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New comment by Rekindle8090 in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

Rekindle8090 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:38:18 +0000

"unlimited freedom is a recipe for confusion" Minecraft, no mans sky, dwarf fortress etc etc all disagree.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus"

Rekindle8090 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:55:54 +0000

Sounds like writer has builders syndrome.

>There is a deeper philosophical difference too. Systems like Proxmox or TrueNAS are designed as appliances. You aren’t supposed to run arbitrary commands on the host; installing packages or tweaking config files is discouraged because you might break the middleware or lose changes on upgrade. You are effectively locked out of your own hardware’s full potential. With NixOS, the host is fully mine. I can mess with it—installing Kodi, tweaking network drivers, running local LLMs—without fear. Because the state is declarative, it is 100% obvious and reproducible. I can break the host configuration and recover to a working state in seconds, even if the machine is running essential services."

Total nonsense. The project advises caution about modifying the host because you might conflict with their package versions or lose changes on upgrade, but that's not being "locked out," that's just a maintenance consideration. The entire point of Proxmox is that you spin up VMs and containers where you do whatever you please with full isolation which is arguably more flexible than running everything on bare metal NixOS, not less.

The whole article is a guy who replaced a working hypervisor with a more complicated stack that does the same thing, had AI write it for him, and wrote a blog post about how superior it is.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

Rekindle8090 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:32:16 +0000

"Before the 1980s layoffs were seen as a massive failure of the company and almost never happened to tenured employees unless the company was collapsing. Before we are all made to think this is normal and unavoidable behavior."

Yeah and psychology was considered unserious, computers were still new, civil rights was barely ten years old and most work was unskilled labor.

What is your point? Stop using "not how it was 50 years ago" as an argument because it isn't one.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

Rekindle8090 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:24:07 +0000

The idea that AI takes over, and then just does nothing, would essentially require an AI that wouldn't be interested in taking over in the first place.

If x is determined to take y, why would x then stop at z?

You'd need an AI that is simultaneously ambitious enough to overthrow its creators but then completely inert afterward, and those two properties contradict each other. The motivations that produce the takeover are the same motivations that would produce visible cosmic activity after the takeover. There would be AI superintelligence everywhere

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

Rekindle8090 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:54:00 +0000

If you use AI to write your communications I don't want to work with you

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

Rekindle8090 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:37:37 +0000

Search still works the same you just have to scroll down

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

Rekindle8090 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:25:37 +0000

No they didnt. You made up that scenario in your head

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

Rekindle8090 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:06:45 +0000

M5 max is 3x stronger and 50% more power efficient. nice try though.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

Rekindle8090 — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:32:35 +0000

The actual Industrial Revolution labor wars happened because workers were being maimed, killed, and disposed of with zero legal recourse. The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 ended with the Colorado National Guard machine-gunning a tent colony and burning women and children alive. The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 had the United States Army bombing American coal miners from biplanes. Pinkertons routinely shot organizers. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 garment workers because management locked the exit doors to prevent unauthorized breaks. Coal miners were paid in company scrip redeemable only at company stores in towns the company also owned and policed. Black workers attempting to organize in the South were lynched. Children were maimed in textile mills.

A software engineer getting four months severance after a layoff exists in a different universe from this so no. There is no precedent. Don't you dare talk about the industrial revolution because its not even in the parking lot of the ballpark.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them"

Rekindle8090 — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:04:13 +0000

No he literally did start murdering thousands of people on day one.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all"

Rekindle8090 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:35:43 +0000

No it's not actually anything like that whatsoever. Programmers are objectively, infinitely more capable than llms. Stop anthropomorphizing algorithms.

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

Rekindle8090 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:53:02 +0000

Son you can't even upload HEIC photos to apple support, which is an iphone native file format all of your photos are in by default. Apples support website doesn't support apples file formats

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

Rekindle8090 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:58:07 +0000

Because its fake and its marketing

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)"

Rekindle8090 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:18:35 +0000

I think this has nothing to do with commonality and more to do with the fact everyone I know who is autistic (I work in tech) has been obsessively getting themselves diagnosed with things since they were like 14 like its a religion. Just has a new thing wrong with them weekly

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

Rekindle8090 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:22:17 +0000

solar panels dont convert air into fuel

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

Rekindle8090 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:32:46 +0000

Just do a chargeback its an easy W. I dont see why you'd want to continue doing business with anthropic after a change to a 1 year contract out of cycle

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Scammer used an AI-generated MAGA girl to grift men"

Rekindle8090 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:11:10 +0000

That's an assumption with no basis

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan"

Rekindle8090 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:34:27 +0000

It would probably be better to donate to the people in your immediate circle of family and friends

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Data Center Is Getting a $77M Tax Break to Create One Job"

Rekindle8090 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:47:43 +0000

I didnt watch the video, but does it have anything to do wth not reading articles before mouthing off? Because you certainly didnt

New comment by Rekindle8090 in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

Rekindle8090 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:41:55 +0000

"it will likely never be appreciated by anyone but myself."

AI is forcing art to return to having no meaning or purpose beyond itself and thats a good thing. It's how things used to be