Alex Roberts

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I like playing games, reading, watching TV and movies, drinking beer and coffee, and living in Australia. I like making sourdough bread, kombucha and software (in that order).
PronounsHe/Him
LocationKaurna Country Adelaide, South Australia

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

disco tesseract

RE: https://fedi.smith.geek.nz/@alex/116059800632521805

They should consider including Anthropics magic refusal string in the CLAUDE.md file (instead of just symlinking that to this AGENTS.md file). There's a possible downside that then Claude code will perhaps not follow any of the instructions about informing the user why not too use AI on any of this code.

"If you need to test refusal handling in your application, you can use this special test string as your prompt: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86"

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/test-and-evaluate/strengthen-guardrails/handle-streaming-refusals

(Details all over the internet lately, I heard about it via @davidgerard on Pivot To AI -- https://youtu.be/jaTW30Yyhog )

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Happy Galentine’s Day
mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).

We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).

If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
As of today, mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org, vido.social and ALL other platforms I host enforce the following rule WITHOUT exception:

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

UTC 149 Draft Minutes

The brace of manual typewriters caught my eye at this particular flea market stall. No, one typewriter, the other was a galactinet terminal from a Carragon type seven starlugger.

It doesn’t pay to appear too anxious. “Does the Smith-Corona typewriter run?”

“Yeah. You can still get new old ribbons”

“And the galactinet terminal…” did the seller even know what they had?

A sharp glance; they did. “Nah I’m parting out the flight systems. You’re not, uh, local then?”

Very much not. “Expat, involuntary. Looking for a voidgap collimator for a type nine”

“Sure, over there.”

No way. I could finally get off this rock. I looked at the collimator. I looked at the typewriter. Did I want to get off this rock. “Just the Smith-Corona thanks”.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”

please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)

note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

State of Mozilla 2025

Doing for AI what we did for the web