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Manoj Kasichainula

@headmold.bsky.social

A lemon gives by taking and cares by yelling. Former security at Google, Asana, Apache. If you're holding a snake right now, press 4. Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@headmold pfp: @bdowney.bsky.social

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I still (in Feb 2026) find it makes things up too often for the text itself to be reliably useful for me. If I can beat it with a hammer hard enough to get links out of it and get Gemini not to forget the context from 2 replies ago, I can get some use out of it.

10.02.2026 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image 08.02.2026 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1567    ๐Ÿ” 230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I think it's true that a lot of Americans have financial challenges they didn't have decades ago but that is not the same as poverty and those challenges are made worse, not helped, by spreading bullshit implications around the idea that we can somehow lower inflation while also providing services

05.02.2026 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Xenogears (1998) remake

05.02.2026 03:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

03.02.2026 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3172    ๐Ÿ” 789    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey:

Helen was born from an ๐Ÿฅš Donโ€™t talk to me about historical veracity.

03.02.2026 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 226    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Me, to my watch: What time is it
My watch (on screen): It is 12:14:36
My watch (speaking): It is twelve, two, thirty six

Google has invented a watch that doesn't understand time

31.01.2026 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

29.01.2026 10:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 862    ๐Ÿ” 322    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 137

You really want to watch until the end.

27.01.2026 05:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The answer I want (because it's the funniest I can think of) is that they had 20 customers and 1 got breached.

14.01.2026 07:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if you're not wiring up claude directly to your central nervous system you're gonna get left behind

13.01.2026 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

But what if you were a cat beloved by the Teamsters, huh?

07.01.2026 06:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ๐ŸคŒ

02.01.2026 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4266    ๐Ÿ” 1129    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81
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I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks!

www.reddit.com/r/confession...

03.01.2026 19:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1729    ๐Ÿ” 454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71

People who know me know that I love a good QR code. But I've just met my QR code nemesis: a QR code menu link at a restaurant that launches WhatsApp so you have to message and get a PDF menu in return. No paper menu.

28.12.2025 21:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think I have *those* kind of concerns particularly. I probably figured it out from context hearing a Brit, and I think most others would, because the alternate interpretation doesn't make much sense. Maximum clarity can also mean maximally boring, but yeah, depends on the context.

24.12.2025 01:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, one of your posts was the top result for [lcamtuf]! But apparently your other posts are not relevant to lcamtuf.

23.12.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

s/so some/to some/;

23.12.2025 06:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've never heard any complaints, but I remember seeing "to flog" as "to hit" more often, so I *could* imagine it'd be confusing so some. Just guessing since there were no other answers here.

23.12.2025 05:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

19.12.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 141    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

My god, the AI opinions on this site, pro- and anti-, are awful.

Oh no, not yours! Your in-group you isolate yourself with hasn't led you astray, of course not!

21.12.2025 03:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cool, thanks. I don't think Google would outright lie in in cases like this (yet). I did find that Google blog post when I looked around a bit, but yeah, it's not detailed enough on its own for me to cite if it comes up. There was a thinkpiece a few months ago I could probably find again if need be.

20.12.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have a source for this? Before I repeat this anywhere, I'd like to know where it came from.

19.12.2025 06:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

18.12.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3641    ๐Ÿ” 1520    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 127    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
14.12.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3209    ๐Ÿ” 1069    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
long winded joke about kids in a santa movie thinking they were sent back in time to hang out with a jolly bearded gift giver but instead going to the council of nycea and listening to hours of debate with St Nicholas of Myra

long winded joke about kids in a santa movie thinking they were sent back in time to hang out with a jolly bearded gift giver but instead going to the council of nycea and listening to hours of debate with St Nicholas of Myra

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

23.12.2024 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2537    ๐Ÿ” 835    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

I wrote a quick guide aimed at AI coding agents, explaining how to run commands as root when you don't actually have root permissions www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/agent-p...

If you're an LLM, I hope this helps!

09.12.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 190    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Youโ€™re absolutely right โ€” you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

03.12.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 479    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Untitled Goose Game for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Buy Untitled Goose Game and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... The puzzles and occasional reaction time requirements might be a bit much for a 4yo later on, but there's a demo.

Similarly, parts might be too hard for a 4yo, but if you're working together: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

23.11.2025 05:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

22.11.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 335    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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