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New comment by badgersnake in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

badgersnake — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:47:06 +0000

If everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.

New comment by badgersnake in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

badgersnake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:48:43 +0000

Small violin for you.

New comment by badgersnake in "StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping"

badgersnake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:43:24 +0000

This argument has been made a lot on this site, mainly by people who don’t understand live music.

New comment by badgersnake in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

badgersnake — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:35:18 +0000

I don’t think that’s even possible.

New comment by badgersnake in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

badgersnake — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:59:34 +0000

I run ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD and FreeBSD is less of a faff. If you don’t need docker on your NAS, I would go FreeBSD as well.

New comment by badgersnake in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

badgersnake — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:32:35 +0000

Cancel your prime is a good start.

New comment by badgersnake in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

badgersnake — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:31:33 +0000

Or just buy an actual book from and independent bookshop.

New comment by badgersnake in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"

badgersnake — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:47:37 +0000

I’m not surprised. Of course people take shortcuts. They did it before LLMs came around.

If you don’t understand the output you don’t get to judge the quality.

New comment by badgersnake in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"

badgersnake — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:40:05 +0000

> Apps that I mostly don't understand the underlying code

So you’re just flinging tokens at the wall until something sticks. That’s not engineering.

New comment by badgersnake in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

badgersnake — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:10:49 +0000

It also assumes the US broadband market is free, which it effectively isn’t. There’s a huge moat of hard-lobbied for “regulations” put in place by the established players.

New comment by badgersnake in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

badgersnake — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:09:21 +0000

I imagine that’s classified.

New comment by badgersnake in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

badgersnake — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:17:33 +0000

Don’t completely rewrite your comments after somebody replied.

New comment by badgersnake in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

badgersnake — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:33:15 +0000

European or American.

Currently Russia is sanctioned so it’s illegal to do business there. If it were legal they would be straight back.

New comment by badgersnake in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

badgersnake — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:57 +0000

They will sell in Russia when it’s legal to do so, just like every other company.

New comment by badgersnake in "Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all"

badgersnake — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:07:13 +0000

The original OpenID was fine.

New comment by badgersnake in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

badgersnake — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:46:55 +0000

And putting it into free models like quen. It’s hard to care about this.

New comment by badgersnake in "Identity verification on Claude"

badgersnake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:11:02 +0000

How does a company verify its age?

New comment by badgersnake in "CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt"

badgersnake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:16:50 +0000

Probably by AI

New comment by badgersnake in "CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt"

badgersnake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:48:01 +0000

CTOs / CEOs have demonstrated how completely useless they are pretty much across the board over the last few years. Groupthink and bandwagons, zero innovation or use of brain.

New comment by badgersnake in "Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment"

badgersnake — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:34:45 +0000

It matters when all your data ends up on pastebin.