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New comment by justsid in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

justsid — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:40:28 +0000

I don’t agree with the arrest and definitely not every law either, but this has got to be rage bait. I’m quite happy to live in a society with laws

New comment by justsid in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

justsid — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:28:48 +0000

Doesn’t that just move the problem 7 days down the road? I always assumed these kinds of things just burn themselves because someone gets infected and realizes, not that there is an army of people auditing the changes. If everyone cooldowns for 7 days, it just happens later?

New comment by justsid in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

justsid — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:04 +0000

ReactOS does not have the features that the parent specifically asked for (and that you quoted). It’s also far from being usable as a production OS.

What the parent wants doesn’t exist, it’s interesting to see people give suggestions for alternatives. It’s clear that their priority are these underlying features and they wish it had a boxy grey UI, not that the boxy grey UI is the only requirement and everything else is optional.

New comment by justsid in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

justsid — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:12:12 +0000

Not everyone not conforming to your preferred style of communication is autistic. What is up with the internet trying to diagnose people?!

The parent is right. The reason society as a whole is way too comfortable with overstepping social boundaries, is because people think it’s somehow rude to confront others. It makes no sense. Sometimes you gotta say it how it is, because quite frankly the real rude person is the one copy and pasting a ton of AI output into your communication so you have to parse that and then try and figure out the original intent between the lines. How is that acceptable but saying “don’t do that to me?” is not?

New comment by justsid in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

justsid — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:30:04 +0000

It’s hardly Banksy’s fault for getting famous. Was Banksy supposed to stop creating art once it was no longer being washed off and seen as a nuisance?

New comment by justsid in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

justsid — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:58:56 +0000

This is such a naive view on computer security. It’s not just about spyware, which is also not exclusive to commercial vendors.

New comment by justsid in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

justsid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:14:40 +0000

It’s a company that turns plants into meat like substance. There is no plant that grows like this, of course it has to be processed to get from its original form to the new form.

Likewise, not all processing is bad. Cooking food is a form of processing and just makes the nutrients much more easy to digest.

New comment by justsid in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

justsid — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:30:55 +0000

Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either

New comment by justsid in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

justsid — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:42:38 +0000

I definitely assumed they were encrypted separately in 2048 vote chunks and that one such chunk failed to decrypt.

New comment by justsid in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

justsid — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:23:16 +0000

The coat asymmetry with drones is crazy, they are stupid cheap to deploy on a nation state level. I feel like it’s going to be years until we fully learn the lessons from the Ukraine Russia war.

New comment by justsid in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

justsid — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:17:40 +0000

Absolutely, but they are not losing a billion+ in EUV machines with year+ lead times in a flood. It'll hurt for sure though and doesn't appear to be the smartest overall move.

New comment by justsid in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

justsid — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:42:24 +0000

They are not fabbing the chips there, just assembling the machines.

New comment by justsid in "Our approach to advertising"

justsid — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:13:16 +0000

As a youtube premium subscriber I don’t care if youtube earns more money this way than via ads. I simply don’t want to see ads.

New comment by justsid in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

justsid — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:29:52 +0000

That was my first thought as well, especially given the accusation of code of conduct violation. Not that I think that Adafruit is perfect no matter what, but I would have been shocked if this turned out to be true as stated.

New comment by justsid in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

justsid — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:30:35 +0000

Isn’t the real problem that the new menu somehow can’t show the missing entries of the old one but with its new coat of paint? It’s all data, why can one of them not display the old data?

New comment by justsid in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

justsid — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:25:13 +0000

Especially with the username. The reply felt like pure sarcasm.

New comment by justsid in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

justsid — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:31:53 +0000

That’s the joke

New comment by justsid in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

justsid — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:46:52 +0000

Yeah Gitlab is a pig, but that’s what I meant with you can throw hardware at the problem. I’ve been meaning to check out Codeberg for personal project hosting since it seems to address the shortcomings of gitea

New comment by justsid in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

justsid — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:47:07 +0000

Gitea scales really badly with large repos in my experience. Gitlab works a lot better mostly because you can just throw more hardware at it. This is with a pretty large git repo and a lot of daily commits.

New comment by justsid in "AMD GPU Debugger"

justsid — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:40:12 +0000

RenderDoc is mostly a frame debugger, although it does support stepping through shaders as well which can be super useful. But for real performance analysis I would use PIX if you target D3D12 or RGP and Nsight for Vulkan. I'm at a Vulkan and Metal only shop and I wish I could use PIX for my every day work, since it also has excellent support for Intel GPUs.