Yay, my first repo has reached 1000 stars on GitHub! If it wasn't for the dire state of the tech labor market, I'd probably consider switching to a programming job now.

https://github.com/chrisgrieser/shimmering-obsidian

Two headlines in my feed today:

"AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"
"Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit"

Well, what could go wrong?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-hegseth-ai-pentagon-military-3d86c9296fe953ec0591fcde6a613aba

I have a landline connection provided by my ISP, but don't have a phone plugged in. By chance, I noticed that my router nonetheless eagerly logs every attempt to call my landline number.

Aside from a few spam calls, I was mostly called by survey institutes. A total of 12(!) calls by infas in the span of 3 weeks, and a total of 14(!) by forsa in 5 weeks. I know follow-up calls are important, but that feels excessive.

(Screenshot shows an excerpt, all of them are public numbers by companies.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ctietze/115883578723228029

I don't care about most of macOS Tahoe design changes people nitpick about, but this is undoubtedly a real design fail.

Another season of #anime, where shows try to grab our attentions with more and more absurd titles. I'll just stick to shows with "normal" titles.

*sees the title "Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table"*

Fine, I'll check out the first episode for this one.

I get a PR to one of my repos, which practically doubles the code size just to cover a niche use case affecting at most 1% of users.

The author mentions in the very first paragraph of their about-me-page that “they care about code maintainability.” 🙃