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Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:26AM (#50163418)
i get it but my domain is my livelihood i can show the domain registrar who i am.
that would brighten my day for once this year
Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:13AM (#49812686)
but mac has software at least
Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Friday August 14, 2026 @06:28AM (#49296840)
pangram v4 model says 100% of this article was LLM-generated.

pangram v4 reports a 0.0041% false-positive rate (~1 in 24,000 human texts) and a 0.3396% false-negative rate (~1 in 294 AI texts)

and i also think it was AI generated

i think it's misunderstanding what people mean when they say that. i understand this as - bad code + good marketing == money. good code + bad marketing == no money. code isn't the bottleneck.
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:53PM (#48198559)
gemini isn't even that good. just tested 3.5 on usual complex prompts to opus/chat 5.5. meh
Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Saturday May 02, 2026 @09:34AM (#47986280)
so we are losing the only point of Android -- sideloading apps -- now it will be literally worse at everything compared to iOS :(
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#47253485)
that's it boys. apple will take over the ENTIRE market with this. they will be at schools everywhere. only reason to not get a macbook before was the price.
my 64GB M1 pro max is still fast AF. faster than my regular M3 in practice

i wish the new mbp had 256GB of ram :(

I'm interested in the Ultra with 256GB/512GB ram :)))
the problem is - these don't work unless everyone uses them worldwide.
yeah I think trillions alone wouldn't be enough to replicate Apple's success and market dominance (especially the most valuable demographic)
nobody is switching
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:02AM (#47023041)
damn you guys are naïve. this is ragebait (not the blog author, the person who told AI what to do...)
Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:55AM (#47014556)
I'm not saying the author is malicious. These are typical vibe-coded codebase characteristics.
Re:Trump Accounts on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:39AM (#46988083)
Mr. Rand, not just goods and services. also anything that taxes pay for, done by younger people than you. roads laid, cleaned, police, firefighters, public parks, etc. deal or no deal? there is no third option. if you're really mad about it i can make up a third option specially for you but you won't like it, probably.
Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:12AM (#46986535)
it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:

downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later

edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion

parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"

not this grifter again
Re:GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:36AM (#46985885)
the upfront cost
Re:Trump Accounts on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:43AM (#46957391)
fine but the tradeoff is you are not getting any benefits or services from people younger than you. deal or no deal?
Re:Trump Accounts on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:42AM (#46957385)
What is very disturbing, apart from the obvious, is the fact that they are using Google generated AI images. take the picture of the kid, put it into gemini.google.com and request @SynthID
Re:Why E cores make Apple silicon fast on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:16PM (#46939133)
most of them are needed at one time or another.

also a mandatory: and yet the macbooks are faster and more battery efficient than any PC laptop with linux/windows

Re:OpenClaw Is Changing My Life on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:05PM (#46939026)
skill issue
it's real, i have the leak.
Re:Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:51PM (#46938895)
he's a sophist. not terrible like Jordan Peterson, et al. but he is a sophist 100%
i think alcohol is also a gateway drug. anything that creates REAL addiction/disinhibition/escapism (not food). paradoxically i don't think cigarettes are a gateway drug, but weed is because of how it works
why is this nonsense trending here? this is a random blog
why is this news
Re:First, make me care on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:34AM (#46795923)
not true because the meta changes constantly. The accounts that are popular for a long time have someone talented at the head.
it's almost like it's better to have an external owner of social media companies

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