Our platform at work (hosted on GKE) is down and we have some execs looking to get “official” confirmation before we announce anything. Thankfully, Google’s status pages insist everything’s fine while all the GKE admin pages and command line tools are timing out.

Downdetector seems to suggest it’s an Internet wide widespread event but everything’s working fine for me. Anyone have any insight?

Also, Hexbear seems unaffected. Whoever does ops for the site, congrats on betting on the right horse, apparently.

Enough talk about watermarks and identifying which AI slop is real or fake. Regulate the power consumption, the water usage, the emissions, and/or the bandwidth. Either kill that shit in the cradle or let companies finally figure out how to proooooompt without killing our habitats even faster than we already were.

I feel like every week there’s a new trend or term that skinny people are using to shame each other and call each other fat. And the threshold for who is and isn’t fat just keeps moving down. Makes me wanna gatekeep fatness, body dysmorphia be damned.

I genuinely don’t think there’s been this much a cultural shift towards an obsession with thinness since Heroin Chic.

Edit: I hear y’all loud and clear. Time to reset my algo

My work is requiring me to start using AI so I did an exploration this weekend.

I was blown away by how quickly I was able to get a working app. Full social media clone complete with persistence, video and audio playback, auth, realtime updates, and image uploads in about half an hour. I was then horrified by the quality of the code and how little I understood what the code was doing. I 10x’ed my speed, but in return debugging and editing was 100x harder and more time consuming.

I was also attempting to learn React Native and took note of how little debugging using the AI helped me actually learn the platform I was working with. I ended up abandoning the AI in favor of just learning directly.