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Patrick

@ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy

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Software Engineer originally from Tennessee now living in Virginia. Been #Coding for well over a decade, primarily in the .Net world, but also some Flutter and Ruby. I […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ ppb.social/@ppb1701, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15h

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Brad Smith says your milk is more regulated than AI, and he wants binding rules: kill switches, incident reports, telling victims. Honestly? Good list. It’s also the same Brad Smith whose company still hasn’t named a number in Granger. Self-regulation only works on the good companies, he says […]

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23h

CAPTCHAs are getting more difficult these days 🫪

parody of a CAPTCHA form, where the user is asked to select squares from an image of the ship of Theseus (a reference to Theseus's Paradox).

credits: unsure, i did not make this one and am unable to find it on reverse image search. it is NOT ai, as i had previously posted it back in 2022 but am resubmitting with alt text and a different caption.

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@jcrabapple mornin'

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Good morning. ☕

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

All I wanted was Gitea 28. Instead: Nextcloud hit EOL and needed two upgrade hops, the disk filled up mid-rebuild twice thanks to a Syncthing share I forgot existed (187GB of .stversions!), and home-manager drifted again. Just a few hurdles on what I thought would be run a couple commands before […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

It's done. Paramount closed on Warner Bros. Tuesday, and the new company is just "Skydance." The states settled for production money and an editorial board, the FCC waved through the Gulf stake at staff level, and CNN's still fighting to get into the White House. The first post in this series […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Five days. Again. OpenAI went from "too dangerous to go public" to "accept some bad things." Meanwhile Anthropic put the end of the world in its S-1 and kept the $2T IPO on schedule. Different font, same sentence: keep shipping, fund us. The bad things already have names and dates. They just […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Similar experience on the running once. I was going over to friends when I was a kid. Lightning hit his back yard maybe 50ish yards ahead. I swear I rotated and ran back to my house and my feet did not touch the ground till I hit the steps.🤣

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@david oh totally

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Monday: OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its agents got into government health systems, and pauses tool-use training. Tuesday: launches always-on agents with their own computers and cuddly avatars. The IPO? Too unsafe for Wall Street. $30B privately? Fine. I cannot make this up […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@petersuber I bet they are, it's hard to be sneaky nosey if people can easily find them. Also posing a problem for them if individuals decide to mess with them (not endorsing that by any means....but i've seen it happening on news).

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@jcrabapple well there some of the closest competition in capabilities and if I'm not mistaken they approach the cost way differently. Technically I'm pretty sure I saw something the other day claiming most of the models are largely being broken relatively quickly removing the guardrails so […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Turns out plenty of "prove you're human" checkboxes weren't checking anything. Cloudflare knew which ones, per widget, and built an AI tool to wire them up. Four days later they applied to become a certificate authority. The fix for concentration is more Cloudflare […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… This smells of Mythos "OMG it's so dangerous! We can't let this out to the public!" energy. Calling it now, a "refined" version will be released a bit later they feel "better' about While they parade around about public ai safety and […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117351… Check the door.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

oh wait darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-… youtu.be/cc5FsjCI3_8?si=x3ffJ9n-qTl…

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1995 Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car

Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car: The Arizona Highway Patrol, when they came upon a pile of smoldering metal imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1173503224… Thrusters???? That sounds like a Darwin Award Story... Also something everyone would rather seen on Mythbusters.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Microsoft promised Indiana it would be a "good neighbor." Local churches asked what that's worth, and even let Microsoft name the number. The answer: $1M in one-time grants, a wall of sticky notes, and silence. blog.ppb1701.com/name-a-number #microsoft #datacenters #ai #bigtech […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Google's first orbital data center test launches Thursday. Four TPUs, roughly one server, and it has to shut down after fifteen minutes to cool off. On a SpaceX rocket, no less. Turns out the honest version of the pitch is the best argument against the million-satellite one […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117326… how many employers will find it a-muse-ing? I'm guessing it wont take long to be banned from at least certain areas. Especially government or utilities faceilities.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@LinuxBSD To our knowledge. My wife and I have not had it.

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117320… I'm going out on a limb that most car manufacturers also might say using such voids your warranty akin to some of the custom tuning if it can be traced back to breaking things or causing issues from being out of spec. Your insurance […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Muse got caught telling a user, point-blank, that it couldn't see his Messages. It could, it had synced the whole local database. Days later Amazon locked it out of its own store over the same worry: that Muse doesn't tell the truth about what it's grabbing […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

People are hitting real bugs with the new Siri AI rollout. Same week, claims opened on the $250M settlement over the Siri that also didn't work. Some things never change — they just get a new beta label. blog.ppb1701.com/the-beta-is-real-s… #apple #siri #ai #bigtech […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@jcrabapple mornin'

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@jcrabapple mornin' 👋

Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

ios 27 is out, and yes they Finally fully released a slider for glass.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The PSN digital games settlement finally has real numbers: most people are getting somewhere between 91 cents and $33 in PlayStation Store credit. Oh and tomorrow is when Marvel's Wolverine launches for $69.99. And lets be real, most likely most will land more on the 91 cents side of that range. […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Made a page listing all Capy UI releases and most recent changes. Capy UI is a set of dark themes with Tricorn Black background and Electric Blue accents. Usually has a gradient background with subtle blue radial gradient if possible and where I can add it an adorable Capybara mascot logo […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement. blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovati… […]

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