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New comment by trojanfootball in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

trojanfootball — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:53:20 +0000

Enough of this buffoonery you cads and popinjays!

New comment by trojanfootball in "Bill Draper has died"

trojanfootball — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:47:19 +0000

Hmmm. Why not both?

New comment by trojanfootball in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

trojanfootball — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:07:53 +0000

So now when everyone has their watch recording conversations, or perv glasses, or Alexas, or Jony Ives new personal AI gadget … recording everything we say and scanning it at scale … is it ok to be a doomer yet?

New comment by trojanfootball in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

trojanfootball — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:03:13 +0000

Does anyone here think AI companies are NOT to blame? Seems pretty unanimous but would like to hear otherwise.

New comment by trojanfootball in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

trojanfootball — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:52:42 +0000

Funny. I was happy to leave Linux to Apple for things that just worked. I need an ecosystem. Phone. Pad. Photos. Storage. Works out of the box with Apple. If didn’t have a life I would spend all my time configuring Linux to be half of what Apple provides. But I have a life.

New comment by trojanfootball in "Bill Draper has died"

trojanfootball — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:50:28 +0000

Davis has ride paddies… and ubiquitous grass fires every summer. The water problem in California likely wont be fixed, I suspect that once the aquifers give up it will allow the bigger interests to claim too big to fail and sponge up the lions share due to emergency conditions.

New comment by trojanfootball in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

trojanfootball — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:42:42 +0000

You got it backwards. The eloi were kept in line by the morlock. Or rather “farmed” by the morlock.