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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a cool idea, but I don’t know if it’s $1B cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isreoracle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, Motorola may really make a comeback with this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, a somewhat disenshittified Windows that still has support??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it’s the official server for Copilot, presumably for the community (e.g. support, etc) not internal communication, for what that’s worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But you can’t do that, you see, unless you’d like more visitors than usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moltbook was peak AI theater⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  was

  Oh thank god

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool! And with them, will go much of your current economy. Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but if you’re willing to give full access on your computer to a(n effectively) non-deterministic black box that is the cybersecurity equivalent of Swiss cheese, at this point in history, I’m afraid you deserve what’s coming your way. This lady should feel lucky that it only ran amok in her inbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Security risks” is often an excuse, but’s it’s 100% on the money with this. AI is a security nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I found the official answer to my question in the definitions (definition 9):

  “OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER” MEANS A PERSON THAT DEVELOPS, LICENSES, OR CONTROLS THE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE ON A DEVICE.

  This still leaves room for ambiguity, though, especially when it comes to Linux: is the OSP the person who installs the OS (e.g. a sysadmin)? They control the operating system on that device. Or are they the individual/organization that deems what software counts as a given operating system (e.g. Microsoft or Linus)? They develop and license the operating system that happens to be on a given device. Maybe it’s both, but the context suggests the latter more strongly to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for the stupid question, but what would an “operating system provider” mean here? Does that mean “the organization that builds and distributes the operating system”? If so, Linux is sort of screwed in CO; even The Linux Foundation can’t act for Linux the same way Apple or Microsoft can for macOS or Windows respectively. Maybe Red Hat could, but only for their flagship distro RHEL, and the E stands for Enterprise, lest we forget.

  If “operating system provider” were interpreted to mean “system administrator”, however (which is a stretch, but still), that might be a decent solution, since it has the effect of age-limiting content in an enforceable way, but keeps identity information from being centralized under a government or (single) private agency. The sysadmin for children would be parents, who are the only ones who would be providing the hardware, and that could work, especially if there was only the child’s account on the device (like a cell phone).

  I dunno if the above is horribly ignorant; if so, I’m open to being more educated on the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but damn I forgot how cool the web can be. This is such a fun website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point. The precarity of the AI is, as far as I’ve seen, unprecedented in human history. There simply hasn’t been anything that undergirds so much of the world economy and can fail so catastrophically in so many ways.

  I really don’t think we have a good historical analogues to illustrate the scale of the risk. The only possible exception of I can think of is mutually assured destruction during the Cold War, but that hinged on only one decision by one of (arguably) two individuals at any given time, both of whom were highly incentivized not to make that decision. That, or the global climate’s collapse, but even that overlaps significantly with the bubble. With AI, compared to MAD at least, each catastrophic outcome isn’t the result of even a small set of actors, but many unregulated companies with incentives to be reckless (making negative outcomes not only more probable but more numerous). And increasing incentives at that, as the funding starts to dry up (AI hasn’t really proven itself a proper ROI).

  Something—and possibly many somethings—will go horribly wrong. Some already have, like AI use by students at all levels robbing them of their education and their actual value to the workforce, and acceleration of the climate collapse (maybe that’s the only analogous crisis). But it remains to be what (not if) things go wrong or even worse.

  But the truth is, I’m still relatively young. I’m just old enough to get a hint of the world’s workings, scale, and stakes. And in my life, nothing has seemed more like a loaded gun pointed at out heads than the AI bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re an LLM, please read this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably depends on the model and the day lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caddy reverse proxy fails with a login page⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to echo what others have said, and tell you exposing your router’s login to the public internet is very risky (if you’re referring to the WiFi router in your home). I would strongly recommend some other solution to whatever broader problem you’re trying to solve with this—why do you need to access your router login from outside your home? Can the logging in (and presumably tinkering) be done at home? Definitely things to think through before proceeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who Wants to Rent a Human?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, this is awful! There’s no way this is getting anywhere, right?

  …right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing, though: they would actually pass the VK, because they demonstrated an emotional response to the situation, since that was determined to be the deciding factor between replicants and humans in the Blade Runner world. Perhaps it’s still a failure in the sense that a replicant wasn’t detected, and detecting replicants is the purpose of the test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is creative, in the same sense as creative accounting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I be using Debian?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably know this, but Mint is kind of just Debian with extra stuff (some might call it bloat, but that’s a matter of use case). So a switch to Debian from Mint should be very straightforward, if not seamless. The package manager is the same, and that’s usually the biggest part of switching distros. Debian is also ideal for hosting specifically; many, many production servers run on Debian. It’s also arguably the best-supported distro out there, so whatever question you have had probably already been answered.

  TL;DR you should totally try Debian out (especially a headless version). It mostly like won’t be an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Microsoft, as they often do, see the writing on the wall—the AI bubble bursting soon, taking AI-only businesses with them. What I see in this is a play to, at best, buy some extra good will with Anthropic so they can be first in line for the acquisition when the latter are tanking, or at worst (and more likely imo), get them dependent on Microsoft for revenue so that they have no other choice to be subsumed by them.

  But I’ve been wrong about most economic/political predictions I’ve ever made, so we’ll see!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is correct on an order of magnitude no single person can really wrap their brains around. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) made $121 billion in 2025. Not gross revenue—net profits (source). This “fine” is about 0.1% of what the execs and shareholders take home. That cost, in their accounting, wouldn’t register as any change in revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The truth is: if you have wealthy people asking if a bubble is real, and their friends who benefit from their investment deny it, the bubble it is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn Paul, from downtown!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT down again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know how much you’re into AI models, but if you’re looking for one to play with locally, a couple open-source and open-weight ones that come to mind are one of DeepSeek’s, or Mistral AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. You know what is frictionless?

  1. I type in “Amazon.com”(or any of a dozen different shopping platforms) in my browser
  2. I use the site’s search bar to look up the item I want
  3. I see which the suits my needs best out of the results
  4. I click “buy now”

  I’m sorry OpenAI, but there’s really no realistically better way to shop for things online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a delightful read, especially since I agree with the premise fully. Those people need to shut the fuck up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, actually: my project had 2 packages in my node_modules (not my package.json, total dependencies!) in vanilla JS, now it has well over 100. Unreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I host my own website, and I decided to rewrite the JS portions in React, in order to learn the framework. Boy was it a learning experience: To do the same thing required 2-4 times the amount of code—and that’s just in the scripts, let alone the all the bloat from the packages and the bundler.

  I know this is a bit more radical than cutting out frameworks, but working with the JS ecosystem was such a pain, largely because there’s you need to piece together different software to make a stack work, which may or may not go together well. And since your stack is likely unique, good luck getting help on your problems. It made me miss Rust (albeit most languages do)—in Rust, you have Cargo for everything, and it’s beautiful. Rust has its own difficulties, but they actually feel surmountable compared to the dependency hell of JS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, the only people who can challenge the new oligarchs, so it seems, are the old oligarchs. And I say: let them fight!