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New comment by duk3luk3 in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

duk3luk3 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:26:27 +0000

This is simply a false dichotomy.

Being propagandized into extremism does not require anyone to be a total idiot.

Everyone is susceptible to propaganda and populism.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

duk3luk3 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:56:10 +0000

That sounds like nonsense. Most vaccines do not provide 100% immunity.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

duk3luk3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:08:31 +0000

Yes, that sounds appropriate and proportional to me, given the massive danger posed to (mostly) women by mostly (men) regarding domestic violence.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

duk3luk3 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:48:28 +0000

This felt like it had the stink of AI on it and I was second-guessing myself about it: I don't play these kinds of trivia / questionnaire type games a lot, so maybe some of what I'm feeling comes from plain unfamiliarity.

But no - other people pointed out the same things I noticed, such as many of the wrong answers being very weird.

This could have been a neat game, but it is ruined by being unrefined AI slop.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

duk3luk3 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:56:52 +0000

This article is unfortunately unreadable because all of the prose is unfiltered LLM slop.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

duk3luk3 — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:09:24 +0000

You appear to want to die on the hill of "This vulnerability would never have been found if we lived in a world without LLM AI" which is a very strange hill to die on.

There's no question that we live in the world where LLM AI was involved in finding the copy fail vulnerability at this specific time, and it's completely normal for people to see a vulnerability and then look closer and find related vulnerabilities or a deeper root cause, but there's no need to adopt an extreme "without AI LLM we don't find these vulnerabilities" position.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

duk3luk3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:55:43 +0000

Given you compare the cost of a US operation to open the straits to the Vietnam War, it seems prudent to mention that the outcome of the Vietnam war, according to Wikipedia, was a North Vietnam victory.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Super Micro Computer Investors Look for Exits"

duk3luk3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:38:51 +0000

> Super Micro Computer has its investors looking for exits with the recent self-inflicted wounds by the company, despite soaring sales.

> ...

> Shares of Super Micro were up as much as 5.4% on Tuesday.

Huh?

New comment by duk3luk3 in "ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use"

duk3luk3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:08:56 +0000

Here's a complete refutation of your argument: Pretti did not attempt to "de-arrest" anyone at any point. Nobody, not even ICE, DHS, the White House, or the FBI has argued this.

Whoever told you this made it up. You should stop listening to whoever told you that. They are lying to you about this, and everything else they have told you is a lie too.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use"

duk3luk3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:02:10 +0000

You are completely out of touch with what the immigration policy of the last democratic government (Biden 2020) was.

It was aggressive, it was inhumane, and immigrants were killed despite a massive effort by people from "the left" to feed and clothe people who were detained in open fields or between two border fences without any care being provided by the US agencies detaining them.

Maybe you are right that nobody who is right-leaning trusts that the US democratic party isn't pro border enforcement and anti immigration, but that's based purely on lies and propaganda.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

duk3luk3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:59:41 +0000

you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through. You can then use the rope to pull through new cable. If you make the rope twice the length of the conduit, you can keep it in there indefinitely to pull through new cable whenever you want.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission"

duk3luk3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:43:28 +0000

No - the obvious play here is for Amazon to undercut the original vendors by 15%, sell at a loss until all of the sales go through Amazon, and then pressure the vendors into cutting their pricing and becoming suppliers subservient to and dependent on Amazon, allowing Amazon to become a middle-man dipping into the revenue stream.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people"

duk3luk3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:24:56 +0000

gait recognition is a pseudoscience. this is also obvious from the way it is used: to fabricate a pretext to detain undesirables.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people"

duk3luk3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:19:27 +0000

gait recognition is a pseudoscience.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

duk3luk3 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:47:55 +0000

Your citation appears to directly contradict your argument. How did this happen?

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage"

duk3luk3 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:59:55 +0000

This isn't about an aws account, this is about the auth inside the project that user is running.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list"

duk3luk3 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:42:57 +0000

FYI: pjb goes by she/her.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

duk3luk3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:38:13 +0000

> a lot of the fear that ordinarily motivates the rest of us

No, that seems like mostly you. Most people are not motivated by fear.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

duk3luk3 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:42:24 +0000

> There's supposedly video evidence

That statement is so weak it's better at inflaming the conspiracy theory than quelling it.

New comment by duk3luk3 in "Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors"

duk3luk3 — Sun, 11 May 2025 12:32:22 +0000

There is no insurance that will insure you against your own gross negligence.

Insurance will only pay out if you can show that you have done everything a reasonable person would be expected to do to avoid the loss/damage.

> Don't take the right safety precautions and burn down a customers house - liability insurance

You mean someone burnt a customers house down /because of something like an electrical or equipment malfunction that they could not have reasonably foreseen or prevented/, right?

> Forget to lock your door and get burgled - property insurance

That seems unlikely. Compare this: https://moneysmart.gov.au/home-insurance/contents-insurance

> It's worth checking what isn't included. For example, damage caused by floods, intentional or criminal damage, or theft if you leave windows or doors unlocked.

Happy to be shown that I'm wrong but please do not give people the impression that liability insurance or property insurance will absolve them of losses no questions asked.