Brad Ackerman

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Security engineering in Azure Edge + Platform. Mostly cat pictures by volume.
websitehttps://bradackerman.com/
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seeing files like .noai which include swearing (regardless of who is being sworn at) is not welcoming, as it sends a very clear message that aggressive and offsensive language is being allowed in the source files.

lol, lmao, you wouldn't like some of my code.

“In business theory, the perfect firm is one that charges infinity for its products and pays zero for its inputs (you know, "scholarly publishing"). For bosses, AI is a way to shift their firm towards this ideal.” @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/
Pluralistic: AI “journalists” prove that media bosses don’t give a shit (11 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Salty today.

Donk. This Foone is under new management:

I'm Alice Averlong now.

Kyōko has a better opinion of this week than I do. #cats #cat #猫

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

Voting with your feet works. But honestly, don't look back. It's better elsewhere.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/883852/discord-age-verification-global-walkback-delay

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

Discord will delay a planned global rollout of age verification for accounts accessing restricted content, promising more options and transparency.

The Verge
If you beat up the firefox team long enough you actually get the required controls.
@foone It's a standard issue item, but why not include one? The extra COGS is only a buck or two and it's a weird omission on a five-figure device.