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New comment by spicymaki in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

spicymaki — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:18:30 +0000

Good! Did you really need more Stargate? Just watch the classic movie, and 200+ episodes of SG-1 and then 100+ episodes of Atlantis. Let these franchises rest.

New comment by spicymaki in "Ferrari Luce"

spicymaki — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:03:40 +0000

This is just my subjective opinion, but it looks like the car has a Pixar aesthetic. I am not in to it, but I am glad Ferrari is willing to take some design risks. I am not sure who this is for.

New comment by spicymaki in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

spicymaki — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:59:02 +0000

Here is a fun one, my mobile phone company has an account lock along with a pin and OTP over SMS system. In order for me to activate a new device (like an phone upgrade) with eSIM over the phone, I need to unlock my account with account lock, give them the pin over the phone, and read the SMS OTP to the mobile phone rep online. I get doing the account unlock and verbal pin, but I don't get why they ask for the OTP especially when they train us to never share the OTP over the phone. I even asked the rep about it, but he mentioned that you should never share the OTP if you did not initiate the service request. From a security posture point of view I think that stinks. I am not exactly sure how they expect SMS OTP to work in the case where my phone is not functional.

New comment by spicymaki in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

spicymaki — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:24:51 +0000

Memory optimization is incredibly low hanging fruit. We have been so spoiled with the abundance of memory.

There is just so much code out there that does not manage object life cycles well (over allocation, leaks, etc.), encodes data in text rather than binary representation.

The move to static binaries over dynamic libraries, applications that run web engines underneath rather than cleaner UIs.

I hope the memory shortage will encourage us to focus on efficiency again.

New comment by spicymaki in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

spicymaki — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:16:33 +0000

The semiconductor fab process changes dynamically to manage yield. It is not a static environment, automating with robotics is fine when things are static like a automotive assembly line, but high end semiconductor fabs are a different beast (The analogy I heard was repairing a plane while in flight). Robots are not purely clean as well they shed contaminates as well, which must be managed too. Entropy is the reason why we still need humans in the loop.

New comment by spicymaki in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

spicymaki — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:06:52 +0000

Buddhism was never intended to be the way you organized societies. It was a monastic tradition where you practiced outside of society with the support of people who had to live in the real world and do the dirty work of progress and civilization.

The goal of Buddhism is not happiness anyway it is the total cessation of suffering. If Buddhists are scoring high on happiness surveys they are doing it wrong.

New comment by spicymaki in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

spicymaki — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:25:52 +0000

If the richest people in the world are chronically unhappy then that indicates that excess wealth does not bring happiness.

New comment by spicymaki in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

spicymaki — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:12:52 +0000

Motorola chip was called 68000.

New comment by spicymaki in "EFF is leaving X"

spicymaki — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:17:55 +0000

Performative expression is critical. You need to actually do the thing you believe and if it is of political significance say it and do it visibly. Otherwise there is no impact.

New comment by spicymaki in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

spicymaki — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:31:56 +0000

LLMs are definitely a game changing technology, but there is just so much fake money in the market right now (circular deals, paper valuations, etc.) that I cannot take this seriously. At some point the musical chairs will stop and we will all be saying how could we let this happen? Where are the regulators (rhetorical question)?

New comment by spicymaki in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

spicymaki — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:02:33 +0000

Aside from the AI writing the blog itself seems to have a false timeline. It says there are posts from April 2017, but the domain has only been up for a year. There is all of this promotion about books, podcasts, volunteering to support the author.

What is this about?

New comment by spicymaki in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

spicymaki — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:49:53 +0000

The school does not take responsibility. Schools will tell you what you kid does at home is the parent's responsibility even if it is done on the school device. Parents do not have the ability to configure the content controls on the device itself, so technically sophisticated parents resort to tweaking router settings.

New comment by spicymaki in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

spicymaki — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:13:22 +0000

> The guy is unhinged, hellbent on denial, just to appease his base, who are going bankrupt because of his policies.

In the middle of a war he started over war. No less. If his base wanted cheap gas, they are not going to get it.

New comment by spicymaki in "AI (2014)"

spicymaki — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:04:54 +0000

What makes rich people special is that they have things normal people do not have. They have material wealth with which they can derive power. They don't want to share it now and they won't in the future. Do you really think that these people who have spent so much time and effort hoarding their wealth want to share it with everyone? Absolutely not.

New comment by spicymaki in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

spicymaki — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:57:34 +0000

> Why justify a sustaining an inefficient human in that modern world?

I should not need to justify my existence, that is the problem with being led by psychopaths.

Twenty years to train humans for what? A tech job? That is not why we get an education. It is not my purpose to be a cog in the wheel for some psychotic billionaire.

New comment by spicymaki in "Honda is killing its EVs"

spicymaki — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:59:52 +0000

Like the drug dealers where I grew up they are making the neighborhood a really terrible place to live. They might have a nice house right now, but the homes around them are burning.

New comment by spicymaki in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

spicymaki — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:37 +0000

> The other is a movie that just based on its major theme would attract less then half the country and even in those remaining is a very polarizing movie. It's up for best picture because to preach, not because it's actually good.

I am not sure why you see "One Battle After Another" as preachy. It was ultimately a chase movie, perhaps you did not like the intent of the revolutionaries who kicked off the chase, but there was no lecturing as far as I could tell. All of the characters were flawed and broken. Moments where characters could do the "right thing" many ended up doing things out of self interest. The movie was deeply cynical and piercing critique on radicalism left and right.

The movie also has a metacritic score of 95, so you are objectively wrong.

Did you even see the movie?

New comment by spicymaki in "Digg is gone again"

spicymaki — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:30:42 +0000

The future is meeting in person and watching performers actually perform live.

New comment by spicymaki in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

spicymaki — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:58:41 +0000

How many more articles are we going to see with the headline AI facial recognition leads to innocent person jailed? A grandmother no less.

Some tech company illegally scanned people's photos on social media and now is using them with our complicit legal system to randomly put people behind bars. Now I need to worry that any day now due to a dice roll I will be sent away in a the middle of f'ing nowhere for months or years. Now the government wants to use these same dumb systems to make automated killing machines. FML!

I see a lot of comments trying to attribute blame to the cops, the lawyers, the police chief, the marshals, the tech bros, etc, but it is all of them and all of us that are guilty. We are so complicit in this sick system we live in. We are stuck in a collective action deadlock.

That fear you have in the back of your mind that says next time it might be you is counteracted by the thought "well thank goodness it wasn't me or a loved one," so you don't act. We are all doing this, that is why nothing changes.

The only people able to act these days are the most insane. The narcissistic corrupt power hungry politician, the psychopathic tech bro billionaire, and the jacobins are the only ones with the energy wade through this cesspool and that is why everything is so dystopian.

New comment by spicymaki in "What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down"

spicymaki — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:47:47 +0000

Buddhists do not usually worship the Buddha like God. Buddhists revere him as wise teacher, especially in modern times.