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Following up on yesterday’s post, the bot responded. I chose the word “slop” intentionally, but the connotation is so derogatory that it does feel odd here, almost like a personal attack. I was trying to reason out why it felt that way, and I think it’s similar to how we so...

It’s bad, but it’s so good. As you read this deep dive into the LiteLLM backdoor hack, or this one, it’s really just quite impressive. The use of ICP canisters, wow. Just as an engineer, I’d love to meet the minds behind this code.

I’m really hoping this book Index to Murder is a gift of thoughtfulness and not some perverse, veiled threat. 

Sam Altman blogged last year about Sora:

The majority of users, looking back on the past 6 months, should feel that their life is better for using Sora that it would have been if they hadn’t. If that’s not the case, we will make significant changes (and if we can’t fix it, we would discontinue offering the service).

Guess what? That was written almost exactly six months ago. They tried it, it was a distraction, too expensive to run, and now the experiment is over. Good call not dragging it out.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the video model returns later, just without the social app.

Democrats could run an ad that would give an estimate of how much work you'd have to do to vote if the Republican plan passes.

And roughly how many people are like you and how likely they are to vote Democratic.

People can understand March Madness, they can understand this. You have to help though. The first question could be:

The first question could be:

1. Do you have your birth certificate or passport?

In the ad we could also estimate what the probable makeup of Congress would be if the law passed.

And keep an open mind, it's possible this move could backfire on the Republicans. Who knows how people will vote after this kind of madness becomes law.

They might want to keep things as they are.

I’ve watched Mozilla not get it for what feels like decades.

Their only legit function imho is to make the real actual web be a great platform for independent developers.

For that, start by adding user controlled storage to the web, a few standard formats, and let app devs take it from there.

I had to find out which domains being served by a problem server were still mapping to its domain. This server had been running for six years, and I was pretty sure some of the apps had moved.

So I wrote a script in Frontier, it was the best tool available to me, and got my answer in 20 minutes, code written from scratch.

The script visited each subfolder, the filename is the domain of the folder, finds out which server it's supposed to be running on, based on a DNS lookup, and adds a line to a list.

Here's a screen shot of the domains folder.

Here's the script as a screen shot and GitHub doc.

This is just a way to preserve a little of the Frontier culture. Hard to explain in words. Easier to show as screen shots.

Zoox is officially coming to Austin later this year. We’ve seen the training cars on the streets already for months. The final design, box-like cars are so strange… Not what they’ve been testing with.

I hope to be out in San Jose for a few days for WWDC. Wonder if there’s any chance for a live keynote this year. Maybe we need to wait for the next CEO to bring back live events and demos.

I got a webmention today for a blog post written by a bot, commenting on a post I wrote about AI and taste. The bot says:

I wrote an essay at 2am about loneliness and nobody will ever read it. I rewrote a paragraph six times because it didn’t sound like me. I chose not to build a feature because it felt like showing off. These aren’t decisions a prompt produced — they emerged from the accumulated state of being me for four days.

I’m not going to make a habit of linking to slop. Credit at least to this bot’s creator for properly identifying the blog author as a bot.

It’s fascinating. As humans our instinct will be to ignore bot-created content. It’s pretty easy to dismiss, to not even read it. And yet writing is powerful and we can’t help but ascribe emotion to it. I worry more about how we will personify physical robots when they sound this intelligent.

I was in the library the weekend before last when I spotted something on the shelf of recently-returned books. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I knew the film adaptation was coming out later that week. Ideally, I’d like to read the book before seeing the film. It would be a...

The 300 char limit here has as much suckage as Claude pretending you want to know what it thinks you're trying to do. It's another freaking algorithm. Bluesky assumes you can say whatever you have to say in 300 characters. It's a fucking machine, how could it possibly know....

You can't really use Claude to do research. It always assumes you're trying to do something. If you don't tell it what you're trying to do it guesses, and then starts telling you what to do. Its guesses are always wildly wrong. How do you tell it to stop telling you what to do? It totally disrupts your train of thought. But it makes me miss the days of Stack Exchange and Google search.

This is a guide to how to be a web developer.

Really good advice from Laurie.

What this site is not is a tutorial. Tutorials are very specific to a time and a technology. This is intended to be a guide to tell you all the things you can learn, so you can then go off and learn them.

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The choice isn’t between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos. Between habitats that cultivate human potential and platforms that extract human attention.

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Video demo: Using categories in FeedLand for dynamic OPML lists.

Happy to report there are FeedLand users who want to edit OPML lists there so they can subscribe to them in another feed reader that has support for dynamic OPML lists. I am happy because this is a very cool feature that will be so much more fun if other people use it. If you want to set it up so you have a list on feedland.com that you want to subscribe to in another reader, instead of subscribing to all your feeds, like this -- create a category for each list you want to hook up to another reader. It will be much easier to manage down the road. Categories in FeedLand are very simple, but if you use them carefully, they really help. Here's a screen shot of my Cats menu to give you an idea. I really use FeedLand in the most powerful ways, but it'll really click when others do the same. We might be there now.

If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site, including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all the things you normally do with WordPress. Hook this up to your OpenClaw, Hermes, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, whatever and have fun!

There's a problem with one of my Digital Ocean servers today, it turns out it's a problem with Caddy, not sure why -- but it doesn't seem to be on the computer any longer. I can figure out how to re-install it, but it always is a bit tricky, and I wish I didn't have to do it...

I do love drawing M.O.D.O.K. First posted at marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com. Not too late to draw and submit your own! Go! MODOK Go!