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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These models can't self-improve. It's the opposite: AI companies are putting a lot of efforts to prevent feeding AI-generated content to AI models because they self-rot. You should be discussing the real harm these companies are causing today to people and businesses and make them accountable.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/09/2026

whoops we also failed to adequately monitor and secure our AUTOMATIC HACKING SOFTWARE the only possible solution is to have our lawyers ghost write legislation that legalizes all our worst behavior and boxes out competitors

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Google is the latest AI lab with a security testing mishap

Google was one of the only AI labs that hadn't disclosed a security lapse.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just another lucky coin for the slot machine

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine if the AI opponents in a video game were repeatedly murdering you without giving you a chance to win and the game developers would make a tragic announcement that their AI went rogue and therefore the development of the game must slow down. #OpenAI #Anthropic

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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 10/09/2026

Jake Wharton refuses to code with AI. When he left Cash App, he published nine requirements for his next job. Number one was: No AI. Our full conversation with the legendary Android developer is out now: layoffs, AI, Google and Kotlin in 2026.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want a SMALLER phone with a THICKER case and MORE headphone jacks and I'm NOT kidding

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

La banalisation des extrêmes climatiques est peut-être l’un des dangers les plus insidieux du changement climatique. 1/6

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's worse, you're the only thing I see in my timeline now

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Particularly because structural equality checks have a cost that you don't have to pay with strong skipping mode.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes I understand that's why your example works. But even when using a god state object you could limit the state changes by properly filtering the duplicates at the ViewModel level before adding them to the god state. I think it's more productive to limit creating new instances at the source.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Or alternatively the ViewModel could use distinctUntilChanged() to limit state changes. IMO it's better to optimize state changes at the source in the ViewModel than focusing on stability at the end of the chain which is like a workaround.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes but then when you observe that Flow using collectAsState() in Compose it will automatically de-duplicate identical lists by doing a structural equality check so stability won't matter as much. This should also be mentioned.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The ethical and copyright issues are just as heavy on my conscience.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

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A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oui... J'avais retrouvé un peu d'espoir quand Netflix a sorti une excellente série animée il y a 2 ans mais elle a été immédiatement annulée après une saison.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

J'ai vu aussi qu'il existe un Blu-ray "4K Ultra HD" sorti en 2017 a une image dégueulasse: la calibration des couleurs a complètement changé et un algorithme qui retire le grain de l'image et lisse le visage des acteurs qui ont l'air d'être en plastique

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Attention les puristes te diront que le director's cut a des problèmes de rythme et que son happy end ne correspond pas au thème sombre du film.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

After watching "Disclosure Day" I believe David Koepp and Steven Spielberg should stop writing screenplays. It also made me want to re-watch "They Live".

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was afraid I would miss Hilt-specific magical code generation features but I was able to create simple abstractions providing a very close experience. This experiment gave me enough material for a talk or a long blog post so expect to see more about it later. #Metro #Kotlin #KotlinMultiplatform

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I migrated the FOSDEM Companion Android app dependency injection from Dagger Hilt to Metro. Build times are faster as expected and the APK file is also 7KB smaller which is a nice bonus.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just Google's new plausible answers (aka bullshit) generation engine working as intended

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ngrok @ngrok.com · 11/08/2026

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

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Ingo Kegel @ingokegel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1/ Java serialization sucks. That's why there are so many alternatives. There's a new kid on the block who claims to be much faster than anybody else. I was curious, so I put together a comparison of the top 5 Java serialization frameworks.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I find your article a bit misleading. The reason why the unchanged list recomposes on every state update in your demo is because the code creates a new copy of the list every time it updates the state, apparently for no other reason than forcing a recomposition for dramatic effect.

blog.shreyaspatil.dev

Stop Ignoring Compose Stability (Yes, Even with Strong Skipping Mode) | Shreyas Patil's Blog

Strong Skipping Mode doesn't make Compose stability obsolete. Discover the hidden referential equality trap causing silent recompositions in your app.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Maybe I'll add a link to Jake Wharton's excellent post jakewharton.com/r8-optimizat...

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R8 Optimization: Staticization – Jake Wharton

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You mean when accessing fields of Companion objects from the main class? I assume there is still some overhead yes but I didn't investigate. I also assume R8 improves things on Android by using staticization.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A lot of things changed since #Kotlin 1.1, for example starting with Kotlin 1.5 the compiler is optimizing for loops of any combination of functions creating an integer progression. Check out the very unreasonable example near the end of this revised post: dev.to/cbeyls/explo...

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Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 3: Delegated properties and ranges

Following the overwhelming positive feedback I received after publishing the first two parts of this...

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The underclocking is the most interesting aspect, as both the CPU and GPU provide better performance per watt at lower power levels than their stock settings. This also allows to keep the temperatures under control with the fans running at low speed.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I did my best to make it as compact and quiet as possible. I used a Sugo SG13 case with a SFX-L power supply, Noctua CPU and case fans, an underclocked AMD 7500F CPU and an underclocked AMD 9060 XT GPU. It has 2GB SSD, 32GB RAM and 16GB video memory.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Building your own "Steam Machine" is now trendy. By chance I did this exactly one year ago when the Steam Machine was not announced yet and the prices of SSDs and RAM were still normal. My machine cost me the same price as the base model from Valve, with more power and double the memory.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nothing. I would get more value and less destruction from $500 of lottery money.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Wondering how many of these libraries will be properly maintained

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 27/07/2026

Fascinating optimization work done by the R8 and Compose teams to optimize coroutines: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/how-...

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How R8 made Kotlin Coroutines on Android 2x faster

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Update: they fixed it in the latest app update

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The YouTube Android app is so broken now that when you switch your phone theme between light and dark the text of the app doesn't change color and becomes illegible. 🤦‍♂️ I'm seriously wondering if there is any human left working on this app.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We went from having an actual search engine showing us the excerpt we're looking for, to a plausible answer generator that forces us to do the extra work of verifying if it's correct. The bullshit machine enslaves us.

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Handling daylight saving time and timezone changes is already a hard enough problem in computer science, and now in addition to positive leap seconds we also have to deal with negative leap seconds because the earth stopped slowing down and started spinning faster?! www.techtimes.com/articles/320...

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Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second

Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a 30...

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I just read that Sam Neill passed away after beating blood cancer and couldn't believe my eyes. I have a lot of respect for that man, may he rest in peace.

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Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment

Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment

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