GPT 5.2 Codex pretty much overtook Opus 4.5 for me and I was happy with the Claude progress and being the first choice for quite a while. Anthropic really didn't choose the right time to fight over the right to use OpenCode. It may just incentivise more devs to look for alternatives. #ai #claude

Good: minimax m2.1 knows how to use anime.js Bad: it absolutely has no concept of how to rotate a plot from one location to end up in another. Lines zoom off into the distance 😂

Using GUI frameworks has that fun failure mode where things just don't work, silently. You can call .Move() on some control and nothing happens. Someone experienced can tell you about all the different state details that led to this situation. But every single framework has thousands of those […]

I hate the "only secure system is an airgapped system" line so much. It doesn't apply to normal people, it's not actionable, it's not even true where the airgapped systems actually occur. It's just an "I kNoW a SmOrT WoRd" comment.

TIL: - my HRV has a G2 filter which is not enough for the smoke - I need the installer code to turn off the fan - I do not have the code 😒 I guess I'll sleep breathing the fresh bushfire smoke tonight...

I'm sad about the number of packages in nixpkgs that don't work on Darwin just because someone added Linux-specific things to the build unconditionally. I get that not everyone has the hardware to test, but if they add libX11 specific fixes... maybe check if other systems just don't need it?

GitHub is never adding proper stacked PRs support, right? I want it almost every time I submit something to nixpkgs and don't want to create a "fix Foo by changing its 10 arbitrary and unrelated dependencies" PR.

Recipe: > Heat 1/2 inch oil over medium heat in a large heavy skillet. Somehow, seeing a pan with oil spontaneously go FOOF with flames, twice, well below the official smoke point, makes me want to never try things like that. I'll let the restaurants do that.

I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/

Groups with multiple interests 😂

New project: Automatically sign ssh host keys in AWS EC2 - removes the known_hosts spam and ensures the first access is trusted. https://codeberg.org/viraptor/auto-ec2-host-key (vibed) #aws #devops #ssh

Love this! 😍 From a few years ago. Forgot where it was made!

Kwanzaa Facts 1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday. 2. So is every other holiday. 3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa. 4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert […]

Ive been thinking about this toot from @socketwench from their old instance from earlier this year. Since we don't know how much longer the original Hackers Town is going to stay online I felt I needed to screenshot it in the spirit of the pictured microfiction […] [Original post on masto.nyc]

IT'S BACK! FOR A LIMITED TIME! RADIOACTIVE CESIUM-137 SHRIMP! https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/direct-source-seafood-llc-recalling-frozen-raw-shrimp-because-product-may-have-become-contaminated #recall #radioactivity #cesium137

GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

I finally jotted down a table of in how far the big three browsers currently support RFC9460 HTTPS records. In summary: - All browsers support ALPN - Safari has the best support; it's the only browser that supports AliasMode, but Safari doesn't support ECH - […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I don't remember where I found this, but it still makes me laugh every time. #dadjokes

We #adhd folks should start calling all the useless knowledge we gathered while avoiding other work and/or while in hyperfocus „collateral knowledge“

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

I'm not super happy about Visual Studio 2026 taking 2x the memory 2022 did. But it somehow does seem much faster. I hope they can improve both a bit more still...

I've got a new handlebar grip which leaves a bigger gap compared to the ring of the shocks lock switch. What would you use to pad it securely? #askfedi #biketooter #bikes

A bunch of ordinary people spontaneously organizing and standing up to Trump in a way that *nobody* in a position of power is willing to do.

Spent 2h debugging something stupid. LLM suggested now that it may be due to selinux. If I get to work tomorrow and it's actually selinux, I'm throwing this server out of the window...

How can I reset mssql express permissions when I can't even login to a single user mode? ("Account is disabled") #askfedi #mssql

holy shit, valve uses Anubis

Windows start menu experience: "SQL" - search web for SQL server management studio "Ssms" - run SQL server management studio 🤷

`git stash -m "this approach fucking sucked but im not emotionally ready to give up on it yet`

Perfection. An amazing diagram.

Chart/graph libraries are all simple and nice. Until you want a map overlay and then... OH BOY IT'S HELL! Try to fix up the projection and align with a map image behind? Good luck!

Just in time for the Halloween season, I found a Tuya smart plug on my network with the IRC port open. I'M SURE IT'S FINE! #security #iot

One dusty boi recovered from a company cabinet 🙀

Quite often I think how I could run the small company's IT better. Then I realise I really don't want to though. And that's how we got an unknown server and an unused NAS running in the cabinet. Still better than actually dealing with all the crap though.

Day 5: remix - this one took me far too long! https://sarajoy.neocities.org/weirdweboctober2025/day5/ #weirdweboctober

Something stupid/fun for #weirdweboctober - Excalidraw SVGs, but dramatic. https://blog.viraptor.info/dramatic-svg/index.html

The #nixos moderation team resigns "effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions." […]

Wrote a thing about MacOS protections for supply chain attacks https://blog.viraptor.info/post/supply-chain-security-for-the-0001-and-why-it-wont-catch-on Feel free to upvote on the orange site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393868 #security #macos #supplychain

does that mean Jimmy Kimmel is a Disney princess

New dating app #charliekirk #kirk #antikirk #activism #Antifascism #Antifa #dating#kirk#charliekirk#antikirk#antifadating #activism

I tried to create a sandbox profile for installing js dependencies on a mac. Sandbox-exec is terrible. No real docs, a lot of guessing, debugging not great. It kinda works, but between sandbox-exec not supporting "allow exec with custom profile", mise writing cache scripts, node running whatever […]

Turns out I would, in some cases, eat a bag of dicks. Who knew.

I don't think they know what "secret" means...

#steam check-out going down due to #silksong is kinda hilarious. I wonder if they'll start forcing preorders for titles like that...

Jesusfuck I am just finding out about the Pentagon Puzza index and that totally tracks