aesthelete
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- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised by a pack of wolves is real.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
Time to dump GitHub for codeberg.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Including being good to hypothetical, unlikely trillions that may live someday if we colonize Mars.
- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.
Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
This is fine IMO, because you shouldn’t use the smart features in the first place. Just get a 3rd party streaming box. The ONN one is like $25. (Or if you’re a giant nerd hook your computer to your TV.)
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
It does. I wound up buying two new TVs because of the thing OP is talking about here. You could actually get around agreeing and then opting out by removing the TV from the network and then restoring it to factory and never reconnecting it.
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 1 week ago:
Where do you guys live? Is it America? Because I kinda feel like in America I’m never surprised that someone drives drunk.
(Especially before Uber.)
- Comment on Did we win? 2 weeks ago:
Can someone please come out with a phone that’s an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?
Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I’m completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren’t for these artificial constraints imposed by these stupid fucking suits running things.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana stand 2 weeks ago:
Just imagine if we had health coverage that wasn’t tied to our jobs. If you had enough money to live on you could gasp quit your job and couch it up or find a different one. Can’t have that though, because that’s too much like actual freedom.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
We’re finally learning that it indeed sucks to suck
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 weeks ago:
What are you even talking about?
If you hand chat bots access to tools that without so much as a confirmation proceed to do things that require you to run your fucking disaster recovery procedures…you might just be a 💩 🧠 'd moron.
Are you writing these AI tools? Because you seem like the type.
Sure, the only answer is fucking “YOLO mode” everything. 👍
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 weeks ago:
Stop giving chat bots tools with this kind of access.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
I remember ratio FTP sites
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It makes more sense to me conceptually if I just imagine that most people in this country in the last decade had the tops of their skulls removed, had someone take a dump in there, and then seal it back up.
Seems like there are a lot of 💩🧠s floating around nowadays.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 weeks ago:
I wondered what Nathan Fielder was up to lately.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 4 weeks ago:
The thing is: I am 100 % sure those people use LLM answer not out of disrespect but because they honestly believe that an LLM produces a better argument than they possibly could themselves.
And I have zero confidence your 100% because you have zero backing for your claim other than believing people have good intentions.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 4 weeks ago:
Totally agree. When someone sends me some AI slop about a topic I have knowledge – which I’ve had this happen to me recently during a debug session – and asks me to read it, I think to myself “this person does not respect me, otherwise they wouldn’t be telling me to read stuff that may or may not be accurate that they themselves never read.”
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 5 weeks ago:
Even with little usage it was fairly obvious to me that the probability that an LLM will output at least one very strange response over time approaches 100%.
By themselves, they’re just sophisticated chatbots and only stream out some characters or binary in response to a prompt.
Those working in agentic AI frameworks with things like “MCP Servers” provide these things with “tools” that enable them to do things like execute shell commands and go through your inbox the same as if it were chatting with a person or another bot: with the same prompt and response paradigm.
That’s where it seems extremely obvious to me that the proper approach is to code these tools – which in any sane framework are built using regular code – with the governance in place to prevent these things from doing bullshit like this.
The LLM is formatting your computer or deleting your inbox because some dumb fuck thought it was a great idea to code up tools that hand a chatbot a root-capable shell or complete access to your email system instead of the doing the obviously safer thing and coding the tools with the governance or safety in them so the chatbot going haywire isn’t any kind of emergency at all.
This is the 2026 equivalent of running Windows XP with its abundance of open ports in its default configuration on the Internet by running a cable modem Ethernet into the computer with no router or firewall in between to protect it.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 5 weeks ago:
What even are these platforms? Why would anyone use them?
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 5 weeks ago:
And those “real” posts
Albert Einstein
- Comment on Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert 1 month ago:
At this point, it’ll cause a disaster and they’ll still keep going.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 month ago:
Yep there is a deep attachment amongst AI boosters to certain doom and gloom scenarios that stem from their philosophical “think tanks” which use imaginary problems (e.g. “AGI ‘misalignment’ destroying the world through turning everything into paperclips”) to lobby and alter our laws to benefit their real bosses – anthropic, open ai, and friends.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 1 month ago:
Never seen more definitive proof that there’s “no there there” then when this fucking asshole acts like this it’s a big deal.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 month ago:
I want eat the rich the game
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Love how we’re setting a low bar for 2028 two years ahead of time and without having a candidate first. 👍
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 month ago:
It’s kinda sorta not a game in many ways but dispatch did a decent job I thought.
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 1 month ago:
The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn’t more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you’ve already seen before.
It’s also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you’ve already seen most of it.
It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you’ve lost what you’re looking at.
In other words: it fucking sucks and I hate it.
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 1 month ago:
Because all infinite scrolling does is remove to annoyance of hitting next page
That is definitely not all it does.