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New comment by eloisius in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

eloisius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:40:55 +0000

Ah, but you can have a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park in a gen AI paradise, and that’s just as good.

New comment by eloisius in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

eloisius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:29:28 +0000

You might be surprised by how many of them are aware of the harms of social media, while acknowledging that it’s impossible not to engage with it. It’s not their fault we built the toxic slot machine world for them that we have. And besides, I’m pretty sure my boomer parents spend about as much time scrolling slop on Facebook as kids do on TikTok.

New comment by eloisius in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

eloisius — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:32:43 +0000

So us lucky survivors can take heart in the fact that we may still be able to perform for the ultra-rich as gladiators?

New comment by eloisius in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

eloisius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:19:19 +0000

Why keep human consumers to buy your services when you could just amass all the wealth you desire, and have autonomous systems that can ensure your unassailable physical security? You would sit atop the most stratified dominance hierarchy ever achieved, and it would reduce other humans to mere pets or breeding stock. I don’t think normal humans would desire that kind of power, and I don’t believe LLMs will take us there, but I wouldn’t put it past the perverted billionaire maniac.

New comment by eloisius in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

eloisius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:30:49 +0000

If that’s true and this has a null effect, why would a business pay for it? There must be some utility for them. Like others already pointed out: information asymmetry undermines worker’s ability to negotiate, resulting in lower wages for everyone.

New comment by eloisius in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

eloisius — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:39:22 +0000

Also wild that from the tech bro perspective, the cost of journalism is just how much data transfer costs for the finished article. Authors spend their blood, sweat and tears writing and then OpenAI comes to Hoover it up without a care in the world about license, copyright or what constitutes fair use. But don’t you dare scrape their slop.

New comment by eloisius in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

eloisius — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:10:00 +0000

And hilariously, the worst offenders are AI frameworks themselves. A couple months ago I was helping a client build out some "agentic" stuff and we switched from OpenAI Agents library to Agno. Agents is messy enough, like making inconsistent use of its own enums etc, but with Agno you can really feel that they are eating their own dog food. Plenty of times I literally could not find the API for some object, and of course their docs page pushes you toward chatting with their goddamn docs chatbot, which barfs up some outdated function signature for you.

New comment by eloisius in "Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone"

eloisius — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:31:00 +0000

I appreciate RawTherapee too and used it for a long time, but I started to notice that it really can’t match DPP for rendering Canon raw images. The denoising is nowhere near as good and it takes a lot of work to make the colors come out as good as DPP which has same processing profiles like “Faithful” that just look great out of the box.

New comment by eloisius in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

eloisius — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:40:05 +0000

Isn’t a repeatable, multi-step workflow exactly what a script or Makefile does?

New comment by eloisius in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

eloisius — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:28:04 +0000

Really interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Is the performance bottleneck around the resizing to 250k pixels? Would it still work if you sampled 15,625 4x4 patches evenly around the image to gather those pixels instead of resizing?

New comment by eloisius in "Grief and the AI split"

eloisius — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:54:33 +0000

They can still keep us as pets, or use us for cage fighting spectacles.

New comment by eloisius in "Grief and the AI split"

eloisius — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:55:25 +0000

I, for one, am looking forward to me and a band of my closest friends and family raiding heavily fortified data centers guarded by Boston Dynamics robot dogs to steal clean drinking water for our underground village. We might even hit a caravan of autonomous trucks carrying cricket protein powder in the same night.

New comment by eloisius in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

eloisius — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:27:22 +0000

Or even more efficient: the model we already have. Donate money and let the maintainer decide whether to convert it into tokens or mash the keys themself.

New comment by eloisius in "Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme"

eloisius — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:04:06 +0000

It still has plenty of active users (myself included) but it feels much smaller than the 2010s. The groups are great if you can find ones that match your taste, and it’s way more fun to do that and share you photos with human-curated communities than with the algorithmic feed.

New comment by eloisius in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

eloisius — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:17:34 +0000

I genuinely don’t understand AI people anymore. Like the cognitive gap is so huge that I feel like I’m from another planet now. Im not religious, but automating religion is so absolutely meaningless that it boggles my mind. You could have a machine emit million of prayers up to heaven per second, but why would you?

And despite what you think, most of us can tell apart AI generated content from the genuine thing. I am, however, starting to believe AI bros are being sincere when they tell us that they can’t. Every time someone gives me that tired “well how do you know we’re not just stochastic parrots too!” crap, I’m getting a little closer to taking their word for it. Maybe they are just that.

New comment by eloisius in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

eloisius — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:11:08 +0000

> require authentication using their phone app

And banks often have their apps region locked, so if you live abroad or have accounts in more than one country, you’re fucked.

New comment by eloisius in "Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models"

eloisius — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:55:29 +0000

> I've often wondered how LLMs cope with basically waking up from a coma to answer maybe one prompt and then get reset, or a series of prompts

Really? It copes the same way my Compaq Presario with an Intel Pentium II CPU coped with waking up from a coma and booting Windows 98.

New comment by eloisius in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

eloisius — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:14:03 +0000

It’s all well and good for you if you want to be a consumer of political content when it suits you, but for a creator, the creation’s whole purpose may be a delivery mechanism for their message which may otherwise go unheard. Not saying this is necessarily what Don Ho (Notepad++) is doing, but it’s possible. Create something so good that people can’t help but use it (preferably the demographic you most want to reach, for example a country with a huge base of Windows users) and then use it as your message delivery mechanism.

New comment by eloisius in "Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"

eloisius — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:04:02 +0000

It's bizarre to me how much attention this site pays to ~influencers~ self-promoters who aren't even AI researchers. Anything substantial on this topic is likely going to be presented at siggraph, or written by someone who does actual research in the field. We're acting like "all-round web tech enthusiasts" are real authorities and letting them suck all the air out of the room in this constant barrage of AI hype.

New comment by eloisius in "AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release"

eloisius — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:30:58 +0000

I’ve been thinking the same thing lately. It’s hard to tell if I’m just old and want everyone off my lawn, but I really feel like IT is a dead end lately. “Vintage” electronics are often nicer to use than modern equivalents. Like dials and buttons vs touch screens. Most of my electronics that have LCDs feel snappy and you sort of forget that you’re using them and just do what you were trying to do. I’m not necessarily a Luddite. I know tech _could_ be better theoretically but it’s distressing to know that it’s also not possible for things to be different for some other reasons. Economically, culturally? I don’t know.