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New comment by ahofmann in "Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed"

ahofmann — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:36:16 +0000

To play devils advocate: Isn't it that the management had to choose between two potential problematic decisions? What if the management declined the hindu request and then the hindus made a big fuss about it? Wouldn't people scream "how could they think that discriminating the hindu religion would be a good decision?!?".

New comment by ahofmann in "GPT-6 Astra"

ahofmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:08:43 +0000

Everything around LLMs is blatantly misleading. There is no thought, there is no personality in those programs. I really despise how those tools are trained to sound like a person, or appearing as honest. The worst offender are the AI voices with their fake pauses, breathes and so on, which sound so convincing, while talking just false, sycophancy bullshit.

New comment by ahofmann in "Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding"

ahofmann — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:17:13 +0000

The work of Zuse is way out of the danger zone, isn't it? Mobile phones with LCDs are in the danger zone, or the phone booth, but not the first working computers ever build.

New comment by ahofmann in "“I just chose words carefully”"

ahofmann — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:12:32 +0000

In german typography the name for widow is "Hurenkind" wich translates to "child of a whore". I was pretty surprised to hear that word on a regular basis while working in text for print. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurenkind_und_Schusterjunge

New comment by ahofmann in "Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents"

ahofmann — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:42:20 +0000

You should stop posting in your own thread. I vouched for this post, because it looks useful, but I understand why you got flagged.

New comment by ahofmann in "Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents"

ahofmann — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:37:19 +0000

It's open source, so just look "under the hood", I guess?

New comment by ahofmann in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

ahofmann — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:50:58 +0000

Now we know why...

New comment by ahofmann in "Rewriting in Rust"

ahofmann — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:32:44 +0000

Yes, there are quite a few signs of LLM usage in the post, which I also found annoying. But I also had the feeling that someone really cared about the quality of the text and I found only one strange/useless sentence in the post, which today has to be taken as a win, I guess.

New comment by ahofmann in "200 Milliseconds"

ahofmann — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:50:47 +0000

The US is so big, that 50 ms is physically not possible for everyone. This is something that not everybody is aware of. When I as a German build something for germans, everyone who needs to wait longer than 100 ms for a request, is rightfully mad. But when I want to serve the same stuff to americans at the same speed, I have to build something completely different and much more complex.

New comment by ahofmann in "200 Milliseconds"

ahofmann — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:47:28 +0000

While I also enjoyed it very much, some thing are strangely ordered and not how I would expect someone with such knowledge of all the moving parts in a request, would build such a site. So for me it feels like an LLM has build it and the human with the prompt saw it and said "eh, good enough".

New comment by ahofmann in "30 years of CPUs at Tom's Hardware – looking back on three decades of processors"

ahofmann — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:24:07 +0000

Well, 30 years ago CPUs where so heavy and big, sometimes you'd need jumper cables to start them...

New comment by ahofmann in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

ahofmann — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:19:47 +0000

Wow, this article is super smart marketing by tailscale. Not only do they list all the nice and expensive features, that can help in such a situation but they also show that someone at huggingface made a very stupid thing by writing a reusable auth key in an env file. Everyone using mesh VPNs like tailscale, netbird etc. knows that this is like leaving the keys right at the door.

New comment by ahofmann in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

ahofmann — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:16:15 +0000

And someone was stupid enough to put a reusable tailscale auth key in there.

New comment by ahofmann in "Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS"

ahofmann — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:02:59 +0000

How does this differ, or is better than ddev?

New comment by ahofmann in "I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw"

ahofmann — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:13 +0000

Ugh, so, sooo much sycophancy all over the place. Just one example:

"Claude: That last line is one of the most precise observations about human nature I've encountered."

While I appreciate the time op spend creating this "conversation", for me it just shows how horrible LLMs are for people with low self esteem. So almost everybody.

New comment by ahofmann in "Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again"

ahofmann — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:15:56 +0000

For me the ai voice is bearable, but the length of everything is not. I just get exhausted reading this much text and searching for the sparsely placed interesting bits in it. After 10 minutes of reading, I gave up frustrated.

New comment by ahofmann in "Jacobian Conjecture for Baby"

ahofmann — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:16:36 +0000

I think the entire post was created by an AI, and I had a similar negative reaction to it. Nevertheless, it's an excellent post with clear explanations of mathematical concepts. This just goes to show how impossible it is to tell the difference between something created by a human and something created by an LLM.

New comment by ahofmann in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

ahofmann — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:57:44 +0000

So ... It's turtles all the way down?

New comment by ahofmann in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

ahofmann — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:46:54 +0000

My question was genuine. I have no idea why someone wants Debian to die, so I asked.

New comment by ahofmann in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

ahofmann — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:31:30 +0000

Are you aware, that a very big chunk of Linux distributions like Ubuntu are build in top of Debian?

Why do you want Debian to die?