t3rmit3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Decoherence Trap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the primary counterargument is tech progression, I think the primary counterargument is that decoherence and tech debt are usually a function of humans balancing work time vs deliverable demand (for coding), and making tradeoffs like those adhoc patches vs rebuilds-to-maintain-coherence… but that is not intrinsic to coding, and is much less relevant to an agent swarm who could feasibly decide that a full rebuild using the lessons gleaned about design, but without the actual code debt, is warranted and possible within a short time window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much screen-time control is actually useful?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, there’s no point just controlling screen time for the sake of controlling it, I need to have something actually available and ready to replace it with. Recently I started reading (physical) comics, picking up a couple of the “trade paperbacks” for the Dark Horse Alien and Predator comics. Or re-reading some Gene Wolfe or Tamsyn Muir. Self-imposed technical controls are pointless, to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The goal of that fee as a rate limiter is to prevent one developer from releasing hundreds of “games”, not to prevent thousands of developers from each releasing one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should computer monitoring software actually let you control?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve grouped together a couple different classes of software, with different purposes.

  “Bossware”: this is the B’s one, that is used for monitoring employees. Remote screenshots, activity times, application use clocks, etc. No one should ever put up with having this.

  MDM (Mobile device management): This is IT software for managing device settings across a fleet (used to mostly mean smartphones, but now it actually means laptops), like enabling disk encryption, enabling the firewall, installing software and security updates, etc. It is also what you use for e.g. remotely wiping devices (e.g. when they’re stolen). It doesn’t usually monitor user activity.

  EDR (endpoint detection and response): this is security software for detecting malicious activity, meaning malware or adversarial actors (I.e. hackers). It often also enforces security settings like USB disablement and software allow/blocklists. This is a 90% automated

  I run our security team, and I tell people up front that I’m not interested in what employees are doing as long as it’s not destructive or dangerous. I don’t and wouldn’t deploy bossware. I ain’t a cop, and I won’t roleplay one for my employer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sail North is a “shanty”-esque folk artist/band, and a lot of people think they are using AI (I have no clue if they are or not, that’s just the lmgtfy synopsis).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This generation of gamers are spoiled(?)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I feel this, but I don’t think it’s bad; I want new games to be such a high bar that it’s raised peoples’ expectations, because I get to play those games too. I can still go back and play FF8 and Nox and even Pax Imperia, but I don’t need kids to be able to appreciate those games, those are my nostalgia-bong hits. If they’re all clamoring for GTA6 graphics, it doesn’t detract from my old games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This generation of gamers are spoiled(?)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t be “spoiled”, that would be (rightfully) “entitled”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a product he’s asking people to pay for, so I’m not sure why the AI use matters. It’s not replacing a paid dev position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft defender now supports Linux desktops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally antivaxxers, but for computer viruses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Alexa won't stop saying 'lalala' and users are creeped out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The person taking the video is literally prompting it by saying ‘la la la’ themselves. Why would they be surprised that it’s response is to sing it back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking for the populace as a whole to have some kind of sit-down, coordinated evaluation of what has maximal climate impact, but that’s not how protest movements work.

  Small groups can be tactical like that. Large protest movements have to seize on whatever momentum happens, when it happens.

  If people were out there protesting golf courses, I’d be there too, and I’d be encouraging it, but I’m not going to waste my breath as someone with zero meaningful platform trying to foment a mass protest movement out of thin air.

  And there’s something more important to this movement than just directly addressing the environmental impact of datacenters, which is the anti-large-corporation sentiment it’s feeding (both from, and into). That is very important for climate action, because large corporations are the ones with the largest climate impacts. And I’m not sure if you’ve been going to any protests, but there are definitely signs at all of them protesting oil and gas companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hilarious they are like, “but golf courses are worse!”

  Yeah. Get rid of them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My people need me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but the bourgeoisie have convinced a large portion of the would-be proletariat to side with them. So insomuch as the average ‘soldier’ in this war is more likely to encounter a coal-rolling boomer than Elon Musk, there is more to this than pure class politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bang!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider someone anti-life that argues killing is basically okay if you think it’s okay. It’s a made up comic and not one of us really knows what the bad guy did.

  The point of the comic is that many stories in comics and other media try to introduce a last-minute moral dilemma in which the good guy stopping a bad guy is made out to be as bad as the bad guy. Often it’s a lazy mechanism that doesn’t work from a writing standpoint because the reader/viewer has experienced the entire story solely from the protagonist’s POV, empathizing with and seeing the victims of the ‘bad guy’, and never the bad guy’s view, and suddenly asking them to empathize with the ‘bad guy’ at the last moment with this lazy argument doesn’t actually work. That’s what this comic is about.

  But the reason this is likely resonating with more people right now outside of commentary on literary tropes, is that people are experiencing a world in which many governments have broken the social contract to execute justice fairly and protect their populaces, and sided with companies and wealth-holders in allowing them to harm said populace. Given that backdrop, and recent reactions by billionaires and CEOs (e.g. Flock’s CEO’s recent call for “compromise” in which he gets to keep surveilling people), this comic may feel for many people very personal.

  I would argue that we badly need to find ways to prevent mass shooting instead of being okay with killing the shooter.

  Sure, but that is dodging the question of whether you accept that killing someone may be necessary to prevent them harming others.

  As for crime in general… The more civilized society is the one without the death penalty.

  I agree 1000%, because a government can never be trusted to actually serve the interest of its constituents. It will always be pulled towards accumulating and protecting power. That’s the nature of Authority.

  Ultimately, you can’t claim to believe in preserving life above all else if you refuse to stop something that is threatening life. The “pro-life” reaction to a Hitler is not to refuse to intervene in a Holocaust. You can personally choose not to take action, but you don’t get to dictate to others when and what the line is between pro- and anti-life actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bang!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You consider someone anti-life because they refuse to stand by idly while someone kills others?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it going to be called the Ministry of Truth? Or did they at least have the self awareness to come up with something less on-the-nose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re way beyond usage statistics. That’s for startups trying to get a Series A. OpenAI and Anthropic are playing at the Fortune-100 level already, influencing elected officials and making deals for government contracts. They’re not rolling up to the DoD with their MAU counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stem cells reverse stroke damage and restore movement in mice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fetterman’s chance to cure his conservatism!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squirted Glock comp that doesn't suck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with no 3d printing experience, but a lot of firearm experience, I’m surprised d that PLA holds up as a comp. It’s one thing to have a printed frame of course, but comps are right past the barrel and get the worst of gas and heat (by design). Hell, I have a very heavy comp on my HK P2000, and it gets absolutely scorched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, they exist irregardless of our little projects. Financially supporting them is one thing, and if your own ethics prevent you from using a weapon of the enemy, as it were, that’s fine, but abstention is not actually doing anything to oppose them.

  The water consumption of any LLM compute time I’ve used is almost assuredly less than a single bath, and I’ve certainly skipped more baths in my life than I probably should have. :P

  And more importantly, an hour of Netflix uses SIGNIFICANTLY more water than an hour of text LLM generation, so most people are not actually having the impacts on water consumption they likely think they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s another type, which is like me, who develop as a means to have a tool I need.

  I wanted a better way to manage my cross-device libraries (desktop, laptop, NAS), and the multi-pane file managers like didn’t work great for me, so instead I used Claude to build one that has native per-pane ssh support, streamed video and music preview clips, etc etc.

  Capitalism is always gonna Capitalism, doesn’t matter what type of tools are at play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who works in security, you should be extremely skeptical of their stated reasons, or even the validity of the data.

  There were a LOT of divorces following that leak, citing the hack as proof of infidelity, but the reality is that the leakers could have added people to the data explicitly to facilitate uneven divorce settlements (e.g. adding a woman to the site in order to give the husband a means to demand no split of assets).

  As much as it would be great to imagine hacktivist crusaders going after cheaters, there was a lot of money moved on the back of that leak, and in fact one of the problems with Ashley Madison was that prior to the hack it was used to essentially extort non-users, because anyone could create a profile with any email, but if someone created a profile of you, you had to both verify yourself with your ID (which they saved), and pay them money to delete it (which the leak revealed they didn’t actually do anyways).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people aren’t aware, but Axon already does AI-assisted surveillance software too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing I did when I moved into my new place is disable all the Ring surveillance crap the previous tenants installed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's With All These 'Fly Brain Simulations'? The Viral Jokes And Memes About A Fruit Fly's Brain Being Mapped Explained⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I thought I was chronically online…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Won't back away': Hanson's partial apology to Indigenous Australians and Albanese⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm… Bop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Minor by default” is not a shift in how companies treat minors online, it’s a shift in how they treat everyone online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Throughout history we’ve generally moved towards ever more ephemeral storage media. Stone tablets > clay > paper > etched vinyl > magnetic tape > hard disks > solid state memory, and a bunch more I’m not remembering or not aware of (and there are some that have made extremely long lives their purpose, but they’re not generally in common use, see the etched gold records in Voyager I).

  Arguably, what actually survives is only what a civilization values enough to go back and put into its longer lifespan storage media, it’s only really in the modern era of mass-production and mass-media that the desire to preserve everything has popped up.

  I’m very nostalgia-driven, and I still consume a lot of the media I did as a kid, but my Jellyfin and Kavita servers aren’t meant to represent things I believe should be preserved for others, just for myself.

  I’ve visited the Internet Archive several times (I used to live on 3rd and California, so it was a 5 minute walk), but I think their original purpose of especially preserving the “old internet” blogs and forums and whatnot has somewhat lost its purpose now. It doesn’t archive the mediums where most internet interaction takes place now, like Discord, and it hasn’t for a while (even twitter in its heyday wasn’t being backed up unless you manually requested a tweet be saved).

  There are micro-cultures that absolutely are going to disappear entirely from our cultural record once they become defunct, but that’s always been true, and I don’t think the kinds of cultural records this article is about are really part of our larger “culture” in a meaningful way. MTV News? Gawker? How about SubSim.com and NoMutantsAllowed (2 game-specific forums I’m part of)? Does our proverbial Library of Alexandria really need to remember those existed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More like, they need you to believe it’s dangerous so they have another thing for the police state to take away your rights to “protect” you from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of "secretly and systematically overcharged" misleading advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically, yes.