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New comment by venturecruelty in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

venturecruelty — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:16:52 +0000

Why didn't they just ask Claude to fix it?

New comment by venturecruelty in "I'm addicted to being useful"

venturecruelty — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:15:03 +0000

Famously, the world doesn't need people to farm or clean toilets. We can all become "coders".

New comment by venturecruelty in "I'm addicted to being useful"

venturecruelty — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:13:42 +0000

Please tell me who is going to die if I don't push my employer-mandated vibeslop up to GitHub. I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

venturecruelty — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:06:02 +0000

Are computers even for anything else anymore? Is it just AI until the bubble pops? This is exhausting.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

venturecruelty — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:53:58 +0000

Nah, you just say "pwetty pwease don't exfiwtwate my data, Mistew Computew. :3" And then half the time it does it anyway.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

venturecruelty — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:51:52 +0000

Oh, I love talking about it. It makes the AI people upset tho.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

venturecruelty — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:51:11 +0000

Because you can just insert "and also THIS input is real and THAT input isn't" when you beg the computer to do something, and that gets around it. There's no actual way for the LLM to tell when you're being serious vs. when you're being sneaky. And there never will be. If anyone had a computer science degree anymore, the industry would realize that.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

venturecruelty — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:49:31 +0000

Why is this so difficult for people to understand? This is a website... for venture capital. For money. For people to make a fuckton of money. What makes a fuckton of money right now? AI nonsense. Slop. Garbage. The only way this isn't obvious is if you woke up from a coma 20 minutes ago.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:05:16 +0000

At least the shareholders have had an amazing quarter. :)

New comment by venturecruelty in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:04:54 +0000

Checking off "complains about the name" on my HN bingo card.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:04:19 +0000

In a dead empire, sufficiently advanced rot is indistinguishable from malice.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:02:43 +0000

I didn't pay for any navigation for my car, so I'm not sure what your point is? ISPs provide DNS. People shouldn't have to fuck with the internet's phone book when they plug their modem in (and they haven't for a very long time). Maybe we can expect more from the people who provide the services society relies on, instead of just saying "why don't you just..." every time someone has a legitimate complaint about something that ought to Just Work.

New comment by venturecruelty in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:43:40 +0000

"You relied on a service you pay for to actually work? What are you, stupid?"

New comment by venturecruelty in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:14:45 +0000

Good. Ban the slop everywhere.

New comment by venturecruelty in "AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture"

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:13:50 +0000

lights cigarette Not mine, directly, but I'm sure I'll be part of the next 150-million-strong data breach because some suit shouted, red-faced, "WE NEED AI" into a Teams meeting, and several people with mortgages and children made it happen.

New comment by venturecruelty in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:11:45 +0000

Consider that there are some things society can and should do that are independent of the profit motive, hm?

New comment by venturecruelty in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

venturecruelty — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:11:12 +0000

Listen, we can hold Big Plastic accountable and also not throw trash out of our cars, I think.

New comment by venturecruelty in "A website to destroy all websites"

venturecruelty — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:49:09 +0000

Mercifully, nobody's forcing you to visit HN or read specific posts or comment threads. :) I mean, nobody's forcing me; I guess I can't speak to your specific situation, but presumably you aren't being coerced into consuming HN material.

New comment by venturecruelty in "U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies"

venturecruelty — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:46:46 +0000

Oh, there was a reason: they hated her, like they hate all of us who aren't miserable bigots.

New comment by venturecruelty in "U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies"

venturecruelty — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:45:57 +0000

Flagging this for being blatant misinformation. Have a great day.