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New comment by justfix17 in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

justfix17 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:49:38 +0000

Now you can pay them twice: once to access the tool to do your job and once to access the market for customers.

Definitely no reason to worry about an entrenched oligopoly there.

New comment by justfix17 in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

justfix17 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:03:20 +0000

Arguably not so much with music anymore given the prolific nature of lossless DRM free downloads available for purchase.

Personally, I buy more music now than any other time in my life: high quality sources playable on all my devices.

New comment by justfix17 in "Ed Zitron is mad as hell"

justfix17 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:16:00 +0000

I found "Better Offline" through "Tech Won't Save Us" where Ed is occasionally a guest. It also has some critical takes on technology if you are looking for more of that content.

New comment by justfix17 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

justfix17 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:40:03 +0000

> LLMs do not think

Yep.

More seriously, you described a great example of one of the challenges we haven't addressed. LLM output masquerades as thoughtful work products and wastes people's time (or worse tanks a project, hurts people, etc).

Now my job reviewing work is even harder because bad work has fewer warning signs to pick up on. Ugh.

I hope that your workplace developed a policy around LLM use that addressed the incident described. Unfortunately I think most places probably just ignore stuff like this in the faux scramble to "not be left behind".

New comment by justfix17 in "Kash Patel Wants to Work from Home for FBI"

justfix17 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:52:36 +0000

So I guess there is no return to office for appointees.

New comment by justfix17 in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

justfix17 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:16:40 +0000

I think tearing down organizations and infrastructure that do actual good in order to stage this show is a huge downside. The US is going to lose an incredible amount of legitamcy and soft power around the globe.

The administration has presented no plan to meaningfully cut costs, it is just producing propaganda that people eat up without thinking.

It sure seems like a lot of folks want change. I just wish we had used that momentum to build consensus and empower experts to improve things. Instead, the trolls got the attention and are leading us on a snipe hunt while the rich get ready for another tax break.