Jamie Gaskins

Jamie Gaskins

@jgaskins.lol

I cry when computers do precisely what I asked them to instead of what I wanted

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When I received a chat message on BlueSky in March, it said I'd have to verify that I'm an adult by sending my id to some provider to use chat. Clicked it again now and I can see the chat message. I haven't verified I'm an adult. Are they letting babies chat now or did they get my id another way?

Thinking an LLM is conscious is like believing sex workers really like you. Both are a fantasy. They emulate what their target audience wants to see. I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum but believing either is real will end badly.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Could AI be conscious?

theguardian.comCould AI be conscious?Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

The ASL interpreter is the unsung hero of this video. It's been a few decades since I've signed (my childhood best friend's mom was deaf), but she is Luthering for Brandon Johnson here. It's incredible.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Mayor Johnson: There are those in this country that have decided, at the behest of this president, to declare war on Chicago and American cities across this country. They have clearly decided that they want a rematch of the Civil War. We will not submit to the authoritarianism that is coming down.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Cautionary tale from 2 decades ago.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

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Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

andre.arko.netBundler belongs to the Ruby communityI’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...

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With a heavy heart, I have to remind everyone that Kubernetes v1.30 Uwubernetes is now EOL. If you are still running on v1.30, please upgrade your clusters uwu 👉👈😔

They're being commissioned as Lieutenant Colonels. An LTC is usually a battalion commander, brigade XO, or a staff officer under a General. That's a lot of military authority/influence for people with zero military training. I'd say this is unprecedented, except there is precedent and it was bad.

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.comSilicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.

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@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social

this shot belongs in the Louvre

You're telling me that Herb roasted this chicken?

The Onion@theonion.com

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken theonion.com/heroic-...

theonion.comHeroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted ChickenTACOMA, WA—Operating on pure natural instinct while leaping into action to protect his beloved owners, heroic dog Snickers saved a local family of five from the threat of an herb-roasted chicken, sources confirmed Wednesday. “It was a close call, but luckily Snickers could sense the golden brown skin of the chicken we’d just roasted for […]

The more people talk about ATProto (Bluesky) vs ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, et al), the more I think identity in a social graph is such a narrow slice of the problem.

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One challenge is migrating your identity to a new domain (or identity-provider subdomain if you're not hosting your own). You have to convince the services that authenticated you through your old domain that your new domain is your new canonical identity.

Part of the challenge with that is that there needs to be some way to ensure that someone else isn't trying to impersonate you on a new domain by pretending you migrated there.

The more people talk about ATProto (Bluesky) vs ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, et al), the more I think identity in a social graph is such a narrow slice of the problem.

I'm thinking of a cross between DIDs (what ATProto uses) and OIDC (which is like OAuth2 but slightly better). I want people to be able to paste in their domain, or subdomain of another provider, which then does like a 3-legged OAuth flow, and everything else is handled by the apps.

It's not a matter of legal opinion. It's written in plain language in *the very first sentence* of the 14th Amendment. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Leavitt: This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional

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bluesky really, really needs "turn off retweets"

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After 15 years off the market, I’m available for hire! I’m an effective, versatile and compassionate technical leader, and an accomplished Rubyist. I’m looking for remote Principal or Staff Engineer roles, at 4 days/week. Find out more: timriley.info/posts/hire-me

timriley.infoHire me! - Tim RileyAfter 15 years at Buildkite, Culture Amp and Icelab, I’m available for hire! I’m an effective, versatile and compassionate technical leader, and an accomplished Rubyist. I’m looking for remote Princi...

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@thelovelymc.bsky.social

list of priorities in 2025: 1. me

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дядя играет

@rexadecimal.bsky.social

Today is the last day you can post this picture

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@nadinewhitney.bsky.social

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

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Erica Henderson

@ericafails.bsky.social

If you use a shorter, wider mug you can have as much cocoa and 3x the marshmallows Follow me for more life hacks

Noah was easily one of the kindest people I've ever met. It's always hard to hear news like this, but especially about someone like him. I'm glad I got to spend time with him along the way.

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Millennial CEOs be like "at the jerb we all fam"

Have they ever had André 3000 on Mystery Science Theater 3000?

MST 3 stacks

Literally all of these are delicious. I legitimately do not understand why anyone thinks otherwise.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

You can only eat one for the rest of your life, which one you picking?

Something I almost posted in a PR today and later realized I should have: Someone will inevitably feel the urge to follow the internet tradition of offering unsolicited advice that they think will be helpful for my use case, so I'll just head that off by assuring those folks: I know.

When I was in the army, we had a joke "being Airborne means never passing on an opportunity to let everyone around you know you're better than they are". I notice that same smug sense of superiority a lot in the Rust community.

Brian Holt@brianholt.me

"It's written in Rust" is not a feature of your app. "It's blazing fast" is a hollow claim that makes me doubt it. Please stop putting these things on your homepage. Please show me why your tool/app/whatever makes my work easier/cheaper/faster-to-iterate.

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@mattkeeter.com

absolutely incredible attack vector

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@mattkeeter.com

Replying to @mattkeeter.com

(someone used a carefully crafted branch name to inject a crypto miner into a popular Python package: github.com/ultralytics/...)

github.comDiscrepancy between what's in GitHub and what's been published to PyPI for v8.3.41 · Issue #18027 · ultralytics/ultralyticsBug Code in the published wheel 8.3.41 is not what's in GitHub and appears to invoke mining. Users of ultralytics who install 8.3.41 will unknowingly execute an xmrig miner. Examining the file util...

When people ask me why I became a software engineer

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That's not strictly true. I picked up a lot of other skills along the way. Software pays better than nearly all of them, though. I think one or two aspects of my military training pay better, though probably not legally. Or morally.

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RadioShack Crystal Phone (1990s)📞✨

Did she ever get in touch with her real grandchild or did she swap them for Jamal?

SinnamonS@sinnamonscouture.bsky.social

#Thanksgiving2024 Another year! 🙏🏽

Tired: "bike is short for bichael" Wired: "mike is short for micycle"

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Amyville Hoyrror

@amyhoy.bsky.social

roasted to death by the emoji keyboard

Still trying to learn how ATProto works at various levels. One way I learn things deeply is by implementing them myself. Is there a good way to test integration between Bluesky and a custom PDS?

Like, I can see that I need to implement various xrpc endpoints, but how do I know if I've done that correctly? With ActivityPub, I can just interact with the server from my Mastodon account or vice versa. Does ATProto have an equivalent? Do I have to register with a relay?

I suppose what I'm looking for is a minimum viable implementation — whatever that looks like. From there I can tinker with it to understand it more.

Someone on Mastodon asked a Postgres question about timestamps as generated columns. I responded with a GitHub gist and now my name will be mentioned at a PHP conference. gist.github.com/jgaskins/417...

gist.github.comParse Postgres TIMESTAMPs from JSON blobsParse Postgres TIMESTAMPs from JSON blobs. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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@dansheehan.bsky.social

We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes

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We could really use some kinda boat stuck in some kinda canal right about now. Would definitely lift our spirits.

@aphoenix.bsky.social Hey Abby! 🎉

Big "night before Helm's Deep" energy tonight