Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

9/13/2025, 12:47:09 PM

Public

For a $500 one-off consultancy fee I'll tell them about this magic thing called perl that can do their uppercasing routine for free!

(Hint: $_ =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; )
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115196659679067749

A Reddit post titled "Wow... we've been burning money for 6 months." The post's author, u/me_z, describes how their company's OpenAI usage was costing around $1200 a month. They are using GPT-4 for simple tasks like extracting phone numbers, checking for profanity, reformatting JSON, and uppercasing text. The author ends by asking, "Am I an idiot? How much are you guys spending?"

nixCraft 🐧 (@nixCraft@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image they used AI to uppercase text? lol.

mastodon.social · Mastodon

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