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New comment by northernsausage in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

northernsausage — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:18:23 +0000

Looks like they don't like the truth - down-vote-aggeddon

New comment by northernsausage in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

northernsausage — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:12:23 +0000

From Europe something I notice when I spend time in the USA is that you guys have to drive to everything. Felt very isolating to me to drive 20mins to go grab a pre-planned beer or a coffee with friends. Our neighbourhood as 3 pubs/bars in 15min walk of each other as well as shops, community spaces and parks, the 3rd places where people and communities are made.

Also yes media, phones, TV etc.

New comment by northernsausage in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

northernsausage — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:44:41 +0000

Events: UK using less energy and decarbonising the production? Commentors: OUTRAGE

New comment by northernsausage in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

northernsausage — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:43:33 +0000

Using less energy and decarbonising the grid? OUTRAGE!

New comment by northernsausage in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

northernsausage — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:51:17 +0000

The mood is very much for re-joining in the UK.BREXIT was supposed to be the first domino that killed the EU but it very much didn't work because the average European likes a lot of what the EU has done for them. There are critiques sure but its not a dead system.

New comment by northernsausage in "Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo"

northernsausage — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:34:04 +0000

This should be the top response tbh.

New comment by northernsausage in "Nearest Pint"

northernsausage — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:58:06 +0000

Its only 9am in the UK and the demand means its has already serving a 520.

New comment by northernsausage in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

northernsausage — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:38:57 +0000

Nothing like a business being held accountable* for all the US free-trade & deep state nutcases to appear on here.

New comment by northernsausage in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

northernsausage — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:52:59 +0000

I mean we are due our 6-8 year financial crash that we won't learn from. Once again it'll be coming from the USA's feral financial investments all to be bailed out by the tax player whilst the rest of the world picks up the pieces. Maybe its time we moved away from the petro-dollar if the USA can't be trusted to keep its finances in order.

New comment by northernsausage in "Our position on open-weights models"

northernsausage — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:47:30 +0000

This USian death spiral season sure is picking up speed

New comment by northernsausage in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

northernsausage — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:26:06 +0000

If this happened in an EU country you'd all be wetting yourselves, but for some reason the rooms different today. The professional advice we are given traveling to the US is back up you phone, wipe it, travel and restore once you are comfortable. Sad state of affairs guys

New comment by northernsausage in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

northernsausage — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:28:48 +0000

The other 95.8% of the world has entered the chat.

New comment by northernsausage in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

northernsausage — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:10:10 +0000

Whilst getting excited about 'loss of freedom' the reason these companies are getting forced into this is because they've become so large, fundamentally evil and untrustworthy that we can't regulate them in to doing better so we have to ban susceptible citizens from consuming their output. See tobacco, alcohol, porn, cannabis, driving licences for other examples. /s

81-year-old developer makes sequel to ZX Spectrum classic after 40 year wait

northernsausage — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:45:17 +0000

Article URL: https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/27/80s-amiga-classic-head-heels-finally-gets-a-sequel-40-years-28543392/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306348

Points: 2

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New comment by northernsausage in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

northernsausage — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:28:24 +0000

As a photographer I say "down with this sort of thing"

New comment by northernsausage in "Claude for Small Business"

northernsausage — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:16:57 +0000

"Closing the month with fewer errors."

Inspiring quote there.

New comment by northernsausage in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

northernsausage — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:14:15 +0000

It's a small family run company that turns over multi million on bespoke stone pieces. AI is rotting away at the core of the business from leadership to customer service. I was passionate before the rot, but I've got a new job starting in 5 weeks and I can't wait. Perhaps you are self projecting a little, these people got employed on good wages and have the skills the just don't use them anymore. I hate the future.

New comment by northernsausage in "Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2"

northernsausage — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:18:56 +0000

I use PS every single day and I can't tell you how frustrating the select and mask tool is to actually use. I've rolled back to 2020 version that seems to be easier to use but dumber product.

New comment by northernsausage in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

northernsausage — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:36:26 +0000

Also customers have started sending 2 page long tickets copy pasted from GPT (keeping the text formatting, font etc) trying to worm their way around consumer law and using floral language that doesn't go anywhere. Responding in seconds after I respond to them with another 2 pages of fluff. Just a waste of my time.

New comment by northernsausage in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

northernsausage — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:31:03 +0000

My line manager using a lazy single line description of a product is generating whole product listings and HTML for our web shop, never checking it. SEO is poor, views and conversion are collapsing. Upper management is responding to my serious issues with ChatGPT bullet point lists that don't address the problem. Video conferences I can see people typing into and reading back GPT instructions, suppliers are sending AI generated product images. 3rd party site devs are running buggy site deployments with Claude Code written as co author. I can't take it anymore, its an office of zombies.