes.

And I feel like I missed out because I was the entertainment!

Keep this engagement. Learn from it, take the collective and unified spirit forward to your next battles!

We gotchu. I hope you like reading!