Hi everybody, I really want to ask sorry to everyone and say that maybe I failed with the community, but has an explanation. In the last year, I can't give any support here. I really know that ...
UNIX Recovery Legend
It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday, 1st October, 15:15 BST, to be precise, when Peter, an office-mate of mine, leaned away from his terminal and said to me, "Mario, I'm having a little trouble sending mail." Knowing that msg was capable of confusing even the most capable of people, I sauntered over to his terminal to see what was wrong. A strange error message of the form (I forget the exact details) "cannot access /foo/bar for userid 147" had been issued by msg. My first thought was "Who's userid 147?; the sender of the message, the destination, or what?" So I leant over to another terminal, already logged in, and typed
How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them
One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors. We’re so busy designing the happy paths through our products that we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong
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“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It
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Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything | Hacker News
I'm fairly well versed in cryptography. A lot of other people aren't, but they wish they were, so they ask their LLM to make some form of contribution. The result is high level gibberish. When I prod them about the mess, they have to turn to their LLM to deliver a plausibly sounding answer, and that always begins with "You are absolutely right that [thing I mentioned]". So then I don't have to spend any more time wondering if it could be just me who is too obtuse to understand what is going on.
IRC.org
I don't know if this helps much. I hope I remember things correctly and apologise people whom I have left out and they had deserved to be in here.
Ahmad on Twitter / X
So freaking dishonest I had to comment when people forwarded me thisYou can highlight weaknesses and strengthsBut just like I said when you blocked me: stop hyping shit that doesn’t work and ultimately disappointing people in local AII am GENUINELY DISAPPOINTED in this guy https://t.co/rrNAQU7zy1 pic.twitter.com/hCHJP59Wgc— Ahmad (@TheAhmadOsman) May 14, 2026
Looking Back: oh, how much I’ve been wrong in the past
I’m starting to write this blog post while sitting in a room full of system administrators and system…
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do
You know how interviewers love asking about your greatest weakness, or the biggest mistake you’ve ever made? These questions may sound formulaic, maybe even borderline cliché, but be careful when you answer: they are more important than they seem. So when people ask me what our biggest mistake was
I asked your support team for migration assistance, but they refused to help. I wanted to move to a European server. Since I couldn't get any help from you, I chose @eurosky.social instead. 😊
I asked your support team for migration assistance, but they refused to help. I wanted to move to a European server. Since I couldn't get any help from you, I chose @eurosky.social instead. 😊
Bit of a strange, rambling thing. They all agreed, but they didn't agree? Their group is poorly structured, but it's unclear if the person who didn't post on Twitter and then deleted the apologies in general has changed their mind or been removed. It's just not a great explanation in general.
BARQ!
can someone just dump PubMed into @semble.so please
It’s not lost on me the impact of my latinidad and the team behind Blacksky being responsible for creating the Atmosphere’s first medical platform. People historically abused & underrepresented in medicine are responsible for building the foundation for its community here. Don’t forget that.
