Joe Poser

Joe Poser

@jposer.bsky.social

Occasional moaning about cloud engineering but mostly cats.

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Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

Max Payne Smash Bros Melee GTA III Halo Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social

--The #BSGOTYs2026 nomination round: 2001-- Please nominate up to five games from 2001 to advance to the ranked ballot For what counts, see: bsky.app/profile/bata... You are not restricted to games included on the grid, here is a fuller list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...

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Nute
@nutedawn.bsky.social

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament Ok Rollercoaster Tycoon Gran Turismo 2 Tony Hawks Pro Skater Planescape Torment

Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social

--The #BSGOTYs2026 nomination round: 1999-- Please nominate up to five games from 1999 to advance to the ranked ballot For what counts, see: bsky.app/profile/bata... You are not restricted to games included on the grid, here is a fuller list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...

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Mark
@worgztheowl.bsky.social

Replying to @worgztheowl.bsky.social

🎤Take a look at the bond man Beating up the wrong gal Oh man wonder if he'll ever know It's the deep state on show... Is there leaf on Mars....?🎤

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Jon at Handiwork Games
@handiworkgames.bsky.social

I was honoured to be asked by Osprey Games, in addition to the cover, to make some interior art from Oathmark Second edition by Joseph McCullough. Classic stuff for me. Here's a selection.

Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

Huh weird, I just fixed this mini I bought for cheap.

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple introducing the first-generation iPod. To celebrate, Apple has hidden a fully functional iPod emulator on its Apple Music “Page Not Found” page.

Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

It's such a nice music player to use even 20 odd years later, and replacing the original micro drive with an SD card means I have a tiny Hitachi hard drive I can marvel at. These things are absolute engineering marvels.

Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

I know it's a fight that's completely lost at this point but having a headphone jack on a portable music player is a huge step up in usability over a modern smartphone.

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daniel:// stenberg://
@bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

“ignore the slop” https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/22/ignore-the-slop/

daniel.haxx.se“ignore the slop”Lots of people who are against the use of AI for all its ethical and inherent issues tell me this. _Just ignore it_. Don’t let _big AI_ control us. The “slop” they refer to is anything created that involved an AI, and in our case (the curl project) it is in particular vulnerability reports. “Ignoring the slop” _cannot be done_ and it doesn’t help. Vulnerability reports created with the help of AIs point out actual problems, and sometimes vulnerabilities. Ignoring real vulnerabilities because they were found by AI does not make users safe and secure. It makes them vulnerable. _We don’t want that_. I personally don’t refer to this as _AI slop_ because the reports are typically accurate and correct, even if much too wordy. I think “slop” implies that it is wrong, misleading or otherwise bad content. One can certainly object to the use of AI, but when we get real vulnerabilities reported and proven, we cannot in good faith pretend they don’t exist just because we think the tech involved in digging them up is questionable. That would be a disservice to, or even betrayal of, our users. We make curl secure for our users. ## Obligations An Open Source project typically gives no guarantees at all, so there are no _legal_ requirements that force us to fix flaws. We are however a project with high goals of quality and stability and we would jeopardize our name and track record if we now would stop delivering on that. Also, a few of us involved in the project also sell curl related support and services, where at least part of that means providing _secure_ curl releases, so we still have this _contractual obligation_ to a set of customers. And they wouldn’t be customers in the fist place if the Open Source project didn’t already have the proven quality track record. So no, we really cannot ignore vulnerability reports. ## The slop is gone A sizeable portion of users seem to still believe we still suffer from a lot of made up and hallucinated reports by these AIs. We really don’t. Almost all the stupidity and lies we saw in the vulnerability reports made by AIs in the past have ceased. Since spring 2026 the slop reports are practically gone. Our current challenge is much harder: high volume, high quality. ## AI talks too much They always use too many words. Every report is now hundreds of lines and the explanations are convoluted and detailed (and often repeat themselves multiple times). In a good report, the human writes a first paragraph explaining the problem _briefly_ and then they submit the full report. It’s annoying when the reporter surrender everything to the AI, including the communication part. The AIs are also still bad at figuring out exactly there the line is between a bug and a vulnerability, and if it is a vulnerability, what severity it is. This is not a surprise though, as this is also the case for human reporters. A good trend is that they often produce good reproducers or proofs of concept helping to trigger and prove the problem/vulnerability. That was a really complicated part of the reporters’ work back in the day, now it’s just a prompt or two. ## Everything is with AI now These days, like within the last few months, we have received hundreds of vulnerability reports submitted to curl and _every single one had AI involved to some extent_. It is generally easy to tell on the language and the length and details of the report.

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Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen.bsky.social

Pouring one out for Bioware this morning, and thinking of their rise and fall across such a long period. It's oddly close to home, for someone who never worked there, and only in an adjoining industry. But I did get to see behind the curtain once, and it stuck with me.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️
@sharkabytes.bsky.social

It's Christmas 1998, and you're deep into CRPGs and AD&D. You pop in the first of Baldur's Gate's five discs and are greeted by an epic autorun that'll whisk you to Forgotten Realms like you've never seen them before. That was my Xmas 1998 with my first Win 95 PC. I was so excited to play it. 💜

Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

We’re seeing the studios that built the medium get dismantled week in week out. Hard not to worry for the future of video games.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comElectronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWareThe next ‘Mass Effect’ will be canceled as part of the layoffs
Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

Oh good, nerds getting excited managed to trigger the Github PR spam filter and now the upstream changes CI job has failed.

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Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield.bsky.social

> ditches ideology for reality > more ideology

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Isabella Weber is THE economist to be listening to right now “Fascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods,” says Weber. “So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for realityExclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all
Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social

Lol good luck with that.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

'the price of the [Xbox] Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost' -Game Pass planning major overhaul (a la carte) -next-gen handheld by 2027 holidays, console 2028 holidays fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...