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bobtheborg··on Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
I thought it worth posting the stance for those not willing to click

... Gambling is motivated by a desire to get something for nothing. This desire is spiritually destructive. It leads participants away from the Savior’s teachings of love and service and toward the selfishness of the adversary. It undermines the virtues of work and thrift and the desire to give honest effort in all we do.

Those who participate in gambling soon discover the deception in the idea that they can give little or nothing and receive something of value in return. They find that they give up large amounts of money, their own honor, and the respect of family members and friends. Deceived and addicted, they often gamble with funds they should use for other purposes, such as meeting the basic needs of their families. Gamblers sometimes become so enslaved and so desperate to pay gambling debts that they turn to stealing, giving up their own good name.

bobtheborg··on Bunny CDN Security Incident

  While neither investigation has found any indication of unauthorized access to our server, we cannot completely rule out the possibility.

  If unauthorized access to our CDN node did occur, the potentially exposed information would have been: temporarily cached CDN content, Pull Zone configurations, and TLS certificates stored on that server.

  As an additional precaution, we have revoked and reissued all TLS certificates for bunny. net platform domains (b-cdn. net and bunny. run). Reissuance of managed TLS certificates for custom domains is ongoing and is expected to be completed within the next 24 hours. No action is required from customers using managed certificates. We will post a further update on our status page once this process is complete.

  If you manage your own TLS certificates, we recommend revoking and reissuing them with new private keys as a precaution.

  No other customer data, including bunny. net account data, was stored on the server in question, and no internal systems were affected.

so it seems like the underlying provider potentially allowed, for instance, disk read, that above is what bunny says might have been on disk in this case? Am I reading that right?
bobtheborg··on Gemini 4 Argon
My paid company Google Workspace account is stuck on 3.6.

My free gmail account is not.

bobtheborg··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Ageeed. I wanted to come back to read more comments and had to use search to find it
bobtheborg··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
I think the actual concern, not well expressed in the blog post, is the fact that node and vscode server are installed on, for instance, a prod machine that (probably) should be very tightly controlled in terms of what software is installed and running. You don't want to unwittingly add to the attack surface
bobtheborg··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Great question! Yes, this works much like the doom player. Sensor data (LIDAR, velocity, etc.) becomes the state. You use the score primitive to operate the controls ("What level of braking should be applied" 0: None, 1: just slightly slowing down, 2: there's a suspicious cat on the side of the road you don't trust, ...

Full disclosure, I am not they :=)

bobtheborg··on Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here
maybe this?

https://wixx.com/2026/09/11/chevron-ceo-says-depleted-crude-...

bobtheborg··on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
SWE 1.6 was great for small tasks. Very fast and good enough. 1.7 was unusable for me. Took more time thinking than GLM 5.2 and seemed to be generally running in circles. I tried it but abandoned it.

Looking forward to 2 -- maybe it'll be usable

bobtheborg··on Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set
Oof. Why does this seem worse than just showing everyone the ad? Maybe because people like me will go "not my experience" and brush off the complainers. Diabolical
bobtheborg··on Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set
Not true for me. Not sure where author is and why (s)he is seeing this (wallpapers seem to be country based.)

https://bingwalls.com/

or

https://bing.com/ and use the < > to move through history.

bobtheborg··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
> There's absolutely no evidence of or IMHO plausible path to an agent copying itself out and running on other hardware the way you describe.

Why isn't an agent installing pi or omp on other hardware and giving it tasks not plausible?

bobtheborg··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Great read. So glad they took the time to tell this story. (And glad they, as a for profit corporation, took out a support contract with SQLite. I hope they continue to do so even though this problem is resolved.)
bobtheborg··on Google's Gemini app surges to one billion users
"Milestone alert To celebrate more than 1 billion monthly active users in the @GeminiApp — making it the fastest-growing product in our history — we’re sharing some key insights into how people around the globe are using the app:

63% of users talk to Gemini out loud

One in five Gemini Live interactions go beyond voice, and use camera or screen share.

Students love that Gemini understands their uploads: 38% of their school requests include an attachment.

People use Gemini to generate more than 150 million photos every day.

Gemini can automate actions in 40+ apps, helping you book a rideshare, make a dinner reservation, and more.

More than 100 million people use Gemini on iOS, and MacOS users prompt around twice as much as people using other surfaces.

And we’re just getting started! Let us know your favorite way to use the Gemini app in the comments."

bobtheborg··on The Valley of Webhooks
"Nobody serves this today" except for every real estate listing service (https://www.reso.org/reso-web-api/)
bobtheborg··on Microsoft's $450B Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History
"Analyst research estimated OpenAI was responsible for roughly half of Azure’s $30 billion in year-over-year growth, and investment bank Stifel’s Brad Reback flagged in his investment thesis that the relationship is becoming less competitively additive as Google follows hard on Azure’s heels. Not to mention, Azure has long chased Amazon Web Services for customers and market share. Yet BNP Paribas senior equity research analyst Stefan Slowinski estimated the $24.1 billion as less than a quarter (23%) of Azure’s revenue, and noted that Microsoft has a path to keeping Azure’s growth above 40% as it phases in consumption-based pricing across its Copilot product offerings. "
bobtheborg··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
I like to use SWE-1.6 for quick help with git. For instance:

review the top stash and tell me what's in it (grouped appropriately)

1.6 does this fine nearly instantly.

1.7 tried for 17s before I killed it

bobtheborg··on Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years
"Total fiscal Q3 revenue was $41.5 billion, up 74% sequentially and up 346% year over year, representing our fifth consecutive quarterly revenue record. The $17.6 billion sequential increase is the largest in our history, eclipsing last quarter’s $10.2 billion record."

https://investors.micron.com/static-files/631b1a32-5537-46ae...

bobtheborg··on A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses
Having never really looked at valuations, my ignorant mind can get from Starlink's 10M subscribers to a $380B valuation. If you make $100/mo/user that's 12B/yr and that with a higher 50x P/E ratio is 60B. If you go to 100x, that's $120B.
bobtheborg··on Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
The author of that page seems to mostly be AI, not a human.
bobtheborg··on ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
Make that two people. I much prefer to slap the rare check on the scanner than fiddle with the phone. My banks "scan the check" part of the app was buggy for a long time, so maybe that jaded me. (~"move closer", ~"move away", ~"increase lighting"...)
bobtheborg··on Ad-tech is fascist tech
I found many points interesting. Here's one:

Policymakers supposedly work for us/the people and they could have made surveillance ad tech expensive and thereby severely limited it, but

> "Policymakers failed us because cops and spies hate privacy laws and lobby like hell against them. Cops and spies love commercial surveillance, because the private sector's massive surveillance dossiers are an off-the-books trove of warrantless surveillance data that the government can't legally collect."

bobtheborg··on Helicone Is Joining Mintlify
> What this means for you: Helicone's services will remain live for the foreseeable future in maintenance mode. This means security updates, new models, bug & performance fixes all keep shipping.

Hmm

bobtheborg··on We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
Try searching for "glasses" and you get a page full of blocks?
bobtheborg··on xAI joins SpaceX
Hello fello Technology Connections watcher?
bobtheborg··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
> who voted Trump because they believed Harris was not tough enough

No, they voted for Trump because he was their guy then later made up a rational justification. We know that people generally do NOT make decisions by rationally evaluating things, their subconscious makes a decision and their conscious makes plausible rational arguments. (Yes, citation needed.)

bobtheborg··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
It's one handed? The hand with the ring is the same hand that uses the thumb to hit the button?
bobtheborg··on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down
? "Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, is an English financial technology company focused on global money transfers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_%28company%29
bobtheborg··on Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds
"It’s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld “Xbox” that can’t be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests." Sean Hollister, The Verge
bobtheborg··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
$30K NOT counting some expenses (cardiologist, ER docs)???

> Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few there for the ER docs, a bit for the radiologist. I helped my sister-in-law negotiate these down but they weren’t back breakers. Then the hospital bill came: $195k. This is a story about that.

bobtheborg··on Fast
"Community banks mostly don’t have programmers on staff, and are reliant on the so-called “core processors” ...

This is the largest reason why in-place upgrades to the U.S. financial system are slow. Coordinating the Faster ACH rollout took years, and the community bank lobby was loudly in favor of delaying it, to avoid disadvantaging themselves competitively versus banks with more capability to write software (and otherwise adapt operationally to the challenges same-day ACH posed)."

From the great blog Bits About Money: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/community-banking-and...

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