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453 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fenix 19h

@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.

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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

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17 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fenix 17h

Yesterday night January 23rd, 2026, 10:29 PM, Brasilia Standard Time

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ok that sounds roughly when I had to bounce some services, should be working today

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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 15h

Thank you. I’ll try again later

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302 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 20h

Someone will make Cheme and it will be awesome.

It's like Signal but every chat message is placed on a meme template or series of meme templates automatically.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 7h

that's an awesome idea o_o

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h
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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.

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136 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 13h

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.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 5h

I know, but I worked so hard on my tinfoil hat.

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238 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 21h

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.

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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 21h

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.

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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 21h

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.

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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

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What more evidence do they need?

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136 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 23h

They're breaking out that "non-essential personnel" lingo again

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66 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 23h

Everyone is essential. Fuck 'em.

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Is time to watch a good comedy series and forget about all the noise: The Righteous Gemstones

https://www.cineby.gd/tv/82782

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This is a fun show.

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oh you saw it?
Then here is another good one: The chair company
https://www.cineby.gd/tv/271267

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I have not seen that. I'll check it out.

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@grok, replace the translator with miriam adelson

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@grok, undress

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now you can't unsee this, it will haunt you

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 15h

Shit, this image always play loop in my mind when I saw.

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Naw. I'm good with this. #1414687

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fake, TDS.

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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:

  1. Newer LLMs still hallucinate non-existing pypi packages, including gpt-5.2 and claude-4.5-haiku.
  2. Both grok-4.1-thinking and claude-4.5-sonnet hallucinated "top rankings on MTEB" which, when I checked, turned out to be ranked outside of top 25.
  3. claude-4.5-haiku doubled down on a non-functional script it wrote, insisting that my (clean!) venv was dirty and that i just needed to upgrade packages.
  4. amazon-nova-experimental-chat-12-10 is definitely experimental, as it told me to change imports into non-existing module paths

and so on... where's all that improvement?

It was a fun experiment though.

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Smoke and mirrors?

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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.

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 24 Jan
Newer LLMs still hallucinate non-existing pypi packages, including gpt-5.2 and claude-4.5-haiku.

Great for slopsquatting

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Yeah. It's amazing that this is addressed in front-end frameworks only. Very fragile.

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