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New comment by crummy in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

crummy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:44:30 +0000

Plenty of other services (like Spotify) stop showing you ads if you pay them enough money.

New comment by crummy in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

crummy — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:44:34 +0000

Splitgate matched new players with bots for the first few hours. It meant I had fun (then eventually I levelled up enough, matched with players, got stomped, and never picked it up again…)

New comment by crummy in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

crummy — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:14:47 +0000

I remember taking general ed classes in college that I didn't want to do but had to to get required credits.

New comment by crummy in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

crummy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0000

does Astro do WYSWIYG?

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:54:49 +0000

I am inclined to agree but grok 4.5 seems to be almost SOTA. They could be frontier soon.

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:52:38 +0000

Out of curiosity, I just asked Grok and learned:

* Biden won the 2020 election

* vaccines do not cause autism

* global warming is not a conspiracy

In each case it seemed to do a web search so perhaps it is happy to rely on the top results.

New comment by crummy in "Grok 4.5"

crummy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:59:31 +0000

There are plenty of places in the developed world where it just doesn't make financial sense to roll out fibre. In NZ about 90% of the country has fibre access... probably that number will creep a bit higher. But I doubt it'll ever reach 100%.

Whether or not Starlink can build a business on selling broadband to <10% of the developed world I don't know.

New comment by crummy in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

crummy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:45:58 +0000

Billionaires also want vaccines, sometimes do they have our best interests in mind. They can’t extract wealth from the poor masses if we’re sick!

New comment by crummy in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

crummy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:34:03 +0000

Would you use a value class if you wanted to represent a fraction?

New comment by crummy in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"

crummy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:33:43 +0000

Why can’t gifts have contracts?

New comment by crummy in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

crummy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:19:01 +0000

so... they made a society with a lot of inequality and it fell apart?

New comment by crummy in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

crummy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:14:29 +0000

Are you arguing against the concept of progress taxation entirely?

New comment by crummy in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

crummy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:29:09 +0000

I have not read Piketty. But I could imagine a society where the poor are 10% better off and the rich are 1000% better off to be a less stable society that ends up falling apart.

New comment by crummy in "Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it"

crummy — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:53:34 +0000

I think your detector is overly sensitive. That sounds like a very common way to phrase a sentence.

New comment by crummy in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

crummy — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:25:31 +0000

Doesn't Apple already ask you for your age when you set up a new device? And I think Microsoft requires you to be 18 on your admin account.

New comment by crummy in "LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years"

crummy — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:29:21 +0000

That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.

New comment by crummy in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

crummy — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:34:31 +0000

This makes it seem like roughly an even split:

https://imgur.com/a/4W9Ub2t

New comment by crummy in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

crummy — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:58:11 +0000

Some footage: https://youtu.be/CiWX1nsvqBs?si=lE5autC2y2b8ez2X

At a minute in you can see the satellites being ejected out one by one.

New comment by crummy in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

crummy — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:14:57 +0000

I thought they paid barely anything to artists because they are only getting fifteen bucks a month from each subscriber. And their price is restricted because they’re essentially competing (as a business model) with piracy.

New comment by crummy in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

crummy — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:52:39 +0000

does it have some kind of sandboxing for its extensions?