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New comment by withinboredom in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

withinboredom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:05:21 +0000

Are you serious? Like, actually serious?

Killing someone for pushing you over is not "self defense". This is a category error.

New comment by withinboredom in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

withinboredom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:17:38 +0000

It’s always under the most annoying thing to move or get to. Under table legs, couches, etc.

Also, Lego will send you any missing pieces for free.

New comment by withinboredom in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

withinboredom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:28:09 +0000

You need to get some bins that have a top shelf like a toolbox. The low item counts go in the top shelf, segregate the bottom for efficiency. Bin by color.

New comment by withinboredom in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:01 +0000

I feel this sentiment. It’s more like pair programming with someone both smarter and dumber than you. If you’re reviewing the code it is putting down, you’re likely to spot what it’s getting wrong and discussing it.

What I don’t understand, are the people who let it go over night or with whole “agent teams” working on software. I have no idea how they trust any of it.

New comment by withinboredom in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Ok. Now this is logic I understand. Nobody is saying you don’t have a right to self defense. The question should be: why do you have a right to bring a gun to a fist fight?

New comment by withinboredom in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:40:08 +0000

Interesting. So literally triggering any of these changes probably invalidates the cache as well…

New comment by withinboredom in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:25:40 +0000

I have no clue what I just read or what kind of mental gymnastics are required to say that a right to a weapon overrides a right to live.

It used to blow my mind when I moved here (Netherlands) that I wasn't allowed to use a weapon to defend myself... but then you realize ... basically nobody has weapons.

New comment by withinboredom in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:18:04 +0000

Might be worth extracting the system prompt and then patching it. TBH, that's what I was expecting when I saw the gist.

New comment by withinboredom in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:07:22 +0000

When I talk to my niece in the US and she says they have shooting drills instead of fire drills ... I think the US might be doing the wrong work.

New comment by withinboredom in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:54:26 +0000

I suspect it happens when the model's adaptive thinking was too conservative and it could have thought more, but didn't.

New comment by withinboredom in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

withinboredom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:53:16 +0000

Is there not a setting to change the system prompt itself? I vaguely remember seeing it in the docs.

New comment by withinboredom in "Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest"

withinboredom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:11:50 +0000

If this is the “straw that broke the camel’s back” as they say… it seems it is more about the field than anything else. It’s a strange hill to die on… there are much larger changes happening on a daily basis… or is this like a bike shedding effect, where it’s such a small trivial and pointless change that it is worth fighting over? Something everyone can understand.

I dunno. The only reason I’m even on the mailing list was to report a bug several years ago…

New comment by withinboredom in "Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest"

withinboredom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:48:48 +0000

Because someone added a new user field? Does that need governance?

New comment by withinboredom in "Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest"

withinboredom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:18:57 +0000

The mailing list doesn't seem to make it out into such a controversial issue. It's an optional field that doesn't require a real birthday.

New comment by withinboredom in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

withinboredom — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:56:13 +0000

Ah. That’s like a 15-line rite-of-passage plugin you write once and never have to worry about it again. Filter content going into the database and use relative uri for the same site. Configure everything else via environment variables.

I moved away from Wordpress altogether earlier this year because I got tired of babysitting MySQL.

New comment by withinboredom in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

withinboredom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:29:43 +0000

This is why I prefer the AGPL over the GPL. But isn't this the entire point of open source? So long as it is attributed/following the license, who cares if they're selling it or not?

New comment by withinboredom in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

withinboredom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:25:43 +0000

I would say it was a collapse of ethics, not morality. Most people have morals (their own belief system on what is fair), but their morals may not be ethical (rule-based morals to achieve fairness). I personally attribute it to cars and the internet.

The internet removed consequences. You can say the most vile thing imaginable to another human being and… nothing happens. No social cost, no awkward eye contact at the grocery store, no reputation hit in your actual community. Just a dopamine hit and a notification count.

Cars did something sneakier. We spend hours every week sealed in a metal box, alone or with the same people. No random encounters, no friction with people who think differently. Just you, your podcast, and whatever is important in your tiny echo chamber.

Put those two together and you get people with deeply held morals and zero framework for applying them to anyone outside their bubble. Ethics requires seeing strangers as real. We've engineered that out of daily life.

New comment by withinboredom in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

withinboredom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:08:42 +0000

> a dev/test/prod workflow involved copying filesystem content, database content, and changing URLs that got saved in the database.

This just sounds like deploying web software. You always have static assets that need to be deployed, the code/binary itself, and database migrations.

New comment by withinboredom in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

withinboredom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:26:35 +0000

Email isn't guaranteed to have a faster round-trip. https://groups.io/email-provider-status -- sometimes goes into hours of latency.

New comment by withinboredom in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

withinboredom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:19:50 +0000

My blog does a proof-of-work before submission (withinboredom.info) in your browser. It'll use a fair bit of cpu power, but should only take a few seconds to complete. For an attacker... that's quite slow and self-limiting.