Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ

The US doesn’t like him. The rest of the Middle East doesn’t like him.

Someone will blow him up, with a whole lot of collateral damage, rinse and repeat.

ECC RAM and such takes care of that.

Thing about stochastic models like LLMs is that even if the code is deterministic, inference has some degree of randomness by design and you shouldn’t rely on it for questions that should have deterministic answers.

This is not helpful at all…

Is that “Nothing but Trouble”???

I have not seen that movie in probably decades.

LLMs, etc…

Microsoft moving to zipped XML+assets is the *only* reason everything can work with MS Office formats.

IIRC, didn’t they have to open up Office because of some antitrust threat?

Or was it a matter of the proprietary doc/xls/ppt getting far too crufty to continue with?

Not only that, but you’ll find the actual document in there is just XML. That what the “x” on the end means.

And that is why so much non-Microsoft stuff can work with them now. They’re no longer a proprietary mess.

So do your disks. And your WiFi. Spinning rust uses PRML, it literally has to guess if there was a 1 or 0 recorded on the platter because the bits overlap. Flash stores more than one bit in a cell using multiple voltage levels. QAM is 256+ different codes per blip of RF. ECC is why any of it works.

Not anymore they’re not, but people keep acting like they are.

There are so many good true stories in that book. Like how for a lack of anything like a logger or sniffer, he stole every printer he could find from the offices and wired one across each port on the terminal server.

I did this to a Power Mac at the local newspaper. Early 2000s. They called the computer service place I worked for. I came out, stared at the [?] folder and kicked the tower. Spun right up. Told them to leave it on until I could come back with a drive, because I didn’t carry any SCSI disks on me.

The snoofler

Yep. There is always a bigger bastard.

Iiiiiiiiii feel like this is AI.

A real coyote would steal a bed and take it home.

Scammers are using them *because* they are run by Blacksky.

No way in hell Bluesky is going to block myatproto at the relay, unless they start to see network attacks or other truly nasty things coming from that PDS.

The optics of it would be incredibly bad: it would silence mostly BIPOC users.

That would be nice, but no. If keyword mutes could match to handles you could kinda do it.

If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s where all the scammer bots are coming from. Unfortunately it is Blacksky’s PDS, so Bluesky blocking it at the relay would look very bad.

I am surprised this hasn’t been done. JavaOS was a thing.

T is considered a controlled substance is it not? Because unlike E it can be used as an anabolic steroid. Insurance can and will be very picky about those, a lot like opiates.

Yeeeeaaaahhhh, the Reign of Terror is another fun history lesson….

Why needs to stop posting.

He is incredibly tone-deaf, as is common among uber-geeks (ESR, anyone?)

Maybe he’s doing good work, vibecoding or not, but he needs to stick to that and shut up.

Here’s the thing: he knows his patrons. What he is saying is incredibly shitty but if affordable housing is built near his restaurant, snooty people won’t go there.

Not that he should get his way, but he’s right.

Yes, it's a phone with a built in lighter

"It's got a cop battery, a 20,000 mAh pack. Cop siren, cop flashlight, built in charging cable, and you can bludgeon someone with it. What do you say?"

"Fix the cigarette lighter."

“What do you mean you can’t find it??? it’s the tallest building you can see from here!”

Even better: a writable /dev/drivers to insert modules.

Everything is a fiiiiiiiiiile!

Posthog. Yes, it’s called “post hog”

There’s some AI analytics quackery being advertised on Reddit and…. well, i kinda feel like it wouldn’t get the response they expected here.

I feel like this is kind of unnecessary.

It’s the freaking Paralympics. The Russians participating are NOT assholes.

Regarding the invalid handle account:

There are two CN accounts. One is old and likely owned by Kyra. The other is owned by Buzzfeed. The old account used to have the Buzzfeed domain but they moved it to the new one.

She posted it to both and they have no control over hers.

The way custom handles work is you create a bsky.social handle, then change it to your own domain with some stuff set up to show you own it. If that fails you see invalid handle.
So the old account was Kyra’s, and it temporarily had the Buzzfeed handle, then it was moved to one they control.

It is but I think this was posted to two accounts. One has a buzzfeed dot com handle and it was deleted from that one. The other has invalid handle, which makes me think it used to have the official handle, but is not under buzzfeed’s control, so they can’t take it down.

Oh ok… the account this was posted to hasn’t been used in months.

Maybe Kyra posted it here because Buzzfeed can’t delete posts from this one?