I rewatched A View to a Kill. I had forgotten that its plot is basically that a power hungry psychopath hoards microchips and then tries to create an artificial shortage by destroying chip manufacturing plants.

So ... has OpenAI started buying abandoned silver mines and oil wells yet?

Creating a new class of prime numbers just for the fun of it.

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/discovering-new-class-of-primes-fur-fun.html

#mathstodon

Usvain oppi kakkosta on nyt kasassa yli sata arkkia. Eli yli puolet (toivottavasti). Toivo elää, että kevään aikana saisi tehtyä ensimmäisen varsion valmiiksi asti.

#kirjamastodon

On a whim I started reading a book called Title Deleted for Security Reasons, set in the Paranoia universe.

The protagonist has to work with a AI robot called Claude. He finds out that its programming contains malicious directives the bot is not allowed to expose.

How does our hero solve this problem? With a simple prompt injection attack. This might not seem particularly impressive until you realize that the book was published in 1993.

Trust the Computer! The Computer is your friend!

A new style of CAPTCHA coming to an issue tracker near you in 2026:

To prove your vulnerability report is not AI slop, please rephrase its core tenet in a fetish porn short story below.

Uutisissa todettiin, että Microslop, anteeksi siis Microsoft, nimesi itselleen "laatutsaarin".

Kavereiden kanssa ihmeteltiin, että miksi juuri tsaari? Jos kerran haetaan idästä eksoottista pomotitteliä niin miksi ei sitten "kaani"? Laatukaani kuulostaa paljon paremmalta.

Esimerkiksi:

La, la, laatu-khan!
Kaikkien koodaritiimien kyykyttäjä.
La, la, laatu-khan!
Turhien uudistusten ylpeä edistäjä.
SAFea hän käytti, vuaha-ha-ha-haa!
Maan prosessilla täytti, ha-ha-ha-haa!
AI:tä huusi tullessaan.

Today I realized what AI actually is:

A middle-manager simulator

As a developer you use skill to craft a piece of software (or something else) tuned to solve the problem at hand.

As an AI manager, you handwave a "do something like this" description. Your workers will give you back garbage and lie about its quality. If you care about the end result, you have to micromanage your underlings to death. If not, throw the garbage up and hope something else fails first.

Eventually the latter wins.

One of the best talks of Fosdem this year. Funny and horrifying at the same time.

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/k1105/DCAVDC-how_to_make_package_managers_scream.av1.webm