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colonelpopcornon Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

I think this is the only business model that makes sense, monetarily, for current LLM CapEx and OpEx. The value is not in what it can do for consumers or how much money it makes, but how it can shape consumers through knowledge control. Think of how much a totalitarian government would pay to keep citizens from thinking certain things.

colonelpopcornon Early 2000s were peak of humanity

Isn't this the central conceit behind "The Matrix"? lol

colonelpopcornon Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

I went on a grand jury in early 2025, and it was eye opening to see that under my state's laws the "smell of weed" is enough to justify a traffic stop and search of a vehicle.

colonelpopcornon David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data

You'd probably have to embody it.

colonelpopcornon DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than

It's definitely the principle of least privilege applied to network access.

colonelpopcornon The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

SSD installs were, for the longest time, the single best ROI on upgrading a laptop. I think a SATA SSD in that 2012 bad boy could considerably boost its performance.

colonelpopcornon Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair

I agree, but the incentives for Alphabet to encourage content like this isn't there. The content that is encouraged is that which keeps eyeballs glued to YouTube.

colonelpopcornon Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

But it is. For the savvy user you can run whatever you want on an android device.

colonelpopcornon Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

Just from an ergonomic standpoint it's a million times easier to deploy a go binary instead of a whole jvm and a jar file.

colonelpopcornon Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin

I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.

colonelpopcornon I made a note taking plugin for a PHP app in 2024

Some folks had asked me to post this in a comment on a Kanboard thread, so I thought I'd just post it as a new submission. Enjoy!

colonelpopcornon This is a teenager

You have to balk when anyone says that anybody is the same person they were 24 years ago.

colonelpopcornon Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby

That's a very Ruby idea.

colonelpopcornon Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted

It's plug-in system is quite comprehensive. I just finished writing a note taking plug-in and the source code itself was a great reference for developing a plug-in.

colonelpopcornon Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law?

I think some franchisees will sell day-old loaves for fifty cents. Some gen-x YouTuber was using it as a cheap food source in college back in the day.

colonelpopcornon React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024

Most of the core React devs are employees at Vercel. As much as you may not like it, core parts of React are driven by Vercel 's business model.

colonelpopcornon GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer

Definitely validates the mainframe architecture though doesn't it?

colonelpopcornon Practising Programming (2022)

At the same time, it used to be expected you would learn to program a computer you bought. So much so, that operating systems shipped with BASIC and a language manual. That is not the case today, but I guess software doesn't ship in the same ways it used to either.

colonelpopcornon Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim

Practically all of Activision's PS2 era catalog falls under this banner. We only recently got re-releases of their Star Trek stuff and a lot of their Marvel/movie tie-in games are MIA.

colonelpopcornon Was BASIC that horrible or better?

I think most tech companies rely on ignorance to sell their "simple" solutions. If everyone could solve their own problems their own way, then nobody would buy "simple" solutions.

colonelpopcornon Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards

The only thing missing now is a modding community ala Neverwinter Nights. Then BGIII can truly be the heir apparent to the infinity engine/bioware legacy!

colonelpopcornon Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries

Digital ownership seems like a wonderful use case for blockchain technology, and it baffles me that there hasn't been a DRM company yet that's jumped on this idea.

colonelpopcornon Human mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities

Sexual selection certainly does. Eggs being expensive and sperm being cheap kind of make winners necessary.

colonelpopcornon Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job

"It's nothing personal, it's just business"

colonelpopcornon 8BitDo Micro

TBH, I've been thinking about these for my young kids. The small size is a plus in that regard.

colonelpopcornon Tesla owner who drove with 'arms folded' cleared of dangerous driving

TBH, that stat seems low.

colonelpopcornon OCI container of OBS Studio with 50 plugins included

There's a great write up on how to proxy/multiplex rtmp streams with nginx on the OBS forums.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-stream-to-...

Edit: That one is newer and maybe more useful. Here's the one I had used before. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-ow...

colonelpopcornon US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out

That would require the dismantling or restructuring of malpractice law and litigation. The reason a doctor is required to be present is so that an individual can be held responsible to their Hippocratic oath when patients get litigious. Non-board certified staff, AFAIK, don't need to take a Hippocratic oath nor do they need to carry the burden of insurance the same way a doctor or nurse practitioner does.

colonelpopcornon Show HN: Minum – A minimal Java web framework

It's near the bottom of the page. It's admittedly a very little bit of with, but other frameworks don't make you work as hard.