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New comment by username223 in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

username223 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:55:38 +0000

vibe-ls(1) - often list directory contents, but maybe do something else.

Where can I get this amazing technology?

New comment by username223 in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

username223 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:20:31 +0000

Google is pretty much just a wrapper around DoubleClick.

New comment by username223 in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

username223 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:12:19 +0000

> Anything in the browser: not my private space.

Google’s main business is ads, ie running hostile code on your machine.

New comment by username223 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

username223 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:41:44 +0000

> benevolent AI assistant?

“Volent” is the problem there. Whose fault is it that someone was tricked by a boy?

New comment by username223 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

username223 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:06:58 +0000

Humans will give a slop machine control of a lab full of CRISPR machines because they think it might make them a dollar? It wouldn’t take Supreme Super Intelligence for that to go badly.

New comment by username223 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

username223 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:04:41 +0000

> Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money…

Or until actual people take the billions of dollars sitting behind those weak man-children. The US has fewer than 1000 billionaires now, and more than 300,000,000 people. That seems like a solvable problem.

New comment by username223 in "Why weekends are under threat"

username223 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:24:08 +0000

That’s how units work, fitting the messy natural world into comprehensible numbers. A year is 365 days, except every four, except every 100, except every 400. A month is 30-ish days, and there are 12 of them in a year, because that roughly syncs up the orbits of the Moon and Earth. Except there used to be ten of them (“DECember”), with garbage time filling in the remainder of Earth’s transit around the Sun. A second is something related to Cesium-133, because it’s close to 1/(24x60x60) of a day, because Sumerians chose base 60.

New comment by username223 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

username223 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:27:06 +0000

Those are the people betting on a business model of “create Robot God and ask him for money.” Why pay attention to them?

New comment by username223 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

username223 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:21:01 +0000

Does it matter? The frontier models stole the whole internet, then the second-level models stole from them… It’s all theft.

New comment by username223 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

username223 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:14:19 +0000

I’ll believe Anthropic when they fire everyone making more than the cost of a few GPUs. Until then, it’s just marketing.

New comment by username223 in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

username223 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:01:45 +0000

Well, Callum Locke has certainly torched his reputation. Not “spreading Santorum” level… yet.

New comment by username223 in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

username223 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:43 +0000

It’s less unflattering than the legless avatar from his $80 billion waste of money.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yUEJgQzunhbnYYtsckup7i.jpg

New comment by username223 in "One item purchased, ten emails"

username223 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:03:28 +0000

Don’t unsubscribe - that’s a signal of a live email address. Add a rule filing their domain straight to trash.

New comment by username223 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

username223 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:59:00 +0000

Facebook is working with the talent that can’t find a job at some other company. It doesn’t surprise me they ship mediocrity.

New comment by username223 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

username223 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:39:39 +0000

> a deeply concerning culture of anthropomorphization and magical thinking.

That’s the reverse Turing test. A human that can’t tell that it’s talking to a machine.

New comment by username223 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

username223 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:33:24 +0000

Surely a Big Sur compound stocked with iodine and gold, protected by security goons fitted with exploding collars, is someone’s definition of paradise.

New comment by username223 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

username223 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:07:25 +0000

> I need to decide if the remaining work - understanding requirements, managing teams, what have you - is still enjoyable enough to continue.

It’s not for me. Being a middle manager, with all of the liability and none of the agency, is not what I want to do for a living. Telling a robot to generate mediocre web apps and SVGs of penguins on bicycles is a lousy job.

New comment by username223 in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

username223 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:59:55 +0000

[GitHub] platform activity is surging. — https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

New comment by username223 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

username223 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:51:58 +0000

"I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain."

This is possibly the dumbest version of an "economic incentives" argument. Current code is the result of current economic incentives. It is a mystery to me why making code generation cheaper will make it more "good" in any way, instead of being either more of what we have now, or worse.

New comment by username223 in "Goodbye to Sora"

username223 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:16:37 +0000

Sam Altman made his stake at the table with a shady and failed location data harvesting app (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt). That's who he is, that's what he does, and we're all better off paying less attention to the sounds he emits, and more to the things he does.