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CHARACTERS

DARIO AMODEI — CEO of Anthropic. Earnest. Slightly amused. Wearing a vest like a man who has already priced the room.
KEVIN O'LEARY (MR. WONDERFUL) — Money with a pulse.
MARK CUBAN — Has done the math before you finished the sentence.
ROBERT HERJAVEC — Wants to believe. Cannot.
LORI GREINER — Wants to know who the customer is.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.) From the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City… it's Shark Tank.

KEVIN I heard the valuation rumor backstage. I assumed it was a typo.

MARK I assumed it was a typo in the currency.

ROBERT I've seen a lot of hockey sticks in my life, Kevin.

KEVIN You are a hockey stick, Robert.

(The doors open. DARIO walks the long walk. Confident. A man who has done 400 investor meetings and has the calves to prove it.)

DARIO Hi, Sharks. I'm Dario. I'm the CEO of Anthropic. We make Claude — the AI that writes your emails, your code, and, increasingly, your quarterly reports. Last Monday we filed an amended S-1 with the SEC. Third-quarter revenue: seventeen billion dollars. Up about 1,127 percent year over year.

LORI (sitting up) Okay. Now we're talking.

DARIO Nine months: thirty-three point two billion. Adjusted operating income in Q3: two and a half billion. Fifteen percent adjusted margin.

KEVIN Now I'm interested.

DARIO Unadjusted operating loss: five hundred sixty-seven million. Mostly because we bought five billion dollars of short-term compute that costs more than our long-term contracts. And a two-billion-dollar non-cash charge from our employee donation-matching program.

KEVIN You lost money donating. That's the most expensive generosity I've ever heard of.

DARIO Net loss for the quarter was twenty-three point three billion. That's a non-cash mark on convertible notes and SAFEs.

MARK So the loss is fake and the revenue is real.

DARIO The loss is accounting. The revenue is customers.

The apartment full of garish gold shit in The Devil's Advocate (1997) starring Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, and Al Pacino:

The apartment in question is Trump's multi-level private residence at the top of Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Avenue, and production used it essentially as-is — Versailles-style gilt, marble, and the Central Park views included. Screenwriter Tony Gilroy has told the story of how they were hunting for "the ugliest, most garish, horrifying real-estate developer apartment" and Trump "threw his apartment at us," adding that "we didn't have to [change anything]… that's his f---ing s---bag apartment with all Versailles gilt and the high-rise windows"

I didn't know this. I guessed. Also lots of boobs in that movie, you won't be disappointed (Ladies, there's a Keanu ass and taint shot too)

you know what's a legit cool tactic for application defense? straight up invalidate the token of any authenticated user/application that makes a malformed API request or tries to hit an endpoint that doesn't exist

oh you want to sniff around the api? you gotta re-auth again, jerkbag :jerkbag:

i can't touch "show more" on iOS Safari

Okay

Used to hang out with Erica in IRC back in the day. Glad she's doing well. Fuck your coordinated disclosure

Just another unhinged CNBC take

At the time of posting, I didn't know about any embargo. My contact had told me there was no embargo, and her contact had told her the same thing.

what did I fucking say about the inability for people to keep secrets? HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW?

Hahahaha

Full disclosure would have made this obvious because the adults in the room could have discussed this openly and come to this conclusion

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

This wouldn't have happened if they rewrote it in Rust

this is the worst fucking take anyone on the planet could have, congratulations! You won stupidest post of the day!

is this because white people are afraid to walk down the ethnic food aisles at the grocery store?

Honestly, with how good LLMs are at probing and finding vulnerabilities they're a bigger threat than Heartbleed was too

GEICO literally won't let me cancel the policy for a car I don't have. It asks a dozen questions trying to invent reasons to have a policy and then refuses to let you cancel.

Sometimes if you choose a different reason for why you want to cancel the policy it eventually replaces the blue "Cancel Policy" button at the bottom of the screen with "Maintain Policy" to send you back to the main page. Other times the button disappears completely.

Hey folks, the Salvation Army gets a lot of charitable donations every Christmas so maybe we should do Christmas all year????? :shrek:

So Rust is slop, and I guess Go is slop too because the guy who is head of all their crypto code is a slop coder

Elixir is slop

Python is slop

Perl is slop

I guess you'll have to go back to writing C/C++ and Ruby

this applies to "LLMs can never work, they only produce shit code" cheerleading too. Just because people are saying it doesn't mean it's true.

hahaha whats wrong afraid to shoot a guy in a wheelchair on national TV?

to the tune of Everything is Awesome

Everything is tacos

What's dumber: vibe coding/art or trying to fight back with vibe lawyering

Tesla FSD stops if a chicken crosses the road. Which is a nonstop experience in Hawaii

Do you think open source projects should talk like

a) educated person who can piece together a coherent thought

b) schizo Reddit comments

c) an IRC troll

So are we gonna short Adobe yet or what? Artcraft looks solid

If only 100 of you donated $1000 to me, I would be able to afford $100,000 of continued spending

this is from long long before genai existed

There's a new project people are raving about on the Fediverse but it's been heavily vibe coded and the users don't think it's been vibe coded and the authors are being very coy about its origins and people keep posting about it like it's the best new thing and I so badly want them to know that it's proof that you CAN get something good out of an LLM

You know, people dunked on FreeBSD for years for self-hosting their own SCM, issue tracker, CICD, etc etc instead of outsourcing it to other big tech freemium operations.

The chickens have come home to roost, and FreeBSD was always right.

FreeBSD ports changed Postfix to enable an LMDB build option and there's two incompatible LMDBs in the ports tree now (1.0 and pre-1.0) and this makes it impossible to have CFEngine installed at the same time as Postfix unless you remove the LMDB option and build your own Postfix package

weird, annoying

damn i'll never be this cool

me and my mom and dad

them: I want a Nutrition Facts label on open source projects so I can tell if it's full of AI slop and bad code of conduct

me: I want a Nutrition Facts label on open source projects so I can tell if it's run by unhinged extremists and I should just fork it and move on

we are not the same

"in order to opt out of all these data broker and people / property search services, you have to contact them and give them even more data proving who you are"

Yeah cool doesn't feel like a trap at all :thumbsup: :coolspot:

I really do wish pizza joints had their own fucking drivers again

webkitgtk... has no sandboxing... except on Linux???

It's going to be years before AI can cry itself to sleep

and could get worse

WILL get worse

https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-10/hail-is-a-multibillion-dollar-problem-and-could-get-worse/

What if they pump in organic peanut butter into the SPR and let the oil rise to the top?

More than 100 people say they suffered brain injuries from a Six Flags roller coaster in the last two years alone, following a CNN investigation last month that linked the world-famous ride to life-altering injuries and deaths.

they're having unprotected s*x with each other, i heard it on a podcast

Super annoying there is no option for Gitea/Forgejo to mirror an entire org from another server

maybe I want to mirror everything Lain publishes to Github. But I can't. I have to mirror every project individually.

super lame really

I wish they made doughnut flavored doughnuts first tho

Finally updated PleromaFE: I am lazy

KDE activists are fighting to restrict the software from humans who have lost legal personhood

👏 JUST 👏 USE 👏 DELTA CHAT 👏

LLMs can't (yet) invent new words like "enshittification", so Cory Doctrow's job is safe 🎯

chat, is this AI?

Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead!

Deranged advice by people who don't actually understand how filesystems, kernel VFS, etc works

The cost of freedom (rental car hell)

Literally never buying a digital anything from Sony ever again

✊

They're remaking all these TV shows but where's the reboot of classics like Mr. Belvedere?

Just throwing this out there: could FreeBSD bake in an anti bot scraping mechanism into an accept filter kernel module?

We are getting closer and closer to making JPEGXL a reality. Perhaps within 2 years we can start actually using it as the default image format on the web

died FROM measles or died WITH measles?

:tinfoil:

What if it's a datacenter that's also a mosque? That's one way to make sure Texas won't allow it

oh but what if it's a datacenter that's also a Jewish temple? Damn, then they have no choice but to let them build it

:signings:

I see baseball in Chicago is going well this year

It's Friday fellas

FreeBSD tcp_rack vs tcp_bbr vs default network stack

You really want bbr on unreliable links like residential ISP hosting from your homelab

Saw another Aaron Swartz stan posting online today, time to share the truth again

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/aaron-swartz-was-not-innocent/

I just learned that sysrc(8) on FreeBSD is a shell script and now I want to cry

Malicious Rust Crate arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

Better:

Malicious Rust Crate arrayref Runs a Memory-Safe Build-Time Payload

There, fixed it. Now we can all feel better

great give the cops a reason to shoot you because you have a phone shaped thing in your hand

SOMEONE BETTER STOP AMAZON BEFORE THEY GET THEIR HANDS ON THIS

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-see-one-of-oldest-surviving-copies-of-the-odyssey-at-metropolitan-museum-of-art-180989360/

The Amount of Rare Books in Grated Parmesean Cheese May Surprise You

that's one way to make sure Americans include reading in their diet

It occurs to me that all these smart TVs have another side effect: pushing viewers to only see what they want you to see.

Like Roku having a fake "Live TV". If they can trick into you to watching their bad internet stream, you're increasing their ad revenue.

They make it really hard for people to access their local TV channels, either via broadcast or cable. I'm aware it's technically possible but I spent an hour on the phone with my mom and she couldn't get it figured out. In her case she has a cable box but can't remember how it works and maybe her remote needed new batteries. But we spent 30 minutes looking for how to make the TV even try to use it.

But still. They aim to steal your attention and direct you into their revenue stream which as a side effect keeps you away from news/content relevant to your local community.

404media should be fucking ashamed for continuing to paint a false narrative that these "rare books" should be fetishized and people should care deeply about what happens to them.

This isn't even good investigative journalism; their work here has the quality of a fucking tabloid.

These writers hate big tech so much they're betting that their readership can be fomented and unified against these companies over a topic that the readers will never understand.

"The vast majority of books produced -- rare or not -- end up being shredded because they're absolutely useless and there is zero demand for them"

🙉 BOOOOOORRRRRRIIIINGGGGGGG!!!!!

"The vast majority of books produced -- rare or not -- end up being shredded because they're absolutely useless and there is zero demand for them -- but now AI companies are buying them and scanning them before they get destroyed!"

:allears: HOLY SHIT TELL ME MORE

It's perfectly reasonable to hate what big tech has become. But if you're going to risk your reputation and journalism credentials to criticize them, at least stand on solid ground instead of relying on flimsy accusations that are so easily repelled when the whole scope of facts is presented.

I've tracked down a bug where TCP connections over IPsec die after a short time when IPsec runs over if_wg

this guy doesn't trust wireguard

Thunar has only been around for 20 years but it still shows an eject symbol even when the external drive is not mounted

every time i login to my arch box it's a fucking nightmare trying to figure out how pacman works

how is this software in this state? everything about it is illogical. it's like a prank. am I being pranked? is it really supposed to be like this?

pacman -h
usage: pacman [...] operations: pacman {-h --help} pacman {-V --version} pacman {-D --database} <package(s)> pacman {-F --files} [options] [file(s)] pacman {-Q --query} [options] [package(s)] pacman {-R --remove} [options] <package(s)> pacman {-S --sync} [options] [package(s)] pacman {-T --deptest} [options] [package(s)] pacman {-U --upgrade} [options] <file(s)>

use 'pacman {-h --help}' with an operation for available options

ok which of these is for searching for a package name? it must be -Q right?

nope, that's for querying the installed packages

absolute fucking trash software why do people praise this distro?

can your instant messenger run games like this with the members of your chat group? realtime, no server. This one's just an arena demo, but there's a richer RPG

#DeltaChat #WebXDC

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guac

My brother in Christ, never pay for premade guac ever again. It's so easy to make. Why are you doing this to yourself?

My new hobby is replying to random posts with "I'm actually the world's leading expert on this, and you're dead wrong"

Saw my first fent lean in Milwaukee #opa

There were signatures on Donkey Kong

https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/d1/fb/76/d1fb76dca513b7a5a9fd2c67e7329f38ebd1d541af811ff3f100e89caae25c81.file

No really, WHY

My brother has a new toy

I thought it was the fediverse tbqh

It's a cute phrase but in my entire life I've rarely seen the truly skilled people become wealthy. This is gaslighting people really

a long time ago (late 200x?) I stumbled upon ChroniX Radio which is a streaming radio station of various metal and metal-adjacent music.

It was a completely internet-first radio station, not a stream from an existing terrestrial radio station. Not the first to have ever existed of course, but one of the larger ones that was well managed and had pretty great programming.

Somewhere around 2014 it shutdown and I was sad and completely forgot about it.

It got resurrected and moved to Canada in 2016. It's still running.

The best part about it is that there are NO ADS. You don't get those shitty interruptions like from iHeartRadio or other streaming radio platforms. Rarely there's a very brief self-promo clip, but otherwise it just streams and streams.

Even back before the shutdown it only had a clip about being listener-supported and that was it.

So anyway, it's been back and I didn't realize it. I don't know who is funding this operation. Someone must have had a massive windfall and is happy to pay to keep it running because it seems doubtful community alone could fund it, but who knows!

Sent them $50CAD to their Paypal

https://chronixradio.net/