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New comment by assimpleaspossi in "FLUX 3 Image"

assimpleaspossi — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:13:45 +0000

But I don't use it or need it and wasted my time trying to figure out what it did. Clarity should be up front.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it"

assimpleaspossi — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:31:14 +0000

26 info warnings though I'm impressed there are no up front errors but the warnings are of potential problems. It's the same blunder I see many people who don't read the standards don't understand or bother with until it actually becomes a problem. But AI learned from them. That's why the problem exists within AI, too.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Frailcode.dev%...

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:21:43 +0000

I visit two subs every day and get banned from both of them maybe three times a year. I am an expert in one area and experienced in the other. I typically respond only to outrageous responses to someone who asked a seemingly innocent question. Because I disagreed with the majority I typically get my karma down so low that my comments aren't showing or, last week, I was banned altogether.

No. I'm not nasty or disrespectful. I just disagree and give the reasons why.

I try to be helpful but I no longer care. I only glance at the titles in case something new shows up. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but, as I said, I'm an expert in one area and experienced in the other and reddit users lose that. I know others feel the same way and never go there. I wish I wouldn't.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "I switched to Brave"

assimpleaspossi — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:32:19 +0000

In my case, I find it doesn't matter to me or, often, anyone I know. So the conclusion becomes I don't care and my only concern is if it is useful to me.

It's also why I avoid almost all social platforms and, if I land on one accidentally, I look at headlines alone--rarely the comments.

Oh! Damn it!

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "One Month Without AI"

assimpleaspossi — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:56:53 +0000

>>after you've corrected them to get them on track

They all still insist on serving bash code for FreeBSD where bash is not native. I've had to correct them all this whole year and they apologize profusely but, the next time, still use bash.

Note: you can install and run bash on FreeBSD. It's just not in the base installation or usage and I do not use it there.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027"

assimpleaspossi — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:41:35 +0000

Please don't reference that pit of doom for anything.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027"

assimpleaspossi — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:10:33 +0000

Your remark has nothing to do with the technical merit of this event. Your remark only has to do with his personal life and such comments have no place here (in my opinion).

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027"

assimpleaspossi — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:08:25 +0000

Totally agree. These responses I expect to see on reddit alone and why I stopped viewing reddit years ago.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "One Month Without AI"

assimpleaspossi — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:52:31 +0000

I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use.

Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.

At most, I use these tools as search engines. Even then some references are poor.

I'm starting to think this is becoming a sad, sad world and AI is just the new TV of the programming world.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "I don't want the details"

assimpleaspossi — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:49:21 +0000

What can be done, when writing an article, to not stumble during reading when an unknown abbreviation such as SVP occurs?

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:56:21 +0000

I'm told Chicago screwed themselves on that

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:54:53 +0000

My son used to wait on him at a restaurant in Chicago when he came by to visit his now wife. My son, being a professional actor, had to use his best skills to treat him as just another customer

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "OpenJev"

assimpleaspossi — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:20:30 +0000

I had to re-read a few times to figure out what the site was for and about. Still not sure I understand but that's the problem for them. If I'm a customer, I'm gone cause I can't figure out what it's for and I see this far too often nowadays for a lot of technical sites.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC"

assimpleaspossi — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:39:09 +0000

>>The whole point is that you don’t have a plug to pull

There will always be a plug to pull. All systems run on electric and that plug can be pulled. All systems network through cables (or wifi) and those plugs can be pulled.

And nothing's going to stop you from doing so unless they build some robotic arm to block you or lock you out of the building. Even then, you can blow up the building.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:37:33 +0000

He's not talking about a kill switch. He's saying to just pull the plug. That's the point I don't get. People forget that all these AI things are plugged into a power source or network connection that someone can just yank on and it goes down.

Now one interesting proposition is when AI is controlling some large resource and pulling the plug makes AI go down which makes that resource go down but there still has to be that consideration in the design of things. What happens when there's a bug in the code and AI goes down?

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:56:08 +0000

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

assimpleaspossi — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:14:14 +0000

I don't understand. What does this have to do with HN, the typical topics, and the typical users who come here?

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "U.S. in Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse in CIA Model"

assimpleaspossi — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:24:02 +0000

Because the only sources in the article are non-CIA but claim they are CIA. The article is of little value if I have to search around the internet looking up information. And the sources in the articles are sources I have never heard of before which makes me suspicious. The whole thing has an odor to it.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

assimpleaspossi — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:32:14 +0000

Yes. Thank you. The link text gives the impression that is the front page and I didn't notice. I'm sure a lot of people don't notice which is the issue I'm trying to point out.

New comment by assimpleaspossi in "U.S. in Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse in CIA Model"

assimpleaspossi — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:20:36 +0000

If the CIA didn't publish this, then how can one say there are no state secrets? How can one say they obtained the same conclusion without knowing the CIA's conclusion?