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New comment by pupppet in "Siri AI"

pupppet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:11:09 +0000

Here's hoping they've finally fixed iOS's terrible dictation.

New comment by pupppet in "SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis"

pupppet — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:10:49 +0000

If I were English, I would not love the US flag beside "English".

New comment by pupppet in "Last.fm is now independent"

pupppet — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:25:56 +0000

If I search for random songs Apple Music immediately starts suggesting similar songs. I'd prefer only added or liked music be used as signals.

New comment by pupppet in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

pupppet — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:04:11 +0000

They see AI killing the incentive for anyone to produce human-generated content so they're squeezing the last few bucks out of the internet as we know it before it finally goes belly-up.

New comment by pupppet in "Cloudflare Flagship"

pupppet — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:44:55 +0000

After years of AWS I gave Cloudflare a whirl and loved the UX but ultimately retreated back due to the same concern. They are so close though..

New comment by pupppet in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

pupppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:08:11 +0000

Immediately upon being switched on it will cure cancer.

New comment by pupppet in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

pupppet — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:15:13 +0000

The focus of the stories making the rounds about this are not about Nate having made some mistake, they're about big bad Disney deleting someone's work (which yes is also true).

New comment by pupppet in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

pupppet — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:01:00 +0000

Easy to go after Disney for this, but did Nate have to sell to ESPN to begin with?

I've been burned too many times subscribing to services that go to shit because the owner wanted their payday. Let's stop (only) blaming the buyer.

New comment by pupppet in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

pupppet — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:41:33 +0000

The mental gymnastics Trump supporters must go through to justify blaming Biden for gas prices during his term but blaming everyone but Trump for gas prices now.

Not in the US but I'll go out on a limb and guess that gas stations aren't being littered with 'I Did That!" Trump stickers.

New comment by pupppet in "AI slop is killing online communities"

pupppet — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:13:41 +0000

I want my future community apps and sites to build in bot a flagger. I don't care how hard it is, the community that gets this right is the one I'll jump ship to.

New comment by pupppet in "Ads on Apple Maps"

pupppet — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:52:49 +0000

Q2 revenue $111.2 billion. But it’s never enough.

New comment by pupppet in "DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May"

pupppet — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:54:12 +0000

Have any regular Opus users taken V4 for a spin? What’s your take?

New comment by pupppet in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

pupppet — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:44:08 +0000

You're right!

New comment by pupppet in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

pupppet — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Morpheus was right, the 90s were the peak of human civilization.

New comment by pupppet in "Claude Pro: Opus model will only be available if extra usage is enabled"

pupppet — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:37:37 +0000

A few years from now we’ll probably look back and laugh at how AI used to be essentially free.

New comment by pupppet in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

pupppet — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:03:27 +0000

This is what happens when there isn't an adult in the room to reign things in, you get project overreach. SVGs should never have supported scripting. You want scripting in SVGs, fine, make it a different file format.

I can't imagine the cumulative number of man hours wasted on this problem when the vast majority of users were just looking for a way to make their logos look sharp.

New comment by pupppet in "Cheating at Tetris"

pupppet — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:31:22 +0000

Jeez been playing off and on for decades and this is the first time realizing each Tetris piece can be referred to by a letter.

New comment by pupppet in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

pupppet — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:39:09 +0000

I wonder if Google regrets publishing that article on transformers.

New comment by pupppet in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

pupppet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:28:19 +0000

If you don't make a habit of taking either, what actually performs better?

New comment by pupppet in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

pupppet — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:19:50 +0000

Anyone know why?

Tim gifted Donald a trophy 8 months ago doing his legacy no favors. You wouldn't do this if you knew you were on your way out. Makes me wonder if something happened between August 2025 and now.