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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

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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.

New comment by northernsausage in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

northernsausage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:08:29 +0000

In a world where I am trying to use my phone much less due to ingress of tracking, destroying my mind etc having a social media where its required is a bit of a no-no for me tbh. Additionally I feel like this puts more friction on those of us that are shy and weird, for us the internet and online places are where we can be ourselves. I wouldn't ask you if I could follow you on Twitter, I'd just do it because I find your stuff interesting. Putting a hurdle in the way of connection might sound daft but is enough for many not to use it or miss-connections.

For me the special sauce that's been taken away from SM is just seeing my friends stuff, I want to see your dog with out it having to be a 2min video with onscreen graphics, SEO keyword optimisation in the post title and brand tags. Show me your fluffy dog updates, just dont force me to ask you about it first.

New comment by northernsausage in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

northernsausage — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:32:27 +0000

USA, are you ok bro?

New comment by northernsausage in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

northernsausage — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:05:25 +0000

As a professional photographer and mostly stills editor I am really excited to get to learn more advanced colour editing using this software, already using it for some video at a novice level. Thankfully I don't get much video work to do but learning the skills on stills is going to really improve my skills in motion. - I'll wait for the reviews but really looking forward to cancelling my adobe sub.

New comment by northernsausage in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

northernsausage — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:49:48 +0000

I honestly hope there is a whole suite of middle and upper management at Adobe sweating right now. I'll wait for the reviews but this looks like a total win for me as 90% stills and already using resolve for the other 10% and having had 10 years of Adobe bleeding me dry whilst basically not developing Lightroom (the only tool I need) I am looking to jump, no LEAP from their subscription service.

New comment by northernsausage in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

northernsausage — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:19:51 +0000

As a product photographer/videographer - No its not good enough to understand products so each scene its different, you can't storyboard or collaborate with it,. For high end products (where the money is), colour shape, scale matter and its just not consistent enough for professionals. For cheap tiktop slop products is fine because what arrives it never what you ordered anyway.

The files are a pig to try and edit as well, making them beyond the generation and prompt costs expensive. At that point you might as well go and just film the ad.

New comment by northernsausage in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

northernsausage — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:08:55 +0000

Story heavily edited by AI about an AI company with an AI product that makes AI videos that is closing so they can spend money on some other AI product. All seasoned with some AI goop images. I hate the future.