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New comment by pluralmonad in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

pluralmonad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:00:12 +0000

The actual URL was the least sketchy part of that story.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Lisp's Influence on Ruby"

pluralmonad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:44:26 +0000

Elixir has forever ruined me for other languages. Every new PL I dip my toe into gets measured against it. Jose and the core team seem to always land on the right decisions, or at least very good ones.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Your ePub Is fine"

pluralmonad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:35:19 +0000

Thanks for this call out. I have not checked on Pine devices much since a disappointing early Pinebook.

New comment by pluralmonad in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

pluralmonad — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:04:43 +0000

Why is highly organized/systematized violence preferable?

New comment by pluralmonad in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

pluralmonad — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:16:36 +0000

They obviously want heavy regulation to make sure they do not have to compete long term. This is all just part of the base strategy.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

pluralmonad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:44 +0000

Went down this rabbit hole about "back is best" recommendation for babies. Turns out back is only best for the vanishingly tiny subset of infants prone to SIDS. And appreciably worse for everyone else. "Public health" means something different to bureaucrats.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Dopamine Fracking"

pluralmonad — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:30:28 +0000

This is exactly what the article touches on, the race to the bottom. It drags everyone's experience down. This appeal to scalability is part of the problem, IMO. Not every experience is or should be scalable. Some kids find blackberry bushes at grandma's instead of strawberries. Little is gained by strip mining human experience so the thinnest veneer can be "scaled".

New comment by pluralmonad in "Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool"

pluralmonad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:26:26 +0000

How come? I find Opus to have better taste and GPT to have more rigor.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

pluralmonad — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:45:06 +0000

There is only one moral answer. And it is not any of the ones that boil down to strangers at a distance controlling the tech in your life.

New comment by pluralmonad in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

pluralmonad — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:25:44 +0000

I use it to keep infra spend low for some systems I built/maintain for a handful of volunteer orgs. These systems have multiple users, dozens to a couple hundred. I just serialize writes in app code. Backup the db files to blob storage every so often and don't think about it much more.

New comment by pluralmonad in "The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time"

pluralmonad — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:12:33 +0000

I've never asked anyone's permission to keep my dog. She barks at every car that pulls in my driveway like a good girl.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

pluralmonad — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:46:55 +0000

Because it tastes bad in my mouth. If I could get a 4% productivity boost by drinking a redbull, I would still choose not to drink a redbull.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Can we have the day off?"

pluralmonad — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:30:11 +0000

> enforcement of cooperation

That is an oxymoron. I think you probably meant coercion.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Can we have the day off?"

pluralmonad — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:11:11 +0000

All the ersatz food that comprises most of the grocery store shelves may very well be cheaper. This does not make it a better value.

New comment by pluralmonad in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

pluralmonad — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:04:56 +0000

It is trivial for a parent to gather materials for the kids without exposing them to billions of strangers/companies with who knows what intent toward them.

New comment by pluralmonad in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

pluralmonad — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:49:50 +0000

What are the good properties that justify giving kids smart phones?

New comment by pluralmonad in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

pluralmonad — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:58:24 +0000

In this framing, learning is always a liability. The real issue is undertaking the liability while not capitalizing on the opportunity it presents.

New comment by pluralmonad in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

pluralmonad — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:27:33 +0000

One thing I will say has been a personal boon, is Claude picking up the slack for my personal (relative) weaknesses. My project frontends are prettier than before and my sysadmin tasks take much less research time. I don't think it makes my strengths that much stronger, but it raises the floor of everything.

New comment by pluralmonad in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

pluralmonad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:37:34 +0000

You should definitely follow your instincts here, but wanting researchers to show you how to raise your kids is a fools errand IMO. Put those highly tuned parental instincts to use!

New comment by pluralmonad in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

pluralmonad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:55:28 +0000

The two biggest ham people I've known both, independently and separated by years, discussed enjoying war driving looking for "pirate" radio signals that they can report to the FCC. Amusing to find this is a cultural aspect of ham radio licensees.