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New comment by nik282000 in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

nik282000 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:24:46 +0000

You mean exactly like rich cunts today? You never hear a politician or a CEO say "boy am I glad all those interns do the bitch work so I can look good on TV".

New comment by nik282000 in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

nik282000 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:43:24 +0000

> There seems to be a real reduction in property crime in some places with cameras. I don’t think it’s realistic to take these down everywhere.

And the guy at the Honda dealer says I should buy a CRV.

New comment by nik282000 in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

nik282000 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:40:22 +0000

Steal, lie, cheat, do what you want as long as you do not take from other _people_. A government is not a person, a business is not a person, a museum is not a person. They should not have the power to deprive you from accessing any media which they "own" but did not create.

New comment by nik282000 in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

nik282000 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:57:58 +0000

I hooked up my local LLM with zim-tools and a 120GB copy of Wikipedia. With some very strict instruction it's turned into a bar-trivia machine, it can answer factual questions faster than I can look them up and it's all offline.

The fun starts when you ask it more complicated questions like 'i have a device that communicates with microwaves and draws a maximum of 20mA at 12v, is it safe for use near humans?' It will look up microwave safety, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, workplace exposure limits and eventually come up with 1/4W is already safe and the device likely is not a 100% efficient microwave transmitter.

New comment by nik282000 in "Divide by depth for instant 3D"

nik282000 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:31:46 +0000

wtf, I thought this was THE cheap way to 3D.

New comment by nik282000 in "Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue"

nik282000 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:35:23 +0000

> Your replies here suggest a level of cynicism that is, well, … , it ain’t pretty. It seems you think “fuck the human cost as long as I’m making money”. I’d suggest changing your outlook on life if I didn’t feel like it wasn’t such a lost cause.

This is the default business mindset. Push every rule and regulation to the limit in the name of profit, if you can break a rule with minimal concequsnces then pay the fine and move on.

Stellantis has a recall out for >1M vehicles because they catch fire even when turned off. Unless that kind of fuckup is met with business threatening fines it will happen again.

New comment by nik282000 in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

nik282000 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:17:53 +0000

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New comment by nik282000 in "War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?"

nik282000 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:15:29 +0000

It's only behind a paywall for US users, for making their country great again a second time.

New comment by nik282000 in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

nik282000 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000

You expect people to treat devices with respect and responsibility? The VAST majority of people use their phones to stream an infinite sequence of clickbait, ai slop, and conspiracies for 6 to 8 hours a day.

New comment by nik282000 in "iPhone Duo"

nik282000 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:12:54 +0000

Blue collar maintenance worker here. I will have a yearly average income much higher than most of my peers because I'll likely die before I can retire and spend it ;)

New comment by nik282000 in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

nik282000 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:14:51 +0000

> it lets people who are good at setting direction to leverage these tools to have the direction concretely followed by something, without having to create a group of collaborators

It lets the unskilled access the tools of the skilled without having had to learn all the pitfalls, traps, and safety concerns. With video editing there may not be much at stake but we've already seen how sloppy code ~= vulnerable code when the prompter does not know what they are doing. What's going to happen when project managers start vibegeneering cars and buildings.

New comment by nik282000 in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

nik282000 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:48:40 +0000

The browsers on the computers at work show that it is very much still the driveby tool-bar install days.

New comment by nik282000 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

nik282000 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:35:29 +0000

Chromium forks are not the same as Chrome but it does help Alphabet keep a strangle hold on the render engine ecology. And eithr way, monocultures are bad, a surprise vulnerability could nuke 70% of users overnight, which could be partiularly bad with features like WebSerial and WebUSB.

New comment by nik282000 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

nik282000 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:29:07 +0000

It's like Reddit and Lemmy. The majority of users did not switch to Lemmy but the ones that did seem to engage more and share cooler stuff. They are there on purpose, not because it's the default platform.

New comment by nik282000 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

nik282000 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:18:39 +0000

Not like Chrome, Chrome feels like it LOVES hanging out with me, looking over my shoulder, telling all it's friends about what I'm working on, what I buy, and how much money I make.

New comment by nik282000 in "I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo"

nik282000 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:25:42 +0000

Sloppy slop.

A strong password and strong encryption is enough. The presence of 'blindlock' on a device is a clear indication that one of your files is a wallet. Phoning home to do a licence check is EVERY time you use it is obnoxious and defeats the purpose of having local software.

New comment by nik282000 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

nik282000 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:21:54 +0000

Sales volume has no correlation with how good a company is for an ecosystem. See Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Sony, and so on.

New comment by nik282000 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nik282000 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:56:55 +0000

Ah yes, if he was innocent he would have nothing to hide.

Would you care to post screenshots of your inboxes and browser history for the class?

New comment by nik282000 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nik282000 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:54:59 +0000

You unlock your phone or they unlock your jaw, then your fingers, then your knees, etc.

New comment by nik282000 in "AI usage patterns in software teams"

nik282000 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:48:31 +0000

I program as a hobby, personal projects because I can.

I recently set up a local llm to see what the fuss is about and other than the few ringer solutions my experience is as you described. 2min promping, 5min waiting, 3hrs debugging or just doing it myself.

I am very likely doing it wrong, and it does speed up some aspects, but I wouldn't say I trust llm code any more than my own. Until it runs and throws an error, the llm is 100% confident that it has written perfect code.