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New comment by VagabundoP in "Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans""

VagabundoP — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:27:56 +0000

If it does it will be at the hands of another human.

AI to me is like the Nuclear race again. Super powers will be using it as a super weapon. I don't think AGI will wipe us out by itself.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

VagabundoP — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:12:55 +0000

Lotus Notes was underrated imo.

We used it as a combo Helpdesk ticketting, email, wiki/doc tool and it worked so well. It took 20 years for other tools to catch up and webapps still arent as functional.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

VagabundoP — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:16:01 +0000

placebo works whether you believe or not and even if you know.

They are very powerful.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

VagabundoP — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:20:46 +0000

obviously a small space-time anomaly. Nothing to be alarmed about. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

VagabundoP — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:29:06 +0000

edonkey:

Fear and loathing in Las Vagas (took a week to download) = Granny porn. Sigh

New comment by VagabundoP in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

VagabundoP — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:58:46 +0000

Occasionally Core.py will do some updates, higher level stuff:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1PGRfdrLEwgXjQbPBNk1pW

pablo and Łukasz

New comment by VagabundoP in "Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly"

VagabundoP — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:28:14 +0000

The who python web feels underused to be honest.

Maybe if browsers start shipping or downloading WASMs for python and others on request. And storing them for all sites going forward. Similar to how uv does it for for venvs it creates, there are standalone python version blobs.

New comment by VagabundoP in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

VagabundoP — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:48:16 +0000

There might be a foodchain of lower order uses when they become "obsolete".

New comment by VagabundoP in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

VagabundoP — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:23:33 +0000

For you it was the most important day of your life. But for ChatGPT it was Tuesday.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

VagabundoP — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:11:30 +0000

Bare with me, but im not again' the new Notepad. Its fairly well done - the markdown - and even the AI dropdown presets seem useful.

but I do wish they had called it something else and kept notepad as txt only.

New comment by VagabundoP in "LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra"

VagabundoP — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:33:27 +0000

Even a colour filter would help with the harshness.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

VagabundoP — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:23:38 +0000

One of the others might make an exception to allow them in theirs.

New comment by VagabundoP in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

VagabundoP — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:26:45 +0000

I love ideas like this.

I'd like to see the stats on temperature levels over a lifetime.

New comment by VagabundoP in "iPhone Pocket"

VagabundoP — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:19:07 +0000

Pixel 5 is a nice size. I like smallies too.

New comment by VagabundoP in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

VagabundoP — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:52:34 +0000

Anesthetics are very weird though. There's still a lot we don't know about how they work. They seem to act like you experienced, complete shutdown, for most people, which seems different from the states that people go into when unconscious or are near death usually.

And some people have a very different experience while under them - they are fully aware.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

VagabundoP — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:45:16 +0000

The only issue with Ventoy is it doesn't work with secure boot turned on.

Otherwise its excellent.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Keep Android Open"

VagabundoP — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:38:47 +0000

So much rarer now. Its getting more and more locked down unfortunately.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization"

VagabundoP — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:37:54 +0000

Its not my area, but apart from the the person subjective opinion there would be indirect ways to measure it. again I'm just guessing without looking around.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Keep Android Open"

VagabundoP — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:36:35 +0000

yup it will, but this is where some legislation might help to get certified 3rd party ROM images that will pass. Its a tricky topic though.

New comment by VagabundoP in "Keep Android Open"

VagabundoP — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:35:38 +0000

It does vary. TWRP/Magisk can enable apps, but its case by case.