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New comment by starik36 in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

starik36 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:56:56 +0000

Yes, the story of Arabs trying to destroy Jews and failing. And then crying about it for all eternity. Great night time reading.

New comment by starik36 in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

starik36 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:07:35 +0000

And your entire personality is being a bigot.

New comment by starik36 in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

starik36 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:11:59 +0000

And working Israel into every conversation. What is that evidence of?

New comment by starik36 in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

starik36 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:07:32 +0000

You've managed to work your favorite conspiracy into this completely unrelated conversation as well! Congrats!

New comment by starik36 in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

starik36 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:53:17 +0000

It's in the 3rd paragraph:

The Spiegel news magazine reported late on Tuesday that investigators were pursuing a possible connection to Azerbaijan.

New comment by starik36 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

starik36 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:05:05 +0000

I run my own custom version of BlueBubbles and a locally run clone of Wispr Flow. In addition, I've vibe-coded lots of nonsense throwaway apps that helped me with a one time boring task.

Wouldn't have been possible.

New comment by starik36 in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"

starik36 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:21:35 +0000

I had an issue with accuracy a bit ago. So I repeated a couple of things without understanding why and it solved the problem.

I am glad there is an actual reason.

New comment by starik36 in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

starik36 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:55:29 +0000

What is the actual utility of using this model on Azure? It's twice as expensive, according to the link.

Do Azure offer something that simply hitting the OpenAI endpoint doesn't provide?

New comment by starik36 in "GPT-6 Astra"

starik36 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:16:17 +0000

I ran into the same problem as you, so I ended up by coding a local app that is very similar to Wispr Flow, but uses the small english Whisper model on my low-end Windows laptop.

It is still a quite fast. In fact, I just typed this in using this app.

New comment by starik36 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

starik36 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:18:49 +0000

I use Claude all day long with Firefox - haven't seen your problem. Are you sure the issue isn't somewhere else?

New comment by starik36 in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

starik36 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:23:51 +0000

I am not sure that it is. From what I understand, Tether requires a companion app running on your iPhone. And as such, is subject to being shut down by the OS for various reasons (inactivity, etc...). So sometimes you would have to restart the app.

I use LocalSend and every now and then the connection does not work and I have to restart it on the phone.

New comment by starik36 in "Stop Making TUIs"

starik36 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:48:10 +0000

I had the same feeling. I've since been using Claude Desktop and I have the convenience of the UI with Claude Code built right in. It even supports the same commands.

New comment by starik36 in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

starik36 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:40 +0000

Yep, same expectation, but it's just click bait. I never learn.

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:00:37 +0000

Practically every word you uttered is a lie. It's the opposite of the truth. No one's asking you to read books but at least skim the Wikipedia so you don't make a fool of yourself with every one of your posts.

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:57:26 +0000

That’s a nonsense statement. Ukraine got invaded. Similarly to Im Israel being invaded on Oct 7, 2023.

What exactly is your solution to this conflict. Other than making snide comments.

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:00:12 +0000

> vaguely suggesting it was the Palestinians that rejected many peace deal

I am not vaguely suggesting it. I am firmly suggesting it. This is not false, it's completely true. 1936 Peel Commission. 1947 UN Partition. Post 1967 countless attempts to do land for peace deals. 1999 Camp David attempts, 2000 Taba. 2008 negotiations between Abbas and Olmert.

If not a 2 state solution, what exactly are you advocating?

New comment by starik36 in "Norway Should Buy OpenAI"

starik36 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:48:48 +0000

Norway's fund would first have to definitively find out what it takes to actually run all of OpenAI's compute. Monetarily wise. We still don't know that number.

Isn't OpenAI running on investor money right now?

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:48:27 +0000

> News media is considered more reliable in Europe over the US

That sounds like nonsense.

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:46:52 +0000

From the article:

How did we do this?

This analysis includes findings from a survey of 12,574 U.S. adults, 10,091 of whom are part of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP). The remaining 2,483 respondents include oversamples of Jews, Muslims and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members from SSRS’ Opinion Panel, Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel and NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel. We conducted the survey May 4-17, 2026, and it has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 1.3 percentage points.

They drew conclusions about Jews from subset of Jews from 2,483 respondents that included an unknown amount of Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and whoever is a member of Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel and NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel. I am not sure this is especially representative.

Even so, I don't know if I would characterize 54 to 47 as viewing as "abhorrent" as OP said.

New comment by starik36 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

starik36 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:37:40 +0000

> Many non-Israeli Jews view Israel's actions as abhorent, particularly younger Jews.

And this comes of your own polling? As a non-Israeli Jew, I've seen quite the opposite. They closed ranks in the face of an external threat, especially the younger ones. Ignore Hollywood and Hannah Einbinders of the world - that is not the reality.