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- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 12 hours ago:
Ctrl-Z guy would like a redo.
- Comment on BBC - The people who hunt old TVs 2 days ago:
Most TV programs are broadcast in HD format. Especially sports. That was the main reason we got rid of our last CRT. The scoreboards were getting cut off at the edges. That, and the fact that the bottom right corner of the display had permanently faded to black.
- Comment on Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone 4 days ago:
Sounds like the issue is getting to the server, not the LLM server itself. If so, may want to look into running a reverse proxy, or if you want to access it remotely, tunnels: github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
- Comment on Just had a hospital group employee tell me to simply email medical information 6 days ago:
A long time ago I helped set it up so an elderly relative’s HOA dues were auto-withdrawn from their checking account. Someone stole one of their checks, washed it, wrote in a different name and amount, and cashed it. Bank anti-fraud caught it, refunded the money, and closed the account. I sent the HOA a message explaining the situation and asking what the procedure was to change account numbers.
They emailed over an attached PDF form. Had space for fullname, phone, address, bank routing and account number, and her real signature. Pretty much a PII nightmare. The instructions were to have it filled out and emailed back to them. 🤦🏻♂️
Told the relative to print it out and send it back by post.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 1 week ago:
AWS S3 lets you upload all content to a bucket, then mark it as a website. If usage is not too heavy, it can stay under the free tier.
But a favorite free one is Cloudflare pages: geeksforgeeks.org/…/deploying-static-website-to-c…
You can keep your content on github, connect it to a CF page, and have it auto-update on push to github.
- Comment on Name this minivan 1 week ago:
Organ Donor.
- Comment on Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world 1 week ago:
Fracking has altered water-tables, caused land to sink, and induced earthquakes.
Let’s hope they think a bit harder about the consequences of pumping out water from these deep aquifers.
Narrator: they won’t.
- Comment on Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025) 1 week ago:
Palm 😔
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
- Comment on Where Roman coins have been found 1 week ago:
Doesn’t show the Han/Byzantine trade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
Roman coins have been found as far east as Vietnam and Japan.
- Comment on Where Roman coins have been found 1 week ago:
There’s a book covering it:
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Llama 2 weeks ago:
Two people with decent sewing skills.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 2 weeks ago:
If you have control of the server or platform serving the content, could look into “robots.txt” and “tarpits.” There are a few, but one example is Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
If you just own the domain and it’s hosted elsewhere, you could set it up to go through CloudFlare DNS. They have a one-button scrape-stopper: blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-…
- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 2 weeks ago:
I pay for Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I was paying for Google Gemini as well, but it was returning too many errors so I canceled it. I also pay for Google office, Microsoft office, and Adobe subscriptions. They inject their own AI into their services, but I end up ignoring them or turning them off.
Mostly use it for coding in Cursor, but occasionally for research into the state of AI and to make MCP extensions. It’s been worth the investment so far, given how much more of the mundane coding tasks get done by supervising it. I also had it update a Wordpress theme because I had no interest in learning the innards.
I never let them loose in ‘agentic’ mode, as they inevitably destroy all the work. I can run decent-sized models locally through lmstudio and Cline, but they’re much slower than just using Cursor and a cloud model.
Outside coding, the only usable one I’ve found is Adobe Firefly, accessed inside Photoshop (to remove material) and Illustrator (to generate simple SVGs and icons from prompts).
Every single other one, when I’ve put it to a non-coding use has been a pile of slop. If all LLMs go away tomorrow, the only one I’ll miss is the Adobe SVG creator.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Plot: a rival publisher hires a killer to murder a successful author over the copyright.
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- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 3 weeks ago:
Actually, there is something you can do about it.
But it doesn’t involve Google.
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- Comment on Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers 3 weeks ago:
Daringly published in Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
- Comment on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 3 weeks ago:
Windows MICE: en.wikipedia.org/…/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 3 weeks ago:
Kudos on consistency.
- Comment on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots. 3 weeks ago:
Any CEO who says AI would replace staff is pandering to short-term investors. They’re not a long-term visionary.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Last time a CEO said the opposite they got pilloried. Don’t say something your product can’t back up. The lesson has been learned.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 3 weeks ago:
That, and wiping off the caked dust.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
Wonder if the 5% that actually made money included companies that sell enterprise AI services, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google?
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
I remember being at a conference when a guy walked up to a group of us chatting. wearing a Google Glass. Everyone stopped talking, turned around, and just scattered. A while later he walked into the men’s room and someone reported him to security. That afternoon, the glass was gone.
Guess nobody learned that lesson.
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 3 weeks ago:
They’re speedrunning to GPT-9000 just so they can lay claim to the HAL number.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
Shades of dotcom days. Everyone hopped on the bandwagon. Most lured by the high salaries and gold-rush mentality. Nowadays, just having a CS degree isn’t enough. You want portfolio pieces to set you apart. Start by having a damn portfolio. You can set one up for free on GH Pages or CloudFlare. Or pay a few bucks and set one up on Wordpress. If you can’t figure out how, that CS degree was wasted.
You want stories that show you bring value. Show that you can build things beyond school projects. Even if you do school projects, document them and push them out. Show why they’re cool and what you can do. Throw up screenshots, diagrams, or animations. No walls of text.
Also, learn to sell yourself. Not in the oily LinkedIn way. Just be out there. Contribute back. Educate others and have a voice. Blog, newsletter, social media, book, or video channel. They’re dead-easy to set up and free so there’s no gatekeepers to go through, other than your ideas.
If in a big city, go to Meetups or demo days. Meet people and ASK WHAT THEY DO. Help connect them to others. Anyone just sitting there cranking out resumes is going to get filtered by the LLM screener. Might as well pin up your resume above the urinal at the pub.
Finally: everyone can low-code or vibecode. Those are table stakes now. You want to do better.
