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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit headline. “No” is the answer. Let’smoved on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting how this article is contradicted by hundreds of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased...⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all personal preference. There is no issue to discuss here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The tiles don’t expand, though. Wood does. So perhaps the wood needs to be trimmed back a quarter centimeter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The “nearby woods” have been secured, lol. Yeah, you do that. Watch out for the deer and bears and shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always interesting when they use expressions like, god-given rights. That’s not how it works. A right, in the US, is a privilege that has stronger legal protections. That’s all. It’s definitely not given by anyone other than the US government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Pirate Bay is my favorite alternative. You should try it out. The library is enormous, and the monthly subscription charge is negligible. It even works on all major platforms!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not religious. He won’t even get those. And not many thoughts, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have said the two words are different by perspective. An “expat” is talking about where you’re from. An “immigrant” is talking about where you are. Also, if you start talking about 2nd generation immigrants, then “expat” can’t be used at all, which means it is narrower in scope, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These days it’s pretty weak blackmail shit. A little AI doctoring can create the same videos… So even if it’s possible, that doesn’t mean it’s plausible, and nobody cares what you do in your bedroom by yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fallacious. If you have a very small set of users, what exact data is in the database that you would be upset at losing? Maybe your contacts and your calendar. Which you could back up manually, which might actually be simpler than backing up the database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s kind of misleading, right? If they didn’t set one up, then it’s probably SQLite. But if they did set one up, that was years ago, and who cares what it is, if it’s working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s always possible to fire customer service, and that works for a while, but if you’re not in a monopoly then you’re f****** yourself over soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on now. All of the strong options would have worked. Don’t let Google buy its competition off. Don’t let Google buy it’s default position. Don’t let Google control the browser. That’s it, problem solved.

  You claim people are loyal, but if that were true, the aforementioned payoffs would not exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IME there's nice guys and then there's "Nice Guys"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone rejects you and in their explanation they say that “you’re a nice guy but”, don’t believe them. They just don’t yet realize that they don’t have to explain themselves, and they’re grasping at any words they can use that are generic and non-confrontational. Which is understandable, don’t judge them for that, just move on with life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always nice when the garbage takes itself out. And if you’re inconvenienced, I feel for you, but the writing has been on the wall for years. They will keep trying to suck more money out of you every way they can until you cancel your subscription, and because that’s going to happen in the end, why not cancel it today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So … The piracy is not actually taking down anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, except for the part where you get verified and nobody can do that except you. Oh, and the part where your kids don’t steal a copy. Or a copy of someone else’s verification. And the part where it actually doesn’t contain references to your real identity; easy to fuck that one up, right… Hmm, that actually means the whole thing wouldn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right right, of course that’s true, and it’s also true that many people have requirements that can only be met by a few vehicles on the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are talking about your work phone, not your personal phone, right? … Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM: Something like what somebody might say.

  Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck suckers. Easy mark, easy money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Linux far easier to use than anything else because most decent distros come with all the software I want, or it is trivial to install, and it’s all free.

  Most of that software is available for Apple or Windows, but it’s a PITA to install. Giant waste of time. And money, of course. And of you install Windows, you gotta manually disable all the shit advertising.

  All of that without needing the command line, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting you should ask. It turns out that LineageOA has an entire page giving you options of compatible devices…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, which makes it just as bad. Wikipedia had enough proofreaders. You don’t need AI for that, because the need is already filled.

  This is entirely different from a book writer who is going everything solo and has exactly one publishing window.

  And writing feedback software has existed for decades. So AI adds nothing new. Again it is snake oil. It is always snake oil. Except when it’s bait and switch, to pretend it wasn’t snake oil in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  800 is fucking huge tho. Big city folk can easily fitinto 300 if living alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they oughta unionize. Lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The march of time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically this was not true. There were times when it wasn’t any month at all! History is wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Impact on Job Growth: AI is poised to displace jobs, with some industries more at risk than others. Is the paradigm shift already underway?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bullshit continues. Ride that bubble, JPMorgan, you do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. You don’t get it. You hear people talk about a new technology but actually they haven’t talked about anything, they are trying to sell you snake oil, but you convince yourself that you understand what they mean, and that it’s somehow meaningful.

  We could talk about the history of AI in software development, you know it goes back decades, and there are legitimate areas of research. But the bubble that people are riding right now, they are throwing LLMs at the general public and pretending those LLMs are good enough to replace large swaths of the current workforce, but that’s not going to happen because it won’t work, because that’s not how those models are designed. And then the snake oil salesman, they do classic bait and switch, and they start talking about expert systems and minor improvements to them, as if that is something new.

  But even if my prediction is wrong, what that actually means is that people shouldn’t need to work full-time jobs anymore.

  To be fair, if your argument is that some day AI research will be legitimate and no longer snake oil, then you could easily be right. But there’s no good reason to think that day is going to be in the next few years, rather than the next few decades or even the next few centuries.