Vibe coding a trading simulation with some random cryptocoins. A +105.14% return in only 10 days by doing some basic balancing? Impressive. Very nice. You know how LLMs are prone to hallucinating facts? In this case, the LLM appears to be hallucinating money. It's all BS.

I coded a simple #openproxy checker. It includes a unique key in each test URL. There's a particular IP that loads up the test URL immediately after my script probes certain proxies. Is something automatically capturing every page that users request via the proxy? Hmmmmmmm...

Why is my feed today suddenly showing a bunch of stuff it didn't yesterday? - Guns - History slop - UFO conspiracy theories - Facebook style uplifting stories - Realtime crime reporting in a continent I do not live - Boomer jokes - Tech/Linkedin shitposts (ok, these can stay)

Facebook just reminded me of a dream I had (and documented) back in 2010. A diverse committee of what we'd now call AI agents, debating to arrive at a consensus. (The DRM thing seemed dystopian at the time, but now, who knows?)

Microsoft Teams: - Open file via search: read only, no explanation why - Open file manually: editable - Open file on an org PC: opens in sharepoint/web, changes AUTOSAVED - Open file outside org: opens in Teams editor, changes NOT SAVED Integration? Yes. Consistency? NO!

Me: Hey, I'd like a browser that can deterministically render HTML/CSS, and faithfully execute Javascript. It looks and behaves exactly as the designer intended. Mozilla: How about an AI browser that has its own personality? Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With!

Some pretty wild reverse DNS lookups here, covering an entire /24. Most or all are falsified (eg ac51.ryanairemail.com does not resolve to 173.239.211.150). I noticed because some IPs were flagged for abusive behaviour. VPN? Proxy?

During some routine maint I discovered these connectors (24V DC ~8A peak) were not quite right. The positive socket turned black, and shrunk to tightly fit the metal innards. I had trouble unplugging it. Negative side also looking cooked. Unused connector shown for reference.

Why does Aliexpress send me multiple detailed updates about movement of a package that is currently transiting another country and won't see my local airport for at least another week?

Dear , <-- blank name We've been charging card X for ages, but we thought we'd randomly switch to another card you haven't used for 3 years. So yeah, the charge was declined for some reason. This is a "you" problem, so please fix. Thanks, Amazon

Moving a legacy "stable as f***" application to a much, much newer system. clang: You must fix this questionable pointer arithmetic code OS: [randomly segfaults] Valgrind: Hey bud, there's a buffer overflow, you're also sending unitialised data It "worked" on the old system.

Xitter is now busy complying with Australian law, but: - In one instance, it blocked an image, but displayed a preview of a video with explicit adult content immediately below it - Block sometimes kicks in AFTER restricted content is already shown, which defeats the purpose?