sunbeam60
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- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
Let’s talk in 3 years.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
Couldn’t har said it better myself.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
Nor could an assembly line.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
As soon as we convince the billionaires to stop hiding their wealth and pay their fair share of tax.
Ie never.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 days ago:
It’s really not and if you believe it is you need to use it more. The threat is real - don’t underestimate it.
- Comment on a VPN that is easily self-hostable and resistant to blocking? 5 days ago:
Most Chinese exits through port snooping. And you really need to be on a Chinese corp network to know - if you take your western mobile there they do very little blocking.
I’ve been fairly successful with most China corp networks letting me out and in to self-hosted WG server on port 123.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 1 week ago:
That’s what they’re doing. They clearly would prefer people to move to iOS, that smells a bit like MacOS, as it’s a damn sight more profitable to both sell you hardware and software 30% cuts.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Yes, while connected to my wireguard server through port 123 here from my Chinese office, I should probably try to upgrade the wireguard server. That’s a great idea!”
Ask me how I know.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Of course. And when I hear “vibe coded”, I hear someone stating with “make me a cool app”.
If you have a thorough, deeply thought through technical spec, then AI can write a great amount of tests up against that spec, say, and you’ve got a fantastic base for TDD.
I honestly feel like a lot of the downvotes are people thinking AI means “clueless programmer having an AI do its work for you”. Many highly productive, deeply technical developers use it every day.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
What is your concern? If it’s a generic “AI”, then I can assure you tha pretty much every software has AI code in it already. Heck, Linus is accepting PRs where AI has been used.
AI is useful. It produces useful code.
Like creative writing, it won’t produce something novel. But man, 75% of code is just boiler plate. AI can do a lot.
That does not absolve anyone of committing crap code. Put your name to it. Own it. Take the consequence of delivering shit code or great code, no matter how it was written. Don’t let AI be a crutch. But you’d be god damn fooling not to use it, where it’s right.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 2 weeks ago:
This is what I’ve done. Crash rate is high. Performance is degraded. Windows still involved, just hiding.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 2 weeks ago:
Affinity.
I just need Affinity.
And then I can dump Windows.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.
I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
What if I told you that’ by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.
Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what we’re arguing about now, but I’m convinced it’s not the original point I was trying to make. I think both of our lives are too short to carry this one. Have a good evening.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
Volunteer adoption of a system found to be better by distro maintainers is not the same as forced adoption of a system distro maintainers don’t find to be better.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 4 weeks ago:
But this proposal for a full auto-chain isn’t a proposal by Linus and many thousands contributors. It’s the proposal of a commercial entity that doesn’t control Linux in any way.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 4 weeks ago:
It’s Linux. In what world do you imagine there wouldn’t be 87 forks that went in a different direction.
Linux cannot be controlled, at least as it stands today.
When Linux disappears I have some fears. But jerk as he may be, he’s also incredibly effective at keeping it open.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 5 weeks ago:
Good friend of mine was high up in the advertisement industry. Think Mad Men today.
He is utterly disillusioned by what his industry is advertising, how it works, what it does and who does it. They all know they’re just making the merry go round spin faster and faster towards catastrophe.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
It’s from everywhere tbh. But the EU is certainly the largest, most forceful block in getting age verification pushed through.
The only upside is that the EU proposal demands ZKP, whereas all others are happy to accept/prefer “prove who you are”. That’s obviously an insane privacy nightmare.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Making you aware that the age requirement probably comes from the EU. Seeking another EU based solution might introduce the same requirement.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Cries in European.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The EU doesn’t have laws. It has directives and regulation. These are converted into law by member states.
The EU doesn’t have any regulation or directives about the inadmissibility of evidence; that is a national concern. The only area the EU has directives for regarding evidence is the cross-border admissibility of evidence from one country being accepted in another.
This is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
“Oh you’re Danish! You should meet my friend Geert Van den Berg, he’s also from Dutchland!”
If I had a penny for every time, I’d have at least three fiddy.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
You can read more about lock down mode here: support.apple.com/en-gb/105120
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 month ago:
Big claims require big proof. But I bet all you have is a hunch.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 month ago:
I’ve been in software my whole life.
My two oldest daughters are pursuing performing arts and I’m backing them all the way.
And it’s not that software/STEM jobs will disappear completely but clearly there’ll be less of them.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 month ago:
“Well, you see, I was in fact in the process of resuscitating this female, as she had feinted after getting off from a sofa in a rather fun party game. The skill of resuscitation is, of course, something I picked up while being a WAR HERO!! in the Falklands WAR”
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 1 month ago:
But to be fair, not being able to sweat and having perfect Pizza Express date recall are pretty sweet buffs.