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New comment by pilsetnieks in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

pilsetnieks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:49:49 +0000

The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything you write could just be screaming out into the void, affecting no one, and just maybe adding to the training corpus for the next generation of clankers.

Just writing this made me question "what's the point" several times. If you or anyone replies cogently, I still won't have any idea if it's a person or a Chinese room.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

pilsetnieks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:38:42 +0000

Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most people realize – that's a genuinely important conversation to be have.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "MacBook Air M4"

pilsetnieks — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:34:38 +0000

It is glass

New comment by pilsetnieks in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

pilsetnieks — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:07:41 +0000

I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

pilsetnieks — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:26:09 +0000

"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...

New comment by pilsetnieks in "The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:09:49 +0000

You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:52:25 +0000

To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN"

pilsetnieks — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:10:50 +0000

If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:24:14 +0000

> As of June 2023 Starlink expenses for Ukraine are covered by the US Department of Defense through a contract with SpaceX.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-...

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:22:59 +0000

An Operation Mincemeat of our time.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

pilsetnieks — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:44:21 +0000

You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

pilsetnieks — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:42:45 +0000

The troll toll?

> Just putting the thought out there.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

New comment by pilsetnieks in "A lost X-Files song"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:34:34 +0000

I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)

New comment by pilsetnieks in "A lost X-Files song"

pilsetnieks — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:30:05 +0000

I remember that episode! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

I was listening to it on a bus and screaming inside because I had that mp3 sitting in my library, obtained years and years ago through questionable means, and had listened to it quite a lot.

Even Olson - So Much Better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTESaoSU_8), for the record.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union"

pilsetnieks — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:25:50 +0000

> the solution is easy. Adapt your life to follow that

Those pesky employers are such traditionalists, though.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' makes clear the world is a fragile place"

pilsetnieks — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:50:59 +0000

Neal Stephenson's Fall [1] is by far not his best book, however, the first part has a chilling depiction of societal divide into Ameristan and, for lack of a better word, the blue states that feels entirely plausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

New comment by pilsetnieks in "NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away"

pilsetnieks — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:12:13 +0000

Only the US, Liberia, and Myanmar have a complete grasp of large numbers like, for example, fifty-seven.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope"

pilsetnieks — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:02:13 +0000

Going off on a tangent, it's actually not that much trees wasted on paper money. Some of it is made of plastic but a lot of it should be called rather cloth money - at least the US dollar and euro are made of cotton and linen fiber instead of cellulose from wood pulp.

New comment by pilsetnieks in "X plans to collect biometric data, job and school history"

pilsetnieks — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:15:23 +0000

End up? If you listen to the podcast, you'll know that the episode was inspired by actual already happened real life events. In fact the real story was even more infuriating.

https://jalopnik.com/dennis-from-always-sunny-got-his-tesla-...

New comment by pilsetnieks in "Novak Djokovic credits the TaoPatch for his success: What does the science say?"

pilsetnieks — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:13:00 +0000

Novak Djokovic also credits absorption of energies from the allegedly most ancient pyramids on Earth in Bosnia and Herzegovina to his success. They're supposedly built anywhere from 12k to 34k BCE, claimed by a Bosnian-American shyster from Texas who "discovered" them in 2005.

In truth, they're just hills and Djokovic is batshit.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bosnian-pyramid-novak-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramid_claims