Making things do what they're not supposed to since 1985

Absolutely bodied. But… futility. You can’t vote out someone who was never voted in. That is not how feudalism works.

Is there a polymarket yet for whether katana chain will make it into 2027? Maybe polygon leadership can make them add one? Oh no wait, even polymarket is leaving polygon eco

Yes, sacrifice your health and relationships for a company that treats you like a number, and will ninja fire you after promising no layoffs. Don’t worry, your “token grant“ will be safe at its -90% YoY as insiders keep printing and dumping.

Looks like the EU might have just killed the single market by mistake. As of this morning if you are a business in one EU country and want to send your product in a box to another EU country you have to register as a packaging producer. No, there isnt a single EU registration scheme. 27 countries, 27 registrations. Up to £1000 a time PER COUNTRY and the Swedish registry is closed for the summer holidays. This is awesome in its own special way. I have no idea how something like this made it through the first draft. The EU has been trying to stop Chinese online sales for ages without breaching WTO rules, but this is like detonating a nuclear weapon in your own house to stop a burglar stealing your spoons. #ppwr

I wonder how many ppl got infected by this cleverly disguised malware (it has a cmake payload fallback script that carries env var extractions and other shenanigans)

Just another day at the office

lmao

"Yes. My previous wording was too broad."

My looping Codex workflow has evolved to the point of spending a Pro weekly quota per day. I can't believe I have to start optimizing my context and queries like a caveman.

Imagine putting a cookie banner on your website in 2026. It’s the digital equivalent of cooking dinner for your wife and her boyfriend

Strongly convinced GPT is throttled in Codex to encourage you to use fast mode and spend "tokens" faster, and it's been getting 10% slower every week until enough people notice, they they roll back the last 10% and say "sorry, bug".

I had Codex investigate a bug and it concluded it's @SlackHQ's bug and went to submit a ticket through their support without me asking it. Wild stuff.

A single overnight loop: 52% of my weekly codex quota. It's still not done, still going.

For the longest time, I kept wasting time on searching for my threads in Codex. The problem is not without precedent - it's a real product gap as evident by a bunch of issues on the codex repo all asking for the same thing: let us sort and catalog threads! Well I got sick of waiting. Here's Catalog Codex Threads - a skill + installable toolkit which will install some hooks (if you want them) that auto-update a behind the scenes fast and fuzzy searchable index of thread metadata so your agents can find your threads without any kind of token waste of effort in under a second. You can even keep a super-low-effort thread open just to do these searches, requires no thinking at all. No more spamming your session titles with PR numbers and hoping Codex' search picks it up! github.com/Swader/catalog-co…

Du hast 100€. Dir bleiben nach Steuern und Abgaben durchschnittlich 47€. Du kaufst dir eine Schachtel Zigaretten für 9€. Davon gehen 6€ an den Staat. Bleiben 38€. Du kaufst anschließend eine Flasche Sekt für 12€. Davon gehen ca. 5€ an den Staat. Bleiben 26€. Du kaufst von diesem Geld etwa 13 Liter Benzin. 15€ gehen an den Staat. In diesem Szenario gehen 21€ an dich und 79€ an den Staat. Es ist nichts anderes als Raub. Schlimmer als die Mafia.

i don't like these purity tests. programming is just about solving meaningful problems, you can do it at any level of abstraction. im glad to ascend and use the tools that allow me to breeze through 10x harder problems. i don't think i have thought so much about the problems and programs any time in my career. idk what that is if not having fun.

Took a look at Ethereum dev pool. In the gutter and shrinking more and more. How can eth attract new people in an era where it’s clear no one cares enough about self custody, censorship resistance, and decentralization to actually dogfood their own eco? What is there to be gained for a new dev? A price dump year after year as you beg foundations for grant scraps in between the nigerian AI scam submissions, while catering to a TAM of 1000 users? Why would a developer join web3 when the blue ocean of AI is so open?

How Chat Control Passed

YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU. This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU. @puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances. Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party. This makes it troublesome. Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression. Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify. Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/51E… Dysfunctional YouTube link piped.video/watch?v=dGaQCcwn…