Bonjour bonsoir, geeks, and music with Buvette.

News

Farm animal family photos.

SMBC: Perhaps.

Software

500 mile email, “a curated list of absurd software bug stories”.

AI

LLMs are like a trained circus bear that can make you porridge in your kitchen. It’s a miracle that it’s able to do it at all, but watch out because no matter how well they can act like a human on some tasks, they’re still a wild animal. They might ransack your kitchen, and they could kill you, accidentally or intentionally! — Alex Komoroske, via Simon Willison.

Games

Stop Killing Games, via Ross Scott: The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games.

LambHoot: The game where you argue with AI… as a vampire.

Dialogue Trees.

Shitty tech ℹ️

Amazon ditches “Just Walk Out” checkouts at its grocery stores, which was powered by 1000 people working in India reviewing transactions.

Microsoft opens a “high priority” bug in ffmpeg impacting MS Teams, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers. HN.