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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like the downside here would be that you loose reliability in your connection. Probably fine for most things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Bot propaganda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You raise some very interesting points. Not trying to argue, but I’d like to share some thoughts I had in response.

  The surveillance and ad networks are products of the same ecosystem as any other digital technology. Short of regulating them out of existence, I don’t know how you can’t distinguish between the two with a disposition like ”we want one but not the other.” Telemetry is core to iterative development, and it only becomes “surveillance” when you use it a certain kind of way. Content delivery is no different in how a specialized use case, barely a socialized implementation, can produce an “advertising network.”

  Lock-in at platform, ecosystem, and hardware levels is also the easiest path forward many times, from a development perspective. Short of having a bolstering engineer culture that spends time prioritizing quality over capital, how do you incentivize companies to wait for standards to be developed and adopted before they engineer their products? How do incentive them to redesign legacy code such that it uses open standards? How do you tell the difference between priority disparity and intentional ecosystem management for the purpose of lock-in?

  “You are the product” is right on the money, and it’s astounding that culturally we know, but most of us don’t seem to care enough. To change that, I think people need to start making better arguments for why “being the product” is bad. Arguments that the average person can relate to. It might help if people understood that a platform that crowd sourced public contributions probably wouldn’t have a fraction of the success as the tech giants we see today. This is reminiscent of the feudalist era — they own the land where market + public discourse occurs; they draw influence and power from that relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I turned off biometrics for unlocking the phone. Still works for downloads, passwords, everything but unlocking the phone. I’ve barely noticed a change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly haven’t tried using one of there services APIs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. We don’t need a whole ass neural network. I’m throwing mine out right nowwwwwwwwwwjdjfjcmxn;&:@, jsi2@29394

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love if this creates some kind of decentralized energy network. You know how you can sell your energy back to the grid when you have solar surplus? We should have the option of choosing the rate too. If they don’t want to pay our prices, they don’t need our electricity,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I’ve dealt with that before, and in my case I had to rebuild the damn thing for compatibility with the web version. When I did, I was able to use alternatives like Power Query M instead of VBA. This worked in my case, but I’m sure you’re right that some features just aren’t there in any capacity.

  The external CSV thing is a PITA but you can (at least there) overcome it via adding a “landing sheet” for raw data. Nobody is going to want to deal with any of this, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? I would not shut down my PC and boot into windows just for office. I keep my Windows around because my wife prefers it (for now).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My work processes PDFs from government sites, filling them out for end users automatically. Would be cool if the API could do this somehow. Parse fields, and let you put text into them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if it stays at $5 then it’s probably not a popular idea. If 1000 people like the idea and each put $5, now we’re talking $5k. Still probably not quite enough, but it is producing income via a novel way of getting in touch with the audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Random idea: do you think a platform for crowd sourcing / funding ideas could go well for musicians? Like a feature request in software, where users can like a post about a feature to show interest, except it would use dollars instead of likes. Fans could publish an idea for a song they like and donate $5 or whatever. If it’s a popular idea, more people donate to it and the artist takes notice (having now been somewhat paid to produce it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be that refactoring the code for Windows 11 compatibility, and new features, would have been roughly equivalent in effort to rebuilding. If the code has been poked and probed for years already, still follows old patterns, and have devolved into a tightly coupled mess of scattered system dependancies… maybe it just becomes easier to justify rebuilding it as a way of clearing out technical debt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  also, time between key presses on the compromised machine could indicate network lag to what is actually a Remote Desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does iMessage store the keys locally and encrypt the entire message so only the recipient can decrypt it? Any idea what their handshake looks like—I’m curious if they can still see the messages or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m with you there. They sure as shit are going to try, regardless of whatever sustainability point you or I can think up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some idiots voluntarily give it away? Brother… we as a society moved the public common areas for discourse, entertainment, finance, and research onto a digital landscape. That landscape, in particular, is set up like as though every Roman in the fora had an invisible personal Sherlock Holmes set up to automatically dissect their footprints, fingerprints, the direction and timeliness of their stair, … and then to record it in a virtually limitless ledger where it can later be aggregated and analyzed for behavioral patterns. We aren’t giving it away anymore than the Roman commoners would have been by merely walking around town. This is a very aggressive data harvesting situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s a culture I can get behind. Lower ewaste, reduce the product cycle to something greater than a year, encourage more hobbies and less consumerism, … people will flock toward things that last, which is a market that can use some love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Propped up by what, though? They’ll just continue to dilute the name of AI with underperforming technology and yield more backlash from the public while making an oligarchy out of their richest tech influencers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all use for CI/CD?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gitea Actions, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Information is contextualized data. Knowledge is contextualized information. Wisdom is contextualized knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace all upper case I with a lower case L and vis-versa. Fill randomly with zero-width text everywhere. Use white text instead of line break (make it weird prompts, too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “a nap” related at all to “a napkin?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An unstable desktop environment reintroduces market for anti-virus, backup, and restore. Particularly, with users who don’t understand this stuff and are more likely to shell out cash for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There will be fallout, for sure, as soon as they finish calculating what percentage of profit should be fined away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re welcome to hold whatever abstract position you like, but the claim that context I’ve raised is “meaningless” misses the point. Meaning isn’t inherent in the universe—it’s created by observers—so dismissing context as meaningless is simply incoherent. Context is meaning.

  I’m not here to debate metaphysics. I’m here to discuss the economic implications of current events: (1) China’s push to build a gold-backed, highly liquid, transferable settlement asset, (2) Russia’s claim that the U.S. may pursue similar moves that could undercut the dollar, (3) gold doubling per USD in the last two years and the long historical context that introduces, and (4) the everything bubble we’re in right now. The question is what these signals imply for the future, not whether signals “mean nothing.”

  If you believe they point to a different outcome, offer a substantive alternative. Otherwise, insisting that everything is meaningless adds nothing to the discussion; it only reveals the limitations of your perspective, which I’m uninterested in. That, limited, world view is the safe “fantasy land” here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my fantasy world? Alright friend, you can take whatever high level position you want and forever repeat your incorrect points. As a matter of fact, however, there is no essence to meaning in the universe. Meaning is derived from the observer. So your point about the validation of meaning is fruitless: no such thing as a meaningless piece of context, unless you are so narrow minded in your fantasy land as to believe in such limitations. I would encourage the interested reader, not those of whom are only interested in preserving their shallow ideological pool, to consider for a moment that the world is far more complex than is immediately obvious.

  As for you, on the other hand, I fail to understand why you’ve tethered my curiosity to the dispute of whether meaning is pervasive to all things—or not. Meaning is what you make of it, and you’ve clearly made nothing of it, and I clearly can not help you see beyond such boundaries, so I will (hopefully) end this discussion now. I am not interested in debating my philosophies with you anymore. That’s just not what I came here for.

  My goal was to discuss the meaning of various macroeconomic market activities, alongside the (very real) efforts China is taking to develop their own gold-backed liquid, transferable, monetary-grade asset that can serve like a global banking/settlement medium. As well as, Russias claim that, the US is moving toward a similar move which would deface US currency.

  This debate is about whether or not the completely valid and present signs actually point to anything. It’s not about the validity of signage. It’s not about whether meaning is inherent or not. Nor is about fantasy land ideology. It’s about economics. If you think the signs mean something other than what they suggest, be my guest and introduce a novel idea. Otherwise, like I said before, I don’t care whether you think the signs may or may not mean nothing.

  “Nothing” doesn’t even make sense in this context. It’s akin a statement like “global warming means nothing.” Duh, you make the meaning. If all you can think of is “nothing,” it says more about you than the actual affairs of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard ram pricing is high. There’s their use, an economic one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do see. You’re conflating what has no meaning to you with what has no meaning at all. They aren’t the same thing, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re confusing what I mean. Of course you can make fictitious meaning out of anything. But all meaning is created. No meaning is discovered. To say there is no meaning, it represents the depth of creativity rather than the depth of reality. Everything has meaning. Whether or not you think the meaning fictitious is another topic altogether.