"A stopped clock is right twice a day" doesn't properly account for daylight saving, leap seconds and clocks moved between timezones
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 16:37:35 JST
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 02:17:42 JST
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@fn0rd
Use AI to generate enthusiastic (fictional) reports about how you and your team use AI? -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 02:17:41 JST
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@fn0rd
Verify how?If you're required to burn tokens, burn tokens 🤷♀️
If there may be spot checks, you can set it up so when you start to work on a ticket, you also send the code and the ticket to an agent, then don't look at its output (until after you've finished, if at all)
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Feb-2026 22:24:36 JST
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@chirpbirb
kde could expand its branding outside of software into music with kpop -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Feb-2026 22:24:35 JST
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@chirpbirb
kde could replace systemd with kpop demon manager -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 08:02:53 JST
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@whitequark @ignaloidas
yaml? xml? gd&r -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 22:24:57 JST
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@selzero
Also fun when I temporarily comment out a bit of code and the IDE immediately nukes all the imports -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 15:08:10 JST
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@wesley @raiderrobert
Unless they feed the alerts into ChatGPT and let agents loose on prodWhat could possibly go wrong
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 03:53:39 JST
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The existence of top surgery and bottom surgery implies the existence of up surgery, down surgery, strange surgery and charm surgery
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 03:37:38 JST
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@catsalad
Seems a bit wasteful of space? -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 20:40:05 JST
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@bodil
@cwebber
also scary: LLM-enhanced pig butchering scams -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 15:40:06 JST
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@Lana Trump always skips over the person who was killed that day and the two who were critically injured, too
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 22:06:12 JST
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@goatsarah
They have some of the same letters! -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 09:35:20 JST
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@inthehands
Except Musk seems to be trying to get money out of Tesla in the form of CEO compensation, not shares? -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:16:59 JST
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 21:28:59 JST
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:48:48 JST
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@futzle @devopscats
The existence of domestic stamps implies the existence of feral stamps -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 17:01:16 JST
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@justyourluck
I mean, if #H5N1 becomes (or has already become) human-to-human, it'll be airborne, like covid, but less contagious; existing covid precautions should be fine? -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:35:11 JST
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@Lily_and_frog @mekkaokereke
The alternative hypothesis is that this is a patsy — much easier to control the narrative without the real assassin in the picture -
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sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 15:36:42 JST
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@dalias @sennoma @Alice
I mean, measuring with CO₂ sensors won't take into account filtersThe filters may or may not be present and functional, of course; that'd require actual regulation, like we do with restaurant food safety