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New comment by pferde in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

pferde — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:47:37 +0000

I don't want to reason with my hardware, I want my hardware to do what I tell it to do.

New comment by pferde in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

pferde — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:27:18 +0000

My point was that in big corporations, things are stacked against people wanting to act morally.

New comment by pferde in "OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month"

pferde — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:09:47 +0000

can be the backstop. The word "can" is doing some extremely heavy lifting here, against corporate practices which dilute and spread guilt and responsibility for immoral decisions so thin, nobody in the decision chain even realizes something immoral has been decided.

New comment by pferde in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

pferde — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:05:33 +0000

AI will mutate the knowledge and eventually produce some mangled version of it, mixed in with ramblings from a random reddit post and half a paragraph from a copyrighted book that its fascist creators stole.

New comment by pferde in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

pferde — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:03:05 +0000

Maybe I'm just making silly misspellings like this on purpose, to prevent someone from fingerprinting me based on my writing style. :-)

New comment by pferde in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

pferde — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:23:18 +0000

Your thinking too narrowly about the reward. Sometimes, it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator, not anything tangible for themselves.

New comment by pferde in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

pferde — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:59:34 +0000

In Debian, even nvidia drivers are part of the OS repositories, albeit in the non-free category which is not enabled by default. I would be surprised if Ubuntu did not have them too.

New comment by pferde in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

pferde — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:59:33 +0000

Oh yes. I remember first playing Quake on a 486 and not liking it, because it felt like I was moving in a heavy sluggish tank, and later playing it on a Pentium, and loving it for the agile movement. The difference was huge!

New comment by pferde in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

pferde — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:02:53 +0000

Indeed, it kills our planet, our culture and our economy extremely well. Oh yes, and some code monkeys enjoy that it can make computer code on the side.

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

pferde — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:08:03 +0000

You're right, of course. The point I was trying to make (badly) is that people have hatred for Microsoft for a lot more than just BSODs of decades ago. There has been bad engineering upon bad engineering for many decades, manifesting in all kinds of ways. And that's what this subthread was discussing, Microsoft being bad.

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

pferde — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:44:55 +0000

Didn't you hear? Buying is not owning, according to these corporate criminals.

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

pferde — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:36:07 +0000

Well, the classic BSODs were not all Microsoft's fault, many of them were on 3rd party driver developers.

I think the worse thing here is all the subtle breakages and inconsistencies in Windows, as well as in the MS Office suite of products, constant redesigns of things that worked, adding layers upon layers of "make-up" on top that obscures functionality, etc etc.

New comment by pferde in "Codex Security"

pferde — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:35:08 +0000

Where are you people getting your money if you can blow it at harebrained experiments like this? This is mind-staggeringly expensive for what it does!

New comment by pferde in "Codeberg Divides"

pferde — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:08:08 +0000

Yes, that's exactly it. Now please go back to your githubs and leave us nerds who do not matter alone. We'll be fine, we promise!

New comment by pferde in "Claude Opus 5"

pferde — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:05:38 +0000

The illusion of progress and advancement, to appease shareholders, and slightly postpone the looming bubble pop.

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

pferde — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:15:46 +0000

No, they do not feel about their users one way or another. As soon as they have their monopoly, they no longer need to.

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

pferde — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:14:45 +0000

No, you don't get to play the "everybody does that" card. These companies started out claiming to care about openness, and to have moral high ground.

New comment by pferde in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

pferde — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:39:50 +0000

Because while exploring derelic ships (the major part of the game), you control your drones remotely, via commands that you type into the console.

New comment by pferde in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration"

pferde — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:49:27 +0000

I'd rather live through my 80s without much struggling. Longevity and quality of life until the end. And I try to live in the way that lends itself towards that.

New comment by pferde in "TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access"

pferde — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:49:30 +0000

But of course there is, it's part of POSIX, implemented in libc. And if you're using a higher level language, they all have their own wrappers around libc/POSIX APIs. Here is golang's: https://pkg.go.dev/os/user