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pluralmonad··on Ox Alpha
Stripe marketing blitz?
pluralmonad··on I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
Also, depth does not necessarily mean substance. Holes in the ground have depth. I think thickness works well here.
pluralmonad··on AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
Then does the original author own the changes you made to their PR, e2e? Do you get their signoff on them if that's the case?
pluralmonad··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
I think it was to make the tongue-in-cheek nature of the comment more apparent.
pluralmonad··on AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps
It amuses me to no end that colleagues have started using markdown for notes and documents. Thanks AI.
pluralmonad··on Lovable raises $400M Series C
Sign companies stay in business. Because every new startup restaurant wants its own sign. That particular restaurant being statistically doomed is actually a benefit to the sign company. I guess maybe you meant not sustainable for the half baked businesses. It seems like it could be sustainable for lovable.
pluralmonad··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Didn't github also migrate at azure recently? That certainly can't help.
pluralmonad··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
I cannot imagine approving action by action ever again. Its emotionally draining, probably like a customer service rep feels it. Just call for your attention in rapid succession again and again... Prepare an environment and let the tool work.
pluralmonad··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
Maybe no garbage collection is the back pressure missing from the voracious consumption machine.
pluralmonad··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
How do you make sure the thing you are hoping saves everyone has an inclination (or ability) to do so? How do you make sure it is only afflicted with the human parts you like and not the ones you don't?
pluralmonad··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
It bothers my brain when a longtime followed podcast changes their cover image. You conditioned my brain for years to a certain image and pattern and now you change it? How dare you!
pluralmonad··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
I own everything I've learned. I also own some hardware on which I sometimes deposit this information for later retrieval. I own all of it, keys to nuts.
pluralmonad··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Seeing the little DRM note kills my joy entirely. I have used steam, but the runtime anti-tamper malware has no place on my system. I don't use the word malware lightly. I trust it about as much as a random "overdue" invoice pdf from my spam folder. Maybe less.
pluralmonad··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
Like labelling bacon nitrate free while also including celery seed something-or-another that is... Just nitrates.
pluralmonad··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
Aren't the giants closer to the mob than a police force? I suppose those things are not terribly different in practice, but Google, Facebook, et al make money from leaving the scams on their ad networks.
pluralmonad··on The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
How does a centralized power structure knowing every action millions of people take bring about "peace and safety and the ensuing prosperity"? I guess you didn't mean for most of us.
pluralmonad··on Claude Opus 5
I have no idea, but that would be weird considering Fable refuses to do anything within 10 miles of security.
pluralmonad··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
This seems like a useless definition of political.
pluralmonad··on I Stopped “Creating Content”
"I want to be a Kardashian when I grow up..."
pluralmonad··on The Voice of Google
First time I've heard somebody call recognizing the evils of ad tech cynicism.
pluralmonad··on The Voice of Google
Your clarification aligns perfectly with the final statement in GPs comment. Most people do not realize the extent and invasiveness of googles voyeurism.
pluralmonad··on Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
You sign up once and login an arbitrary number of times. Not sure how signing up is ever the more frequent path. I've signed up for things I use maybe at most twice throughout a lifetime. Logins I couldn't even begin to count.
pluralmonad··on Dupes took over the world
I've come to view the goal of things being cheap as an anti goal. The biggest contribution to us speed running killing our ecosystems. Maybe all of us going without more often would end up with a significantly higher standard of living in the long term.
pluralmonad··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
Maybe try and build something and see for yourself? Saying elixir is not fit for real world use shows how little experience with it you have.
pluralmonad··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
Such a delight to use and the core team seems to always make the right decision.
pluralmonad··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
I like to think I have a sense of humor, but if this is funny, maybe I don't.
pluralmonad··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
A malware OS installing other malware seems fitting.
pluralmonad··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
How does one "win the AI race?"

If there is a concrete finish line, there are likely no winners.

pluralmonad··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
OpenCode Zen gives api rate access to lots of different models. You can get a lot done with Deepseek v4 for pennies.
pluralmonad··on The lost joy of music piracy
In that context it is still not theft. The term is copyright infringement, a distinct fiction and categorically not theft.
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