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New comment by butler14 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

butler14 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:13:12 +0000

Silicon Valley’s finest

New comment by butler14 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

butler14 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:06:13 +0000

Warming up for that IPO

New comment by butler14 in "We accidentally recreated old Facebook"

butler14 — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:57:45 +0000

All the bits that matter, I guess

New comment by butler14 in "UnDUNE II"

butler14 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:35:18 +0000

Hah. This takes me back. Classic doesn't quite cover it.

I will say it's nice not having to click and Move on the sidebar manually each time you want to move a unit.

I do seem to remember each unit made a sound when you click them like "reporting" and when you move them "acknowledged"? Which again was incredibly repetitious but also quite characterful!

New comment by butler14 in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

butler14 — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:05:36 +0000

£385 in argos and smyths at the mo for any UK folk!

New comment by butler14 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

butler14 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:03:38 +0000

"We don't need NATO." But we do need our bases in Germany plz.

New comment by butler14 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

butler14 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:38:28 +0000

Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

New comment by butler14 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

butler14 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:49:48 +0000

i cannot upvote this enough, the keyboard is a DAILY annoyance, especially selecting words

New comment by butler14 in "My AI Adoption Journey"

butler14 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:03:14 +0000

I'd be interested to know what agents you're using. You mentioned Claude and GPT in passing, but don't actually talk about which you're using or for which tasks.

New comment by butler14 in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

butler14 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:17:42 +0000

Cybertruck was /the/ sign that things with Elon had... changed, IMO!

New comment by butler14 in "STFU"

butler14 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:26:39 +0000

How did you manage to acquire /four/ bullies?

New comment by butler14 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

butler14 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:33:56 +0000

source? all that is being reported is her asking for proof of life and him back

New comment by butler14 in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

butler14 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:22:52 +0000

Google and Google Ads are not one and the same.

The jump from the op's "i screwed up my google ads campaigns" to "Research shows that many young people are getting their information from short video platforms like TikTok"....

i mean, c'mon

New comment by butler14 in "LLMs Are Not Fun"

butler14 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:53:15 +0000

exactly

end of the day, guys like the author, for better or worse, are going to be replaced by the next generation of developers who don't care for the 'aesthetics' in the same way

New comment by butler14 in "NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions"

butler14 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:48:28 +0000

And that’s before you even get to the asymmetric costs.

New comment by butler14 in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

butler14 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:56:05 +0000

Another message of hope: I'm mid-late thirties and had the exact same. Daily tinnitus from December 2024 through to around August 2025.

I went through MRI etc to no avail.

Then one day I felt something (extremely deep in my ear) just 'release', like a tube unblocking or pressure equalising. And the sound went away and (fingers crossed) hasn't come back since. This was after daily issues for 8-9 months solid.

New comment by butler14 in "AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally"

butler14 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:38:45 +0000

not an issue /yet/ as it's separate and barely anyone is using it

New comment by butler14 in "GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card"

butler14 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:50:45 +0000

I had this too last week. It pointed out two errors that simply weren’t there. Then completely refused to back down and doubled down on its own certainty, until I sent it a screenshot of the original prompt. Kind of funny.

New comment by butler14 in "Get Out of My Head"

butler14 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:21:08 +0000

Honestly if you're removing meta tags from the html of a page for page speed/server space/bandwidth/environmental benefits -- it's time to do something else

I hate FB/twitter as much as the next tech-savvy person but accept that my users use those platforms and it's good for my website to show up optimally when they do

New comment by butler14 in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

butler14 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:49:44 +0000

"but part of the secret sauce of why these big orgs generally operate as effective institutional ecologies"

Nah

the secret sauce is "who you know"

it's a tale as old as time