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A lot of words written and nothing was said except that he wants cheaper backoffice workforce and I guess that he’s observing that cryptocurrencies are not replacing fiat in people’s day-to-day lives to pay for groceries?

Cryptocurrencies have reached an equilibrium, the next step are probably smart contracts and private blockchains between banks.

France, obviously. YouTube has turned into a cookie cutter slopfest a long time ago anyways.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:46AM (#50314250)
I disagree, it gives me the ability to apply first principle knowledge unhindered by whatever fuckass idiotic idiosyncrasies a particular cloud platform considers “good design”

AWS, Azure, GCE, Alibaba Cloud - all the same crap, different names and slightly different jenga towers.

It applies to surprisingly a lot of crap and it’s a good substitute for where we can’t put automation in yet.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:45AM (#50130214)
Yes, but what was the task that they were working on? This tells nothing.

That’s the “how” we’re wondering about.

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:57PM (#50111546)
Spoken like a true engineer. Law is very inconsistent and illogical. Otherwise we’d have “Law Engineers” instead of Lawyers.
Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:38AM (#50100053)
Ah okay yeah that makes sense

Was missing the “make it more difficult for a thief to find the AirTag and remove it” part.

Cheers!

Re:An Apology on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:12AM (#50099866)
Call me dumb I still don’t understand what exact problem these clowns were trying to solve
Re:Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:53AM (#50087825)
For anyone who’s concerned about the whole “oh we need to check the age of the user”

Here’s a simple solution: the ad industry is welcome to not profile its users.

Don’t get distracted though:

> Furthermore, the reporting procedure is to be extended to include all content suspected of being unlawful.

Operating keyword here: “suspected”

What happened to due process?

I’m either blind or I can’t edit my original post.

I love it how people completely got tilted as soon as I dare touch the sacred cow that is LBTQ+ and completely fucking missed the main point I was trying to articulate:

“Unless it’s governed by a democratic process.”

Mindless fucking clowns.

No they don’t. If they do - then they equally have a responsibility to block LBTQ+ content.

Social platforms must remain neutral carriers, not arbiters of truth and morality. Unless it’s governed by a democratic process.

Until then slap an 18+ tag on it and move on.

Re:Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:53AM (#50082957)
Information doesn’t distribute equally
Nice now go build some fucking nuclear power stations.
Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:14AM (#50018022)
Okay I think this is one of those situations where we should harness our collective autism and prevent the gTLD from going through. As others have pointed out there seems to be a mechanism for objecting.

Just purely from common sense perspective why the fuck should .lan be something that’s an internet/public TLD? Hello? LOCAL Area Network?

While we’re at it let’s update a few RFCs. Plus I don’t want to find out what organisations use .lan for their networks and what will end up leaking to the internet as a consequence of this.

Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:57AM (#49990509)
The ‘ol letter of the law vs spirit of the law.

The law permits the behaviour, don’t like it? Change it.

Thank you
Time for a new wife then
And nuclear power for base load, batteries and solar is not enough.
25k is still too fucking much.

8999 and we can start having a conversation, people can’t afford a 25k new car for gods sake.

Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:11AM (#49942020)
Mmmmmm more slop!
Re:Would you let AI agents into production? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:30PM (#49914740)
I might be dumb, can someone explain to me how these are supposed to be useful? What if I want to tackle one of these myself, manually?

I expand the sections and it’s all full of prompt slop

Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:03PM (#49912290)
> This time is the first time we've automated higher level reasoning.

That’s very generous of you to call it that way.

It’s a parody at best.

Git gud. Don’t mix derived data from recorded data. Record data with the information available, then normalise for processing.

Don’t be a monkey.

Good, can’t wait to see what fertiliser and heating costs will be.

All it took was destruction of global energy markets and supplies.

Let’s celebrate!

Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:16AM (#49875818)
That’s all well and good, but can we get something other than a yet another fucking “an box” car with “slightly different headlights”?
Waiting for people to realise that this is not a recent Facebook specific development.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:44PM (#49821468)
Two words: base load

And no you’re not solving it with a buffer (batteries or any kind of other energy storage for that matter)

Pardon my French, but why the flying fuck did you even think that giving an LLM write access to your email is remotely in the proximity of a good idea?
Re:Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:11AM (#49798024)
I bought it, if I want to use a tape drive for my RAM I will do that.

The way they price their RPi’s - are we even surprised there’s now a market for cheap modified Pi’s with more RAM?

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 EEPROM update now blocks manual RAM upgrades on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:06AM (#49785668)
No it does not sound reasonable.

If they want to reduce the support burden they can use serial numbers to track what board has what ram - if they don’t match no support because it’s modified hardware.

At least it was only a close call, unlike last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

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