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New comment by rwyinuse in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

rwyinuse — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:55:03 +0000

If I ever start watching football, I'll make sure to pirate every match. FIFA, La Liga, they all seem utterly rotten to me.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

rwyinuse — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:52:06 +0000

Well, there are lots of EU countries where governments aren't as idiotic as that of Spain, and where bureaucracy is mostly under control as well.

As a citizen of a Nordic country I would never want to live in America, except maybe if I was rich. Especially for people with children my country offers a superior quality of life in many ways.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

rwyinuse — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:36:35 +0000

I agree. Ironically ones complaining the loudest about fuel prices are be far-right populists, who tend to be against renewables.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

rwyinuse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:09:24 +0000

Somehow Europe manages to do that well enough.

New comment by rwyinuse in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

rwyinuse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:18:51 +0000

Which means at least 50% of the university degrees are no longer competitive, since the focus in those studies is just on the knowledge side.

New comment by rwyinuse in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

rwyinuse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:16:14 +0000

Meanwhile in Finland it's still official government policy to get at least 50% of the population to have higher education, even though academic unemployment is already at all time high.

It feels like nobody in the government is even trying to prepare for the massive changes in job market.

New comment by rwyinuse in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

rwyinuse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:27:37 +0000

Yea, at least over here in Finland many university degree programmers are hardly worth it, even though there are no tuition fees. A plumber or electrician can easily earn more than a researcher with PhD, with much shorter studies, better job security and more options for starting a business.

I know lots of people with master's degrees who have started studying something practical after graduation, as they were unable to find any job with their degree. Of course the general economic situation (highest unemployment in the EU) is having an impact on everyone, but it's hitting those with higher education particularly badly this time.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

rwyinuse — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:59:32 +0000

End of civilization takes a lot more than high oil/fertilizer prices, even if it causes famine in poorer countries.

New comment by rwyinuse in "US Job Market Visualizer"

rwyinuse — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:39:30 +0000

That could work in ideal world where children behave nicely, and are eager to learn. But in reality that's not the case. Especially in high school big part of teacher's job is keeping order and being the authority figure. Good luck replacing that with LLM.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

rwyinuse — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:34:03 +0000

In my experience juniors are simply being replaced with intermediates and seniors who are willing to work for junior wages.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

rwyinuse — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:36:06 +0000

What about tens of thousands of peaceful civilians who have been killed by the Iranian regime during past decades? The alternative to this war is allowing the Iranian government to keep doing that, business as usual.

In my opinion bombing people responsible for these atrocities increases the well-being of the world. Most Iranians seem to agree.

New comment by rwyinuse in "747s and coding agents"

rwyinuse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:31:22 +0000

Yea, IMO people shouldn't make jobs / professions too big a part of their identity. At some point human programming may be largely gone, but probably there will be increased demand for something else.

It should be government's job to make it as easy as possible for people to retrain, switch jobs and start new careers. Obviously taxation should be reworked too, if AI and robots replace lots of jobs in some sectors. Profits produced by efficiency gains shouldn't be concentrated just among few billionaires.

New comment by rwyinuse in "747s and coding agents"

rwyinuse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:24:17 +0000

The end result is, and will always be garbage if there is no "human in the loop" to test whether the result meets the requirements, and telling LLM what to do if it doesn't.

Like somebody else said, there is still a need for QA (and usually for requirements gathering too), that's a part of the development cycle. Developing software that is meant to be used by humans with zero humans involved isn't realistic.

New comment by rwyinuse in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

rwyinuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:10:34 +0000

Yeah this is what lots of Western people don't get. The cultural / ideological gap between rulers and those being ruled appears much larger in Iran than in most other Muslim countries.

Many countries have hardcore conservative rulers AND population, but in Iran the problem is mostly just the rulers. With better government, Iran would have so much potential.

New comment by rwyinuse in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

rwyinuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:06:44 +0000

Iranian government massacres its own civilians whenever they dare to demand change. Iranians are also largely secular compared to citizens of most Arab states, and hate their government. They're also mostly Shia, which makes it hard for likes of ISIS and Al Qaeda to gain ground there, as Shias are enemies to Sunni extremists.

I believe there's a much better change of democracy / sane regime in Iran, than there ever was in Iraq and other Arab states.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years"

rwyinuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:02:36 +0000

From my point of view as a Finn, the convention is indeed pointless as long as Russia doesn't obey it. No point avoiding land mines in our Eastern border in case of a war, when Russia will mine any territory they capture anyway. Besides, our mines are much more likely to be marked correctly to maps, and probably will have a function that deactivates them after certain time.

New comment by rwyinuse in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

rwyinuse — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:58:35 +0000

It would be a fun day for hobbyists who want to run big open source models locally, if nothing else.

New comment by rwyinuse in "How will OpenAI compete?"

rwyinuse — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:36:51 +0000

I would bet 100% of those people have either Apple or Android phone in their pocket. Android users already have easy access to Gemini, and Apple's Siri is going LLM soon enough as well.

Google and Apple just need to push their AI assistants hard enough, and most of the moat OpenAI has will be gone.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

rwyinuse — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:01:12 +0000

Yeah you'll probably want to turn on airplane mode between the refreshes. That's at least what KUAL "Online screensaver extension" from Mobiread forums does, with it I'm getting several weeks of battery life with refreshes every couple of hours.

New comment by rwyinuse in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

rwyinuse — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:48:51 +0000

Old kindles are a lot of fun. I've turned a couple of them into AI generated paintings that refresh their contents every few hours or so. I can control the prompts via web-ui, through template functions they can include things like weather conditions, random animals, countries, current date & time and even titles of random news articles. Prompt handling and image generation is done completely locally on my home server, using ollama and stable-diffusion-webui.

The only problem I've had is that most news articles from mainstream media are damn depressing, so generating paintings directly from them gets gloomy quick. I had to instruct ollama to try put a positive spin on negative articles. I do love my weather-forecast painting though. Whenever it's raining outside, the painting has rain in it too (or now during winter it's all snowy).

Battery life is really good too, lasts several weeks. I used existing "Online Screensaver extension" from MobileRead forums, with some customizations. It automatically turns on airplane mode after fetching the image and keeps it on until next fetch, which probably explains the improved battery life.