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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 29/09/2026
Before including the cost of training its model 🤣
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 29/09/2026
I'm still adding more. Shortly there will be a tab for known crimes committed using AI too - things which bypass supposed safeguards. New reports surfacing constant right now.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 29/09/2026
I'm not the first to come up with this idea, but I had a slightly different take on how to score these, and I wanted the rubric published too. Enjoy! felonybench.ai
felonybench.ai
FelonyBench
The leading benchmark for crimes committed by frontier AI models. Higher is better.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/08/2026
Initial testing on iOS is positive (thanks @electriccrowbar.8n1.sh!) We have some more tuning and improvements to make. Does anyone know folks at Bsky we could chat to about this? I don't want to blindly open a PR for a new feature, feels rude. cc @bsky.app
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/08/2026
Coming along nicely!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/08/2026
Today's work: adding a pagination option to the Bsky app, to not doom scroll.
A screenshot of the bsky app with pagination
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/08/2026
Here I. Ireland, it still is 3k!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 19/08/2026
Has anyone else found that Opus 5 is having more stupidly in the last few days? Or just me and @dbsmasher.com? It really went from a well reasoning system to spewing nonsense and having to correct itself A LOT in a weekend.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/08/2026
As with everything, there are good and bad ways to achieve outcomes and you need to weigh the risks. For some groups, writing the code carefully and methodically is the outcome they want. The result is a side effect. For others the code is a means to an end, to build/improve on the product.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 10/08/2026
One day we'll get a band back together. I'm just not sure which one. But definitely one of them.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 17/07/2026
I'll keep paying me max 5x subscription as long as it's useful :-) Fable built a beautiful Android app for me over the course of a week, one good enough to share. I asked Opus to add a single line to a grid and it fell over after 20 mins and eventually said "The cause is almost certainly me."
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 17/07/2026
May I recommend getting a new car BEFORE that happens, and being kind to your knee? :-) Clutches take a lot of pressure, and the repetitive sudden movement can't be great.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 17/07/2026
Post incident review: "And in hindsight, that 10x markup on services was supposed to be a multiplier, not an exponent. We're going to add a test to catch if it happens again."
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 17/07/2026
I certainly hope so. I went back to Opus 4.8 and it's like banging two rocks together!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 15/07/2026
This was going to happen when they wouldn't go on the offensive.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 15/07/2026
The saddest sight today was the look on the England fans' faces wen Argentina scored their second goal.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/07/2026
Wow lovely!! That looks much better than my first attempt 5 years ago! For some reason I didn't revisit this region for a while. New gear, new images :-)
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/07/2026
Yeah that was a surprise, and maybe lucky. I managed to get about 12 shots before the sun started to come up. A few more hours tonight, gathering as much OIII as possible while there's no moon!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 14/07/2026
Capturing a great, complete image of the Veil Nebula complex is my one mission for this winter. This is a single 5 minute sub of the O-iii emissions of the West Veil Nebula. I'm going to need at least 20 hours of this, and another 30+ hours of various other emissions and colour bands...
A monochrome picture of O-III emissions from the West Veil Nebula
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 13/07/2026
"I regretted it immediately" - @dbsmasher.com , talking about something engineering, really could have be anything on a day ending in "Y".
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 08/07/2026
Clacton, you have the opportunity to do something incredibly funny. Do not squander this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
theguardian.com
Clacton byelection likely to take place on 6 August – as it happened
Count Binface to be one of few challengers to Nigel Farage as major parties boycott contest
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 08/07/2026
Actually no, that's not the worst case. The worst case is the combination of every possible security policy. Otherwise you might as well just run everything as root.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 08/07/2026
When will people learn what trust boundaries are? You cannot have the same instance of an agent accessing things in two different security boundaries. In the worst case here you may need a completely separate instance of the agent for every private repo an org has. noma.security/blog/gitlost...
noma.security
GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security
TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by pos...
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/06/2026
I have a Keychron Q6 Max keyboard which needs to go into my will to be bequeathed to a child in the future. But how do you decide which child gets it??
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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 18/06/2026
I may have to join bsky just for the shitposting.
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dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social @dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New achievement! RTFM as a Service! You found the documentation all by yourself. Don't you just feel like such a big kid now? Keep at it little one! At this rate you might be able to apply the docs one day too! I wouldn't count on it though. Reward... You've received a bronze I Can Read Now Box!
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dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social @dungeoncrawlersre.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New achievement! Your Blueprint Is A Brownprint! Your idea was so bad we printed it off and used it as toilet paper! Reward... No reward! Rewards are for ideas that don't suck!
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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 29/01/2025
Engineer: This is why we invented load balancers. Engineer: The royal "we". I wasn't there. CTO: I was..
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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 12/05/2025
Me: They have all of the building blocks, but none of the glue. Putting them together is a shitshow. CTO: Like putting a home depot sign on a forest.
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shitmyctosays.com @shitmyctosays.com · 02/06/2026
Systems that require perfect humans rarely have good outcomes.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 05/06/2026
www.dezeen.com/2026/06/04/l... This LEGO set has over 12,000 pieces. And like the actual Sagrada Familia, it may take you 146 years to complete.
dezeen.com
Lego reveals Sagrada Familia set to celebrate Gaudí centenary
Launched to mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death, the Sagrada Familia set is the largest ever created by toy brand Lego.
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
And simon writes for the guardian
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 31/05/2026
They also won't do anything to help make the situation any better. Pitchforks! Pitchforks for everyone!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 31/05/2026
It's ridiculous. They're happy to complain but won't do anything to make the situation better. It seems rsync has been getting a bunch of security bug reports and the author is trying to fix them. Shit happens in software development. Join in and help, or sit and wait. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 30/05/2026
It just took me 10 minutes to buy Sudafed in this country. It would have been faster to find a meth dealer and get it from them
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026
There are at least THREE ironies in this news feed snippet. AI writing about AI. AI saying what it's written may not be factual and you shouldn't trust it. And then AI mentioning human error in the context of air travel like it's not heard of decades of research on this topic.
A picture of a place with an AI generated news summary. The summary is stupid.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026
It's not that they're necessary, it's that they happen, we need to accept they happen, and understand how to learn from them.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026
Pain, suffering, hardships aren't good. They hurt, they cause stress, they have consequences. And yet, they will always happen and without experiencing them we're less able to handle these situations when they come about. It's horribly ironic.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026
We will all, at multiple points in our lives, experience challenges. The longer you go without experiencing them, the less able you are to handle them and the more you get detached from the reality of life for almost all other humans.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 25/05/2026
Happy Towel Day everyone!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/05/2026
Andre! We have ideas. There's some deep taxonomy!
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/05/2026
Where you think she got it from 🤣 I was going to share it with you and she beat me to it! We're currently discussing how cube rule should be deprecated in favour of a tree where the root class is sandwich and everything evolves from that. People, cement, dumplings, supernovae..
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/05/2026
JACKPOT! cc @startrekshitposti.ng
An Uber pick up PIN 1701
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 23/05/2026
Shhhhhhh don't tell them
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 22/05/2026
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days Saturday, Sunday, Happy Days Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days Wednesday, Thursday, Happy Days Friday, Saturday, Happy Days Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days Thursday, Friday, Happy Days...
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 13/05/2026
Friend: ah fuck, I'm an SRE @dbsmasher.com: We don’t choose the game. The game chooses us. Never in the history of "help, I've fallen into SRE" has there been as clear an answer on why this happens.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 11/05/2026
@nytguildtech.bsky.social Hey folks Can you help me understand why your games app, when I only played it for 20 minutes yesterday morning, continues to run in the background and use 10% of my total battery? As a percentage of my battery use, it's half the combined total of all apps. Pls help!
Screenshot showing Nyt games app using enormous amounts of battery
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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 08/05/2026
Maybe the best thing on the internet at the moment: * An AI PR pitching platform has confused Kyle Kingsbury, MMA fighter and podcast host with Kyle Kingsbury, software engineer and gay leather man * Good Kyle decided to start a podcast where he interviews confused manosphere influencers
youtube.com
The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast Podcast - Epsiode 02 Dave Rossi
YouTube video by Aphyr Null
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 08/05/2026
This was exactly what I quoted to a few people earlier 😂 This was incredible. Absolutely A+.
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Avleen Vig @avleen.com · 04/05/2026
I was wondering who the first person would be to point this out!
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