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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/09/2026

Okay, the breakdown *by-language* of Artificial Analysis's "Omniscience" hallucination/capability benchmark is absolutely fascinating. I feel like this is some of the first concrete evidence I've seen of my longtime lean: that the *correctness* tooling we […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

a graph of software-engineering-benchmark competence and hallucinations, by LLM model, against programming-language. There are visible 'green bands' for the rows of some languages; they are strongly correlated with the languages that provide strong, high-quality typing guarantees, strictness, and compiler guardrails. e.g. Rust and Swift carry a significant visible lead against e.g. Java and Julia.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/07/2026

is this a compliment, or an insult, i can't tell

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 13/04/2026

Дай мне a stator, and i can power the world

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 29/01/2026

Also, here, have some Dog.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/12/2025

@brie holy crap I thought *I* had a lot of random domains and fractured web-presence. my condolences! O_O found you via brie.dev/ok-reader, originally looking to ask: A. are you still using KOreader, and in particular, did Hardcover sufficiently […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

screenshot of a large number of tabs open to websites created by this one person

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 23/10/2025

update: i have been scammed. this is not in fact a dog, it is a fox. rude. it is okay, it is a very good fox tho #dogsofmastodon

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 21/10/2025

regarding AWS' outages yesterady

stylized oriental greeting-card with the haiku:

it's not DNS
there's no way it's DNS
it was DNS.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 19/10/2025

@andrewnez me too! adopted these tiny heartdrives a couple of weeks ago and ugh i’m over the moon they’re so gooooood

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 23/09/2025

… then what the fuck is the point, Ubisoft? I despise when corporations participate in the security theatre of having "2FA", but then *requiring* some sort of strictly-less-restrictive "backup" login option. 1. if 2FA can be added … but […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

screenshot from a Ubisoft settings page, saying "Removing your phone number will deactivate 2-step verification via Authenticator app."

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 23/09/2025

adopted these two from the Illinois Sheltie Rescue; pair-bonded, needed to be taken in as a pair; 6yo and 8yo. I’m shocked how well-behaved they are. I had my expectations calibrated for “difficult rescues needing a lotta help,” and appear to have instead received “little well-behaved angels,” wtf

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 22/09/2025

What madman's idea was this, omfg. FRP in Minecraft?

an in-game screenshot of a Minecraft inventory, with a list of operators listed beside the inventory, including map, filter, logical disjunction, flip, reduce, and the like

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 24/07/2025

Almost done. Closing is tomorrow. I am *exhausted*, and a twitchy mess. I cannot comprehend this amount of money. But it's almost over. Hopefully the positive "I'm a homeowner" feels eventually(?) start to replace the stress and anxiety?? This is supposed to be a good, exciting thing, right?

screenshot of an e-mail confirming wire-transfer of a 6-figure amount of money. not pictured: my horrified face.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 18/07/2025

I miss her so stupid much.

a photograph of my Shetland Sheepdog, Lily in the sunlight in front of a window. her head is turned over her shoulder to look at the camera, with eyes slightly squinted.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/06/2025

I’m unreasonably fucking pissed. An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses. #typography #AI #nightmaretimeline

a screenshot of a Reddit-messaging thread:

v me_irlgbt @ • 1d
Hi, mod that banned you in the first place here. What
tool did you use to write your comment?
v elliottcable • 1d
Uh, my fingers, on my iPhone. Although I guess in
2025 we're past being able to prove that.
Darkest fucking timeline.
• me_irlgbt !
• 1d
Are you telling me that you're the sole human that
actually types em dashes and ellipsis characters?
••.
• elliottcable • 1m
I really shouldn't be wasting my time on this thread,
but good lord you've hit one of my biggest pet
peeves: that typing like an adult now gets you
accused of being ingenuine on the Internet.
I doubt you'll even bother to click the link, because
you've already made your judgement; but feel free to
IF and search for "—" or "..." on, say, one of my
blog-posts from like 17 years ago: https://
web.archive.org/web/20241114074522/http://
blog.elliottcable.name/posts/community.xhtml
Fucking yes, some of us absolutely have been putting
effort into using proper and semantic typography for
decades. No, Als didn't invent that. They were trained
on our data so by definition anything they do is
something that real, actual, humans, actually, do.
Anyway, all of this is beside the point, because I
actually did the thing you blocked me for doing, and
y'all actually believe that thing is ban-worthy, so
we're just wasting eachother's time - but, seriously,
emdashes do not an ML model make, thuverymuch.
Unbelievably rude.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/06/2025

my phone has a “memes” folder for years, that folder has had exactly one image this is that one image.

a photo of a collie holding a flower in its mouth in such a way as to contort its doggie lips, looking very uncomfortable and awkward as dogs do.

a tumbler-style comment underneath that image says (in very microwaved, JPEG-compressed text): “gat u a flowder”

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 01/04/2025

A second piece of important context: I’m a ham; and my car is covered with all sorts of large, odd-looking antennas. (Definitely a conversation-starter; I’ve spent so many hours of my life standing at Superchargers on road trips, explaining ~RF Things~ to random strangers. 😅)

a photo of a pink Tesla Model X, with a variety of visible antennas on both the hood and trunk

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 01/04/2025

Every key you hit is reproduced on-screen with emulated connectivity-lag, backlight, burn-in, scan-lines, jitter, screen-reflections from the room around you … and can emulate a ton of different terminals.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 31/03/2025

this idiot is just begging to be rolled on duuuuuuude COME ON AHHHHH

a photo of a large dog stretched out on the floor, looking very relaxed but chaotic in his orientation. his rear paws are entangled underneath the legs and casters of the photographer’s rolling office-chair

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 31/03/2025

last month or sth, OkCupid randomly decided to give me a free “Boost.” … a *several month long* one. I thought the bug would clear itself up, but nope, it’s still ticking down merrily.

a screenshot of the OkCupid app, indicating a “Boost” is running, with 31,880 minutes and 14 seconds remaining

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 30/03/2025

я очень горжусь. proud af.

screenshot of Duolingo congratulating me on a 300-day streak milestone

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 26/03/2025

… but if you click the link, you just get this. A empty page with the modal saying “Please enter your password to get access.” what, okay, fine, somebody's got something misconfigured.

screenshot of a browser window at whosum.com/assistant, with an empty page saying ‘password protected site: please enter your password to get access.’

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 26/03/2025

Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down. So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

screenshot of a ‘getting started on mastodon’ site, describing a browser extension to find Twitter followers.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 25/03/2025

@mdallastella here's another one I love from Discord, if you're in the habit of collecting:

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