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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 9h

God I am SO annoyed that Google Assistant has been replaced with Gemini without my permission and with no way to revert it. Why?! It was a thing that worked! "Set a timer"! And then it set a timer! I don't want to be able to have a conversation with my phone! If I wanted that I would PHONE someone!

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 9h

Ukraine have a difficult challenge, beat Russia without becoming Russia. And without giving Putin an excuse to respond with tactical nuclear strikes. At the moment their attacks hurt Russia and make the people question Putin. If they bomb Moscow, people will support Putin.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My brother’s sitting with a friend at a window table in a pub in Oxford. Friend says “Was that Brian Blessed in the street?” And then, right by the window: “YES IT’S ME, BRIAN BLESSED! BWAH HA HA HA!”. And then RAN away.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 23h

Any of the US companies he bullied could have done this. They chose not to.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So, Ukraine defends its own skies, hold Russia in place, hopes Putin is toppled and the replacement decides to abandon 'Putin's folly' as a strategy, leaving Ukraine?

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That was my thought, if Ukraine can reduce the impact of inbound airborne munitions, but Russia can't do the same, then Ukraine has the upper hand. But to do what? It still can't push troops back, so it has to negotiate, and negotiating from a position of strength vs Putin doesn't matter.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now all they need to do is clone entire Disney movies with themselves as the leads and start publishing them, and maybe, just maybe, the corporate push-back against generative AI will begin.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know which of the two companies will get repeat business without a second though, and which will have me considering my choices.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"... I don't believe this has shipped out as of yet. Since we send out replacements in bulk there's a chance that this should go out within the next couple of weeks - by the end of next week or soon after. This request is near the top of the queue so this certainly will be shipped out soon."

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@modiphius.bsky.social * Delivery of two boxed sets of minis, one of the boxes (sealed) only had 2 instead of 3 figures * Definitely Modiphius' fault * Issue reported to them Thu 24th September * Heard back on the 28th September * Chased on 8th October * Told might possibly get it in two weeks

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You live and die by customer service. Compare. Axminster Tools * Delivery on Thursday, damaged by Evri in transit * Not Axminster's fault * Issue reported to them at 12pm on Thursday * New item in post by 14:24 * Arrived this morning

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah that explains the packaging.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Depressingly rubbish service from @modiphius.bsky.social on a missing item in an order. Follow up today was 'there's a chance it might ship in the next two weeks' :(

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Attending an election hustings should be a legal requirement to appear on the ballot paper.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

that it feels like a proper fess. They know it's wrong, they can't stop, they need to express the guilt. I think it's clear here who the winners are.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know what we're all thinking but also, don't forget, this is a proper old fess. 1. doesn't involve shitting in someone's garden 2. no direct reference to masturbation 3. doesn't appear to relate to partners hating each other but not talking about it Sure, it's gonna go bad, but the flipside is

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The amount of code may or may not relate to any of those, and I know your comment probably wasn't meant to be the entire answer. But code volume alone isn't a useful metric of anything in my view.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The better the coder, the better they are at managing multiple constraints and still delivering a solution that meets them which includes but is not limited to, 1. maintainability 2. provable alignment to requirements 3. deterministic testing support 4. alignment to architecture and infosec policy

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the 10,001 tokens you just gave me. Ad infinitum. So I reject the idea they'll get better at the kind of things we're being told they can do, the underlying model is actually not a good way to write code.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

written language around word frequency. But adding more words or a broader corpus to the training just adds more *existing* stuff. The word predictor behaviour doesn't change - here's the most likely next token given the 10,000 tokens you just gave me, then here's the next most likely token given

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

to define or deliver accuracy. They are coherence engines, not truth engines. The 'successes' they have had are by being able to predict tokens from a vast array of content, more than any one single person could hold in their head at any time, and because of a startling truth of

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

and then fed that all back in again to those 10,000 developers and asked for the *next word* that would be a close approximate to what an LLM is doing. Unless that changes, then the current crop of LLMs won't get 'better' or 'more accurate'. They have no internal structure

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

LLMs are constrained by the existing corpus of content, and they can be refined by post-training processes, but they are token predictors. If you got 10,000 software developers in a room, and fed them the same prompt you feed an LLM, and then took the most common response for the *next word*

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can added complexity in front with orchestrators, and you can add more and more traditional code around the edges to massage things, but then you're just back to 4GLs and automated code writing dreams of COBOL.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Only if you change the basic premise on which the current services are based. They're large language models, trained on the corpus of *existing* text. You can't generate *new* text when you're entire methodology is predicting the next most commonly used existing token.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/10/2026

In a world of machine intelligence, the humanities are more vital than ever and I think I've not said enough about that. I work in cybersecurity for my day job. I'm a professional hacker and most people understand that as being really good at coding and understanding computers which is true.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was my first thought to. Or, they live somewhere with *very big gardens*.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very nice, I'll need to up my game to get to that level!

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hah, that'll teach me for 1. not reading properly and 2. assuming everyone lives where I do!

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We deserve to see the next MOT report.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Got to week 10, felt so stressed had to stop playing!

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Colleague at work reached out to me yesterday to say, 'hey you take photographs, I just bought a camera'. I've taken hardly any pictures for a few years, but just chatting to him (turned into 90 minutes) has really reinvigorated me, and I'm super keen to get out a the weekend. A lot to re-learn.

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I won't pretend it was perfect by any means, but I do think my years of doing nanowrimo did two big things for me in setting up my long-term creative habits, which is that 1) I get In the Zone really easily, and 2) when I am In the Zone, I am both focused and decisive

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The French brought about meaningful change by beheading the ruling class, and they've never forgotten it.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are all fully funded by a combination of sweeping cuts and improving the economy. Anyone can do this, it's easy. You just make up a headline and a number and promise it. Awesome.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I propose: £100bn for the NHS to improve the service. £25bn to improve free school meals and get more children in to schooling and properly supported. £80bn to re-instate humanities education into schools and universities. £35bn to create jobs for you people.

A screenshot from the BBC news website. A large number 8 in red, with regular sized text in black on white as the headline, which reads, "Torries pledge £10bn for British anti-missile defence system".

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There was that day a week or so ago when they changed how notifications worked and I logged in and saw like 40+ - I normally get 1 like every 5 days or so. Terrified.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

impenetrable spreadsheet is the name of my next band

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