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New comment by raincole in "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:32:43 +0000

The top 5 smartphone brands are:

1. Samsung (KR)

2. Apple (US)

3. Xiaomi (CN)

4. Oppo (CN)

5. Vivo (CN)

Yeah, it worked so well for EU at ensuring that they can't compete against the US and Asia. The rest of the world should be very grateful to EU voters.

New comment by raincole in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:27:14 +0000

> He fucked up and is owning up to it

No? He doubled down hard and proceeded to insult all the readers' intelligence. Just in case it's not clear: no one believes that Claude accidentally created that bug-to-bug ripoff app.

Read the link and the previous one: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_reje...

New comment by raincole in "Making difficulty curves in games"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:23:04 +0000

It's a pretty well proven design pattern.

The adage is that the customers never know what they want, and it's doubly true when it comes to video games.

New comment by raincole in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:19:37 +0000

When did I say that...? Is this an AI hallucinated comment?

New comment by raincole in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:24:37 +0000

Doesn't matter; have DeepSeek. US AI companies are too busy shaving their heads into their own rear sides.

I don't know what would happen when DeepSeek inevitably catch up though. Perhaps that's going to be how this wave of AI hype ends?

New comment by raincole in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:17:57 +0000

Yeah, but only if your company is in the US. I start thinking that SpaceX's data-centers-in-space plan, despite the physical inefficiency, is the only way forward.

New comment by raincole in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:43:17 +0000

Anthropic also did that right after OpenAI-HuggingFace event. "Mom, brother is getting all the PR candies! I want some too!"

New comment by raincole in "Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:41:02 +0000

> Might as well have the children strap red rotating lights to their heads so the predators can more easily identify them in a crowd where they would otherwise blend in

You... you think pedos can't identify children from their appearances alone? People really say the most random analogy for slightest chance to win online arguments...

New comment by raincole in "Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age"

raincole — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:30:34 +0000

That's the correct way to do it. Age should be something reported by browser/os/hardware. Something similar to User-Agent.

I really hope this will end the whole third party age verification farce.

New comment by raincole in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

raincole — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:59:25 +0000

It sounds... pretty good? It's not going to put pressure to the existing grid. Nor it will use freshwater. Near to the data centers themselves so the waste from power transmission is minimalized.

New comment by raincole in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

raincole — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:31:09 +0000

I'm quite sure the whole event is planned. Not planned in a sense that OpenAI employees carefully designed every step, but in a sense that ignoring security practices was desired and intentional.

>> Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

Once you realize security breaches are marketable, a security breach is just around the corner.

New comment by raincole in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

raincole — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:22:50 +0000

It means prices will go up and that's it. If you read "sold out" and immediately believe "no company will have memory in 2027 besides AI companies" then I think you have to reconnect your thoughts to the reality.

New comment by raincole in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

raincole — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:08:01 +0000

> We should be doing this

It'd be very reasonable to assume "this" means wind here.

New comment by raincole in "Reverse Jevons Paradox"

raincole — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:21:03 +0000

> if the cost of a resource goes up, the total spend on that resource can go down

... must be a satire post, right? This is just the most plain and intuition result.

New comment by raincole in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

raincole — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:51:54 +0000

Because there are also thousands (millions?) of such non-slop-books published before 2023?

New comment by raincole in "Taste Is All That's Left"

raincole — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:24:54 +0000

Most commenters only read the title. That's it.

The alternative explanation (the top commenters actually read it and somehow didn't recognize it's obviously written with AI) is just too bleak and I choose to not believe that.

New comment by raincole in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"

raincole — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:32:20 +0000

It's called reputation.

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

raincole — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:28:31 +0000

Out of the three main US AI companies' models, Gemini is obviously the less aligned (read: censored). So I really don't know what you're talking about.

New comment by raincole in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

raincole — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:53:54 +0000

> AI-themed images for the opener

Yes, this is the exact kind of AI image usage that discourages me (and presumably this post's author) from reading the rest of it.

New comment by raincole in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

raincole — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:52:06 +0000

Come on. We all know what kind of images this post is talking about. No need to play dumb.