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New comment by foobarchu in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

foobarchu — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:25:50 +0000

> Whereas seemingly half of all people claim they have aphantasia

Citation needed.

People who experience something will be louder when that condition is brought up or relevant. That's a known phenomenon, it's why conservatives think trans people are everywhere.

Most statistics I've seen are more like 2-4% of the population, but it's not a very good measure because the vast majority of people do not know aphantasia is a thing. Hell, it's not even in my phones dictionary.

That might seem like a nitpick, but most of your comment seems to rely on aphantasia being widespread.

https://worldmetrics.org/aphantasia-statistics/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...

New comment by foobarchu in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

foobarchu — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:10:09 +0000

You can just as easily say that people using these fonts are the ones holding accessibility users hostage, since they are willingly choosing to use exclusionary tools.

If an ISP blocks an entire apartment blocks internet in response to one users activity, it's pretty clear the ISP is holding the neighbors connectivity hostage because they made the move. It's the same thing, except the little guy role happens to be flipped.

New comment by foobarchu in "Kobo can run apps now"

foobarchu — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:13:53 +0000

That's their point though. The hacker ethos doesn't ask "should I do this" it asks "can I do this", and that's kind of beautiful when it's not scaled up to a corporate level.

The goal doesn't have to be practicality.

New comment by foobarchu in "Stop sending me your errors"

foobarchu — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:32:05 +0000

Out of curiosity is that just "modern" reddit or old reddit too? (However long old reddit sticks around, anyway, it's clearly not long for this world after they began requiring a login to use it so if the login page requires JS then it's kind of moot)

New comment by foobarchu in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

foobarchu — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:17:54 +0000

Brightness and color temperature are orthogonal. The dimmer switch only controls brightness.

New comment by foobarchu in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

foobarchu — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:09:57 +0000

I would say most LED bulbs. You need ones specifically rated for enclosures, which are way less common, and most people have the wrong idea of what counts as enclosed (the glass hood around your kitchen chandelier bulbs is an enclosure, as are ceiling cans)

New comment by foobarchu in "DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'"

foobarchu — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:24:57 +0000

It's weird to me that you find that weird. People in general don't like worrying that every little conversation is being recorded.

New comment by foobarchu in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

foobarchu — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:27:49 +0000

I hate to be the guy arguing semantics, but is that the median definition? Everyone I know defines vibe coding as ignoring the actual output code completely and evaluating the result by how it behaves under test. Non-coders vibe code by default, because they don't understand how to read the code in the first place. Developers vibe code when they just trust the LLM to have been right about the behavior they don't explicitly test for. Vibe coding is the act of ignoring most possible friction, for better or worse.

New comment by foobarchu in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

foobarchu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:31:51 +0000

I'd argue the conclusion is wrong. The premise, that places like CA are currently such tinderboxes as a direct result of preventing natural burning and continuing to develop in areas that need to burn to stay healthy, is extremely well supported.

New comment by foobarchu in "A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't"

foobarchu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:20:38 +0000

> In the end neighbors and community at large ended up being against the grocers union due to a handful of cringe, edgelord members in utilikits over-stepping with their "uh ackshully" shit.

This reflects poorly on the neighbors more than the union members, IMO.

New comment by foobarchu in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

foobarchu — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:06:34 +0000

It's not unusual to have sleep state issues on Linux, which is what it runs (an Arch derivative).

Could be some faulty hardware somewhere, but it's not a concerning enough issue to spend money replacing things for a machine that gets used for personal projects and video games.

New comment by foobarchu in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

foobarchu — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:23:14 +0000

Not OP, but the sleep and hibernate states on my desktop are pretty finicky and can't truly be trusted. I'd rather know everything shut down properly than risk it, especially since the thing boots in seconds anyway, and I have to input the encryption password anyway.

New comment by foobarchu in "White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled"

foobarchu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:16:27 +0000

Sure, it's a work phone. And that job is with the US government, famously "of and for the people", meaning that citizens are owners of thar workplace. As an owner, I am not okay with this, and I will make my voice heard

To be clear, it's not having a government controlled app, it's the fact that this app exists to perpetuate the cult of Donald Trump. It's a tool for spreading fascism.

New comment by foobarchu in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

foobarchu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:57:54 +0000

Then what's the right to it doing in the constitution?

New comment by foobarchu in "Steam Machine launches today"

foobarchu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:33:12 +0000

This doesn't seem like a reason not to do address based limiting, just a reason it wouldn't be perfect.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

New comment by foobarchu in "CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt"

foobarchu — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:32:59 +0000

> Migrating Spring Boot apps from 3.x t 4.x is now easy given all the tooling available.

Is this true now? I used Claude-backed Cline in March to make that migration, and it got SO much wrong, mainly due to the lack of solid documentation and example code for it, I imagine. Probably the project where I've had to fix the most AI mistakes so far (it was incapable of fixing the mistakes itself, it just kept getting it wrong in different ways).

New comment by foobarchu in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

foobarchu — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:25:28 +0000

The claim was that the AI use is rampant in youth right now. I countered that with (real) anecdotal evidence from those who have the best view into the problem. You have not refuted me in any way.

If anything, you're implying a completely independent outcome that AI goes the way of computers and becomes truly ubiquitous DESPITE being unpopular with kids right now. That would be supporting what I suggested.

New comment by foobarchu in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

foobarchu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:14:38 +0000

LFS is not installed by default alongside git, it's a separate package in most systems

New comment by foobarchu in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

foobarchu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:11:47 +0000

I've actually been told by my teacher friends who used to complain about too much AI that their high school students are starting to reverse course here, and are now bullying each other for actual or perceived AI use. It's become cringe.

New comment by foobarchu in "Don't trust large context windows"

foobarchu — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:14:28 +0000

> You can't fight reality.

Defeatism doesn't do anything positive for the world. You're trying to convince the people pushing for a marginally better world that they should give up because it'll never happen. That is not a useful contribution.