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New comment by taikahessu in "Passkeys are not a trap"

taikahessu — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:34:46 +0000

Whenever LostPass, I mean LastPass is mentioned, it makes me feel twitchy and reminds me of that time I made a really bad tech decision of using it.

LastPass is not a secure place to store your passwords. Bitwarden is the second worst place. Don't just take my word for it, do your own research.

New comment by taikahessu in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

taikahessu — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:46:56 +0000

Yes, get out already if ypu haven't, this ship has already sank a long time ago. I'm a paying happy 1password customer myself, but you could explore how keepass fits your workflow.

New comment by taikahessu in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

taikahessu — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:28:16 +0000

I find it more likely we nuke ourselves with this ratrace to the bottom, than having to worry about supernovas. And what's more I don't buy into this kind of megalomaniac self-serving narrative, that smells of an easy way of enforcing one's broken ideals over others. Happening with AI a lot lately.

New comment by taikahessu in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

taikahessu — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:51:24 +0000

I think it was for that linux script thing fwiw, omarchy

New comment by taikahessu in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

taikahessu — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:47:25 +0000

Wow. You can make your own conclusions, but my money is not exactly going to flow into DigitalOcean's pocket in the near future.

New comment by taikahessu in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

taikahessu — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:53:30 +0000

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New comment by taikahessu in "GPT-6 Astra"

taikahessu — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:50:57 +0000

For context? Idk, I do it all the time... that is not because it's LLM, but because i'm wired that way. I tend to think out aloud.

New comment by taikahessu in "Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users"

taikahessu — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:36:54 +0000

Would you like to know more? Seriously though, of course, it's tuned for maximum engagement, not maximum efficiency. I wonder how long this engagement dopamine circus can last... too long apparently.

New comment by taikahessu in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

taikahessu — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:22:23 +0000

Aaaand... it's not available in your country. Only available in: Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States.

Which accounts to approximately 8.02% of the global population. Or 37.9% of world nominal GDP. Based on ChatGPT.

New comment by taikahessu in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

taikahessu — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:20:43 +0000

> replacement "you're absolutely right": "I'm a complete clown"

Omg, that hit hard. We really need more of this.

New comment by taikahessu in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

taikahessu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:09:09 +0000

Also it was very disorienting especially after making into the circular hole thingy, hard to know which way to aim, some small sign which is the right way would be nice, other than that, quite nice.

New comment by taikahessu in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

taikahessu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:14:20 +0000

Can someone explain where are we at the image processing world/timeline? Why do coding tools suggest to me .avif and .webp, and the support of these lags in Windows OS and then we have things like JpegXL and Jpeg2000 or whatever others are there flying around? Why is it so hard to find our next "jpg format"?

New comment by taikahessu in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

taikahessu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:02:02 +0000

"The Chinese models were way more comfortable attacking the DB"

This comment in the footnotes made me chuckle, for purely innocuous reasons.

New comment by taikahessu in "Stop Ruining It"

taikahessu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:46:34 +0000

I just started posting on LinkedIn. It is a more niche audience, Finns, only 5 million of us. I know my posts aren't fake and the people there are one I know. What do you mean by fake? Do you mean fake as in "I am here to sell you my product, which is myself" kind of fake? Is that a feature of LinkedIn or the harsh reality of the "adult world" business? Like sitting in a bunch of meetings trying to figure which of the parties are trying to screw you the least when you're about to buy something. There's levels of fake and you just need to figure out the rest. In a sense yes, of course it's fake, but I'm not sure that the platform is to blame. Same as IG I guess, but I can't say I don't use it.

New comment by taikahessu in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

taikahessu — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:46:10 +0000

I'm sure Atlassian knows this as well. When you setup a basic Kanban board in Jira, it is basically a Trello board. It is offered as one of the default options.

I was actually surprised they offered such simple options. Of course the complexity is there, the moment you start wanting an extra column, you're in the rabbit hole.

New comment by taikahessu in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

taikahessu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:43:12 +0000

> Opinions are my own.

That is a bold claim!

"There is no free will." - Dr. Robert Sapolsky

New comment by taikahessu in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

taikahessu — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:38:15 +0000

Yeah, it's not an easy puzzle piece. How far are we going to go in the name of science and progress again? Are you buying it, that it's all for the greater good? Quite a lot of money involved here. Everyone wants a piece of it. But I digress. Dropping the big bomb, stealing the lands and riches of the natives, using slaves and colonies to power the whole civilization into a new era might be powerful and efficient. But it doesn't make it right. I don't buy the narrative. Do no evil until you can no longer say no?

New comment by taikahessu in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

taikahessu — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:28:12 +0000

Except the libraries pay the fees of the books, they only serve a dedicated local region of people and by loaning a book, you will know the author of the book.

For LLMs the transformative part is then removing the copyright info and serving it to you as OpenAI whatever.

Sure, you can query multiple books at the same time and the technology is godlike. But the underlying issue remains. Without the original content, the LLM is useless. Someone took all the books, feed them in and didn't pay anything back to the authors.

I'm not sure whether arguing in good faith here. This information you could easily check for yourself too. The problem is not the information itself. It's the massive machinery that steals all the works and one day we are staring at the paywall. And the artists are still not funded. I'd rather just do something nice offline in the future.

New comment by taikahessu in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

taikahessu — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:58:15 +0000

Except the school paid royalties for that specific book. Every book. The money was distributed. Writers, publishers and so on. The normal stuff.

Or if you had to buy the book yourself, same thing, distributed, royalties paid.

New comment by taikahessu in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

taikahessu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:58:19 +0000

You are absolutely right.

Seriously though, I do think that is the case. It would be self-righteous to argue otherwise. It's just the scale and the nature of this, that makes it so repulsive. For my taste, copying something without permission, is stealing. I don't care what a judge somewhere thinks of it. Using someone's good will for profit is disgusting. And I hope we all get to profit from it someday, not just a select few. But that is just my opinion.