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VCFundedGenYer··on Anthropic's growth just flattened
It's like people saying Bitcoin will become a universal currency adopted by all.
VCFundedGenYer··on uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch
This is unnecessary. Use the built in browser autoplay block.

And if that doesn't work, use reader view (as you always should)

VCFundedGenYer··on It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
The company is cooked due to the CEO being a complete a-hole. AI or not, his behavior is unacceptable for ANY organization. Behavior like that is to be severely punished.
VCFundedGenYer··on Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
> Who decides what gets to be reverse engineered and what doesn't?

Laws, ideally.

VCFundedGenYer··on Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
The panic and delusion is reaching a fever pitch with these thieves (AI companies). Typical paranoid criminal behavior.
VCFundedGenYer··on Is It EDT or EST?
You do realize single purpose websites have existed for over 20 years, yes?

isitchristmas.com? something.com?

VCFundedGenYer··on I post trained a model on Demoscenes
You miss the point.

Demoscenes are for human creations.

Leave AI out of it. Don't ruin yet another hobby.

The community will never accept what you made.

VCFundedGenYer··on Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'
This scam website had it coming.
VCFundedGenYer··on My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
There's no point.
VCFundedGenYer··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
This guy is crashing out on reddit. What an imbecile.
VCFundedGenYer··on I Returned My iPhone Duo
It's a first gen product.

Author should have known better. They got what they deserved.

VCFundedGenYer··on Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
Yes. Everyone is forcing AI everywhere and nobody uses AI well.

AI is a net negative in terms of mental health.

It also creeps into hobbies, especially video games where it's absolutely ruined the decomp/recomp scene. AI slop recomps are a cancer on what used to be an incredible revolution in coding.

VCFundedGenYer··on I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work
Being outside alone isn't enough Vitamin D. In the UK there isn't much sun either.
VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"
That was due to antitrust pressure such that they did not self-prefer their own apps.
VCFundedGenYer··on Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees
The Compuserve and Netscape ISP website husks also feature no-nonsense text-only news pages with 2000s-style renderings that are near-instant on any device.

68k.news also exists but has been broken for a long time. It's maintained by a retro computing youtuber who seems to have abandoned it or isn't paying attention to its brokenness.

VCFundedGenYer··on Get Ready for Touch on Mac
This was 16 years overdue.

Steve Jobs going on that weird unhinged rant about touch being "unergonomic" in 2010 when introducing the revamped Macbook Air was one the most misguided speeches I've ever seen.

Touch on computers (laptops, namely), is a net good. I loved my Surface, and will love it on a Macbook.

VCFundedGenYer··on If IPv4 were land
IPv4 is perfectly and objectively fine on internal networks. IPv6 is overkill and way too complicated for most.

IPv6 can be selectively applied to say, NAT addresses, but other than that, IPv4 is just fine and your statement is incorrect.

VCFundedGenYer··on I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened
Please, even if it is an experiment, don't do this. We don't need more AI slop in the world.
VCFundedGenYer··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Always have and always will love having a touchscreen on a laptop.

At this point it's a huge loss to not have it on a display. Don't like it? Then shut up and don't use it. Don't yuck others' yum.

VCFundedGenYer··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
You are an outliner. Touch is standard across every device. To not have it just feels like a deduction.

Even now, I find myself resisting the urge to tap things on my Macbook display as it is.

The world moved on. Touch is standard, and Steve Jobs was incredibly wrong with his weird opinions.

This is like people arguing that a computer mouse is not necessary in 1990.

VCFundedGenYer··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Explain further what you mean. The displays are still best in class. What metrics do you have suggesting otherwise?
VCFundedGenYer··on Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
What a bunch of nothing and hand-waivey statements. Valve has issues with cracking down on bad behavior, and this response is rather immature and poorly planned.
VCFundedGenYer··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Do you even use Discord? Is this comment satire? Discord is loaded with ads, upsells, spyware, and straight scams all throughout its UI.
VCFundedGenYer··on Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls
More people use Mastodon than Bluesky. To rely on Bluesky for metrics is a fool's errand.
VCFundedGenYer··on Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees
A Phoenix link is almonst never the "original article." It barely contains half the info OP's link does.
VCFundedGenYer··on In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
He seems oblivious that midterms are next week + he will be in a lot of trouble past that point.
VCFundedGenYer··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
In my experience Copilot is competing with Grok for being the absolute dumbest LLM out there. It consistently forgets things, loses context, suggests irrelevant garbage, can't parse MS Docs correctly, and can't even spot easy things like files on your system that it objectively has permissions to read.

MS must be losing mountains of money over this.

VCFundedGenYer··on Everything
Bad name. Everything Search is widely known and taken.

Also what even is this? Just looks like a fever dream of AI slop.

VCFundedGenYer··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Windows is dead to consumers. Linux market share is skyrocketing.

To assume MS will continue coasting is a fool's errand.

VCFundedGenYer··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Microsoft laying off (and yes, this is a layoff, no matter how it's spun) 25% of the entire freaking company is not a sign of a healthy organization.

You can't and won't tell me with a straight face that AI will replace them.

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