circuscritic
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- Comment on I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama 5 minutes ago:
Since no one is leaving critical comments that might explain all your downvotes, I’m going to assume they’re reflexively anti-AI.
But one of the benign useful things I use already AI for, is giving it criterias for shows and asking it to generate lists.
So I think your project is pretty neat and well within the scope of actually useful things that AI models, especially local ones, can provide the users.
- Comment on 56 POWs 3 hours ago:
That’s putting it mildly.
They we’re not just kept in government, but given control of it.
- Comment on Trump's $65B Iran War Could Have Ended Homelessness and Rebuilt Gaza 15 hours ago:
Cope.
Providing the actual bombs necessary for the extermination, is giving aid.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 16 hours ago:
Finally, a reason to like Cybertrucks.
- Comment on Trump's $65B Iran War Could Have Ended Homelessness and Rebuilt Gaza 1 day ago:
No, it couldn’t have because neither party, but especially the GOP, has any interest in helping the working poor in America, much less the Palestinians who they collectively just aided in a genocide against.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
That’s fucking nuts.
I have a lot of thoughts, but all I can really say is that’s fucking nuts.
- Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East 1 week ago:
No, I’m saying they’re pieces of shit who chose to live in a slave city, and have no problem abandoning their pets.
So no matter how many bombs fall, I will never feel sorry for them.
- Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East 1 week ago:
You realize that your post proves how awful those horrible people are, right?
These people had no problem living in a slave city or abandoning their pets to die of thirst.
- Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East 1 week ago:
That’s my point…
- Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East 1 week ago:
Go to the regional subreddits. They’re dominated by expats, and I bet you’ll rediscover your sense of schadenfruede right quick.
- Comment on Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane 1 week ago:
Maybe but this is the last thing that US officials want publicized.
It’s one thing to claim that you’ll provide missile defense to tankers traversing the strait, it’s another to ask them to sail through a minefield.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Those will not block YT ads.
They’ll block ads at a DNS level, but YouTube ads are delivered in video stream.
- Comment on Ex-PC given suspended sentence for extreme porn 1 week ago:
Not a fan of the UK’s recent crackdown on “extreme” consensual porn, but…that’s not what this is.
The BBC is clearly not reporting all the horrid details of his crimes, but the article has enough information to show that he definitely deserves prison.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
You might have just let it run past the rate limit.
After it limits you, the script looks like it’s still running, but if you hit refresh, you’ll time out, and nothing past when you’re actually limited, got deleted. It’ll be several minutes before you can start running it again.
I’ve done this for many hundreds of comments.
Every once in awhile, I’ve had a few batches of comments reappear that I can’t associate with a rate limiting error, but I have yet to find comments that come back a third time.
I guess YMMV, but that’s what my experience has been.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
There’s violentmonkey scripts that overwrite and delete them, and they stay gone, I’ve been using them for years.
They might still be in AI training data sets, but they’re not on my profile.
The only PITA thing is that you get rate limited, so doing your initial batch of deletions could a while, then just run it semi-regularly.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 5 weeks ago:
I used to purchase several Pi’s each time they released a new model and probably have a dozen in total.
But I haven’t purchased any since they told all of their hobbyist and retail user base to go fuck themselves during the chip shortages.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 5 weeks ago:
lol no
The Pi Foundation died when it was reborn as a for-profit organization.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 5 weeks ago:
You generally have a fixed amount of paid sick days per year. Those are what’s being transferred.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 5 weeks ago:
It’s where they make you beg your coworkers for their own sick leave to be transferred to you, or have HR send out an email blast begging employees to donate their own meager PTO to you, instead of the employer granting an appropriate amount of sick or maternity leave to begin with.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
All of my banking apps work in Graphene, but yes, some banks apps don’t work, which is why there’s published lists so you can check before flashing.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
It’s not a hobby.
Don’t confuse Graphene with a tinker box, or some ROM you once rooted.
It’s a professionally polished and very secure fork of Android.
There are some minor limitations with a handful apps that can’t pass their internal security checks, but there’s lists for them that you can check to see if any are a deal breaker for you.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 1 month ago:
If a nation state cuts off global internet access, satellite is one of the only options.
That doesn’t change just because it’s not ideal, or because governments have countermeasures.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 1 month ago:
Are you saying that because they Iranian government has increased their satellite jamming capabilities, that all Iranian citizens should stop using satellite internet…?
Or are you under the impression that because the government may be jamming signals in one, or multiple different locations, that they’re jamming all frequencies, in all places, at all times?
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 1 month ago:
P2P mesh systems aren’t a replacement for a loss of global internet connectivity from domestic ISPs, but satellite internet can be.
- Comment on ‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats 2 months ago:
The evidence of this crime will be on someone’s Instagram or other social media account.
I only hope that some dedicated sleuths uncover who it was and can get the evidence to an authority with the ability and desire to prosecute.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
I have Unbound configured on my pihole, it’s been running fine for years.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
Their user base is almost exclusively tech savvy people, the same people who are most opposed to AI.
I think this move signals that they believe we have nowhere else to go, and they’re daring us to go fuck ourselves, because fuck you, what are you going to do, use Chrome?
Yes, yes I will.
In general, I prefer the look and feel of chromium-based browsers, but I use Firefox and Firefox forks for the reasons that I’m sure everyone here is aware of.
If those reasons go away, I’ll just switch to Vivaldi as my primary browser. I won’t be happy about it, but if Firefox becomes another AI slop project. I might as well go with the browser who’s looking to feel I prefer.
- Comment on Iran frees child bride sentenced to death over husband's killing: activists 2 months ago:
She was only released because blood money was paid to her abuser’s family.
- Comment on The best browser for privacy? 3 months ago:
Which is why I have my Firefox based browsers on Android set to only open up private windows.
But that’s not how I normally use web browsers, so yeah, sandboxing does matter if you have more regular browsing habits, such as not using incognito all the time.