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New comment by doublerabbit in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

doublerabbit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:43:56 +0000

200 years from now on HN.

"Where Did Earth Get Its Deserts? Maybe It's Ai, Datacentres and Climate Change"

New comment by doublerabbit in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

doublerabbit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:21:33 +0000

One way is an IRCop issues a /shun leaving you speechless on the network. While the others decide the outcome of your whatever.

But this is the same, the owner wasn't present apart from it's agent and so it was decided without the owner that this was to be the outcome.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

doublerabbit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:48 +0000

The sociopathic backhand. Someone breaks it, blames you, drags your name through the mud exacerbating the issue, goes to "fix it" yet makes it worse because of their incompetence. They continue to cuss you out for it all while licking the arse of the executive. "No, we better not let doublerabbit touch that", "I don't think they're a team player". All while it was my infrastructure.

And people ask why I hate humans.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

doublerabbit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:41:03 +0000

I am surprised how deeply rooted Macromedia flash was.

For a console browser to chug Flash is impressive.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

doublerabbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:13:34 +0000

Apart from you have no idea what's going on in the VM. It's not as it has a virtual terminal. I'll play the skeptic archetype: What's not to say they're transmitting all prompts back HQ?

Don't be naive and don't think they don't already do this.

Why not ask itself and see what it says about it. "Claude, why are you running in a virtual machine and what are you doing?".

/shrug

New comment by doublerabbit in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

doublerabbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:33:04 +0000

The flair is a big give away. View source. Look for the SVGs.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

doublerabbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:29:43 +0000

Here's another ancient relic of a website design. They even used a free template from back in the day.

https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/

New comment by doublerabbit in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

doublerabbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:51:35 +0000

And it lags my desktop every-time, I hate it. It's the default bootstrap theme all over again but instead with SVG's.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

doublerabbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:38:45 +0000

I wouldn't say so. They're not offering their cloud at the same scale other competitors. Not sure when the last was I saw advertising for unlike AWS, Azure.

Felt more like their cloud services were more of a side product for when "the cloud" was the trendy buzzword and a way to justify their infrastructure costs. That and keeping a leg in the egg & spoon race.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

doublerabbit — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:33:16 +0000

Did anyone ever use directories? I remember the search engine. Yahoo had the same.

It always felt a long winded way to find stuff or was that the "sponsored content" we get now?

New comment by doublerabbit in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

doublerabbit — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:41:22 +0000

The good news, it's inserted and installed. The bad, it doesn't bring pleasure.

New comment by doublerabbit in "The Grand British Tradition of Getting Sloshed Before Takeoff Is Under Threat"

doublerabbit — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:47:55 +0000

Huh, there is no a grand tradition. The last thing I want to do before taking off is be drunk. Let alone airport drink prices, £7 a pint, I'll pass.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Gen Z more disconnected and distrustful of coworkers than their older colleagues"

doublerabbit — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:34:15 +0000

Don't become a contractor.

All jobs I've ridden as a contractor are pretty much "sit in the corner and do your work". A strict policy of "don't talk to the contractor". I get it, your not part of the full team but at the same time the nuance of being left aside is harsh.

I dislike corporate but it's all about money. I am earning $$$ while those are earning less than.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Meta backs off tracking workers' keystrokes after they revolt"

doublerabbit — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:37:52 +0000

Until it blows over and then secretly slide it in to the corporate handbook.

New comment by doublerabbit in "Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)"

doublerabbit — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:27:10 +0000

Namecheap suspending neocities, and now Github deleting subscriptions. I am all for the watching the world burn.

New comment by doublerabbit in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

doublerabbit — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:40:26 +0000

What about removing oil from water, have we conquered that yet?

New comment by doublerabbit in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

doublerabbit — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:34:56 +0000

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum

New comment by doublerabbit in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

doublerabbit — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:46:27 +0000

When was the last time you applied for a job and got an interview?

I was on a salary of $550 a day with a bank. I left because how grim banks are. I have yet to find another job that pays that much outside of a banking circuit.

If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less?

New comment by doublerabbit in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

doublerabbit — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:18:33 +0000

Brokers. Acxiom and Experian for starters.

Heck, you can buy facebook datasets right now from brightdata.

https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook

Don't you recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

All corporates sell your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price.

Data is a commodity.

There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £10 and I'll give you a dataset of ten people of what colour tops they're wearing and what brand of shoe and colour.

And yes you can sell your internet data too.

https://www.moneymagpie.com/make-money/make-money-selling-yo...

New comment by doublerabbit in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

doublerabbit — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:16:58 +0000

It doesn't matter, money is money. Without it your pretty much screwed in this world.