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24 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2025

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

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Re: AI Isn't the Problem

Ah no, you just pointed out how some 3 day scrum course doesn't make you competent. Well using AI also does not make you compotent. The truth is incompotent people are still incompotent.

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

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Re: Banned because nmap can be a stress test (among other things) on networking hardware...

Well the Progress database didn't like it if you sent a simple probe to a particular port. It just lost its mind and shutdown.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

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Re: EDLIN fan responds

I had to use ed & sed. Don't mention ex or vi.

Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

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Re: I disagree

Go re-read your own post. These experts are expensive and not many of them. Well all of these AI solutions have the same problem and these companies (and VCs) are throwing 100s of billions of $ at them. Why? Seems if they just invested, oh I don't know 1/10 of the resources into training, hiring, and sustaining these rare indidviduals they wouldn't be so rare. Also maybe give them a life time of work and don't keep laying them off when you need to get a post in your stocks before you unload them.

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

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Re: Repeat after me:

I stopped reading the moment I came to this statement "an unforeseen cost of increasing intelligence". Glanced over the article and just seems like a bunch human slop.

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

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Re: And so it begins

Now I want to install a local LLM so that when I have to interact with some stupid AI driven customer support I'll let it burn thu their tokens.

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

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Still sounds ilke an attempt to put everything behind a paywall.

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

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Re: A completely rational stance for a CEO

Which we've just made redundant

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system

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I thought I was reading a press release

Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters

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Re: Jury is out because the details aren't in

Well Benn Jordan has a pretty code YT on a pretty good reason to not like them: Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

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An LLM Could Have Wrote It

Basically just hire a ChatBot

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

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Re: Humans

Sounds a lot like Tabloid Journalism to me.

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

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Re: Americans

Could have sworn I saw a picture of a child with a pellet gun to chase off monkeys trying to steal their lunch.

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong

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Re: other optionsI

And if it goes belly up they just layoff all those engineers

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

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Re: Marketing

True but I used more shitty products because of a fancy sales brochure when all the tech savy staff pointed out it was shit this other company made a superior product. Seems to me its the higher ups and sales staff that fuck up projects.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

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Re: Anyone surprised?

Oh I bet with the new leader they're on their way.

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

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Re: Let me just file this...

Yeah dad needs a new Bimmer

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

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Re: What is it with managers and training costs?

At that time my boss was in the same Naval Academy class as that gentleman. He hated him with a passion. Seems he didn't like all the cursing in the Navy so resigned his commission. My boss predicted he would drop out of the race. I hated him because he earned all his money on government contracts and then claimed he was an entrepreneur. I've worked with so many businessman that made the same claim while all their business was government contracts. The whole lot of them are grifters.

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

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Re: Hang on

Doesn't GrapheneOS think otherwise. They are moving off of their Canadian OVH servers because French Police are trying to compel them to add a backdoor.

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance

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Re: is this real

I think it is more of we don't want to be under indictment by the Police in France for not putting a backdoor into their code. They are closing any offices/presence in France so they can't be subject to their national laws.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

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Why didn't one of the bystanders just say wait one moment I'll go find him and let him know???

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

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Re: Iterative?

I don't recall the context but in ML it is an iterative process to train models. Even LLMs use an iterative process to train.