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New comment by tempaccount5050 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:59:37 +0000

No, the game has changed. Back then, the singles were typically accompanied by an album, even if it was just filler. It's better to release singles now due to the way the Spotify and iTunes algos work. Best practice is now to release your songs one at a time rather than a full album (at least if you aren't an established player).

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:48:03 +0000

Oh, so you are saying there might be other cases than your own? Or do you think that the way you work is the only way? I'm curious to find out whether or not the configuration of your phone and accounts is the only one. If it is, let's talk so we can fix a multimillion dollar problem with email. Please, send me a message ASAP.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

tempaccount5050 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:47:35 +0000

Last company I had to deal with this was about 1500 users and we got 2-3 tickets a week on Apple Mail sync issues. "Switch to the outlook app, ticket closed"

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

tempaccount5050 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:16:12 +0000

Yes, I do remember. That was a latent effect of the great depression mixed with grandma not having to work so that was her hobby. Pretty tired of having a hobby or specific domain knowledge being labeled as "lol autism".

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

tempaccount5050 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:12:01 +0000

The last company I worked for had copilot pretty well integrated into M365/Sharepoint/Teams. It didn't really help me get more work done but it was pretty clutch at finding information. "What meeting did we discuss such and such for X project?" And it'd get me the meeting with the notes and recording. "Which SharePoint site do the docs for that live in?" Etc. That was about all it was good for though.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

tempaccount5050 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:07:14 +0000

It's a Windows subsystem. For running Linux.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

tempaccount5050 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:04:53 +0000

Apple Mail does not play nicely with Outlook/Exchange/M365 accounts. Everywhere I've worked had said "You can use Apple Mail if you want, but IT won't be supporting it. Outlook app only." Always issues with syncing mail or contacts.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

tempaccount5050 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:37:53 +0000

I don't understand why file and folder permissions are such a mystery. Just... don't let it clobber things it shouldn't.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme"

tempaccount5050 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:05:24 +0000

Nah, that's insane. "You ticked our endolpoint KPI shit in a way we don't like" = actual crime? Gtfo

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

tempaccount5050 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:18:05 +0000

Ha, I remember doing this with my Apple //. I forget what I was doing, but realized if I could set a pixel and later get what color was drawn at that location I could use it as a big array. Didn't know about peek/poke yet. One of those core "computers are magic" memories.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "The 49MB web page"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:15:40 +0000

Fuck that. I just left a job where the IT dept just said "yes and" to the executives for 30 years. It was the most fucked environment I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot coming from the MSP space. Professionals get hired to do these things so they can say "No, that's a terrible idea" when people with no knowledge of the domain make requests. Your attitude is super toxic.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:59:36 +0000

Are you in an area with a bad electrical grid or something? In 40+ years I've never had a single device get fried from a surge/storm. My "surge protector" power strips are from the 90s and probably don't even work.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Can I run AI locally?"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:29:02 +0000

Not OP but I had an XML file with inconsistent formatting for album releases. I wanted to extract YouTube links from it, but the formatting was different from album to album. Nothing you could regex or filter manually. I shoved it all into a DB, looked up the album, then gave the xml to a local LLM and said "give me the song/YouTube pairs from this DB entry". Worked like a charm.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Things I've Done with AI"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:49:55 +0000

Missing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "this css proves me human"

tempaccount5050 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:52:13 +0000

I've used it to write poetry as a non writer and this screams AI to me. Not that I even care, but it really smells like an AI collab to me.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:55:41 +0000

How can you possibly be this confident if you don't know the number of times Firefox was run and number of bug reports submitted? Say it's run 100,000,000 times, 1000 reports are submitted, and 10 are bit flips. Seems reasonable. You're misinterpreting what they are saying.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:04:36 +0000

Couldn't you just maintain a list of cell tower IPs and figure it out with traceroute?

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

tempaccount5050 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:50:21 +0000

What you're suggesting is literally impossible. There are plenty of mirrors and random people that download the thing in its entirety. The entire planet would have to be nuked for that to be possible.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:55:51 +0000

And you think just anyone can set that up? No sys admin/infra guy needed? Seems pretty risky.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:41:56 +0000

I think this might miss the point. We put off upgrading to an new RMM at work because I was able to hack together some dashboards in a couple days. It's not novel and does exactly what we need it to do, no more. We don't need to pay 1000's of dollars a month for the bloated Solarwinds stack. We aren't saving lives, we're saving PDFs so any arguments about 5 9s and maintainability are irrelevant. LLMs are going to give us on demand, one off software. I think the SaaS market is terrified right now because for decades they've gouged customers for continual bloat and lock in that now we can escape from. In a single day I was able to build an RMM that fits our needs exactly. We don't need to hire anyone to maintain it because it's simple, like most business applications should be, but SV needs to keep complicating their offerings with bloat to justify crazy monthly costs that should have been a one time purchase from the start. SV shot itself in the face with AI.