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New comment by dottjt in "Sites in ChatGPT"

dottjt — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:39:42 +0000

I just had a tangential thought, but what if... AI completely recreated their own version of the internet from scratch? And that's what the internet eventually becomes.

New comment by dottjt in "OpenJev"

dottjt — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:52:00 +0000

In the future I imagine we won't even visit websites anymore. We'll tell our own LLMs to visit the website and summarise it with information the LLM knows is relevant to us.

New comment by dottjt in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

dottjt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:10:03 +0000

I hate how this is described as a social media ban. It's a social media delay.

New comment by dottjt in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

dottjt — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:47:02 +0000

How did they do it back in the day? Was basically everything from the tooling etc. just created inhouse from scratch?

New comment by dottjt in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

dottjt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:37:22 +0000

I think the "nothing I can do will change anything" is actually a predominant theme that's emerged over the past decade. I don't know if you've watched any of Adam Curtis' documentaries, but his documentary HyperNormalisation explores this in great detail (most of this documentaries have a similar theme I've found).

Edit: Apologies, I think I mean his documentary: Can't Get You Out of My Head. Essentially it asserts that all revolutions fail, because the people who attempt to overthrow simply become the new guard.

New comment by dottjt in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

dottjt — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:54:51 +0000

Does this exclude Australia?

New comment by dottjt in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

dottjt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:33:40 +0000

This comment is completely ignorant of at least the past 80+ years of Middle East history.

New comment by dottjt in "Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix"

dottjt — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:52:09 +0000

When I was a lot younger I built a very big and complex platform with Phoenix. Although it was a technical marvel, it's one of my big regrets as far as the tech stack I went with, because it's now useless for my actual work now a decade later.

In retrospect, I wish I had built it with C#/.NET

New comment by dottjt in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

dottjt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:27:58 +0000

The technical term for what you're broadly describing is Jevons Paradox.

New comment by dottjt in "Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet"

dottjt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:43:01 +0000

Which debrid service do you use?

New comment by dottjt in "Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems"

dottjt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:13:00 +0000

Not to justify this, but is this possibly the reason why those opportunities existed?

New comment by dottjt in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

dottjt — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:53:08 +0000

Of course. But obviously I wouldn't be referring to those other types of autism in this case. Why would I?

New comment by dottjt in "Parking lots as economic drains"

dottjt — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:18:30 +0000

I think you're also forgetting the other aspect that allows this which is having readily available public transport.

New comment by dottjt in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

dottjt — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:42:33 +0000

On the flip side, maybe those traits are what lead to the existence of the emulator in the first place. Better something than nothing.

New comment by dottjt in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

dottjt — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:51:05 +0000

It would be great if there was something like this, but for not wearing reading glasses.

New comment by dottjt in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

dottjt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:33:50 +0000

I don't know if this is paranoia, but one fear I have for high-tech Chinese products is that if a world war were to start with China, that they'd have the ability to remotely disable these kinds of products.

New comment by dottjt in "EU-US relationship is 'disintegrating,' says Germany's vice chancellor"

dottjt — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:19:32 +0000

When you say "right" are you talking about USA right or European right?

New comment by dottjt in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

dottjt — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:51:01 +0000

Oh right, sorry I completely misread this.

I'm actually not sure in your case. My guess is that it's something you wouldn't need to worry about, but I don't know.

New comment by dottjt in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

dottjt — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:08:20 +0000

It depends if you forsee potentially having to sell before retirement. Or if it may just happen out of your own circumstances.

Hedging is all about diversification at the end of the day. So it makes sense to hedge if you're coming close to retirement age.

New comment by dottjt in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

dottjt — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:06:46 +0000

You also can't predict when you might need to sell you stake, so that's ultimately the value of hedging. If you're forced to sell in 5-10 years, then hedging would be valuable.