Mark Dennehy

markdennehy@mastodon.ie

Chartered Software Engineer (<a href="http://stochasticgeometry.ie" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://stochasticgeometry.ie</a>), ISSF Target Shooter (<a href="http://guns.ie" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://guns.ie</a>), Daddy. My rants are mine, write your own. He/him (but usually abbreviated to "Oi, you bollix")

Posts

Post #4424596
&quot;...the CRASH Clock, which is currently below three days (Thiele et al. 2026)11. The CRASH Clock is an environmental metric that asks what is the timescale for conjunctions to occur that could lead to a collision if all forms of satellite management were to stop. There is already little time to react to a widespread failure of a large system, and ODCs of tens of thousands to one million satellites could give essentially no possibility of having a usable reaction time.&quot; https://...
Post #4389188
They made Violent Night 2. I am concerned. There may not be enough beer and popcorn.
Post #4387807
The more I watch the financing behind all the #ai nonsense, the more I keep thinking of snuggies. Snuggies are a purely commercial product, but their design has precursors that were intended for use by wheelchair users. Thing is, there aren't enough people in wheelchairs to sustain the market, so the original products failed, and only the "as seen on TV" market sustained it. So what happens to a product that has limited use and limited markets when the made-up market funding it v...
Post #4361302
So, (a) of fucking course openAI&#39;s LLM did not just decide to go off and hack websites, the company spends 48% of revenue on marketing, this is nothing more than a stunt; but (b) hacking someone&#39;s company is actually a crime in a lot of jurisdictions and if you hit someone with your car, we don&#39;t put the car in jail, so would someone sue these twats please? This is getting embarrassingly dumb.
Post #4361301
...and my favorite shirt maker is no longer shipping shirts out of the UK at all. Feck&#39;s sakes.
Post #4298540
Jesus Reuters, could we not with the &quot;Not Now Nazis, we&#39;re busy!&quot; headlines? :D
Post #4186204
Every so often it&#39;s nice when you have something in your head and you can kinda get it half-way out of your head and onto paper. #ai
Post #4121440
Me: Yeah, I&#39;m getting the hang of this #woodworking lark, no worries, feeling good about that... Also Me: Wait, what the fuck, it doesn&#39;t just dangle down getting in the way all the time?
Post #3941919
Can&#39;t even get away from phishing on mastodon now it seems...
Post #3941918
I don&#39;t care it it&#39;s fake, this was the best laugh of the day so far. https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/116947828613110905
Post #3903989
Today I heard an executive say &quot;Imagine if software could care about you&quot; and the only thing I could think of in response was from Robin Williams. #ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1JlHWvRxc
Post #3649411
You write a PR. It took two days because you were productionising someone else&#39;s #AI slop PoC. The first comment back is someone cut and pasting a claude output without attribution. 1. Don&#39;t fucking do this. 2. Don&#39;t fucking assume I can&#39;t run a spellchecker on my own work. 3. Don&#39;t fucking post a comment you&#39;ve neither read nor understood. 4. Don&#39;t poison a PR because in small teams, you get one reviewer because nobody has the time to...
Post #3530412
I haven&#39;t seen a single #IrishRail train run on time so far this month. Joke of a transport system and we wonder why there&#39;s only an increase in the number of cars. #mastodaoine
Post #3484979
Look, all I&#39;m saying is, try cocaine. It&#39;s cheaper, it&#39;s easier, it fucks you up the same way and you&#39;ll move a lot faster when coding and make about as many mistakes as with LLM tooling, but you&#39;ll enjoy it more. #ai
Post #3465697
Okay, this isn&#39;t a bad breakfast spot.
Post #3465696
For the avoidance of doubt, halfway up a tree in the Glen of the downs is a terrible time to not be sure if you have a spare pencil lead or not. (I did, but it was hiding) #mastoart #mastodaoine #irishart #sketching
Post #3396711
We need a big steel bar in front of every level crossing so when some fuckwit thinks he&#39;s special and his van will fit and the signs just mean you have to do boring reading, said fuckwit experiences a sudden stop twenty feet shy of the crossing as his van gets torn open like a giant can opener took issue with him personally. #mastodaoine #IrishRail
Post #3396710
I swear to fuck, #IrishRail would have the dalai lama strangling people from the stress of trying to get home on public transport. And you scuttering gobshites aren&#39;t helping. Don&#39;t drive your truck into 600 volt powerlines. Don&#39;t lean your bike against the sign banning bikes on the train. Don&#39;t leave your fecking backpack on your back when you decide not to wait for people to get off the train before you shove your way on you fecking disgrace. IT&#39;S NOT...
Post #3396709
2 hours 40 minutes from my desk to my door, which is a 40 minute drive. Fuck public transport. Fuck #IrishRail. Pave the whole fucking county over and make it one big road for private cars with only one occupant allowed by law. Fuck public services that think it&#39;s only inconvenient for hundreds of people to lost hours of their lives to this incompetent bullshit *every fucking week*. #mastodaoine
Post #3396708
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/ &gt; June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. AI company Anthropic accused Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities in what it said was the largest known attack of its kind on the company, according to a ‌letter seen by Reuters. &gt; The strike by Alibaba is described as a &quot;distillation&quot; effort, wh...
Post #3383863
Tell me you&#39;re a fragile narcissist without using those exact words even though everyone else is thinking them. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-ro-khanna-doge-cuts-b3000732.html
Post #3375406
lol rofl, a second &quot;treaty&quot; at Versailles, because holy shit are this lot slow learners.
Post #3375405
Every person who&#39;s ever read Junior Cert history or higher right now: #uspol
Post #3375404
Day 462 of Calum being amazed by modern developments in paleontology: https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/ (In fairness, that is bloody interesting) I guess once they&#39;ve gotten to 14 or 15 years old and still think of nothing but dinosaurs, it&#39;s time to start looking more into Earth Sciences and paleontology in UCD, huh? #mastodaoine #parenting #dinosaurs
Post #3375403
@abban wat. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/
Post #3337127
OpenAI had $38bn in losses in 2025. THIRTY-EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS. IN NET LOSSES. And even that looks massaged. The 2024 losses of five billion dollars were eyewatering - this is fucking obscene. How much damage is this #ai bubble going to cause? There&#39;s no way these tools are usable once this has to be paid for. They&#39;re losing up to $14,000 on $200/month subscriptions ffs!
Post #3315812
@abban Junior has been thinking about Oh No UFO and is of the opinion that it lacks sufficient dinosaurs and submits the following character suggestion :)
Post #3237419
Down home for 48 hours, got to go sketching in #Fenit. #Kerry #Mastodaoine
Post #3071836
wtf an post?
Post #3025667
I did not have &quot;Burkes cause #AI Bubble to pop&quot; on my bingo card. Shite. #mastodaoine