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New comment by phainopepla2 in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:10:36 +0000

This is an almost sociopathic lack of empathy

New comment by phainopepla2 in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:31:57 +0000

You really don't get how distressing it would be to a teenage girl to have extremely realistic nudes of her spread around publicly, even if everyone knows they're AI generated? Did you try imagining yourself in her place, imagining the social world she inhabits?

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

phainopepla2 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:46:30 +0000

They've been saying that since the Boomers were kids, look where that led us

New comment by phainopepla2 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:57:49 +0000

I get the sense you haven't worked with many non-technical people in government or enterprise contexts. I've seen people struggle with their workflows after upgrading to a newer version of Windows, to the point where company wide training sessions have had to be held.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:54:08 +0000

Linux is already integral to the tech and enterprise worlds, which have a lot more money to throw around the consumer desktop space. I'm having trouble seeing how Linux becoming a more popular consumer OS would lead to the types of problems you're talking about, if being a leader in the server space hasn't already led to them.

Also, Linux has a built-in mechanism against enshittification, which is its open source and multiple flavors. Ubuntu becomes enshittified? Move to Fedora. You can have a dumbed down consumer-friendly distro without affecting Arch.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

phainopepla2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:28:57 +0000

It's gotten to the point where I barely even skim first. I sort of unfocus my eyes and can sometimes see the shape of LLM writing. Sort of like when I'm birding and I switch from eagle vision to owl vision, and I can ID a bird just by catching the way the light reflects off its wingflash in the corner of my vision.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

phainopepla2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:28:09 +0000

Be aware it's against the terms of service. Google account ban is possible

New comment by phainopepla2 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:09:41 +0000

> Trump will "negotiate" and then in the middle of negotiation start a ground invasion just like they did in the past while they map all the military targets for ground invasion (which is hard to when missiles flying all the time)

Why is it hard map military targets while missiles are flying? Don't missile launches reveal targets? And I would assume that the mapping is mostly done via satellite, which aren't affected by missiles

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

phainopepla2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:00:18 +0000

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

phainopepla2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:49:38 +0000

You don't pay anything to use Claude Code as a front end to non-Anthropic models

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

phainopepla2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:31:51 +0000

Hard to say, but GitHub Copilot also allows access to Anthropic, Google and Grok models, so I don't know that a change from a single provider would necessarily change how they bill

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

phainopepla2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:33:33 +0000

Yes, Copilot supports skills, which are basically just stored prompts in markdown files. You can use the same skill in that GitHub repo

New comment by phainopepla2 in "German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months"

phainopepla2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:11:11 +0000

It seems like it would be even more true when birth rates are falling

New comment by phainopepla2 in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:37:47 +0000

No, I've never encountered that.

But I'm also not sure what qualifies as a bug here, given Microsoft's weird billing model. If you get charged for subagents, you'll burn through your premium requests in no time. If you don't get charged for subagents, you can get nearly unlimited usage of premium mode by using a go-between agent with a cheap/free model.

Currently I'm doing the latter, although I have to assume Microsoft will crack down on it at some point.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:01:51 +0000

It was the unemployment checks much more than the stimulus checks that made a difference. There was an extra $600/week tacked on to those during COVID. I know a lot of people who were making more on unemployment during that time than they ever had made while working.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

phainopepla2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:21:32 +0000

I use Github Copilot because it's what my job provides to me. But 95% of my usage is via OpenCode (which is officially supported [0]), not copilot-cli or their IDE plugins. The rest is autocomplete in the IDE.

I actually find it to be a great deal, especially because they charge by request rather than token. So if you provide detailed prompts a lot of work can get done for very little cost.

[0] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-16-github-copilot-now-...

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

phainopepla2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:23:56 +0000

> And you know it was a show, a mockery, because with cases like this where something equally bad happens and nothing will come from it

How is this case equally bad? It's just his private email being hacked, he did nothing wrong.

There are probably about a thousand things you could point to in the Trump administration that are worse than Clinton's private email server, but this isn't one of them.

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Don't Wait for Claude"

phainopepla2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:20:42 +0000

Just show us the prompt you used to produce this post instead of the output

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

phainopepla2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:10:54 +0000

What part of my comment did you understand to be a defense of Zuckerberg?

New comment by phainopepla2 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

phainopepla2 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:39:08 +0000

Are there people out there with Zuckerberg derangement syndrome, who can't hear about something only distantly related without bringing him up?

Kauai, where Zuckerberg's estate is, has not been affected. So yes, it's been bad for non-Zuckerbergs