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New comment by pelotron in "Paying for the Privilege of Going to Work (2025)"

pelotron — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:10:37 +0000

When Covid was ending and we started returning to office, it was on a biweekly rotating basis in order to keep less than half the people in the building at first. After my first shift back I thought, "oh, yea... I didn't realize this works a lot better for me." I then made arrangements to stay permanently.

New comment by pelotron in "Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list"

pelotron — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:57:01 +0000

Not as long as new features are being written.

New comment by pelotron in "Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list"

pelotron — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:55:30 +0000

My sinister side wonders if part of it could be that if you found it via AI but it turns out to be a hallucination, then you must accept the public ridicule for not thoroughly vetting the AI output.

New comment by pelotron in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

pelotron — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:06:54 +0000

Absolutely. If you need any signal to know where Big Tech's head is at, just look at how quickly they became arms dealers.

New comment by pelotron in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

pelotron — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:18:12 +0000

Forums ban people all the time.

New comment by pelotron in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

pelotron — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:51:03 +0000

Whether they did this or not, I think the exponential demand for memory would still be there. So there would still be conditions that encourage new competing manufacturers.

New comment by pelotron in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

pelotron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:12:28 +0000

My wife and father-in-law used to use Skype all the time, and when it shut down, the stars aligned as I suggested they try Signal and they both loved it.

New comment by pelotron in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

pelotron — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:51:30 +0000

Probably the concentration of a too-big-to-fail percentage of capital into a single digit number of tech companies, many of whom are engaging in circular financing deals between one another while also ransacking the entire consumer electronics space.

New comment by pelotron in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

pelotron — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:45:20 +0000

I appreciate your optimistic view of it. What I got out of it was that Covid was a sort of dress rehearsal for a far worse outbreak that could eventually happen, and we (Americans) failed miserably.

New comment by pelotron in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

pelotron — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:45:21 +0000

Sounds like a mighty fine watch. Simple, cheap, fulfills requirements with no scope creep.

New comment by pelotron in "You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters"

pelotron — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:53 +0000

I've always enjoyed the question, "how many layers of profit are between you and your doctor?"

New comment by pelotron in ""IT WoRKs BeTter in the App ""

pelotron — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:21:00 +0000

This past weekend I was flying on Delta and my first flight was delayed such that I was going to miss my connecting flight, so I rebooked onto a later one. During my layover I visited the gate agent to get a boarding pass with a seat assignment.

"Do you have the Delta app?"

"Nope."

Then he pressed a few keys on his keyboard and printed out a new boarding pass for me within five seconds. I couldn't believe he was trying to kick me over to the app if it was that easy.

New comment by pelotron in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

pelotron — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:08:49 +0000

They could prompt the AI to scroll up and copy their previous prompts for them.

New comment by pelotron in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

pelotron — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:17:32 +0000

What if we build our whole economy on that belief?

New comment by pelotron in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

pelotron — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:16:56 +0000

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New comment by pelotron in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

pelotron — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:34:11 +0000

I have plenty of things to hide from Google which is the primary reason I use it.

New comment by pelotron in "LEDs’ potential to save our night skies"

pelotron — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:00:54 +0000

Back in the day the city installed a new streetlight that blinded anyone sitting on the front porch of my grandparents' house, which they liked to do in the evening. So Granddad got out a painter's pole and rolled some white paint onto the side that faced his house. Problem solved and no one ever said anything.

New comment by pelotron in "Grok 4.5"

pelotron — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:53:21 +0000

No one's made a MechaHitler joke yet?

New comment by pelotron in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

pelotron — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:13:34 +0000

I can't believe a developer would make a mistake like this. That's just unreal.

New comment by pelotron in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

pelotron — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:51:25 +0000

"AI promises to change the world for the better" - so far it's clear the world will be better for a few people. A promise that it will be better for everyone reads like "trust me, bro."

"Blockers need to be shown that their local area will benefit if they get out of the way." Benefit how? Will this be like when your city convinces you it's in everyone's interest to subsidize the latest billionaire-owned sports stadium?

"If America succumbs [to popular rage], it could cede the global ai frontier" ah here we go. The next generation of Too Big To Fail.