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New comment by classified in "'There's a lot of desperation': older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat"

classified — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:17:54 +0000

The two-party system is also ruinous. Both parties are corrupted by the knowledge that they are the only realistic alternatives to each other.

New comment by classified in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

classified — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:47:56 +0000

When I saw it wants me to "agree" to Google's "privacy policy", I deleted the app on the spot.

New comment by classified in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

classified — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:43:14 +0000

Thankfully by now it has been resurrected.

New comment by classified in "A new C++ back end for ocamlc"

classified — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:15:45 +0000

> C++ is a purely functional language, with no support for mutable state.

> To run a C++ program, you'll need a C++ interpreter.

I thought 1. April is already over?

New comment by classified in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

classified — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:06:16 +0000

One could argue that having an LLM churn out code is not programming.

New comment by classified in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

classified — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:02:12 +0000

Was it flagged? I haven't seen that and was wondering why it isn't flagged yet. Reports of harsh realities aren't usually allowed to ruin the celebration of money-printing schemes here.

New comment by classified in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

classified — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:55:55 +0000

The market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent. I'm holding on to the hardware that I have.

New comment by classified in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

classified — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:38:41 +0000

It should be abundantly clear that depending on a single entity will screw you royally, but obviously we don't learn from the mistakes of others. We are condemned to repeat history because we don't know it.

New comment by classified in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

classified — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:22:59 +0000

How anybody is still using NPM is beyond me.

New comment by classified in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

classified — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:16:05 +0000

So they finally admit that it's just a toy? Where does that leave all the mega-"productive" developers?

New comment by classified in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

classified — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:14:28 +0000

> 10x more productive

That claim is totally worthless without you providing concrete information how you measured that.

New comment by classified in "The sudden fall of Sora"

classified — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:45:14 +0000

We will notice once they fall silent too.

New comment by classified in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

classified — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:36:31 +0000

They steal your code to train their AI, and then they sell it back to you. Why didn't I think of that, I could be rich by now.

New comment by classified in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

classified — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:15:38 +0000

Gaming is one more area where Linux has surpassed Windows. I'm using Valve's Proton to run Windows games on Linux and it's smooth as butter.

New comment by classified in "Swift 6.3"

classified — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:57:22 +0000

smh?

New comment by classified in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

classified — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:30:47 +0000

Nuremberg trials sounds good to me. Not that it's realistic though.

New comment by classified in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

classified — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:15:53 +0000

Being sufficiently paranoid, the second you use such a phrase you've shared it. Someone will be listening in, and it's only a question of time until criminals get their mitts on that data in the next breach.

New comment by classified in "Apple Just Lost Me"

classified — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:57:17 +0000

> They pay hefty tax rates in UK.

Are you sure?

New comment by classified in "Apple Business"

classified — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:50:58 +0000

Apple really seems to go out of their way to show users the middle finger.

New comment by classified in "So where are all the AI apps?"

classified — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:50:31 +0000

This is horrible. Children of that age should not be glued to a computer screen. If handing your kids over to the care of a bot is your idea of parenthood, I'm sure glad I'm not your kid.