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New comment by askonomm in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

askonomm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:41:04 +0000

AI reviewing AI. Or in other words, having non-deterministic systems review the creation of non-deterministic systems, hoping for a deterministic result. Good luck with that.

New comment by askonomm in "We should be more tired than the model"

askonomm — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:52:14 +0000

I find great success in not relying on LLM's built-in knowledge, but giving it links to necessary docs/manuals and have it read that before doing anything.

New comment by askonomm in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

askonomm — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:48:14 +0000

Depending on the government. USA government? Yes, I'd trust that even less than Microsoft. Most EU governments? I'd trust a hell of a lot more. Especially my own (Estonian).

New comment by askonomm in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

askonomm — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:45:41 +0000

I mean to be expected of Google. Even their Google Pay sends data to their servers whenever you use it to make payments, effectively also making it so you can't even use it without service. Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device, and not only is private, but as a result also enables payments entirely offline.

New comment by askonomm in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

askonomm — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:40:30 +0000

From my analytics, around 85% of visits to my sites are now from bots. It's hard to say if these are oldschool bots or people just browsing the web via chatgpt now, but the reality is that very few actually visit the actual sites I have anymore.

New comment by askonomm in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

askonomm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:28:51 +0000

Because companies here actively want to avoid breaking the law, as opposed to the U.S where breaking the law is just a matter of paying some $ to the grifter in chief? I always find it funny when Europeans being proactive about that sort of stuff is somehow a bad thing from Americans point of view. Like wanting decent human rights and not having to bend over to megacorps is something we should not have.

Though, if the Americans in question just want to do their grifting in EU, it makes sense why they are upset at that, I guess, because it limits their grifting opportunities.

New comment by askonomm in "Claude Design"

askonomm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:34:53 +0000

Only "the greatest country in the world" has laws that allow firing for NOT doing overtime.

New comment by askonomm in "Claude Design"

askonomm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:33:54 +0000

Their engineers are excellent? Have you seen the leaked Claude Code codebase? Juniors write better code than that.

New comment by askonomm in "AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development"

askonomm — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:13:22 +0000

So you are saying that a plumber does not in fact need to know how to be a plumber?

New comment by askonomm in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

askonomm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:56 +0000

Same for me. Been fully agentic for half a year or so, still remember the myriad of programming languages and things just as well if there's no AI present at all. Hard to shake 15 years of experience that quick, unless maybe that experience never fully cemented?

Maybe the difference between actually knowing stuff vs surface level? I know a lot of devs just know how to glue stuff together, not really how to make anything, so I'd imagine those devs lose their skills much faster.

New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

askonomm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:47:59 +0000

This. Not to mention that for the mainstream users there are mainstream distros that are largely the same they have always been: Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, so I never really understood the issue of having tons of distros out there for enthusiasts.

New comment by askonomm in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

askonomm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:58:20 +0000

Ah, yes, the [insert super inconvenient and complex thing to do that most people don’t know, want or should do] will solve it! And when that fails, surely the user can just write their own OS, right? Bunch of skill-issued complainers we the users are.

New comment by askonomm in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

askonomm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:07:12 +0000

So are you also not allowed to move away or? I find it pretty messed up that your life as a man is literally owned by the government.

New comment by askonomm in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

askonomm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:41:35 +0000

I'm self-hosting Forgejo on my own home server. It's super easy to do via Docker or as a single binary executable. I even have CI/CD runners on it, which was also very easy to set up. Definitely recommend for those who might not want to rely on someone else, be it Codeberg or not, but still get the same quality as Codeberg (as they literally run Forgejo themselves).

New comment by askonomm in "Migrating to the EU"

askonomm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:58:32 +0000

The USA administration is innocent? You got a very strange definition of innocent if you think that.

New comment by askonomm in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

askonomm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:48:56 +0000

You are aware that EU is not a single country, right? I know American education is third-world levels these days, so unfortunately I have to ask this.

New comment by askonomm in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

askonomm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:46:42 +0000

That's literally the entire Microslop Winblows set up screen flow. There's no "no", only "confirm".

New comment by askonomm in "Migrating to the EU"

askonomm — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:22:04 +0000

Do the immigration police in UK also murder their own citizens in broad daylight? What about incarceration (and falsely incarcerated) rates? What about general cases of police brutality? What about pedophile-run government where nobody ever gets arrested? What about a government that's bailing out known criminals for money? Or one that rug pulls its own citizens via crypto scams, phone scams, citizenship scams? USA is so far beyond comparison to any other country that it's not even funny. The whole place is a con artists paradise, run by con artists, for con artists.

Not to mention that they are actively hostile towards its own allies, threaten to annex ally territory, don't want to help its allies, and then when it can't pull off a war it on its own started, then EU is supposed to come help? And when we don't, we get insulted for not being friendly? Honestly, F USA, and everything that place stands for. What a toxic cesspool of a place.

New comment by askonomm in "Migrating to the EU"

askonomm — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:17:50 +0000

I find it odd that EU is judged by efforts that have time and time again _failed_, when I'd see that as a perfect example of a system actually working, because people do have the power to stop hostile legislation, whereas I see no such thing at all in the US.

New comment by askonomm in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

askonomm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:50:57 +0000

This sort of washing away fundamental problems with blanket statements like "oh it's just X, not a big deal", which then always keep adding up to a pretty big deal, is not helpful. Perhaps ignorance is the path to happiness for you, but not everybody wants to bend over to lords at megacorps.