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New comment by TheScaryOne in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

TheScaryOne — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:37:20 +0000

Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps.

Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

TheScaryOne — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:45:03 +0000

My 8mbps DSL line is $43USD/month after everything, and the cheapest internet I have access to.

The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wish to support Starlink. But I also can't afford to almost double my internet bill.

I live on a major national highway in a crossroads town.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:59:28 +0000

Shutting down in the middle of work is a common failure mode for overheating, for men and machine. Got an IR camera?

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Bring back crappy forums"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:29:26 +0000

Most old forums would let you toggle Flat or Tree view, but Tree view was obviously beholden to hitting "Reply" to the post you were addressing, and not just copying a bunch of people's quotes into a bigger post, which would only show as a branch off of the trunk rather than a leaf in the tree.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

TheScaryOne — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:41:49 +0000

Oh, you see, that's wind energy. No one can charge for the wind, so they don't like it. You can't build big expensive wind drilling machines and keep big vats of wind for bad days.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

TheScaryOne — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:51:00 +0000

That's not the point of fast.com

Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix.

Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:43:52 +0000

Would you rather that the 100% of bugs in those 20% of tickets never got fixed?

Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without coding the fix yourself.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:02:08 +0000

>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot.

Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:59:21 +0000

>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement.

Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I miss most from 7.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:44:42 +0000

>you said even one of them in a contract negotiation the first order of business by the union rep would be to remove you from contract negotiation.

You can do the same thing by saying "jury nullification" during the jury duty selection process. You can watch BOTH lawyers scramble to kick you out of the room.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:38:28 +0000

> it's still a tool, not a person.

Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

TheScaryOne — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:50:55 +0000

>The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its abilities to training on the works of society.

This was the argument about robots. It did not pan out. No taxes materialized. Robots and Automated Machines have not shared productivity. In fact, things like self-checkout has spread the labor load to the customer, instead of the company.

>We have the technology to produce energy in sustainable ways, but it is expensive

AI Datacenters should be completely sustainably self-powered. Full stop. We did not spend decades bringing down the cost of power only to have it all hoovered up by robber barons who "need" it to be the first immortal AI God. We did not install water treatment plants to bring down our water usage rates just to feed the machine spirit.

>How do we treat AI creative work? How much creative work do we feel comfortable handing over to AI?

Someone said it as a joke, but I want AI to be doing my dishes and sorting my laundry while I write books and compose music. I don't want AI writing books and composing music so I have more time to do my dishes and sort my laundry.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:03:45 +0000

I can't wait for the Faro Plague and the robot dinosaurs.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

TheScaryOne — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:22:55 +0000

>What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI.

Everyone is betting the farm on that .01% chance that they become wild trillionaires. We're going to burn down the whole planet and use all of the resources so a few people can have a minuscule chance at being obscenely rich.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

TheScaryOne — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:30:44 +0000

Today's car crash deaths are sometimes software bug caused deaths. Toyota failed their forensic audit of their drive by wire code back in 2013. https://capitolweekly.net/toyota-has-settled-hundreds-of-sud...

New comment by TheScaryOne in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:16:36 +0000

My phones all fail from internal hardware faults. Also never broken a screen.

I had a S3 that the battery would only last 12 hours or so, but the EMMC failed before the battery did.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:15:44 +0000

No. You get a 2 year old flagship phone for $200-300 outright, instead of $1500+

Samsung also makes the A-series Galaxies which are a pretty solid mid-tier phones that are supported for years, too.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:13:24 +0000

>Running AI locally could be a big selling point

Actually will push a lot of people away. I don't want any hardware that has special relationships with AI LLM's.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

TheScaryOne — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:55:04 +0000

And if the majority is "no confidence" we get a special runoff election with new candidates.

New comment by TheScaryOne in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

TheScaryOne — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:15:13 +0000

The S3 ran Samsung software for about, oh, a month after I bought it brand new?

I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.