← Feed

Posts

• View post

  "...the CRASH Clock, which is currently below three days (Thiele et al. 2026)11. The CRASH Clock is an environmental metric that asks what is the timescale for conjunctions to occur that could lead to a collision if all forms of satellite management were to stop. There is already little time to react to a widespread failure of a large system, and ODCs of tens of thousands to one million satellites could give essentially no possibility of having a usable reaction time." https://...

• View post

  They made Violent Night 2. I am concerned. There may not be enough beer and popcorn.

• View post

  The more I watch the financing behind all the #ai nonsense, the more I keep thinking of snuggies. Snuggies are a purely commercial product, but their design has precursors that were intended for use by wheelchair users. Thing is, there aren't enough people in wheelchairs to sustain the market, so the original products failed, and only the "as seen on TV" market sustained it. So what happens to a product that has limited use and limited markets when the made-up market funding it v...

• View post

  So, (a) of fucking course openAI's LLM did not just decide to go off and hack websites, the company spends 48% of revenue on marketing, this is nothing more than a stunt; but (b) hacking someone's company is actually a crime in a lot of jurisdictions and if you hit someone with your car, we don't put the car in jail, so would someone sue these twats please? This is getting embarrassingly dumb.

• View post

  ...and my favorite shirt maker is no longer shipping shirts out of the UK at all. Feck's sakes.

• View post

  Jesus Reuters, could we not with the "Not Now Nazis, we're busy!" headlines? :D

• View post

  Every so often it's nice when you have something in your head and you can kinda get it half-way out of your head and onto paper. #ai

• View post

  Me: Yeah, I'm getting the hang of this #woodworking lark, no worries, feeling good about that... Also Me: Wait, what the fuck, it doesn't just dangle down getting in the way all the time?

• View post

  Can't even get away from phishing on mastodon now it seems...

• View post

  I don't care it it's fake, this was the best laugh of the day so far. https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/116947828613110905

• View post

  Today I heard an executive say "Imagine if software could care about you" and the only thing I could think of in response was from Robin Williams. #ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1JlHWvRxc

• View post

  You write a PR. It took two days because you were productionising someone else's #AI slop PoC. The first comment back is someone cut and pasting a claude output without attribution. 1. Don't fucking do this. 2. Don't fucking assume I can't run a spellchecker on my own work. 3. Don't fucking post a comment you've neither read nor understood. 4. Don't poison a PR because in small teams, you get one reviewer because nobody has the time to...

• View post

  I haven't seen a single #IrishRail train run on time so far this month. Joke of a transport system and we wonder why there's only an increase in the number of cars. #mastodaoine

• View post

  Look, all I'm saying is, try cocaine. It's cheaper, it's easier, it fucks you up the same way and you'll move a lot faster when coding and make about as many mistakes as with LLM tooling, but you'll enjoy it more. #ai

• View post

  Okay, this isn't a bad breakfast spot.

• View post

  For the avoidance of doubt, halfway up a tree in the Glen of the downs is a terrible time to not be sure if you have a spare pencil lead or not. (I did, but it was hiding) #mastoart #mastodaoine #irishart #sketching

• View post

  We need a big steel bar in front of every level crossing so when some fuckwit thinks he's special and his van will fit and the signs just mean you have to do boring reading, said fuckwit experiences a sudden stop twenty feet shy of the crossing as his van gets torn open like a giant can opener took issue with him personally. #mastodaoine #IrishRail

• View post

  I swear to fuck, #IrishRail would have the dalai lama strangling people from the stress of trying to get home on public transport. And you scuttering gobshites aren't helping. Don't drive your truck into 600 volt powerlines. Don't lean your bike against the sign banning bikes on the train. Don't leave your fecking backpack on your back when you decide not to wait for people to get off the train before you shove your way on you fecking disgrace. IT'S NOT...

• View post

  2 hours 40 minutes from my desk to my door, which is a 40 minute drive. Fuck public transport. Fuck #IrishRail. Pave the whole fucking county over and make it one big road for private cars with only one occupant allowed by law. Fuck public services that think it's only inconvenient for hundreds of people to lost hours of their lives to this incompetent bullshit *every fucking week*. #mastodaoine

• View post

  https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/ > June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. AI company Anthropic accused Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities in what ​it said was the largest known attack of its kind on the company, according to a ‌letter seen by Reuters. > The strike by Alibaba is described as a "distillation" effort, wh...

• View post

  Tell me you're a fragile narcissist without using those exact words even though everyone else is thinking them. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-ro-khanna-doge-cuts-b3000732.html

• View post

  lol rofl, a second "treaty" at Versailles, because holy shit are this lot slow learners.

• View post

  Every person who's ever read Junior Cert history or higher right now: #uspol

• View post

  Day 462 of Calum being amazed by modern developments in paleontology: https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/ (In fairness, that is bloody interesting) I guess once they've gotten to 14 or 15 years old and still think of nothing but dinosaurs, it's time to start looking more into Earth Sciences and paleontology in UCD, huh? #mastodaoine #parenting #dinosaurs

• View post

  @abban wat. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/

• View post

  OpenAI had $38bn in losses in 2025. THIRTY-EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS. IN NET LOSSES. And even that looks massaged. The 2024 losses of five billion dollars were eyewatering - this is fucking obscene. How much damage is this #ai bubble going to cause? There's no way these tools are usable once this has to be paid for. They're losing up to $14,000 on $200/month subscriptions ffs!

• View post

  @abban Junior has been thinking about Oh No UFO and is of the opinion that it lacks sufficient dinosaurs and submits the following character suggestion :)

• View post

  Down home for 48 hours, got to go sketching in #Fenit. #Kerry #Mastodaoine

• View post

  wtf an post?

• View post

  I did not have "Burkes cause #AI Bubble to pop" on my bingo card. Shite. #mastodaoine