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"I think the most remarkable thing about this document is how unremarkable it is. Usually getting an AI to act badly requires extensive 'jailbreaking' to get around safety guardrails. There are no signs of conventional jailbreaking here. There are no convoluted situations with layers of roleplaying, no code injection through the system prompt, no weird cacophony of special characters that spirals an LLM into a twisted ball of linguistic loops until finally it gives up.
No, it’s a simple file written in plain English: this is who you are, this is what you believe, now go and act out this role. And it did."
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
探したけど、MMはらくがきありました
Lol, most of these impressions were on a post I made about why you maybe shouldn't verify your LinkedIn account.
Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
Link: https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123631
"I think the most remarkable thing about this document is how unremarkable it is. Usually getting an AI to act badly requires extensive 'jailbreaking' to get around safety guardrails. There are no signs of conventional jailbreaking here. There are no convoluted situations with layers of roleplaying, no code injection through the system prompt, no weird cacophony of special characters that spirals an LLM into a twisted ball of linguistic loops until finally it gives up.
No, it’s a simple file written in plain English: this is who you are, this is what you believe, now go and act out this role. And it did."
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
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testing my misskey app
閃光のハサウェイのパンフ見ながらダラダラしてたら
寝るかー
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(blobcat_snot)が追加されたかも。
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(blobcat_bluegreen)が追加されたかも。
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(kritter_sub_somosomoisshoukenmeihatarakisuginaihougaii)が追加されたかも。
2018, an all male retreat in the woods for scientists and a literary agent. Epstein specifically de inviting women. The agent and edge foundation guy then calling #MeToo "mccarthyism". Jfc. These fucking losers
How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/epstein-files-academic-research-women-scientists/
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(pink_armadillo)が追加されたかも。
2018, an all male retreat in the woods for scientists and a literary agent. Epstein specifically de inviting women. The agent and edge foundation guy then calling #MeToo "mccarthyism". Jfc. These fucking losers
How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/epstein-files-academic-research-women-scientists/
it turns out that RSC is actually making the whole model too easy to implement (literally maybe ~100 lines of wiring on top of the agnostic library i’m working to extract). but when i tried to make a generic swiftui client i realized i don’t know how to do server part without smth like RSC
RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116121642495262421
“Purity culture” is part of patriarchy and is the close sibling of rape culture. It is part of misogyny and specifically exists to shame and devalue women for their innate sexuality. It’s part of a system that grooms you as a child to accept psychological abuse and have low self worth.
It’s not when you feel uncomfy because someone pointed out the consequences of your actions.
Canadians can have a comfy hoodie, as a treat
“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Musk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
Das Gegenteil von e-Moll ist Verbrenner-Dur.
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Jaja, ich geh ja schon ins Bett.
What I'm listening to today: "You and I are in a Dark Crypt Forever", Warlock Corpse
This somewhat defies description and it makes more sense to just watch five seconds and you'll get the idea. "Dungeon synth" music with metal drumming and 80s goth synths and a guy dressed like… some sort of troll? They went to the bother of putting fake VHS effects on it even though the equipment on the table clearly dates this performance to the 2020s. This is *really* fun actually
What I'm listening to today: "Speed Learn", Tomaga
Got lost on Bandcamp and wound up listening to sleepy jazz for tired cats. Here is a machine gradually coming online, whirring wheels over tracks and indifferent buzzing and uncorrelated electronic blorps. It has some kind of meaning, hidden from you, in the firmware of the thing that blorp is issued at some meaningful moment, in a service manual not distributed outside the manufacturer its secret truth is revealed
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/speed-learn
RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116121642495262421
“Purity culture” is part of patriarchy and is the close sibling of rape culture. It is part of misogyny and specifically exists to shame and devalue women for their innate sexuality. It’s part of a system that grooms you as a child to accept psychological abuse and have low self worth.
It’s not when you feel uncomfy because someone pointed out the consequences of your actions.
#LLM tools let you write code faster, but LOCs has NEVER been the bottleneck to value. The bottleneck is organizational coherence.
Instead of working towards that alignment, we are encouraged to "just #AI it." The result? AI makes everyone work MORE, with no real productivity gains.
Teams need to get better at choosing more valuable work to do. For that, you need #UserResearch. And user research can only happen at a human pace.
Our Vouch bot got an updated pfp.
my main app is built with React Server Components. i thought i’d offer an /api/render endpoint that emits plain JSON for alternative “clients”. but turns out, it doesn’t quite make sense. the “clients” should really be servers. you’d have to decide on your own strategy for passing things to client
Binance Fired Employees Who Found $1.7B in Crypto Was Sent to Iran
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127396
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127081
been working on carving out a unit-tested @inlay.at@bsky.brid.gy component tree resolver out of the surrounding vibecoded nonsense. it’s pretty close to being publishable as npm package though i’m not sure how useful it is. i think at the very least it can read as a spec and sort of explains the model.
Reading @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space talk about Yubikey best practices made me realize that I am on a train to Montreal, and I left my single Yubikey at home with my car keys, because they're attached together 😝
Mm... living dangerously...
uptime_in_years++;
RE: https://masto.sangberg.se/@troed/116092524515829966
Oh this is just too funny. Apple didn't specify why they upheld the removal of my #Loops review - but I guess that department doesn't know about the rights us Europeans have under the GDPR to request a copy of _all data a company has on us_.
I got it today. It includes the reason Apple has given internally for pulling a review.
"Offensive Content" is the motivation used.
Here's the review text in full:
"Enshittification resistant short-form video
I've been using Loops during its beta phase and I'm very happy to see it now in the general appstore. Loops is decentralized which means that there's no single person or entity that can take it over and remake algorithms to their benefit.
Loops is for you. No ads. No evil algorithms. Just shoot your videos and share - and follow the people you want without weird content popping up.
5/5 - this is awesome."
ping 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow if this means Apple censors on the word "enshittification" which would be funny all in itself.
글리치 마스토돈 이번 버전업에서 테마의 라이트모드/다크모드 여부랑 고대비 설정을 따로 할 수 있게 된 거 정말 천혜의 옵션이다...
@Josteglitzjosteglitz 🌱💚 
@Ketakater 
@IrisfreundinNervensäge 💐 
@Gyroplast 
@RichiHRichard "RichiH" Hartmann
100 g Sojasauce enthält über 1,5 g Glutaminsäure und über 5 g Natrium in Lösung. Das Salz der Glutaminsäure mit Natrium nennt sich Mononatriumglutamat.
I vibe coded (🤮) unit tests yesterday for the feature I’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks. It mostly worked OK but enforced my view of not using the AI tools for more than fancy autocomplete, naming and code review. The stuff it wrote runs and does what it should but lacks an elegance I aspire to in shipping code. Also doubt it’s maintainable by anything other than LLMs.
Feel bad for future development on projects that use this stuff for actual code.
The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean -- TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 -- is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after more than two decades of sitting dormant, bound for recycling in South Africa.
finally! i'm so hungry
@xgranadeCassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ I see it as well
Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had “basically zero” contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.
https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380
Most homework is bullshit and I would like to see an education system not centered around homework
And yet I have this sense that the education system we have, messed up as it may be, might provide an even worse experience for anyone using https://companion.ai/einstein
My latest post on r/sillylittlewebsites (a subreddit I'm trying to get going): Castle Light - A game to use a spotlight to figure out an image.
WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE, SO PRETEND TO BE AWESOME.
I am BEGGING you.
Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.
"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."
Say that and SHUT UP.
Let me talk, following on 
@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻's post, about JSON-LD from a data engineering and web backend perspective:
It's a nightmare.
First: one of the first things you learn about how to address the OWASP lists is the importance of not just accepting random payloads, but carefully validating them, but with JSON-LD:
1. Basically any field may be absent, present, a URI, a list of objects, a list of URIs of objects, a list containing URIs AND Objects, etc.
2. Fields do not have consistent names. BY DESIGN. You _have_ to parse an object to know what is in it. Parsing the context and then building the map of names is basically an Ο(n*m) process where the amount of processing time you spend is _under the control of the sender_ by default, and nothing is ever fully defined.
3. Actually fully validating an object to the degree of knowing if it is the same thing as something else requires solving a GI-hard problem if there are blank nodes.
Applying basic type theory to anything done with JSON-LD is an exercise in frustration.
There are certainly use cases for it, but 99% of the time when I've seen it being used it is not for those use cases, but for use cases where we would strongly prefer JSON-Schema and/or OpenAPI definitions for things.
I’m in need of a digital streaming box to play video from my media server on my TV. I’ve been using my phone and my laptop in the past, but I’d quite like a device that provides a streamlined user interface.
I was waiting for the new Apple TV, but given it’s taking its sweet time, and it may well include a price hike and a camera I don’t need, I’m thinking again.
Preferences are:
- As few adverts as possible
- A responsive UI
- Has a Jellyfin client
- Requires minimal user support
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