Ingvar Stepanyan

> walking through marrakech at night > some guy comes up and asks if I want hash > I ask if it's a cryptographic hash > he doesn't understand > I show him the NIST definition > he laughs and says "it's a good hash" [...] > it's not a cryptographic hash

This is remarkably impressive from a mechanical viewpoint. The AI targeting and tracking is straightforward, but to turret mount a Ma Deuce to the point where it can be a few hundred meter range anti-air gun is damn impressive. Now just need cheap distance-fused rounds...

Spending years on an assurance feature you fail to ship, when you have 3 year release cycles, and *this* is happening?

New advanced voice model from Jack Dorsey / Block that is made specifically for conversations. Called Dessa. Pretty spooky if it’s as good as the sample demos they published here. Her, the movie, has arrived? block.xyz/dessa

What a hacktoberfest huh.

GitHub, you are hereby absolved of all your sins. Go in peace. github.blog/changelog/20...

Regarding the starlink speed limit, 161km/h seemed so arbitrary, so I had a hunch and converted it to Freedom Units…

I did though

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

In September, the AI company Anthropic claimed its models were approaching “superhuman capabilities for geolocating outdoor photos”. Bellingcat put that claim to the test by benchmarking the performance of Anthropic and other LLMs. Here’s what we found: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

brutal

My eyebrow-raising muscles are having a good training lately. What, and I can't get tired of repeating this, the actual fuck???

The Diplomat is such a good show.

President Trump: Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much. Comment from me: see quoted post.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Nepal passed 5% battery electric vehicle share in August 2021 and is at 75%. The U.S. passed 5% in October 2022 and is at 6%.

Reading the issue: "yeah yeah simple hashes can collide, obviously not an issue for the compiler on any real wor... I'M SORRY WHAT" > That includes collisions where both sides look like plausible source paths, not gibberish, e.g. data/baselines/table.rs will conflict with database/line/stable.rs.

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Slopcoding is going well.

russian data centers must be recognized as critical infrastructure of the American elections and shielded from any Ukrainian attacks, effective immediately.

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?

Zelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32%

I think it's time for the US to get a new president.

Also it’s too cheap and easy to get. It’s better to get the crappy stuff that will kill more American farmers machinery

So.. a thing happened. blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-c...

Honestly love every detail here

MS-DOS 2.0 (1983) meets AI (2026).

I was talking to somebody at a UK council recently and they said they’ve been overwhelmed by GenAI complaints. People sending in 30 page ChatGPT documents about hedge disputes and such. They can’t function.

Damn, how bad was my code?

"On This Day" memory: Oct 4, 2014 - "WeNode", the first (unofficial) #NodeConf Barcelona. 1 day, 2 tracks, with @pimterry.fyi @rreverser.com @krasimir.bsky.social and so many more amazing folks. We had JS cake and @gorhgorh.bsky.social with his Cat Bot laser kits for people to build. What a day ❤️

Cloudflare Birthday Week is on a roll this year. Not even going to share every blogpost individually 🥵

open source projects may need to lock PRs to trusted folks. careless slop is sucking the life out of maintainers. we need better tools to talk to and onboard new contributors while interacting on issues. more friction could actually help new folks who care stand out, and let the community breathe

It’s weird how I could go to jail if my dog bites someone, but if an AI steals all the social security numbers that’s more of an oopsie.

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

Well, just had a leading LLM get an internal error processing a Material Safety Data Sheet I sent it, so it HALLUCINATED THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD and created a fake version of the product... so it could give answers about the product. Oh lord.

Found my new sleeping bag.