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New comment by seu in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

seu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:48:55 +0000

I was dual booting Linux Mint (work) and Windows 11 (games). A month ago, Windows started trying to push an update, which I resisted. A week ago, they just force fed it to my computer. I deleted the partitions without a second thought, tried CachyOS, realized that the games I play worked perfectly out of the box, and now I'm using it as my main OS. I'm never again installing windows on a computer I own.

New comment by seu in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

seu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:43:18 +0000

I think there should be less "how to solve friendship" posts, which see our social interactions as "problems" to be solved, and more reflection about how this is a consequence of a market oriented, inequality driving system. If the problem is that friendships need time, we should demand less working time and more free time to establish friendships.

New comment by seu in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

seu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:58:22 +0000

Sometimes it looks like the purpose of those hundreds of billions of parameters and those apparent feats of engineering, is to get others to tell you how clever you are. Now we have even automated that.

New comment by seu in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

seu — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:42:53 +0000

There's a very interesting critique of Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow" from German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzen: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397923694_The_Legac...

I suggest everyone interested in learning how these theories emerge, and how the social sciences work, to give it a read. Also, it kind of dismantles the whole idea of System 1 and 2, which then I guess would question the theoretical foundations of this paper too.

New comment by seu in "Java is fast, code might not be"

seu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:01:39 +0000

I'm a bit surprised to see those examples, because there's nothing really new here. These are typical beginner pitfalls and have been there for at least a decade or more. Or maybe it's because I learned java in the late 90s and later used it for J2ME, and then using things like StringBuilder (StringBuffer in the old days) were almost mandatory, and you would be very careful trying to avoid unnecessary object allocations.

New comment by seu in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

seu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:27:53 +0000

> Flip the toggle and tap to confirm you are not being coerced

This is just spreading fear. If you're being coerced to do this, then you're in a much bigger danger than what a rogue application sideloaded to your phone represents.

New comment by seu in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

seu — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:48:06 +0000

Looks great! It could be nice to have an integrated temperature control solution that keeps your servers cool and your plants warm.

New comment by seu in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

seu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:05:17 +0000

> giving you oodles of tax money for this nonsense reason.

You've never heard of tax avoidance, have you?

https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxe...

New comment by seu in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

seu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:02:08 +0000

> you are making the recipient wade through noise to get to signal

Because we all know that human beings are actually computers in disguise, or radio receivers, and everything that matters is "perfect", "unpolluted" transmission of messages. :shrug:

New comment by seu in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

seu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:28:58 +0000

Would love to hear it unsorting the same array.

New comment by seu in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

seu — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:30:08 +0000

Not exactly governments, but I work with NGOs in Germany, and plenty of them use Teams and other MS products, just because they receive them for free and don't have the budget to pay someone to install open source alternatives. Training is especially costly and in these environments people are not really "digital native". It's not even about age, but about culture: people here will do what they are trained to do and fear doing something they don't know, because they might "do something wrong". I was responsible for a platform that gives free online storage, chat functions and videocalls (BBB) for NGOs, and had to hear these arguments over and over when discussing migrations. So unless there is a political drive, together with good trainings and support, the transition is very very difficult.

New comment by seu in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

seu — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:21:06 +0000

> Opus has gone down the hill continously in the last week

Is a week the whole attention timespan of the late 2020s?

New comment by seu in "Astrological CPU Scheduler"

seu — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:23:58 +0000

Yes! With "best" (to me) meaning for fun, entertainment, and without harming anyone. :)

New comment by seu in "Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground"

seu — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:00:06 +0000

Reminds me of an unfinished game I did long time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtX8CavRTk It also had a 3D mode. Unfortunately it was too difficult to understand what was going on and most play testers were just confused, instead of having fun. :)

New comment by seu in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

seu — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:05:16 +0000

No situation justifies external interference, especially not by the US, which has done more than its fair share of invading and then just making things worse for everyone, like in Afghanistan and Iraq.

New comment by seu in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

seu — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:45:38 +0000

> also completely unfazed by the premise that it has been 'hacked into' a late-90's computer game. This was surprising, but fits with Claude's playful personality and flexible disposition.

When I read things like this, I wonder if it's just me not understanding this brave new world, or half of AI developers are delusional and really believe that they are dealing with a sentient being.

New comment by seu in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

seu — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:37:09 +0000

I studied computer science and worked in and around software for a good 20+ years. Then I slowly started realizing how apolitical almost everyone around me in software was. I was fortunate to have had other influences and interests beyond CS, but it seemed like others didn't think much about society or politics, beyond how "great" everything could be made with tech. I started gravitating out of the software bubble. First, I decided not to work for any company that is directly responsible for things like fossil fuel or finances. Then, away from anything that had to do with incentivizing irresponsible consumption. After a while I realized that it was extremely hard to find any job doing software that was not detrimental in general to the people or the planet. It's sad, but most people don't think about the global consequences of their jobs, or don't want to think much about it. These days I only work in tech-related projects when it's about supporting social organizations get their (digital) shit together, moving to open source alternatives or understanding how to deal with things like LLM/AIs. It is ethically almost impossible for me to work again for 99% of software companies.

New comment by seu in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

seu — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:30:18 +0000

> then I switch back to objectively And that's one of the issues: there's no "objective" way to look at reality. What to you looks objective, to me seems optimistic, in the way that the author denounces as not helping.

New comment by seu in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

seu — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:39:45 +0000

People seem to throw the words "doxxing" and "harassing" very lightly these days, if you ask me, although I'll give that nobody in this whole mess seems to be capable of calm or even non-violent communication.

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

seu — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:34:21 +0000

> And I've vibe coded entire ephemeral apps just to find a single bug because why not - code is suddenly free, ephemeral, malleable, discardable after single use. Vibe coding will terraform software and alter job descriptions.

I'm not super up-to-date on all that's happening in AI-land, but in this quote I can find something that most techno-enthusiast seem to have decided to ignore: no, code is not free. There are immense resources (energy, water, materials) that go into these data centers in order to produce this "free" code. And the material consequences are terribly damaging to thousands of people. With the further construction of data centers to feed this free video coding style, we're further destroying parts of the world. Well done, AGI loverboys.