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rightbyte··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
> It can even be cringe to some when someone like yourself acts as instigator

Yes it can feel cringe but I would argue we need to just accept it as prosocial and not cringe. We are cringe for thinking normal social things are cringe.

Like, I would probably have thought OP was after my money like 5 years ago. But now I would just assume good faith.

rightbyte··on Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
I think "pretend believing" lies for the cause is bad for policy on a group scale.

Even if you know they are lies it is probably quite bad to pretend they are not since a group can't pretend to believe something in my opinion.

In aggregate it leads to a chain of decisions that are built upon the lies being true ...

rightbyte··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Yeah I guess we should be happy for the hotlink to the article at least.
rightbyte··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
The article is very much making up conclusions not present in the work cited. There were no "wipe outs" or "total turnovers".

Probably some sort of jingoist advocating ethnic cleansing writing articles like this.

rightbyte··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
I just hope my elite understand the concept of pecking order ...
rightbyte··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
Lowest bid small reactors would be nothing like the more or less properly built old ones.
rightbyte··on State of Devs 2026
A big factor is that I believe the the extended family help a lot less with child care nowadays compared to some generation or two ago.
rightbyte··on The future of independence is interdependence
I also excluded children.
rightbyte··on Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales
I miss the specifics of what you did to deserve your fate in the story :)
rightbyte··on The future of independence is interdependence
You are probably correct. We will have to meet like minded people and talk again like barbarians. Too much slop too little time.
rightbyte··on The future of independence is interdependence
How is that not pseudo science. Colonialism and Vikings would be separated hundreds of years and long distances. And there are no indication Vikings were less dependent on each other than in other iron age cultures.
rightbyte··on The future of independence is interdependence
In practice that group is small though and neglible among non elderly.
rightbyte··on Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market
War is a racket. And there are a lot of enthusiasts cheering on.
rightbyte··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Yes.
rightbyte··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
That stat is bogus though when used in this context. The least payed workers contribute the most to every day life of society in my opinion and pay the least tax.
rightbyte··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Transplants? What does that mean in this context.
rightbyte··on C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
> you may as well claim that versions of BASIC with the POKE keyword are low level languages simply because you can POKE machine code directly into memory.

The contemporary Basic dialects of that time I could argue were low level languages. They were really thin. Like bcpl.

rightbyte··on Fastpotify
> so you can really see how much their app is conways law

The headache of using the shared playlist "Jam" feature and trying to add a song without playing it directly. There is like a separate queue system for "Jam" and things work differently.

rightbyte··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
I would say tech workers have very weak class consciousness and understanding of power structures. Those who care about not ceeding power is a tiny minority compared to say among MDs and lawyers and their guilds/unions.
rightbyte··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
"sees the waterfall, then struggles for survival no matter how hopeless the situation seems to be?"

You could consider that a variant of the voter's dilemma.

rightbyte··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
> The we take the far-left killings like the assassination of the (maybe despicable) Charlie Kirk and the Trump assassination attempts (with a 's') and Luigi Mangione killing a CEO...

I have no recollection of any of those perps being left-wing. Apolitical and centrists.

rightbyte··on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Sure. It probably works better in isolation.

But there seemed to be some time lag for a SEO spam sites to climb. Removing the ones that make it would mess up the economics at the time. Like the Stack Overflow mirror sites or like spam phone number pages with no other information but the number.

And I guess plenty of search queries would have no moderation. But I mean I spent like 10 minutes. You could have 10 FTE doing that.

rightbyte··on My Business Is Dying
It is not ego tripping. They probably loathe you because you turn the power structures even more in capital's favour by undercutting or overriding them.
rightbyte··on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Google could have easily won that fight by blacklisting scrapping spam sites and spam portals. They just didn't.

There weren't that many with high ranking. I could filter out most of them in like a week of working normally and just right clicking them with the blacklist extension in Firefox.

Nowadays it is probably harder though when Google have broken the internet culture.

rightbyte··on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Statistics might be the most eye opening course I took in university. Like, I don't think I understood the concept of distribution before it and regarded an average of measurements as one measurement. I had a very strange concept of averages.
rightbyte··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
Isn't search a strange analogy for how weight terms propagate?
rightbyte··on New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Even worse it gave the wrong people ideas. Some sort of Poe's law spin off.
rightbyte··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
Sounds dictaded.
rightbyte··on Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study
The title of the linked article is "and Instagram reels".

edit: Oh someone changed the title of the post now too.

rightbyte··on Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
Also I think the marketing post compares removing a test framework (how is that not trivial?) with replacing it with another.
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