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New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:49:40 +0000

Yes

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

not_a_bot_4sho — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:44:21 +0000

A great non-AI resource on this topic: https://ss64.com/

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:15:20 +0000

Wow, shots fired here for me.

I was ahead of the game with my intimidate expertise in ActionaScript and Silverlight! I made 3D engines in browsers well before WebGL was a spec.

It was quite profitable for a few years, then poof. Dead end lol

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:52:59 +0000

10 days to go

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86yjnw4x49o

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:50:26 +0000

There have been no decisions about refunds. The court avoided addressing that.

That topic will surely go back to the courts, kicking and screaming

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

not_a_bot_4sho — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:27:29 +0000

> Oddly the countries that don’t do this have far better outcomes

Go on

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:35:11 +0000

If anything, this is evidence that coding elegance has value.

The unexpected part here being that AI brings specks of elegance to a terrible, inelegant codebase.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:49:03 +0000

> Signal can have a stigma "I don't do anything illegal, so why should I bother ..."

Aside: I see similar attitudes when I mention I use VPN all of the time

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

not_a_bot_4sho — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:26:39 +0000

It's quite common if you work in a team of engineers, or in a large company with many engineers.

Having consistent machine and OS and app configurations enables better (lower cost, higher reliability) scripting and tooling solutions in things like repos and infrastructure.

Not unlike consistency in language and compiler choices.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "STFU"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:23:09 +0000

Tangentially, I did this once years ago.

I had consumed a large amount of spicy food the day prior, and it pulled the fire alarm right in the middle of a phone screen. I foolishly thought I could silently and secretly handle both tasks at once.

These were the days before background noise filters. The poor candidate obviously heard unpleasant things but neither of us acknowledged it directly.

He accepted the job though. But this still bothers me decades later. Never again!

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Scott Adams has died"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:22:17 +0000

My favorite (or perhaps most regrettable) example of this is Albert Einstein.

Obviously brilliant, but a real piece of shit when it came to women and fatherhood.

Still, I can appreciate his scientific work nonetheless.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

not_a_bot_4sho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:48:48 +0000

You're right. But there's a generational aspect to this too.

Younger generations won't touch Facebook. It's seen as a platform for "old" people. So Facebook is on a modest decline. (Enter Instagram and Tiktok and all that to fill the void...)

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:36:46 +0000

> Remind me, which Ferengi Rule of Acquisition is this?

You made my morning with this quip.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

not_a_bot_4sho — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:10:31 +0000

Oddly enough, I observe something to the opposite effect.

I wonder if it has more to do with proximity to edge delivery nodes than anything else.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

not_a_bot_4sho — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:27:53 +0000

I use Mozilla VPN and I've been noticing this trend more and more. Especially for auth endpoints.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:47:12 +0000

What sources are you basing this on?

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "When 1+1+1 Equals 1"

not_a_bot_4sho — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:54:16 +0000

My son once asked me what 1+1 was equal to. I said, "two!"

He said, "no, it's eleven." And that's when I realized he's going to be a JavaScript coder.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions"

not_a_bot_4sho — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:51:28 +0000

The future is now (actually a few years old):

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:34:37 +0000

Child's play.

Not only can I do the same, I can also sense the contents of my work email without reading it.

Very specifically, I can sense it's going to be related to jam packing LLMs into any and every @#$&ing thing we work on because AI.

New comment by not_a_bot_4sho in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

not_a_bot_4sho — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:35:08 +0000

Thank you for the sane reply

People are so quick to assume conspiracy because it is mentally convenient