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New comment by denkmoon in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

denkmoon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:58:45 +0000

They can't control what I run on my GPU. Exactly why local inference is so important.

New comment by denkmoon in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

denkmoon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:38:12 +0000

To be clear, no shade on actual devs faced with actual problems. My ire is reserved exclusively for the "we must do this because it is on the checklist, no I don't understand what a subnet is" people.

New comment by denkmoon in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

denkmoon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:36:03 +0000

Specifically the revocation of such guidance. If the field gave even the slightest deference to empiricism we wouldn't be changing our password every 180 days, but here we are.

New comment by denkmoon in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

denkmoon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:30:33 +0000

The people in charge of the internet are "cybersecurity" "professionals" who can't even follow NIST guidance.

New comment by denkmoon in "DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure"

denkmoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:37:45 +0000

This is what happens when you take the "it was DNS" meme too seriously. DNS is brilliant. Learn it. If you're really that ideologically opposed to such brilliance, just use the addresses directly. The system described is insane.

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

denkmoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:05:01 +0000

It would require participation by all strata of society. So no.

New comment by denkmoon in "Stop Ruining It"

denkmoon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:55:29 +0000

> Some spend is for prestige

I cannot describe the disgust I feel seeing my employer's logo on a fucking F1 car.

New comment by denkmoon in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

denkmoon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:26:46 +0000

Not going to bother responding to most of that as it does not warrant a response, but I would point out that the word craft does not imply novelty or uniqueness.

New comment by denkmoon in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

denkmoon — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:39:31 +0000

You must truly have no love for your craft if you see "manually" writing code as _just_ typing. That's like calling writing a novel just dragging ink over paper.

New comment by denkmoon in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

denkmoon — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:45:19 +0000

Exactly. I work on line of business stuff, not curing world hunger or reinventing the train. One of the few sources of joy in the job is the brain teaser/puzzle of understanding clever bits of code and writing it too. Now you can just shit out massive volumes of basic code that does the job, which is all you really need for a standard corporate software product, and it can do it multiple times faster than I can so I have no choice but to use it. Well at least my shares are looking good.

New comment by denkmoon in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

denkmoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:40:35 +0000

I’m close to despondent about how my job has changed. If the next 15 years of my life is just waiting on LLMs, I don’t think I can do it.

New comment by denkmoon in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

denkmoon — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:41:03 +0000

Lucky you man. I earn my dinner by reading, I don't really want to come home and strain my eyes some more.

New comment by denkmoon in "Can we have the day off?"

denkmoon — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:08:18 +0000

Tech workers _are_ a bunch of chumps. Temporarily embarrassed billionaire startup founders. The vehicle for this is a union, and tech workers abjectly refuse to unionise.

New comment by denkmoon in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

denkmoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:40:39 +0000

It's a nice thought but it ignores that there is so much interesting, informative media on youtube that just does not exist anywhere else, at all.

New comment by denkmoon in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

denkmoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:21:16 +0000

They don’t seem to care about false positives anywhere else on the platform. Being at the mercy of automated Google systems comes with the territory.

New comment by denkmoon in "The worst job interview I ever had"

denkmoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:25:45 +0000

If you're interviewing, you get that kind of mismatched response and don't jump in to clarify the scope of the question, I'm not sure that says much about the culture you're supposed to fit into.

New comment by denkmoon in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

denkmoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:29:03 +0000

Yeah, monero has low transaction fees. And is a pain in the ass to get, even more so in significant quantity or at a good exchange rate. You pay a significant premium for the privacy. So just different types of fees. Monero is also far from instant in my experience.

I too have plenty of purchasing experience with crypto and I wouldn’t advocate for it for any legal transaction.

New comment by denkmoon in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

denkmoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:23:09 +0000

Have you ever actually used crypto to buy something? The transaction fees are exorbitant and prohibitive, and it's slow as balls.

New comment by denkmoon in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

denkmoon — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:51:04 +0000

I just don’t see it. Linux is about choice, if something sucks there is almost certainly an alternative. All 3 people using flatpak but not systemd will just have to use one of the million other ways to install a program.

New comment by denkmoon in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

denkmoon — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:33:03 +0000

We’ve a storied history of making ecological interventions without fully understanding the consequences. Doing the work to fully understand the consequences is time consuming and expensive. IMO it comes a position of leaving well enough alone.