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New comment by deanc in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

deanc — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:09:00 +0000

I think this rings true for many people, but the mind works in mysterious ways. There are folks who have nothing who are mentally well, and folks who have everything they ever wanted who are severely ill.

New comment by deanc in "Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?"

deanc — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:57:17 +0000

Depending on who is responsible for this, do you not think these people would have the ability to circumvent physical anti-tampering measures?

New comment by deanc in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

deanc — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:21:26 +0000

There's a lot of ancedotes "I've seen hatespeech drop" etc. This is measurable and there are people measuring this kind of thing. Let's wait for some real data.

New comment by deanc in "Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier"

deanc — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:43:17 +0000

This is the first I’m hearing about Cloudflare’s worker AI product. I see they provide 10,000 neurons a day on the free tier. What on earth is that?

New comment by deanc in "Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew"

deanc — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:05:36 +0000

I don't agree with everything that Homebrew does, but the primary maintainers are visible, vocal and very opinionated. They have shown credibility and earnt my trust over the years given it is a crucial entry point to potential malware to my system.

Homebrew has continued to improve performance each major version. It's certainly a lot quicker nowadays than 5 years ago. I want reliability and safety in a package manager, speed is nice to have.

I applaud competition, but something like this starts with trust zero as far as I'm concerned. If there is one place that I want human input over LLM it's here. It needs to scream: smart humans are in control and overseeing the project. I don't see that here.

New comment by deanc in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

deanc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:04:20 +0000

Kind of. It's advised to keep it secret but I'd be astonished if most people haven't had it leaked whether they realise it or not. Usually when identifying with e.g. a telecoms provider you would give your SSN and then some additional piece of meta-data such as address. Chances are everyone has a combination of SSN + address + phone leaked.

New comment by deanc in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

deanc — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:04:39 +0000

In Finland, this would be enough to get you through the security checks at pretty much any institute via phone, possibly excluding banks.

New comment by deanc in "Gemini 4 Argon"

deanc — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:25:42 +0000

At this point I just think they are benchmaxxing and all talk and no action. I pay for AI plus because I wanted more storage, and when I go to gemini.google.com the most recent model I can use is 3.6-flash-lite. Two revisions have been released since then and they still can't put these things in the hands of customers. Why is it that other providers can get the models into the hands of customers right away? Google is meant to be the bigger tech company in the world.

I don't _want_ to use aistudio. The UX is confusing and I don't really know where it fits. Yet I can open codex or claude code apps or CLI and get real work done today with the latest models (even on the cheapest plans).

New comment by deanc in "Don't couple your Go code to GitHub"

deanc — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:58:08 +0000

That's all well and good, but what happens if you drop off the face of the earth due to personal issues, health issues or worse and your domain expires?

New comment by deanc in "Tells of a Slop UI"

deanc — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:36:33 +0000

I have seen folks here complaining about design trends long before AI slop. Maybe those folks who work in tech long for originality but the reality is designers in all aspects of life follow trends and originality is rare.

The reality is that users enjoy familiarity and find familiar interfaces and design trends comfortable and easier to use.

New comment by deanc in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

deanc — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:47:07 +0000

Feels a little pointless and disingenuous to present it this way (as default) unless you specifically filter it as such

New comment by deanc in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

deanc — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:36:31 +0000

Why is it labelled as #1/114 for artificial intelligence (at the top of the page) but if you scroll down and look at the graphs it's obviously not?

New comment by deanc in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

deanc — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:37:32 +0000

With all due respect, I don't have any of this nonsense with multiple products with different models with OpenAI. Anything I want to do, I just load up the ChatGPT app and I'm off to the races.

New comment by deanc in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

deanc — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:32:54 +0000

The app is up to date :)

New comment by deanc in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

deanc — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:34:32 +0000

What stage of the roll out are we where I don’t even see 3.7-flash which was released 2-3 weeks ago?

New comment by deanc in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

deanc — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:51:40 +0000

And yet again another failed launch from Google. I pay for their AI plus Google one package to get more cloud storage (have no interest in their AI bundle but you have to pay). and all I see in the Gemini app is 3.6-flash

New comment by deanc in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

deanc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:39:54 +0000

Take a look around [1]. This is what every neighbourhood built looks like now.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/bMYANpDU2AGDKVQN7

New comment by deanc in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

deanc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:30:03 +0000

I'm not talking about historic buildings that are hundreds of years old. I live in Finland - we don't have many of these. Almost all apartments are built after the 60s outside the downtown and look like concrete boxes.

New comment by deanc in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

deanc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:41:41 +0000

I think you're under-estimating how hot it gets inside well-insulated European homes. Your mileage may vary across European countries, but in the north where it gets cold in the winter our homes are built to trap heat. Opening windows won't get you very far as the temperature radiates through the windows and traps in the walls. Closing blinds will help, but not by much. It got over 40c in my office this summer. This is not livable conditions with a fan.

New comment by deanc in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

deanc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:39:10 +0000

Agreed, new builds should be mandatory, but this is not easy to retrofit to existing apartment buildings in a country where labour and parts are notoriously expensive and have to be split with the residents.