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badgersnake··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
Cancel your prime is a good start.
badgersnake··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
Or just buy an actual book from and independent bookshop.
badgersnake··on AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
I’m not surprised. Of course people take shortcuts. They did it before LLMs came around.

If you don’t understand the output you don’t get to judge the quality.

badgersnake··on AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
> Apps that I mostly don't understand the underlying code

So you’re just flinging tokens at the wall until something sticks. That’s not engineering.

badgersnake··on The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
It also assumes the US broadband market is free, which it effectively isn’t. There’s a huge moat of hard-lobbied for “regulations” put in place by the established players.
badgersnake··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
I imagine that’s classified.
badgersnake··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Don’t completely rewrite your comments after somebody replied.
badgersnake··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
European or American.

Currently Russia is sanctioned so it’s illegal to do business there. If it were legal they would be straight back.

badgersnake··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
They will sell in Russia when it’s legal to do so, just like every other company.
badgersnake··on OAuth for all
The original OpenID was fine.
badgersnake··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
And putting it into free models like quen. It’s hard to care about this.
badgersnake··on Identity verification on Claude
How does a company verify its age?
badgersnake··on CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt
Probably by AI
badgersnake··on CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt
CTOs / CEOs have demonstrated how completely useless they are pretty much across the board over the last few years. Groupthink and bandwagons, zero innovation or use of brain.
badgersnake··on Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment
It matters when all your data ends up on pastebin.
badgersnake··on W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
> Nobody important or worth following uses Mastodon.

This obviously is total nonsense.

badgersnake··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
Better than shellac I guess.

Jewel cases are fragile, but they’re largely standard and can be easily replaced if the crack or the dots in the middle snap off. It has no bearing on the artwork or the music itself.

badgersnake··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
> If you crash your car, you are liable for the accident.

Because I didn’t go through all the blueprints and find the flaw that led to the crash. This is a dumb argument. It’s also the one the AUR appears to be making.

badgersnake··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Nope, the war in Iran is testament to that.
badgersnake··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
Vinyl? Sturdy? Please.
badgersnake··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
This was literally the only reason vinyl made any sense.
badgersnake··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I don’t know about “Oh shit”. I’ve had many “It’s shit” moments.
badgersnake··on Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
It pays to be suspicious of those who tell you you can’t make an honest living.
badgersnake··on When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident
If / when that arrives, I suspect it would be more welcome than what we have right now.
badgersnake··on Use boring languages with LLMs
Yeah, but then generally you pick the language your dev team are most familiar with.

Or you hire a team of specialists for the language you want. Perhaps niche languages should have fine-tuned LLMs in the same way.

badgersnake··on The first British person in space
That’s the second C-suite I’ve seen on here today posting about how your entitlement to things should be directly proportional to your wealth.

Has a new memo gone out? Have we moved on from AI to ultracapitalism as the c-suite talking point?

badgersnake··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Willingness to pay is not the same as ability to pay.
badgersnake··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Why bother if there’s no profit?
badgersnake··on FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation
LPEs are really not impressive enough to warrant names and websites.
badgersnake··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Make it illegal to sell tickets above face value.
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