bsky is certainly uma coisa a ver tonight.

My boss: "how is that Gemini AI trial going? Are you making good use of it?"
Me: "Oh, yeah, for sure."

Time to go on another inbox taming spree. Thank you for your patience if you've been waiting on me to respond. Today is your day!

I'm not Ukrainian, but until the last Russian soldier is kicked out of their borders and the Russian government fully pays for the death, suffering, and destruction it brought -- fuck yeah I'm Ukrainian.

Happy independence day, Ukraine.

If I haven't responded to your helpdesk request it's because I'm neck deep in server migrations. Thank you for your patience.

I work in cybersecurity. Your VPN went obsolete years ago. Nobody tracks you by IP address anymore, because they can be hidden and changed. You're now tracked by your digital fingerprint, like your hardware serial numbers, which VPNs can't hide. You're spending money for nothing.

I don't know who to credit for this but it's perfect

#media #DNC2024

Me answering a simple "where are you from" question:

2005: Oh, I was born and grew up in Russia. I left when I was 18 to go to college in the US.
2008: Oh, I was born in Russia, but I've lived my whole adult life in the US or Canada.
2014: Uh, I was born in the USSR and left shortly after it fell apart. I've lived my whole adult life in the US or Canada.
2022: My mom was born in Kazakhstan and my dad is part Erzyan and part Volga German, but I've lived in the US or Canada since I was a teenager.

what happens if you hang up on matt daemon? does he reread his config file?

neovim? You mean elvis?

Me, when I start explaining DMARC, DKIM and how they work with mailing lists.

This is why you should always let us edit form fields by hand.

I'd like to propose a new game, which I call "GPTGuessr:" you post a result and people have to guess the prompt that generated it.

I'll go first:

### The Book of Deuteronomy
#### Chapter 35: The Contest of the Cups

1. In the days of the prophets, when Israel wandered in the wilderness, an angel of the Lord descended to commune with the prophet Elias.

2. The Lord, seeing the weariness of His people, commanded a game to be played between His prophet and His messenger, to lighten their hearts.

3. The Lord instructed Elias to fill ten clay vessels with wine and arrange them on a table in two rows.

4. The angel Raphael stood opposite Elias, and the Lord said, “Cast small stones into the vessels of your opponent. Whosoever spills the wine shall drink, and the cup shall be removed.”

5. Elias cast a stone, striking true, and Raphael drank from the cup, removing it from the table.

6. The angel then cast a stone, also hitting a vessel, and Elias drank, removing the cup.

7. The game continued, each casting stones and drinking the wine as the Lord had ordained, and the people marveled at the wisdom of the Lord in this game.

8. As the game neared its end, with one vessel remaining on each side, Raphael cast his stone but missed.

9. Elias, with humility, cast his final stone and struck the last vessel of the angel, spilling the wine.

10. The angel praised Elias, saying, “The Lord is with thee, for thou hast played with righteousness.”

11. The people rejoiced, seeing that even in games, the Lord's hand is present, guiding His children.

12. And so it was written, that in the days of old, the Lord showed His people that joy and faith are united in His love, even in their games.

I should give a talk "Umpiring baseball games is just like being an open-source maintainer." In general, everyone appreciates you doing what you do and praises you for your committment, but make a smallest mistake or call a close play in the favour of the opposing team, and suddenly you're sh*t and who even let you do this, because clearly you have no idea what you're doing.

"#Ukraine rushes to create #AI -enabled #war #drones "

And don't fool yourself. Ukraine will create this. Yes, the Pandora's box will be opened. Despite all deep concerns and whining.

Because Ukraine has no choice. Deeply concerned western hippies afraid of "escalation" and deeply indoctrinated by the post-WWI idea "we must just stop fighting" left no other possibilities. Ukraine fights for its very existence against a genocidal country of morons and uses any viable opportunity for that.

Welcome to the future, boys.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ukraine-rushes-create-ai-enabled-war-drones-2024-07-18/

Very close to setting up a very small markov chain bot and redirecting all AI bots traffic to that, because why should all the damage only go one way.

To: helpdesk@kernel.org
Subject: Brain sample request

Dear madam dear sir I would like to ask you can this helmet data be implanted into another brain if it is so I would like to invest in it and I would like a sample of it

Thank you sir

I guess I should buy my tickets to Vienna.

I am moving bots today. That's the kind of phrase my 7-year-old self would have though meant doing something awesome, but it's mostly making sure they don't send a bajillion unexpected emails or explode because they read the wrong venv.