natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 1 day ago:
The military recruits from young people who are some combination of naive or desperate and then brainwashes them with tried and true indoctrination. I don’t think they’re ever going to want for recruits.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 5 days ago:
Heads up, you’re really invested in arguing with someone who does not appear to be arguing in good faith. Just block them and move on, you will be a happier person for it.
- Comment on Replace your boss ... before they replace you 5 days ago:
Even in AI dystopia female representation at the executive level is nonexistent.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 5 days ago:
For clarity: I didn’t write the article, it’s just a good reference.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 6 days ago:
The cost here only really impacts regular users, too. The type of users you actually want to block have budgets which easily allow for the compute needed anyways.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 6 days ago:
There’s a caddy config out there that works as well as Anubis without the catgirls and mining: fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 6 days ago:
I feel comfortable hating on Anubis for this. The compute cost per validation is vanishingly small to someone with the existing budget to run a cloud scraping farm, it’s just another cost of doing business.
The cost to actual users though, particularly to lower income segments who may not have compute power to spare, is annoyingly large. There are plenty of complaints out there about Anubis being painfully slow on old or underpowered devices.
Some of us do actually prefer to use the internet minus JS, too.
Plus the minor irritation of having anime catgirls suddenly be a part of my daily browsing.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 6 days ago:
Counterpoint: Anubis is not awesome: lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
This is an excellent clarification, thanks.
Fuck LLMs, though.
- Comment on European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s 1 week ago:
This all sounds great. I wasn’t able to figure out how they plan to enforce it though.
I want to believe that the list of things they outline can be enforced by just killing them entirely but I know that is a pipe dream; does that mean even more privacy destroying age verification systems?
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
I get the point, but I just don’t agree with it.
For example: I put some thought into finding a final fantasy 14 guild to help with putting together parties for content (so I don’t need to wait 40+ minutes for less common but mandatory ones) but virtually all the ones I found were “discord required”.
I just want someone to play content with occasionally, not a full time, always on community that demands I engage with it all the time.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
Makes sense, seems like most guilds now require discord. I just have no interest in being beholden to another enshitified service.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 1 week ago:
Discord required
Nope.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
Of course he can’t, he’s too much of a loser to eat shit and die. He couldn’t manage it.
Eat shit? Maybe. But not eat shit and die? No sir. No way. I won’t believe it unless I see it for myself.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 weeks ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Pokémon Red
- Stardew Valley
Think I’m good with those 4.
Throw in Math Blaster so I can pretend to value humanity or something.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 2 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, “there is a lot of controversy” isn’t actually the same as “I hold a strong belief”.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but… there is a lot of controversy over if Epstein actually committed suicide or not. Saying that he did over and over again, where in the past how someone died would not be brought up ad nauseam, seems more like a statement of political propaganda than anything else.
Like, normally you’d stop saying “x, who died by a heart attack” after a while too.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 2 weeks ago:
Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019…
This phrasing is so common and so nearly verbatim that it’s hard not to wonder if we’ve got some Minitrue action happening here.
- Comment on Are you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue? 2 weeks ago:
Nothing quite like gagging yourself with a finger to get that fucking bit of shell out of your throat.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 4 weeks ago:
Converting those roles to debuggers and active devs does a lot for both the business and the workforce.
Hahahahaha… on wait you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
They’re just gonna lay them off.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 months ago:
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.
The music video: youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI
- Comment on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm 4 months ago:
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has boasted about cutting dozens of environmental regulations, saying he wants to make it cheaper and easier for industries to operate.
Yeah because we all know the primary focus of the “environmental protection agency” is protecting corporations.
Fuck everyone involved in this bullshit. And fuck everyone with real authority who is choosing to fail to act.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 9 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on USA | Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on first day in office 1 year ago:
“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,”
This inveigling of the American public needs to stop, and democrats need to start absolutely flooding every single media outlet possible with rebuttals. You don’t charge a foreign country tariffs, you charge your own country the tariffs; but the deceptive phrasing here is an intentional misleading of people who don’t understand global economics.
- Comment on Friendship is Universal 1 year ago:
Fuck you, Tony!