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New comment by lstodd in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

lstodd — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:48:24 +0000

> When I did some work with a police agency, it was explained to me that there’s a pattern of escalation with people

You have been mildly brainwashed.

It would be best if that episode lead you to study a bit of psychology but instead you chose to believe.

Like any belief it's a combo of control and dopamine. The feeling of belonging to a group and being righteous within that group hits so hard that it takes hard explicit effort to screen your perception of its effects.

You are a victim because you failed to accept reality.

New comment by lstodd in "Classic Amiga titles, free to download"

lstodd — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:59:12 +0000

There were things like BLIZZARD 603e+ that you could just plug into an A1200.

And it would still run 68K code on "companion" 040/060

http://www.phase-5-digital-products.com/TheLegacy/amiga/b603...

New comment by lstodd in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:13:15 +0000

By my own admission I wrote ~100K loc in zig-head. Having a background in linux kernel development of all things I can tell you that Zig is so much better than C or Rust, that I think linux kernel rush to rust is misguided.

New comment by lstodd in "Classic Amiga titles, free to download"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:30:32 +0000

This is so for A500, but the definitive Amiga is A1200 with 68EC020, AGA and only limited by 24 bit address bus (=16 MB ram). From that on people just installed 030 with MMU and later PPCs if they wanted.

New comment by lstodd in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:15:44 +0000

using floats for currency? that would be grander even than this fuckup.

New comment by lstodd in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:44:14 +0000

"fire you as a customer"

I love this framing

New comment by lstodd in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:13:44 +0000

Use cats. For all great Logi ergonomics, they fall prey to cat hair; and pads cover the screws, so they can't be reassembled pristine after cleaning. Still, M500s is the best.

New comment by lstodd in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:08:12 +0000

I would have preferred a Forth on my C64 seriously. But no, we were stuck with this "38911 bytes free" crap.

New comment by lstodd in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

lstodd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:55:51 +0000

Cut by multiple bend, strip by teeth, curl enough to catch, insert, pull, twist.

Do you feel you need a write-up on how to piss in the woods too?

New comment by lstodd in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

lstodd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:32:54 +0000

C7 is great advice.

But also pack a short length of cat5 twisted pair just in case. When all else fails, it allows to rig up most anything.

New comment by lstodd in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

lstodd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:05:50 +0000

There were ethics in veganism? Since when? It was always a religious movement, all the way back to Vedanta. A way to set yourself apart and then maybe feel better for not being "like those others".

New comment by lstodd in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

lstodd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:55:19 +0000

Yes.

The value is in how you came to the design you expressed.

New comment by lstodd in "The kids with phones are alright"

lstodd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:47:11 +0000

no one in the know cares about legal status of drugs as substances for personal enjoyment. see Shulgin.

New comment by lstodd in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:11:13 +0000

lol. you get answers, guidance and tutoring if you ask with respect (cf Godfather, 1972)

New comment by lstodd in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:34:16 +0000

not gravity, enthropy.

New comment by lstodd in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:29:42 +0000

ARexx on Amiga was way before 1995. And it was glorious.

New comment by lstodd in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:19:34 +0000

Did you mean twerking?

New comment by lstodd in "Punch yourself in the face with reality"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:33:22 +0000

There isn't an exact quote from Douglas Adams, you have to read it all, but he put the point marvelously: reality is scary, unlimited and lovecraftesque, and we have filters to avoid that. Only when you master those filters you can consider yourself conscious.

New comment by lstodd in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:27:24 +0000

They did this from the beginning, still one can not cease trying to limit the exposure.

New comment by lstodd in "Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

lstodd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:54:29 +0000

RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL) December 1994 section 2.2