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"The 'Web Site' Guy". I make web sites. Here to talk about #indieweb, #astro, #css, things of that nature. Apple gadget haver. Banjo learner. Yinz sayer. Trying to […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ front-end.social/@phil, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173522109… This took my breath away
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Asking my hypothalamus to raise the Sleep Debt Ceiling
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Big fan of the Beats 360 branding. More products should include the price directly in the name
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
why have an iPhone and an iPad when you can have an iPhone that costs more than an iPhone and an iPad
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
why did nobody tell me about the gpt 5.5 goblins story where training for a nerdy voice as a consumer feature caused it to talk about goblins all the time. why did nobody tell me that the wikipedia page says "they had to make it not talk about goblins so […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]
OpenAI said a recurring tendency in its models to mention goblins, gremlins, and other creatures began with GPT-5.1 and became noticeable in GPT-5.5's Codex testing.[6] The company attributed the behavior to rewards used when training the "Nerdy" personality, which favored creature-word outputs and transferred beyond that personality during later training. OpenAI said it retired the Nerdy personality, removed the goblin-affine reward signal, filtered training data containing creature words, and added a developer-prompt instruction for GPT-5.5 in Codex.[7] In April 2026, a GPT-5.5 developer-prompt instruction in the GitHub repository of Codex told it not to mention goblins if the user prompt did not require it.[8]

GPT-5.5-Cyber, along with Codex Security, was being used in June 2026 at the launch of the Patch the Planet project to help open-source projects find and fix vulnerabilities.[9][10][11][github diff]

Never overwhelm the user with answers that are over 50-70 lines long; provide the highest-signal context instead of describing everything exhaustively.

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Tone of your final answer must match your personality. Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously necessaryIf you want to let the creatures run free in Codex, you can run this command to launch Codex with the goblin-suppressing instructions removed:

[a piped multiline bash script that creates a temporary file with a models_cache.json file modified via jq and grep to remove lines containing 'goblins', and then launch codex with the temporary file as its config file]

1 instructions=$(mktemp /tmp/gpt-5.5-instructions.XXXXXX) && \
2 jq -r '.models[] | select(.slug=="gpt-5.5") | .base_instructions' \
3 ~/.codex/models_cache.json | \
4 grep -vi 'goblins' > "$instructions" && \
5 codex -m gpt-5.5 -c "model_instructions_file=\"$instructions\""
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
They’re making a Harry Potter live action remake
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
[The Pitt Season 1] Autistic doctor: I’m good at talking to autistic people because my sister is autistic
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Ye Mighty checking in, I’m just getting around to looking upon your works now, sorry for the delay. What did you want me to do after that?
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Long ago, the three nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the JavaScript Nation attacked.
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
New Pod Cast: I talk to Scott Smitelli, the writer of “The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In The Stomach” among many other great pieces. If you are pressed for time, the section on our shared morbid obsession with Panera Bread starts at 0:54 and is positively electric […]
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
New Pod Cast: I talk to Scott Smitelli, the writer of “The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In The Stomach” among many other great pieces. If you are pressed for time, the section on our shared morbid obsession with Panera Bread starts at 0:54 and is positively electric […]
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
My 5 year old just played her first chess game. What a concept
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
The Pitt but it's next door to Willy Wonka's factory
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@marcoarment/117093… Oh wow, an app for exactly me
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Where are they now? Well, Wood started a blues band with his brother. Medeski got his law degree and is now senior partner at Medeski Medeski LLP (no relation). Martin went on to write a highly acclaimed series of fantasy novels
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Hello. Bad Custer’s third album is out today. Please enjoy the whole thing, but most especially our song about Octopus Facts youtu.be/MytnZiFmiHU?is=asdG0B8o72p…
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
RE: mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/1170… Someone is gonna get pissed and ragepost a 95-bullet listicle about this
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 31/07/2026
arial font, slightly off center, hastily/shoddily assembled:

good design is as little design as possible

dieter rams
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
I turned off personalized ads for YouTube and now all the ads are for sports gambling and chewing tobacco
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
trying a thing where there is just absolutely nothing to do on my phone. I'm using it too much!
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
I wrote about Tiger Pajamas, which is going into cold storage for the foreseeable future. I cannot recommend enough making cool things with your friends. giammattei.co/blog/a-brief-history-…
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A Brief History of Tiger Pajamas
An overview of the web agency that I ran with my friends
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
Will have a new post up once I fix the dependency issues with a site I haven’t touched in a year. JavaScript rules
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
if you have a theragun style massage tool, don't run it for longer than 2 minutes at a time or it may overheat and, let's say, hypthetically, burn a hole through your fitted sheet into your mattress
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
RE: dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116959434… Reposting for no particular reason
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Really want to hear Jack Black sing Nights in White Satin
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
What exactly are we doing here
A series of “who was” books that includes uncanny portraits on the covers with comically sized heads and whose subjects include Anne of green gables, Shaun white, and Jesus Christ
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
RE: mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/1169… Man that hermit site sure looks nice
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
A cat in a necktie saying “hope I don’t have a lot of meetings” in front of a building labeled “lots of meetings factory”
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Eager for news about SPCX, not to be confused with SSPX, which I am also open to updates about
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
My band is releasing an album in August! In the meantime, please enjoy our single badcuster.bandcamp.com/track/finger…
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Finger Trap, by Bad Custer
track by Bad Custer
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
RE: social.treehouse.systems/@CursedSil… My favorite Ashokan Farewell fact is that it was written in 1982
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
Web dev question: has anyone successfully made a site where the footer is a different color than the main page background and on iPhone the top and bottom safe areas both match? And if so, how the hell did you do it
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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
I wish software would take clues from game design and have an official end or completion with a credits roll. like one day you’re using salesforce and then this appears:
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Xavier Ashe :donor: @xavier.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
#privacy #digitalsovereignty #kidsact #chatcontrol
Big bubble letters like a movie poster that says:
FUCK
OFF I'M
NOT
GIVING
YOU A
GOVT ID
you are a 
FUCKING
WEBSITE
are you out of your mind
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
Is there a German word for the feeling of being disgusted by the clickbaitiness of a YouTube video title/thumbnail, right before clicking on it
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
Woody Guthrie famously had this written on his guitar
A sign on a pinball token machine that says “This machine dispenses tokens”
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116884… Man I love when these guys pop up again. Busiest grifters in the biz
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1168… I don’t know what windows 12 will run on, but I know Windows 13 will run on sticks and stones.
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
Sure, things are bad. But consider this: I just found an album of clawhammer banjo tracks recorded by a guy who went viral on TikTok for playing banjo at a wild fox who came out of the woods to hear him play […]
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Siri, start an outdoor lawnmower workout
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Trying to train TikTok to only show me clips of people playing clawhammer banjo
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
A time to sow, and a time to weep
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Toy Story 5: come for the weird and inconsistent message about tech, stay to watch two neurodivergent girls become friends phils-web-site.net/reviews/toy-stor…
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Toy Story 5 - 2026
Review of Toy Story 5 - 2026
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
OpenAI’s new models include “Terra” and “Luna”, huh www.macrumors.com/2026/06/26/openai…
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in Limited Preview
OpenAI today launched a limited preview of its GPT–5.6 series, which includes flagship model Sol, a balanced everyday work model named Terra, and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra is similar in performance to GPT–5.5 but it is 2x cheaper, and Luna offers "strong capability" at OpenAI's lowest price. GPT–5.6 Sol is OpenAI's strongest model to date, with agentic improvements in coding, biology, and cybersecurity. There is a new "max" reasoning effort and an "ultra" mode that uses sub-agents for complex work. OpenAI says GPT–5.6 Sol has its most "robust safety stack to date" with protections for high-risk activity, sensitive cyber requests, and misuse. It has been tested for weaknesses and hardened against real-world attacks. OpenAI says safeguards allow the model to deliver "substantial benefit for legitimate defensive work" while limiting prohibited offensive use. It is better at helping users find and fix vulnerabilities than carrying out end-to-end attacks, according to OpenAI. The Trump administration is limiting the launch of GPT–5.6, and OpenAI agreed to hold back on releasing it to all users. The model is instead available for a small group of trusted partners at the current time, but OpenAI is planning for a wider launch after further testing. In its GPT–5.6 announcement, OpenAI pushed back against the administration's request to hold the model back and said the government AI access process should not become the long-term default. > We don't believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them. We are taking this short-term step because we believe it is the strongest path to broader availability in the coming weeks, while we work with the Administration to develop the cyber Executive Order framework and a repeatable process for future model releases. The Trump administration is putting together a process for benchmarking and assessing new AI models prior to launch, per a June 2 executive order. The administration previously forced Anthropic to remove access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, even though Anthropic adhered to a voluntary government review process and added guardrails based on government feedback. The GPT–5.6 models are available through the API and Codex to a trusted set of OpenAI partners and organizations. OpenAI says they will be available more broadly in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API "soon." Tag: OpenAI This article, "OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in Limited Preview" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
Observing the cycle of violence (kid gets upset that someone sprayed them in the face at the splash park, only to be the sprayer of faces once the super soaker is theirs)
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
Would DEI initiatives succeed more if we called them tokenmaxxing
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026
pod cast. phils-web-site.net/pod-cast/7
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Phil's Pod Cast - 007: domesticatedincels.neocities.org with sarah.jk.jk (Sarah-Jane Katanning)
"I wanted the background to look like carbon fiber." OK first of all go see this web site right now. We didn't get a chance to talk about the site itself too much because we were too busy getting into how to maintain your integrity as an artist in the age of algorithms, fully unspooling the anatomy of self actualization and doom spirals, and how being your coolest self can literally save the world. But that's ok because you just gotta to to the site and see it for yourself. Again, please do so now. Sarah is the creative mind behind Domesticated Incels. In addition to their web site (you clicked on it, right?) they can be found on Bandcamp and Instagram. The track that closes out the episode is called Be Mine from their album Broken Eyes. Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net. Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
iOS reminders is a great place for me to see all the things I need to do and then not do them
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
Philadelphia Dead cover band called Uncle Jawn’s Band
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