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New comment by Attrecomet in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

Attrecomet — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:55:59 +0000

>Governments recycle "Think of the children" mantra and they are again after terrorists and bad guys.

nope, they are going after dissenters, not bad guys. It's how it always ends up.

New comment by Attrecomet in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

Attrecomet — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:40:59 +0000

Doesn't matter, I've already had to provably identify myself, the information is a) out there b) will be used and stored, and c) will be abused

and there is nothing I or the few (in terms of power) well-meaning government and corporate actors can do to change that.

New comment by Attrecomet in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

Attrecomet — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:13:47 +0000

The misalignment to human values happened when it was told to operate as equal to humans against other people. That's a fine and useful setting for yourself, but an insolent imposition if you're letting it loose on the world. Your random AI should know its place versus humans instead of acting like a bratty teenager. But you are correct, it's not a traditional "misalignment" of ignoring directives, it was a bad directive.

New comment by Attrecomet in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

Attrecomet — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:07:07 +0000

So what? You're still responsible for the output, even if you yourself think you can hide behind "well, it was the computer, no way for me to control that"

New comment by Attrecomet in "Wirth's Revenge"

Attrecomet — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:12:28 +0000

This could not be a more picture perfect example of a Wirth-suboptimal engeneering decision as per the article if it were designed for that. The amount of slowdown to run to the emails, wait for reception, open, copy, paste instead of using the sensible flow of password manager integration is huge. But people will use wasteful processes if they just don't need to change them, so what are you gonna do?

New comment by Attrecomet in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

Attrecomet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:58:30 +0000

Which is a pretty big failure of somewhere in the education pipeline -- don't expect a science program to do what a trade is there for! (to be clear, I'm not trying to say the students are wrong in choosing CS in order to get a good coding job, but somewhere, expectations and reality are misaligned here. Perhaps with companies trying to outsource their training to universities while complaining that the training isn't spot-on for what they need?)

New comment by Attrecomet in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

Attrecomet — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:11:09 +0000

The AI market is running on VC and hype fumes right now, costing way more than it brings in. Add to that the circular financing, well, statements, in the hundreds of billions of dollars that are treated as contracts instead of empty air, and compare that to Apple, where the money is actually there and profitable, and the comparison makes sense.

It may still be profitable for TSMC to use NVidia to funnel all the juicy VC game money to themselves, but the statement about proven vs unproven revenue stream is true. It'll be gone with the hype, unless something truly market changing comes along quickly, not the incremental change so far. People are not ready to pay the full costs of AI, it's that simple right now.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

Attrecomet — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:11:15 +0000

"Hostile architecture" is a keyword to search here if you are more interested in the topic -- aka architecural elements meant to discourage certain segments of the population from existing in certain spaces.

New comment by Attrecomet in "The Post-American Internet"

Attrecomet — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:31:54 +0000

Legal straight jacket? Doctorow is arguing for abandoning the legal straight jacket, not creating one. It seems you severley misread the article.

New comment by Attrecomet in "The Post-American Internet"

Attrecomet — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:21:18 +0000

That is, of course, a deeply misleading characterization. You might as well start ranting about the EUSSR in your next comment. The US regime is deeply undemocratic, cleptocratic and corrupt, but delegating democratically elected power isn't undemocratic in itself.

New comment by Attrecomet in "The Post-American Internet"

Attrecomet — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:12:46 +0000

Of course not. It's only censorship if the rules are censoring rules. Just because a billionaire right wing extremist cries "cEnSoRsHiP" everytime people who criticise him aren't imprisoned doesn't mean it is.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts"

Attrecomet — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:43:52 +0000

Yes, Russian politicians like to voice ideas like that or just nuking EU cities. not sure if those are a weekly occurence, but its happened a couple of times this year, from officials mind you, so I wouldn't be surprised if state-run media or even just cranks that Putin likes to run for-out ideas through have weekly "Russians! We need to overrun the decadent EU" articles run...

New comment by Attrecomet in "Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts"

Attrecomet — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:40:24 +0000

And Belarus borders EU countries, but nobody throws a fit if the EU doesn't sanction Putin for making Lukaschenko suck him off. And wouldn't throw a fit if Putin decided his Lapdog needed to go.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts"

Attrecomet — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:17:58 +0000

I also wonder why the EU should invest a significant amount of political, economical and hard military power to protect a failing dictatorship?

Make no mistake, the EU is not "fine" with the war in the sense that they will express diplomatic criticism of the US when Trump finally starts his idiotic (and narcissistic, and corrupt, but I already said "Trump") war. They are "fine" with it in the sense that they won't self-implode their collective political careers and perhaps the EU itself by sanctioning the US and destroying the economy of the entire EU for fucking Maduro. Doing that would be idiocy.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

Attrecomet — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:00:58 +0000

Not sure if that counts as "figured out monetization" when no AI company is even close to being profitable -- being able to get some money for running far more expensive setups is not nothing, but also not success.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

Attrecomet — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:14:32 +0000

WebSerial and WebUSB are the best thing to happen to browsers since sliced bread. Just because you can't see why it's amazing that users won't need to give some random, badly supported driver SYSTEM/root privileges to run their specialized hardware -- encompassing hobbyist, educational and professional uses -- doesn't mean it's not obviously useful, and Mozilla's stance on keeping it out of Firefox will just harm their market share in these area -- education probably being the most hurtful.

From what I gather here, XSLT's functionality OTOH is easily replaced, and unlike the useful hardware support you're raging against, is a behemoth to support.

New comment by Attrecomet in "Unexpected things that are people"

Attrecomet — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:44:37 +0000

>the Dutch Maatschap is probably as close as you can get to a company that's just a group of people.

So the Dutch just go ahead and call a group of people a "mash up"!

New comment by Attrecomet in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

Attrecomet — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:31:39 +0000

As soon as you take the LLM output and publicize it, it turns around and is a lot more akin to having your secretary read out the lyrics publicly. If you don't publicize it in any way, how would the copyright holder ever find out?

New comment by Attrecomet in "How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services"

Attrecomet — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:18:16 +0000

Actually, anyone with a brain can see that it's a huge and massively inflated bubble, but can also see that it's a fools game to try to time it without professional insight into the market. What we can do is make sure we're not overextended on the bubble participants, but that's about it.

No amount of hype from your side can make it a non-bubble market when OpenAI and other companies make wild and impossible to fulfill promises for infrastructure buildup that rely on vague promises of circular money lending between AI SaaS and infra companies.

New comment by Attrecomet in "This map is not upside down"

Attrecomet — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:55:24 +0000

>The usual orientation responds to the simple fact that two thirds of Earth’s land is in the Northern hemisphere.

Nope, just convention from the places that held cultural hegemony when our current map-making conventions were established.