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New comment by bigbuppo in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

bigbuppo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0000

Yeah but drugs are illegal.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

bigbuppo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:19:35 +0000

And specifically, their expectations as to what will positively impact the stock price. Shareholder value this quarter is more important than keeping the company afloat next quarter.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

bigbuppo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:14:15 +0000

Just don't computer. I think that's the only safe solution at this point.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them"

bigbuppo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:02:42 +0000

I would say the solution is to make it small and ugly, back to the way it was in the pre-Web-2.0 era, but SQL injections were a thing back then, and they're still a thing today, it's just now there are frameworks of frameworks built on top of frameworks that make fully understanding a seemingly-simple one liner impossible.

New comment by bigbuppo in "One item purchased, ten emails"

bigbuppo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:29:56 +0000

It's better than it was back in the 90s. Imagine that, but as physical mail. Oh, and they sent a separate copy to your billing contact, which was at the same address, and was also you.

New comment by bigbuppo in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

bigbuppo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:32:56 +0000

Well, if you think you can do a better job, make it happen. Make the film you want to see.

New comment by bigbuppo in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

bigbuppo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:36:03 +0000

They only look like meat to blend in. It's the only way to figure out if they're made out of meat.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

bigbuppo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:07:01 +0000

Don't need to do that. I use a USR Total Control chassis as a white noise generator.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

bigbuppo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:55:24 +0000

They should have used the third outlook they didn't know about... Outlook, Outlook (new), and the well-hidden Outlook (classic) that actually works.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

bigbuppo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:54:09 +0000

The CEO is accountable to the board. If they are derelict in their obligations to the company, that's where you need to raise a stink so they can fix it.

New comment by bigbuppo in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

bigbuppo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:27:22 +0000

The smell of old cigarettes, stale coffee, Certs, and urinal cakes wafting through the air.

New comment by bigbuppo in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

bigbuppo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:07:04 +0000

I too love Copilot 365 OneDrive Fabric for Business E5 powered by Yammer P2.

New comment by bigbuppo in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

bigbuppo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:11:24 +0000

It's no coincidence that daytrading ascended with the dotcom era.

New comment by bigbuppo in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

bigbuppo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:02 +0000

The best jokes are serious.

New comment by bigbuppo in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

bigbuppo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:01:47 +0000

And if Forbes is reporting this, that means the actual movers and shakers were talking about this months ago.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

bigbuppo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:47:09 +0000

Yeah, but you don't have trillions of dollars of investments riding on your success, so the rules still apply to you.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

bigbuppo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:31:46 +0000

There are only Americans on the internet.

New comment by bigbuppo in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

bigbuppo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:11:33 +0000

Clang also isn't too far off of GCC on support, so if you're not using either of those, my condolences. And if it's management mandate, god help us all.

New comment by bigbuppo in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

bigbuppo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:07:48 +0000

GCC has it marked as 'RESOLVED FIXED' as of about a week and a half ago. So, it's coming.

Also, useful: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html

New comment by bigbuppo in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

bigbuppo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:28:28 +0000

That's a very 1993 understanding of telecommunications.