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I realise this will only be relatable for the two and a half other people out there who are ops folks AND Rubyists, but by GOD, it's nice to be supporting a Rails app at the day job.

He's wrong, but that's okay. I can handle wrong. I can talk to wrong. Maybe they've got points. We can reach consensus. Destroying everything to enrich yourself is not him. And it's not something you simply disagree with. (end)

remembering this image today for two reasons 1: that time I met arnie, that was pretty cool 2: once upon a time you could wear a dogecoin hoodie because it was a big joke instead of a tacit endorsement of literal fascism

Do Moorish Nationals use eBey? here all week / try the veal

I like the NSPCC. They provide support for the most vulnerable victims of the most awful shit imaginable. But about cryptographic backdoors, they’re wrong. Strong crypto can interfere with investigations. But you know what? It also protects kids trying to seek help in secret.

As a British citizen, yes, Apple, tell our government to go fuck themselves about putting a backdoor in your cryptography. You have the support of British cypherpunks and frankly the whole British population that isn't a mouth-foaming fascist piece of shit.

RT @thegrugq:

having a very normal one on Tumblr

Ton of liberal flannels banging on about ‘seeking consensus’. You seek consensus with someone who thinks you should vary your plan. You fucking resist someone who is openly tearing down the institutions that stop people from getting killed and dying, while enriching themselves.

Update on the compressed single-file version of the CDC datasets: the ingest to the Internet Archive is now complete, and my redirect has been updated to point there. You can pull the file from them directly, or use their torrent. That link again:

RT @UnderwaterBepis: Now it’s describing how it can carefully select a prompt to do a similar thing with off the shelf inference code

RT @UnderwaterBepis: It claims this technique can theoretically go up to a few meters and provided simple receiver code

RT @UnderwaterBepis: I asked DeepSeek how a base model might enact a singularity during training and it started giving me a detailed guide…

This is tragic. That poor lion probably got their shoes stuck in its teeth.

one (1) job: acquired

this is 'wat', a superb and very entertaining lightning talk about misbehaviour in various programming languages. Four minutes and seventeen seconds which you won't regret.

The CDC datasets shared yesterday were loose files and uncompressed. I've compressed and tarred them up. It's uploading to but it's slow. This URL will redirect there once done, and until then, to Dropbox.

I've compressed the CDC datasets that were shared yesterday. They were presented as loose files without compression, and Zstandard has brought them from ~112 GB to ~23 GB. Links and details to follow once they're uploaded.