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fakeBeerDrinker

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I only comment when I’m on the toilet, apologies for any grammatical or logical errors :-)
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fakeBeerDrinker··on DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
Low effort shit post. Click the article link and see a GitHub repo. See the .de project domain.
fakeBeerDrinker··on America.gov
What a total genius (:

Guess who live in the United Mexican States? You guessed it, Mexicans!

Guess who live in the United States of America? You guessed it - Americans (and a lot of others).

fakeBeerDrinker··on What even is an OS now?
Agreed. Read the article through and felt cringe most of the way through.
fakeBeerDrinker··on World Wide Words
The site appears to have been maintained by a single man from the UK. It's not strange.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Code Scans
Yeah, but now with “agentic mapreduce”! A “talent dense” team of prompters selling to the Feds.
fakeBeerDrinker··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
How is this currently handled today with any other type of software? Why would we treat LLMs any different?
fakeBeerDrinker··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
Why wouldn’t this same concept apply to whoever is serving it up? Open-weight models are still being served up by infra providers and neoclouds, right? They should be in the hot seat. Not sure? Don’t provide the model. Need assurance? A certified evaluation like the previous comments have mentioned can help. Hosting and running it yourself? You’re in the hot seat.
fakeBeerDrinker··on All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized
Why not? Love the listicle, good work OP.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Arr, matey!
fakeBeerDrinker··on Telegram Serverless
Reply to the parent, not me. I understand this.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Telegram Serverless
Possibly the excessive use of em dashes. Just a guess.
fakeBeerDrinker··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
This is great news. New Mullvad subscriber here!
fakeBeerDrinker··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
0. You are really trying to say that one group of people are “much better humans”…? I think people should fear this type of attitude. It _never_ turns out well for society when we go this route.

1. The federal minimum wage is not the solution to any of your complaints.

fakeBeerDrinker··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
I don’t know, ask the states that have lower wages on the books (even though federal prevails).
fakeBeerDrinker··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
And how many earn this? Around 1% of hourly employees…if that. Not what I’d be concerned with right now.
fakeBeerDrinker··on CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT
Yes
fakeBeerDrinker··on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit
He was last averaging 129K viewers per episode in the 18-49 demographic, I'd say that is a far better "excuse" than a threat from the FCC. As if DIS doesn't have a legion of attorneys. Give me a break.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
When I hop on a VPN and enter ingconito mode from a clean browser session, bypassing their paywall, is that stealing? This doesn't meet the definition of stealing that I'm familiar with.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
How is it stolen from Business Insider? When I visit businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6 I get the same story. My browser caches the story, and I save it for archival purposes. How is this theft?
fakeBeerDrinker··on Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law
I don’t believe that Switzerland is the oldest democracy in the world, but I could be mistaken. Iceland has had a democratic-ish parliament since the 900s[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

fakeBeerDrinker··on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
After a short stint as a faculty member at a McU institution, I agree with much of this.

Provide machine problems and homework as exercises for students to learn, but assign a very low weight to these as part of an overall grade. Butt in seat assessments should be the majority of a course assessment for many courses.

fakeBeerDrinker··on Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?
I was a faculty member there for a few years and I completely agree.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?
What was the role? What region was this in? Outside of a PhD student or something similar, I can't imagine this would be in the US, Canada, most of Europe.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
After living there for about four years, my mind goes immediately to soju. Not sure if there is a connection, but that’s something I might deep dive with an LLM today.
fakeBeerDrinker··on Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
I think it’s far fewer, probably under 5,000 if we are really talking about “bars” and not any ole liquor licensed establishment such as a restaurant…
fakeBeerDrinker··on Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea
Less than 40,000