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My youngest's room monitor plays music. He's a bit old for a monitor but likes having it still.
Anyway, it plays a strange mixture of melodies, one of which...
Y: Is this one pickled cannonballs?
Me: You what?
Y: Pickle ball cannon?
Me: Oh, Pachelbel's Canon!
근데 님들아 마라탕/샹궈 먹을 때 넣는 산초유 먹으면 저릿저릿? 해지는거 나만 그런거 아니지? 이거 뭐 알러지라든가 그런거 아니지??
좀 중요부분만 압축하다 보니 이상해졌는데 여기서 말하는 공포론은 AI가 인간의 통제를 벗어나 인간을 지배할지 모른다는 그런 공포론입니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cbt4hxk53fhh3e6zjeq7m46l/post/3mdzif6jz6s2r
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
Was out on a quick birding trip during lunch today and met another birder. An elderly lady.
She asked me what I did. I told her that I’m a programner. She said: Me too!
So naturally we talked for a bit.
I briefly mentioned AI and that I hope there is still value in the knowledge and experience I have. She quickly responded: The whole AI thing is bullshit! It will not go away but it’s clearly over-hyped. Don’t you worry!
Made my day. For several reasons. 🥹
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@b0rkJulia Evans from reading MDN that counts as a "simple request" that will not trigger a preflight OPTIONS request: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS#simple_requests
こんな日は海を眺めに…と思ったけどむっちゃ火山ガスってるねえw
This makes me sad (been there). From Joe Menn at WaPo: "Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things."
@b0rkJulia Evans One idea I just tried: about:logging, keep Networking defaults, write to a logfile, then search the logfile. I just went to the Google homepage, and I do see "OPTIONS" in the logfile (which is huge). Make sure to choose Stop logging quickly, though. I'm not 100% sure it give you the entire HTTP request, but it seems like it might. If so, it's a very short one.
@b0rkJulia Evans
Check if you have an active filter. Normally the OPTIONS request should appear on another line (i did it yesterday, with firefox)
that seems quite nihilistic, especially when there's an interesting philosophical question about the right now ;)
Someone do me a favor and remind me to check my post office box more please! 😁
Thank you @andypiper@macaw.social for the stickers that I FINALLY realized where in my PO Box from 6 months ago!
We're investigating European-based Patreon alternatives. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? We're looking at Steady but it appears that they process their payments through Paypal which kinda defeats the point of trying to use a European platform...
#madeinEurope
#LibreOffice 26.2: Better #Excel Compatibility & #Markdown Support
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/libreoffice-26-2-new-features
Fiddler,
BurpSuite,
...
the answers to "what makes CORS hard?" here are so interesting, so far I'm getting
1) The browser's same-origin policy is very counterintuitive
2) Browser network tools do (I think) have all the info you need to debug, but navigating the Network tab is not easy if you're not used to it
3) Sometimes you need to coordinate with many people to set the correct headers
4) Setting up CORS headers to allow multiple domains (like a.com, b.com, c.com) is annoying
(1/?)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jab01701mid/116013979425553055
I really hate to see virtually every 'independent' journalist centralize themselves on Substack 🙁
A lot of great journalists just lost their jobs. America suffers. Who benefits?
“Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.”
“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
As a proof, scrot output on NetBSD... aka, screenshot 🙂
Still, fonts are missing, but I only needed to download a few configs from my website to make it usable for me.
ratpoison, dmenu, firefox, emacs - and I can make a lot of work done...
#netbsd #ratpoison #xterm
That’s the way I like it. 🤗 Is a pizza without olives and anchovies a pizza? 😎😉
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jab01701mid/116013979425553055
I really hate to see virtually every 'independent' journalist centralize themselves on Substack 🙁
Canada can’t afford a “buy now, regret later” AI strategy. 🚫🤖 Urge your MP to push our leaders to act now with people-first rules that actually protect our digital future. 🇨🇦 Send your message now 👉 https://openmedia.org/AI4Canadians 
@OpenMediaOrgOpenMedia
로밍 데이터 무제한으로 즐기는 중 사유: 숙소 와이파이가 구림...
Ethernet over XLR works :3
Made a comic
I hope one day to learn what home, end, pgup and pgdn do.
명함 때문이라도 대만 가고 싶다 👀
Predictive text will never learn that im should be I’m. So much for smart phones.
Redesigned my personal website (https://ji.hyeok.org) using the design from my name card! The name card itself is designed by 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee).
The physical name card looks like this.
RE: https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/116008610507348034
You’ll never guess the reason why this perfectly capable Netflix client is being sunset. It’s VHS.
VHS recorders, specifically. The PS3 supports AV (yellow, white, red) cable output, which does not have HDCP copy protection. There’s a retro trend happening to get Stranger Things on VHS and this puts an end to it.
WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
고앵이 합격 드리겠습니다~~~~~!!!!!
Guckt ihr euch eigtl. Posts, die ihr hier mit Lesezeichen für später markiert, später nochmal an? 
"어... C기술자가 필요하다고요? 저는 C++ 기술자인데요?"
"...많이 달라요?"
"여기서 제일 먼 동네가 어디죠?"
"음... 옆마을이 한, 42km밖에 있는데..."
"그거 두배만큼 달라요."
"아니 42km만큼도 아니고 두배씩이나요? 왜요?"
"+가 2개 붙잖아요."
#아무말
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:frtnzkrx7wswbcofluzt5aui/post/3mdxlzoyw5k2h
“Welcome to the first Long Links of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/03/Long-Links
This time out, featuring lots of books, cryptography, and open-source clothing.
Fantastic overview of the atmosphere and the power it affords people. This will be my go to piece for people going forward.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/post/3me2km3f4nb26
Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.
Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."
He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.
PC 온라인 게임 어디까지 해봤어?! .. 빡겜 뿐만 아니라 "해본" 게임으로 범위를 넓히면 농담 아니라 여기 언급된거 전부 싹 다 해봤는데 찍먹조차 안해본 게임은 ㄹㅇ 하나도 안보임
Conversation this morning that, if I understood the details right, and my own understanding of how LLMs process data (reinforced by experience) is correct... epistemia is gonna bite a bunch of projects and companies so so hard in the the near future. It's gonna hurt, bad.
Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.
Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."
He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.
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