Mastodawn

Fscking Finagle's Law. I thought today's work soundtrack would be Shpongle, but it's looking like I'll need Dead Posey+Assemblage 23 again. Just hoping the water leak in the server room A) doesn't get worse, B) is fixed quickly, and C) is the live frog for the day.

Rick Owens 3d ago

M. G. Liebach ⁂🐾3d ago

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116815690622894469

Oooh, is it starting to happen, the inevitable crash?

Rick Owens 5d ago

Carl C 6d ago

Me: Between Gemini and I, I have a script to do this.
Co-manager: Gemini just makes everything easier.
Me: 😐 I spent 7 hours forcing Gemini to rewrite and rewrite, until it finally reached a solution. I could have written the script myself in that time and actually learned from it. Instead, I don't clearly know how the script works. I need another hour to understand what it's doing.

This was not an AI win. It was a fail.

Rick Owens 6d ago

The Doctor May 14

Hi.

I'm a professional computer geek in the Bay Area. I've been a sysadmin, designed and built networks, been a penetration tester, done security research, and incident response. I'm flexible enough to work as in aerospace engineering as well as computational pharmacology.

I'm still #unemployed.

I'm searching for a job, on-site or remote. If you're hiring, please DM me, or at least send me a link or two? Please?

#GetFediHired

Rick Owens 6d ago

Cory Doctorow 6d ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

New short stories, exclusively in my bookstore! Montague Portal and Rats' Man's Lackey.

https://mwl.io/archives/24863

by Dog, I loathe marketing.

Two new short stories in my store – Michael W Lucas

Rick Owens 6d ago

Charlie Stross 6d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116800702398076972

I remember this happening A LOT in 2020: overvalued prices at IPO followed by a brisk tumble and no recovery ever.

SpaceX has a viable rocket business (Kesseler syndrome permitting) but in no way was the IPO price justified and those shares are never going to recover this side of 2050.

Rick Owens 6d ago

Jessica Lyons Jun 15

The “jailbreak” that prompted the Trump administration to block Anthropic’s most advanced models was a three-word prompt: “Fix this code.” That's according to Luta Security CEO Katie Moussouris
- the only outside expert to read the research paper on the guardrail bypass that prompted the ban.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-code-prompt-not-jailbreak-says-researcher/5255827

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

According to the one person who actually read the research paper

theregister

Rick Owens 6d ago

Hedgewizard 🐈Jun 21

On the darkest day of the year, I plant garlic. On the lightest, I harvest it. On the autumn equinox I make garlic toast and breathe on as many people as possible.

Rick Owens Jun 22

Michael W Lucas

Jun 21

Yeah, it's off schedule, but I'm trying to get things rolling again. Here's a new #60SecondsOfWIP: "Cardamom Seasoned with Damp Poodle."

https://mwl.io/archives/24861

117: Cardamom Seasoned with Damp Poodle

from a new Montague Portal story

60 Seconds of WIP

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