Tom dB
@deadlyhifi.com
Why am I here? I’d rather be riding my bike.
Web stuff - I like CSS the best.
Propagandhi salesman.
Punk, ska, reggae, music.
Web stuff - I like CSS the best.
Propagandhi salesman.
Punk, ska, reggae, music.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Me using a vibe-coded UI:
December 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Me using a vibe-coded UI:
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Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.
Punk Legend Jello Biafra's 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible
Owned and driven by music legend Jello Biafra since 1995, this 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible has impeccable punk rock credentials. As Jello’s daily driver for decades, this T160-generation...
www.hemmings.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.
Wordle 1,635 4/6*
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Look at the symmetry.
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🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
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Look at the symmetry.
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Wordle 1,635 4/6*
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Look at the symmetry.
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨
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Look at the symmetry.
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Onlooker (from Teeside)
“Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker
“I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
Onlooker (from Teeside)
“Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker
“I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Onlooker (from Teeside)
“Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker
“I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
Onlooker (from Teeside)
“Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker
“I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Fast Blood (from Newcastle)
Fast Blood (from Newcastle)
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Fast Blood (from Newcastle)
Fast Blood (from Newcastle)
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Hidden Youth (from Leeds)
Hidden Youth (from Leeds)
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Endless Spite 2 fest.
Hidden Youth (from Leeds)
Hidden Youth (from Leeds)
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This never fails to make me laugh lol
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This never fails to make me laugh lol
WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)
YouTube video by BEATPELLA HOUSE
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless...
I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
Endless Spite 2 Comes to Shipley this December - Yorkshire Gig Guide
Endless Spite returns to Shipley on 6 December with cult punk and hardcore acts including And None of Them Knew They Were Robots.
yorkshire-gig-guide.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless...
I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.
Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe.
I’m getting better at chess.
I’m getting better at chess.
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe.
I’m getting better at chess.
I’m getting better at chess.
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“Because at the end of it all, when the curtain falls and the seats are empty — it’s just you. So live for yourself. You only have you.” — letters from rosie
who are you when nobody’s watching?
who are you when nobody’s watching? “I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.” — Ozamu Dazai The seats are empty. The theatre is …
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“Because at the end of it all, when the curtain falls and the seats are empty — it’s just you. So live for yourself. You only have you.” — letters from rosie
Hello whirled. This is a test post from my ATP app
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hello whirled. This is a test post from my ATP app
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Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sandwich man leaving court
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
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A fantastic piece on how the open philosophy of the web has been eroded and what we can do about it.
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A fantastic piece on how the open philosophy of the web has been eroded and what we can do about it.
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Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really
September 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really
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This is owned by a LANlord
August 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is owned by a LANlord
GitHub advocating for a European Sovereign Tech Fund to ensure critical open source software is funded and maintained.
github.blog/open-source/...
github.blog/open-source/...
We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.
github.blog
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
GitHub advocating for a European Sovereign Tech Fund to ensure critical open source software is funded and maintained.
github.blog/open-source/...
github.blog/open-source/...
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I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds