Mastodawn

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

Ken Dahl Apr 3

Ars Technica Apr 2

Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says
Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/perplexitys-incognito-mode-is-a-sham-lawsuit-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Ken Dahl Mar 16

spaf Mar 16

Each day brings chances to ease pain, share a laugh, love someone, and be loved.

One day, those chances stop coming. What remains are the differences we made, the people whose lives are better because of what we did and said, and the love we shared.

Don't bet on "someday." Carpe diem.

Ken Dahl Mar 11

Eugen Rochko Mar 10

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

Ken Dahl Mar 10

Ian Campbell 🏴Mar 10

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Ken Dahl Mar 10

Matt Machell Mar 10

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Given how core MS, Github, AWS and co are, and their YOLO in the AI code approach. We are probably months out from an utterly catastrophic AI driven availability or security related incident.

Ken Dahl Mar 10

Baldur Bjarnason Mar 10

“Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages”

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

Magnify dysfunction through automation and all you get is more dysfunction.

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

Financial Times

Ken Dahl Mar 4

JA Westenberg Mar 4

The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint

Ken Dahl Mar 4

Baldur Bjarnason Mar 4

(Following thread was prompted by people pointing out that the Bluesky dev team seems heavily into vibe-coding now and originally posted on said vibe-coded Bluesky platform that is now constantly failing.)

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

Ken Dahl Mar 4

schratze Mar 2

The problem with renewable energies is that they're just not reliable enough.

Where is your wind and solar power supposed to come from now that the strait of Hormuz is blocked?