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@justin_shocknet, is lightning.video working? I tried to create a new channel and paid a symbolic fee to see if it would work, but after the payment I got an error about "websocket" and the channel wasn't created.
Looks ok on my end, was it today? I had some alarms last night that needed a service restarted but should have been fine all day today
Yesterday night January 23rd, 2026, 10:29 PM, Brasilia Standard Time
ok that sounds roughly when I had to bounce some services, should be working today
Thank you. I’ll try again later
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It's like Signal but every chat message is placed on a meme template or series of meme templates automatically.
I can't believe the hype being generated about this snowstorm in the US. Grocery stores are packed. My own family is starting to worry. As a committed conspiracy theorist, I can't help wondering whether this is going to be used as a mini covid type test to see how submissive the sheep really are.
As fun as that might be, I think it's mostly reality hunger.
We evolved to deal with danger but we live in safety. Next best thing is getting really worked up over winter.
We aren't getting it like you all are I'm sure, but people keep asking me how my prep is going. I'm on my last roll of toilet paper, my fridge is empty, and I have some sprouting sweet potatoes in my pantry.
So long as I'm reasonably certain I can walk somewhere with power/internet/heat/water, I shan't waver.
Good to hear. I'm sure there are well meaning friends around you who fear for your safety. It is insane in the Northeast. I refuse to prepare on general principles. I have always been that way. I almost paid the price when Hurricane Sandy hit, but I survived.
I respect your confidence in yourself to wing it. It is my way as well.
I have nothing against prepping if people are inclined to it but hysteria harshes the vibe more than it's worth.
I have lived through many snowstorms. The level of panic I see for every weather event in recent years is really over the top. I'm sure it helps MSM ratings
What more evidence do they need?
They're breaking out that "non-essential personnel" lingo again
Everyone is essential. Fuck 'em.
Is time to watch a good comedy series and forget about all the noise: The Righteous Gemstones
https://www.cineby.gd/tv/82782
This is a fun show.
oh you saw it?
Then here is another good one: The chair company
https://www.cineby.gd/tv/271267
I have not seen that. I'll check it out.
@grok, replace the translator with miriam adelson
@grok, undressnow you can't unsee this, it will haunt you
Shit, this image always play loop in my mind when I saw.
Naw. I'm good with this. #1414687
fake, TDS.
~Memes
I did an experiment yesterday: I let LLMs battle each other on LMArena, over a little python code snippet I desired that I didn't feel like firing Claude Code up for and I got a shitton of same ol' same ol'.
So, it's 2026 and:
gpt-5.2andclaude-4.5-haiku.grok-4.1-thinkingandclaude-4.5-sonnethallucinated "top rankings on MTEB" which, when I checked, turned out to be ranked outside of top 25.claude-4.5-haikudoubled down on a non-functional script it wrote, insisting that my (clean!) venv was dirty and that i just needed to upgrade packages.amazon-nova-experimental-chat-12-10is definitely experimental, as it told me to change imports into non-existing module pathsand so on... where's all that improvement?
It was a fun experiment though.
Smoke and mirrors?
Hmm no but I suspect that this means that the coding frameworks are working around fundamental issues, rather than the actual ultra-expensive models improving much.
For example, in #1415961, the author is very enthusiastic about
ralph-wiggum. This is a plugin that executes your prompt until Claude gets it right. A.k.a. if you bet 100x on a 1:100 odds outcome, you have a real chance at getting it right.All this bull crap the liars-in-chief have been spilling at Davos is all about simulating until you get it right, rather than actually getting it right.
Great for slopsquatting
Yeah. It's amazing that this is addressed in front-end frameworks only. Very fragile.
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