I don't often share work stuff lately, but if you would like me to be your manager, and you live in the Americas region, I have a job for you.
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Pro tip: avoid the faff and use solid toiletries, they do a range of chewable toothpaste tablets at Lush that work well, shampoo etc
Berger's three laws of chatbotics:
1) The bot should never express emotions.
2) The bot should never praise the user.
3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.
There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
Tech bros conquering hell with armies of AI slaves through sheer numbers, nevermind consequences for reincarnation or the sin of enslaving βdigital peopleβ
If LLMs are general purpose AIs as some claim, this means they are technically people, which opens up the afterlife to bad actors. Imagine waiting at the pearly gates because every closed ChatGPT prompt sent an AI to the afterlife, terrorists spinning up AIs then killing them enmasse
I installed the Fair Package Manager (@fairpm) on my personal site last night. I'm excited to say it worked flawlessly. A couple of plugins were updated from Fastly's servers, & a paid plugin updated from its servers as normal. I'm excited to see what else comes from this interesting development.
Unlikely, Apple themselves rarely do discounts their prices usually change when new products are out. Others do discount them regularly but who knows Β―\_(γ)_/Β― , the buying guide says donβt buy updates imminent for the AirPod Proβs buyersguide.macrumors.com#AirPods
WWDC is on Monday with AirPod rumours, wait till Tuesday and the entire landscape may have changed, even if itβs just pricing
The @vlt.sh team launched "reproduce" today, an #OSS tool that verifies if npm packages match their source code. With recent supply chain attacks exposing provenance limitations, this approach is already showing better adoption rates than traditional methods. β³
socket.dev/blog/vlt-lau... #JavaScript
from the r/fednews subreddit, reactions to how they should reply to phony starkβs email to federal workers telling them to detail what they did last week If you end up replying don't give them an opportunity to evaluate your performance based on the reply: This week I accomplished: β’ 100% of the tasks and duties required of me by my position description β’ 100% of the work product that my manager and I have agreed to β’ 100% of the duties and performance elements that are used to evaluate my performance β’ 100% of the deliverables requested of me by my direct supervisor. β’ I exceeded expectations in the delivery of the above Details available upon a formal request from my direct supervisor. this is good enough to confuse the Al they're going to use to analyze 2.4 million emails. A human might understand it's a troll, a computer will just say this person did well.
yes. love it. do this.
Shortcode block registration! Itβll never be the same as blocks registered normally but why canβt I give my existing back catalog of shortcodes a pretty name, define their attributes, and have them show up as basic server rendered blocks with a nice .org article on how to graduate to a full block?
Stripped the head off of an M.2 screw
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Dog tax
Keep this handy for future use!
At last!
