“I am dreading our LLM-written incident report future” from @norootcause nails it:
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/19/i-am-dreading-our-llm-written-incident-report-future/
And before you ask, of course, yes I have documented the process for my fan club.
https://ora.tion.ca/mytwitterbackup/www_ora_tion_ca/status/1419748646850019331/
@raganwald @monkeyninja they are also very conveniently made in batches of 48 for easy freezing
@daedalus
I'm not even sure that most people drew the right conclusion from the Therac 25 debacle.
The previous machine had a mechanical interlock.
The real Therac 25 problem wasn't that the software had a bug. ALL software has bugs. The problem was that the redundancy of the previous machine (software check AND mechanical interlock) was removed, on the absurd assumption that the software was correct. This introduced a new single point of failure the prior machine had been immune to.
@mhoye As others said, old vermouth has gone bad.
If you'd like to see what good vermouth can do, go see Oliver Stern at In Good Spirits in the food court on the 4th floor just above the new Bay Street GO Transit station and ask for "The Scofflaw"
there’s a lot of money and influence being poured into making the linux kernel utterly reliant on a bit of software that’s clearly unfit for purpose. that’s why all this shit is happening so quick: anthropic, OpenAI, and palantair pouring money into the Linux foundation, linus doing his little AI booster interviews, the Linux foundation pivoting even further into AI, linus using an alt-right meme to justify the kernel’s pro-LLM policy, the systemic exposure of maintainers to these tools
this is an attack, and all the people who assigned themselves the job of protecting open source against attacks are welcoming the attackers in
it doesn’t matter how obvious it gets that LLMs are a negative, because we are currently being betrayed by people with a financial and political incentive to betray us
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116908074107231828
Anybody who has worked in IT support in the trenches in enterprise IT will tell you there are some Excel power users who basically run the company, are macros wizards and actual ninjas.. about 0.1% of the workforce. About 99% of people can’t align a table in Word.
Giving the 99% of people tools which cost $$$ per user a month and letting them do anything is like giving a child a car, and being surprised when they ram the car into a wall three days later and cost $10k after achieving nothing.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116845067016479290
Yep, this sounds like a good prediction of the effects of the CRA on open source: "A haulage firm told it is answerable for the state of every bridge on its route will plan routes with fewer bridges on them before it considers starting a bridge-repair division."
It's Berkeley Breathed's 69th birthday, which seems the perfect day to share the only Bloom County I was ever moved to snip from a newspaper. Though actually, in this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad timeline, any day is the perfect day to share this February 26, 1989 installment.
@gnomon - I suppose these requirements means that the ErgoStrike7 mouse wouldn't meet your requirements, either
https://www.ragnok.com/products/special-edition-ergostrike7-armory-case
Canada's Transport Safety Board just released their final report on the Titan disaster.
https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/2023/m23a0169/m23a0169.html
RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116708457056507627
“New AI driven flight route optimization software working well so far,” declares airline
@mhoye you might be surprised to learn that I actually do know people doing that and it works far better than you'd expect
