For my own services I’m aiming for .999999% of uptime

You just gotta appreciate that the most deterministic part of the code base is the predatory lootbox system.

Hold on now, the uptime number contains two digits that are nines! The image itself has four nines in total!

This thread by Johnny reading (skimming on a phone, hah) through it is really good.

If only literally any human with context and a small screen to look at the bigger picture was involved with decisions around taking this to production, it would … still be bad but only on a societal level.

Heh. Who goes AI?

Never love the need for these parlor games, but it’s a good one.

This incredible banger of a bug against whisper, the OpenAI speech to text engine:

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"

but the WMF hasn't gotten the message, saying that the project has been "paused". It sounds like they plan to push it through regardless.

Classic “Yes” / “ask me later”. You hate to see it.

Ok but is the orange wallpaper better in HD?

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

A: “Why are you knitting so fast? You in a rush?” B: “I’m almost out of yarn, gotta get this sweater done before it runs out”

Whoever it is that’s going to build those machines that scare us so much, we will find him. And we will fund him.

Maybe when babies don’t have to be squeezed out a way too small bony orifice at great risk to the orifice-bearer, women will finally get to be people in his eyes.