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@monorail Sammy sung loudly at the worst possible time, like they always do on their phones and tablets. :/

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@rockario @monorail Isn't that just the distance to the next turn?

llm stands for little loser machine. Because just using it even a little makes us all losers.

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.

“Behold,” declares the AI bro, “we have created a new mind!”

“Behold,” I declare as I a hold a seashell up to his ear, “I have created a new ocean!”

new blog post! lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot

i stumbled across a secret fake DDoS-as-a-Service website ran by the dutch police, and when i started digging into it, they panicked and shut it down
really funny story, if anyone is interested how such a fake website looks like, take a read ^^

KDE will be 30 years old this year and Katie updates her look!

KDE is all about innovating and moving forward, but Katie hadn't changed her apparel in more than 10 years.

Now, sporting an orange hoodie and leggings, she's ready to spring into action and stomp on all those pesky bugs!

kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#katie #dragon #women #anniversary #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #kdeAt30

Related: The only thing Microsoft Edge seems to be useful for is letting random websites use Windows notifications to spam the user with dire warning messages about viruses and errors that desperately need to be cleaned up if you'll just click here, only to land on full-screen tech support scams urging you to call Windows at 1-800-FLEECE-ME right away.

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Folks, if you're going to have a third-party antivirus/security program on your PC, then please keep it up to date. If you decide to let the subscription lapse, then uninstall it.

With an expired subscription, security/antivirus programs are so much worse than useless. It refuses to work AND prevents the built-in Windows Defender from working.

This PSA is brought to you by a McAfee trial that expired 400 days ago.

people in the hacker culture of the early 2000s: "there is no patch for human stupidity"

people in the hacker culture of the late 2020s: "we have ported the unpatchable human stupidity to the computer"

Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.

Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.

The model doesn't climb toward AGI — it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it 👇

smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-

#AI #MachineLearning #LLM #Research

Also adding “please don’t delete my production data” or similar in the prompt doesn’t count as a safeguard

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