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New comment by airstrafer in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

airstrafer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:09:22 +0000

This sentiment is also why Microsoft crushed earnings this quarter. Their AI play is to create corpo-slop AI middleware, which sits between AI models and enterprise applications. Sure, others can go and build harnesses which can generate MS office documents, but MS is already doing it, and conveniently such harnesses will come with everyone's existing Microsoft 365 subscription.

The analogy is IBM. Just like IBM helped every old-money corporation on the planet figure out the whole "computers" thing 50 years ago, MS will help everyone solve the "AI" thing. The software will suck and will not really innovate, but it will make a ton of money

New comment by airstrafer in "[dead]"

airstrafer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:27:33 +0000

ai slop writing

New comment by airstrafer in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

airstrafer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:56:49 +0000

incredible

New comment by airstrafer in "A Rant About “Technology” (2005)"

airstrafer — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:49:33 +0000

He said something similar when he was 28 at a design conference: https://youtu.be/t9HmOz8H0qI?t=2827 at 47:08

New comment by airstrafer in "A Rant About “Technology” (2005)"

airstrafer — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:31:45 +0000

> Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

> But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This sentiment reminds me of the email steve jobs sent himself shortly before he died:

> I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

> I do not make any of my own clothing.

> I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

> I did not discover the mathematics I use.

> I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

> I am moved by music I did not create myself.

> When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

> I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

Indeed, it seems to me that true technologists do not take for granted a book of matches, or a simple garment, or music, or law. Innovation is innovation

New comment by airstrafer in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

airstrafer — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:49:41 +0000

wow. shamelessly stealing the name of one of the most robust and effective libraries ever, to push some ai bullshit.

what an embarrassment

New comment by airstrafer in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

airstrafer — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:11:46 +0000

Are these the sqlite developers..?

New comment by airstrafer in "Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects"

airstrafer — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:51:08 +0000

The models might be good but the product design, user story, and marketing is so terrible that it’s difficult to see it as more than an also-ran

New comment by airstrafer in "Show HN: HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the Terminal"

airstrafer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:01:37 +0000

This site tries to open a script in my terminal as soon as you open it. Luckily safari has good permissions but stay away. Egregious behavior.

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New comment by airstrafer in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

airstrafer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:15:40 +0000

I get what you’re saying but phone addiction has absolutely ruined people’s lives.

New comment by airstrafer in "ChatGPT Work"

airstrafer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:06:08 +0000

when the middle management ghouls demand that the codex and chat teams synergize at the expense of the architecture and users. lol

New comment by airstrafer in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

airstrafer — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:48:58 +0000

Agreed. I like the framing that there are three kinds of disability: permanent (I lost my arm in a motorcycle crash), temporal (I broke my arm and can’t use it for a while), and situational (I’m walking my dog so I can only use one arm for other things).

Generally we only refer to someone with a permanent disability as “disabled” but in reality we are all disabled in various categories at different times of our lives. Accessibility is important to all three groups (you need to be able to use your phone with one hand), therefore accessibility is important to everyone.