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New comment by ryanmcbride in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

ryanmcbride — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:42:14 +0000

I'd like to know what planet you live on where a single time over the last 50 years a company has done one solitary thing that was good for the consumer without having the gun of regulation against their head.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

ryanmcbride — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:39:13 +0000

Protecting your site from bots and scraping is absolutely hilarious considering how you acquired (read: stole) the data you trained your bot on dude.

Just yank that ladder up behind you.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies"

ryanmcbride — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:13:15 +0000

Physically recoiling at this ceo-scum response to OPs comment

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Should QA exist?"

ryanmcbride — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:10:14 +0000

It's not just finding bugs, QA people are the people who actually USE the product, every part of it, every single day. They find pain points and things to improve and things that don't make sense constantly. But yes they're also really good at finding bugs.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Should QA exist?"

ryanmcbride — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:08:05 +0000

This is something I've put a lot of thought into the past couple of years, and a few little soundbites I've come up with during my imaginary shower interviews are:

1. If you don't have Quality Assurance, then you have Quality Uncertainty.

2. QA is a full time job. If you offload the responsibility of QA to the engineers, then you're giving them 2 full time jobs. So unless they're working 16 hours days (even if they are tbh), you aren't assuring quality, you're compromising it.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

ryanmcbride — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:58:42 +0000

whatever you say boss

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

ryanmcbride — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:32:32 +0000

Yeah it sounds great if you make up positive scenarios in your head for sure

New comment by ryanmcbride in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

ryanmcbride — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:30:01 +0000

At your job how many people are working at any given time and how many lives are you responsible for at any given moment?

New comment by ryanmcbride in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

ryanmcbride — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:56:51 +0000

Maybe there should be more than one

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

ryanmcbride — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:02:52 +0000

I'm more than happy to be a test case. I'm pushing 40 but I will do every single thing in my power to give false information to the surveillance machine.

If I get arrested for lying about my age, when I'm of age, then they could probably get me on a whim already anyway. No point in trying to fall in line.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

ryanmcbride — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:38:48 +0000

No I'm being completely serious.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'"

ryanmcbride — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:43:41 +0000

Fast food service is one of the most dehumanizing soul crushing jobs a person can do. I'm speaking from first hand experience that you're clearly lacking. On top of the abuse the workers deal with from all sides every single day, to have a robot giving you demerits based on specific language is fucking disgusting.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

ryanmcbride — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:15:31 +0000

Nope that's still subjective. How do you differentiate between an educational medical video about someone's asshole, vs a medical fetish asshole video?

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

ryanmcbride — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:03:35 +0000

I'm actually one of those people. I don't think breasts are some great evil.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

ryanmcbride — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:14:13 +0000

It's the line that facebook, and functionally every platform based on user content always tries to walk. They want sexual content because it drives engagement, positive and negative, more than almost anything. But they don't want to be held liable for the content, so they put weak policies in place so that they have the appearance of doing something to prevent it.

This makes almost every current social media and content platform this weird middle ground of generally acceptable content, and porn if you look for it hard enough.

I'm obviously ignoring the giant societal can of worms around "what is sexual content, what is art, what is porn". Because we can be pretty sure that Zuck doesn't care what's art and what's porn, and we know he doesn't care about protecting _anyone_ from _anything_. It's always about the bottom line and always will be.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"

ryanmcbride — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:01:22 +0000

I do the same, the ctrl+r always seemed strange to me for this

New comment by ryanmcbride in "WebMCP Proposal"

ryanmcbride — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:43:55 +0000

don't worry in a few weeks they'll have AI generate some policies for them to skim!

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

ryanmcbride — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:33:46 +0000

I agree

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

ryanmcbride — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:24:35 +0000

we could have liberty and privacy and security if the people in charge wanted us to. But they don't and they've convinced enough people that they don't either.

New comment by ryanmcbride in "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts"

ryanmcbride — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:22:43 +0000

No I wasn't?