Janne
@ecyrd.com
Dad, blogger, RPGer, general geek. Finland. Chief Engineer at SOK. Right now, I use Bluesky for the more serious stuff, then all lighter stuff is in Finnish at https://www.threads.net/@ecyrd.
A variation of Cunningham's law: post an opinion with a tiny, inconsequential error, and watch people comment on it to correct, therefore guaranteeing visibility to the opinion.
I'm calling it Cuningham's law.
I'm calling it Cuningham's law.
July 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A variation of Cunningham's law: post an opinion with a tiny, inconsequential error, and watch people comment on it to correct, therefore guaranteeing visibility to the opinion.
I'm calling it Cuningham's law.
I'm calling it Cuningham's law.
Any sufficiently advanced stochastic parrot is indistinguishable from human.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Any sufficiently advanced stochastic parrot is indistinguishable from human.
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This is a fun idea: a HTML zip bomb (aka a file that expands to be extremely large) to exhaust those bad bots that do not honor the robots.txt file and just crawl everything without permission.
Though of course if this becomes widespread, many bots will adapt.
ache.one/notes/html_z...
Though of course if this becomes widespread, many bots will adapt.
ache.one/notes/html_z...
A valid HTML zip bomb - ache
<h1 id="a-valid-html-zip-bomb"><a tabindex="0" class="anchor" href="/notes/html_zip_bomb">A valid HTML zip bomb</a></h1><p><img src="/notes/res/zip_bomb_file.svg" alt="Illustration d'une bombe zi...
ache.one
July 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is a fun idea: a HTML zip bomb (aka a file that expands to be extremely large) to exhaust those bad bots that do not honor the robots.txt file and just crawl everything without permission.
Though of course if this becomes widespread, many bots will adapt.
ache.one/notes/html_z...
Though of course if this becomes widespread, many bots will adapt.
ache.one/notes/html_z...
Is Google's vision is that they (and other ad-powered sites like Meta) are the only free sites on the internet? You either read the average AI-produced crap, or you pay for your content.
Maybe there will be, um, let's call them "channels", that let you subscribe to a large number of sites at once?
Maybe there will be, um, let's call them "channels", that let you subscribe to a large number of sites at once?
Last week Google launched Offerwall, a suite of tools for publishers to monetize web content beyond ads as their search traffic dwindles given AI Overviews.
It’s like a paywall with options including micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, or publisher-specific choices to unlock the content.
It’s like a paywall with options including micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, or publisher-specific choices to unlock the content.
As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.
techcrunch.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Is Google's vision is that they (and other ad-powered sites like Meta) are the only free sites on the internet? You either read the average AI-produced crap, or you pay for your content.
Maybe there will be, um, let's call them "channels", that let you subscribe to a large number of sites at once?
Maybe there will be, um, let's call them "channels", that let you subscribe to a large number of sites at once?
If uncommitted code has no value, and all code becomes legacy when you commit it, that means that only legacy code has value. #showerthought #programming
June 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
If uncommitted code has no value, and all code becomes legacy when you commit it, that means that only legacy code has value. #showerthought #programming
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If you live in a city or state in the U.S. that depends on tourism, it’s going to be a rough summer.
Our government has made it clear foreign visitors are unwelcome and local economies will suffer.
Elections have consequences.
Our government has made it clear foreign visitors are unwelcome and local economies will suffer.
Elections have consequences.
Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and More Slash Routes to Major Cities Including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to Tap Soaring Demand Across Canada, Mexico, ...
European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and ...
www.travelandtourworld.com
May 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you live in a city or state in the U.S. that depends on tourism, it’s going to be a rough summer.
Our government has made it clear foreign visitors are unwelcome and local economies will suffer.
Elections have consequences.
Our government has made it clear foreign visitors are unwelcome and local economies will suffer.
Elections have consequences.
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At this point the economic damage from the drop in consumer confidence and inability of businesses to plan is clear. The actual goal of the tariffs outside of getting a bunch of world leaders to kiss the ring less so.
This level of self inflicted damage to the global economy is unprecedented.
This level of self inflicted damage to the global economy is unprecedented.
April 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At this point the economic damage from the drop in consumer confidence and inability of businesses to plan is clear. The actual goal of the tariffs outside of getting a bunch of world leaders to kiss the ring less so.
This level of self inflicted damage to the global economy is unprecedented.
This level of self inflicted damage to the global economy is unprecedented.
Ooh, I have a Torment Nexus idea: AI that watches new movies and tv series for you and produces five-minute overviews with lookalike actors and sets! Think of the time saving, and you don't need to care about things like ambience, or, well, humanity!
I'm raising money for this idea rn, plz contact.
I'm raising money for this idea rn, plz contact.
April 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ooh, I have a Torment Nexus idea: AI that watches new movies and tv series for you and produces five-minute overviews with lookalike actors and sets! Think of the time saving, and you don't need to care about things like ambience, or, well, humanity!
I'm raising money for this idea rn, plz contact.
I'm raising money for this idea rn, plz contact.
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The working class doesn't need board games! Why do they need games when they could be working their asses off to make the ruling class even richer!
#TTRPG
#TrumpTariffs
#TTRPG
#TrumpTariffs
Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
www.pcgamer.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The working class doesn't need board games! Why do they need games when they could be working their asses off to make the ruling class even richer!
#TTRPG
#TrumpTariffs
#TTRPG
#TrumpTariffs
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My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Nothing quite like getting a notification from a forgotten service that they have been breached and you should change the password, then going back to do that and realizing you've no memory how fun it was and hot darn it is looking good and then just starting to visit it every day. 😀
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Nothing quite like getting a notification from a forgotten service that they have been breached and you should change the password, then going back to do that and realizing you've no memory how fun it was and hot darn it is looking good and then just starting to visit it every day. 😀
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A new study by van Westen et al. shows that the #tippingpoint of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is also found in a high-resolution ocean model which resolves ocean eddies. No surprise to AMOC experts, but it's so computationally expensive to show that this hasn't been done before. 🌊🧵
March 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A new study by van Westen et al. shows that the #tippingpoint of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is also found in a high-resolution ocean model which resolves ocean eddies. No surprise to AMOC experts, but it's so computationally expensive to show that this hasn't been done before. 🌊🧵
Wondering how many devs are starting to avoid upgrading to new major versions of libraries now, simply because their AI coding assistants don't yet know the intricacies of the new version.
Yet at the same time, AI allows the library authors to churn out new versions faster.
#development #ai
Yet at the same time, AI allows the library authors to churn out new versions faster.
#development #ai
March 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Wondering how many devs are starting to avoid upgrading to new major versions of libraries now, simply because their AI coding assistants don't yet know the intricacies of the new version.
Yet at the same time, AI allows the library authors to churn out new versions faster.
#development #ai
Yet at the same time, AI allows the library authors to churn out new versions faster.
#development #ai
Reading the internet today makes me feel like there is already a strong overlap between the smartest AIs and the dumbest humans.
March 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reading the internet today makes me feel like there is already a strong overlap between the smartest AIs and the dumbest humans.
I can't really look at any online text anymore without thinking that this must be a ChatGPT product. Or at least it's been touched by an AI to sound more "professional."
When everything becomes "one voice" you lose so much nuance in the writing, I lose interest in reading. And that's a problem.
When everything becomes "one voice" you lose so much nuance in the writing, I lose interest in reading. And that's a problem.
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I can't really look at any online text anymore without thinking that this must be a ChatGPT product. Or at least it's been touched by an AI to sound more "professional."
When everything becomes "one voice" you lose so much nuance in the writing, I lose interest in reading. And that's a problem.
When everything becomes "one voice" you lose so much nuance in the writing, I lose interest in reading. And that's a problem.
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Donnerin kahdeksan käskyä.
1. Nuku hyvin, etenkin päivisin, ja päivittäin
1. Nuku hyvin, etenkin päivisin, ja päivittäin
February 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Donnerin kahdeksan käskyä.
1. Nuku hyvin, etenkin päivisin, ja päivittäin
1. Nuku hyvin, etenkin päivisin, ja päivittäin
Some on vähän kuin kotibileet : Hauskaa ja kivaa siihen asti, kunnes joku saa käsiinsä megafonin.
January 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Some on vähän kuin kotibileet : Hauskaa ja kivaa siihen asti, kunnes joku saa käsiinsä megafonin.
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Fresh impact crater and ejecta blanket on Prince Edward Island
P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first | CBC News
A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.
www.cbc.ca
January 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Fresh impact crater and ejecta blanket on Prince Edward Island
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Someone else posted this and I've been thinking a lot about how we got here
January 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Someone else posted this and I've been thinking a lot about how we got here
I see no plausible scenario in which this wouldn't go horribly wrong.
Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
December 30, 2024 at 10:41 PM
I see no plausible scenario in which this wouldn't go horribly wrong.
I've been using AIs as a programming aide as I am delving into a slightly unfamiliar environment, and I'm realizing I'm not getting as deep of an understanding of the underlying system as before.
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December 17, 2024 at 10:23 AM
I've been using AIs as a programming aide as I am delving into a slightly unfamiliar environment, and I'm realizing I'm not getting as deep of an understanding of the underlying system as before.
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I'm not really that bothered by the moral aspects of AI companies scraping the internet to train their systems. I am however deeply bothered by the moral aspects of what people think they can do with AI.
www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...
www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...
Almost Half The Girls At This School Were Targets Of AI Porn. Their Ex-Classmates Have Now Been Indicted.
The accused are alleged to have created 347 images and videos of 60 female victims, 48 of whom were previously their classmates at a small school in Pennslyvania.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:33 AM
I'm not really that bothered by the moral aspects of AI companies scraping the internet to train their systems. I am however deeply bothered by the moral aspects of what people think they can do with AI.
www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...
www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...
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It's fine for me and others to bitch about how AI is ruining news-making and professional journalism-ing but the fact is that AI is moving so much faster to fuck up regular-ass reality for young people
“In November, students walked out to protest what they viewed as the school’s failure to investigate the scope and scale of the AI-generated media.”
Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
Almost Half The Girls At This School Were Targets Of AI Porn. Their Ex-Classmates Have Now Been Indicted.
The accused are alleged to have created 347 images and videos of 60 female victims, 48 of whom were previously their classmates at a small school in Pennslyvania.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:21 AM
It's fine for me and others to bitch about how AI is ruining news-making and professional journalism-ing but the fact is that AI is moving so much faster to fuck up regular-ass reality for young people
Ooo, this was a good read.
"Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is absolutely devastating. It is the death knell for a software project. Makes deadlines meaningless."
#software #dev
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-...
"Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is absolutely devastating. It is the death knell for a software project. Makes deadlines meaningless."
#software #dev
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-...
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Ooo, this was a good read.
"Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is absolutely devastating. It is the death knell for a software project. Makes deadlines meaningless."
#software #dev
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-...
"Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is absolutely devastating. It is the death knell for a software project. Makes deadlines meaningless."
#software #dev
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-...