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New comment by deepfriedbits in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:31:32 +0000

With all due respect, this is a wild take. Things aren't great in the U.S. right now, but they're not even in the same universe as what the Stasi was doing.

> I think it would be easier to understand the playing field and choose your actions accordingly, if you accept the US has entered its East Germany / late 20th century Soviet era -- except of course with 1000x more invasive and effective surveillance tech.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Buy Your Friends Batteries"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:13 +0000

True, but you're still buying an entire battery yourself in the course of a calendar year.

I love the spirit behind this but it's strange advice. I consider myself lucky to have a healthy roster of adult friends, and I still think getting 16 of them to spend significant money on each other's birthday would be a big ask to pull off.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

deepfriedbits — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:37:49 +0000

> "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

What a cool way to convey the benefits of having strong friendships.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:28:26 +0000

Reading this, I caught myself wondering how we distill what's in this excellent write up into something the average consumer understands, including the dangers from buying and using devices like this.

Is it a graphic that's shared? Something else? I am sure we all know or have heard of people with these devices that promise free streaming.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Claude Cookbook"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:38:53 +0000

Not only that, but all of this tooling around models has such a short shelf life as the models themselves grow in capabilities, they absorb the tooling. We've already seen it over and over again.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:54:50 +0000

Yep. That was the entire subtext from the drop in IBM's share price yesterday.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:10:36 +0000

Indeed. And you can make this case about any tooling at all that is model adjacent.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:57:19 +0000

Exactly. No reasonable business will ban emails from this subdomain.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Claude Fable 5"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:53:55 +0000

Thankfully this, like most other tech, will get cheaper through the years.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:31:40 +0000

I could totally see that

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:22:29 +0000

Bingo. They see this as the future commodity it will be. Customers will choose AI providers much way they choose a car: taste, price, a few other factors.

And to your point, Google has a massive balance sheet, produces their own AI chips, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "The Art of Money Getting"

deepfriedbits — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:21:38 +0000

Said another way: "Pride is for the poor."

New comment by deepfriedbits in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:13:49 +0000

It's not about the paywall in this case. It's to prevent AI companies from scraping a publication's archives for training data. If AI companies want that data, they can compensate publishers, not extract it for free from the Internet Archive.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

deepfriedbits — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:17:05 +0000

On some level, it's the lesser of two evils. Both do suck as options, I agree.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Google Search as you know it is over"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:54:05 +0000

I'm not jumping in with both feet, either, but "never" is a very big word.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "We let AIs run radio stations"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:41:06 +0000

Same. Legit groan laugh in an oh-no kind of way when I read this:

> November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha

New comment by deepfriedbits in "AI slop is killing online communities"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:30:14 +0000

I've thought about this a lot as well and could definitely see it happening.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:08:00 +0000

Yep. There's no certification needed to create a financial model or close monthly books.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:05:27 +0000

Yikes. They even placed his name and bio on the Notepad++ for Mac website to help legitimize it.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "A desktop made for one"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:25:47 +0000

I wish you would have taken the time to reply and clarify your comment. I've been here for 16 years – my commenting history is readily available. My words and thoughts are my own.