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New comment by rckt in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

rckt — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:48:47 +0000

Do you want me to spend time to come with a quality response to a lazy statement? It’s like fighting with windmills. I’m fine with having my say the way I did.

New comment by rckt in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

rckt — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:44:23 +0000

I just want people making statements like the author to be more specific how exactly the llms are being used. Otherwise they contribute to this belief that llms are a magical tool that can do anything.

I am aware of simple routine tasks that LLMs can do. This doesn’t change anything about what I said.

New comment by rckt in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

rckt — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:45:42 +0000

> Even if LLMs make mistakes, the ability of LLMs to deliver useful code and hints improved to the point most skeptics started to use LLMs anyway

Here we go again. Statements with the single source in the head of the speaker. And it’s also not true. The llms still produce bad/irrelevant code at such rate that you can spend more time prompting than doing things yourself.

I’m tired of this overestimation of llms.

New comment by rckt in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"

rckt — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:18:07 +0000

This whole thing worldwide will lead to division in the society and to people having secret social media accounts. Only the most lazy and stupid ones will be handing over their private data to any gov security forces.

New comment by rckt in "Richard Stallman on ChatGPT"

rckt — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:26:38 +0000

That's what I'm thinking every time I hear or have to use the term "AI". It is not intelligent, but everyone is so used to call it so. LLM is much better.

New comment by rckt in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

rckt — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:48:16 +0000

Graphene requires a Pixel device. I can hardly call it accessible.

7 hours is not bad, considering my iPhone 13 mini can only last for day with occasional usage.

New comment by rckt in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

rckt — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:04:37 +0000

It would be great if all these companies contributed to a some kind of a unified modular platform like Project ARA. I see a lot of new devices, but they all do their own stuff. They produce hardware for their software, the end result is the same as with big brands. Most of these devices are usable while they are supported by these companies. Some of them allow installing custom Android roms, but not many.

Looks like the market just gets more fragmented without any improvements towards better sustainability/reusability. The only thing that really caught my attention recently was Pilet, a handheld Raspberry Pi. That's a really cool thing, that gives mobility while maintaining functionality.

New comment by rckt in "It’s been a very hard year"

rckt — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:53:35 +0000

By victim blaming I meant some comments here. I can relate to the author, and the narrative that it's my fault for trying to be myself and keep to my ways triggers me.

New comment by rckt in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

rckt — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:45:27 +0000

Wow. I turned on the randomized tracks under the "Deconstructing 1/2" and it's beautiful.

New comment by rckt in "It’s been a very hard year"

rckt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:12:30 +0000

Wishing these guys all the best. It's not just about following the market. It's about the ability to just be yourself. When everyone around you is telling you that you just have to start doing something and it's not even about the moral side of that thing. You simply just don't want to do it. Yeah, yeah, it's a cruel world. But this doesn't mean that we all need to victim blame everyone who doesn't feel comfortable in this trendy stream.

I hope things with the AI will settle soon and there will be applications that actually make sense and some sort of new balance will be established. Right now it's a nightmare. Everyone wants everything with the AI.

New comment by rckt in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

rckt — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:26:00 +0000

True. But so far I haven't faced layouts that I could not implement using flexbox.

New comment by rckt in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

rckt — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:12:59 +0000

I use flexbox for grid purposes, simply because the syntax is straightforward and easy to read. Yeah, it’s one dimension, but if you nest it, it becomes two with no issues.

New comment by rckt in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

rckt — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:30:58 +0000

I never found it comfortable to work with grids. The syntax and layout just feel off. Flexbox is a much more flexible and easy thing to work with.

New comment by rckt in "Orion 1.0"

rckt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:54:31 +0000

I’m going to use it on iOS and macOS. Feels like the previous Safari.

On Linux I’ll keep to Firefox.

New comment by rckt in "Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript"

rckt — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:34:32 +0000

For me this feels irrelevant. These tools are marketed for developers for their day-to-day jobs that involve building products. Devs don't look up information on people or build some complex mathematical things daily. They build things that consist of different parts, which in turn can consist of different contexts and can be a combination of other things as well. It can be a straightforward approach or it can be a legacy codebase that also need to incorporate new features with new stacks. The real test is in the real world scenarios. But every time it's about a narrowly scoped thing, the tests, the marketing. And they try to build an image that the combination of these scoped tasks can somehow bring you the ability to build at large scale. They don't say it, but they implicitly mean it with the way they present all this. Computers can compute, they can detect patterns and do analytics part, they can build assumptions based on the data they have. But they need the data, they need parameters, they need not only an operator, they need the source for the material they base their computations and output on. And somehow all the marketing completely ignores this fact. And this is damaging.

New comment by rckt in "Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year"

rckt — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:28:48 +0000

This is amazing. Once a company that built its reputation on quality and performance wants to focus on that. iOS became a parody of itself. 26 feels like a cheap knockoff of an iOS. Hundreds of people get paid to enshitify experience for millions of users. That’s incredible. And then they simply say that yeah you know it’s time to work on quality and performance. Isn’t it what always had to be there in the first place? Ridiculous.

New comment by rckt in "New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data"

rckt — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:14:49 +0000

Why do you need LLM to interpret patterns?

New comment by rckt in "Make product worse, get money"

rckt — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:15:57 +0000

> Why doesn’t someone else create a competing app that’s better and thereby steal all their business?

Because this someone will start doing the same thing.

The article feels like a very naive perspective.

New comment by rckt in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

rckt — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:44:13 +0000

AI enabled engineers.

Dammit, things like this trigger a very strong rejection of actively adopting AI into my workflows. Not the AI tooling itself, but the absolutely irresponsible ways of using it. This is insane.

New comment by rckt in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

rckt — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:57:04 +0000

It always puzzles me, why the porn? How about seeing war in action? Murders? How about fostering the gambling addiction via freemium games? Why seeing pussies, dicks and tits is more of a threat than anything else? This porn fixation is ridiculous.