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Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Saturday July 25, 2026 @10:34PM (#49054102)
Proposal D, currently enacted: Use LLMs but don't tell anyone
Re:We Will Not Be Divided on Friday February 27, 2026 @11:42PM (#47190524)
These models are weapons whether the frontier provider founders and their trite and lofty mission statements like it or not.

Private individuals and private companies do not get to create a defensive weapon with unprecedented power in a new category in the US and not share it with the US military.

You guys are batshit insane.

Re:We mourn our craft on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:21PM (#46927520)
Per the "About Me" picture, this particular technologist does not have any hair to tear out.
Why not just look at the code and see if it's good or not?
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Re:Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? on Sunday October 12, 2025 @11:41AM (#45559015)
> Without mincing words - DHH is prolific at espousing white nationalist and eugenicist views with a pseudointellectual slant, while trying to pretend he’s doing something else.

News flash, normal people are done with this type of slander, hyperbole and lies. The extreme fringe left once enjoyed the mirage of dominance through big tech enforcement; that’s over now.

For my part, I bought a 1LPC to run Omarchy as my main desktop. I absolutely love it.

Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:52PM (#45204444)
It is.
Re:Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves on Friday September 05, 2025 @05:54PM (#45144097)
> Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist

Why the fuck was "LAist" getting federal funding? Glad they're not anymore.

Re:Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:52PM (#44991415)
> crow about parental autonomy and how they should be in complete control of their children's education and lives.

Ah yes, those monsters

> It’s an odd form of white supremacy that views whites as above having material interests of their own.

This is also an interesting way to explain the self-immolating Whites, which nowadays is most of us. Any sort of White group identity or collective interest is absolute heresy which must be opposed, while all things in the collective interest of non-Whites must be celebrated, encouraged, and helped along at our own expense. There's a certain paternalistic arrogance to it, an ethnocentric assumption that other races can't get on without us. And it's much more common and pervasive than the caricature of the like shaved head neo-Nazi we are all expected to imagine exists in large numbers, somewhere.

Or they could just do it whenever they want to for whatever reason they want to. They are not responsible for the mental health of their users. Their users are responsible for that themselves.
Re:Grok3 Launch on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:55PM (#43094986)
Same. I support everything that's going on at DOGE. There's a certain type around here that needs to get used to the fact that their political views do not enjoy industry wide hegemony.
Re:California bans legacy admissions at private universities on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:21PM (#41701662)
California does not have any Ivy League universities.
Re:True Name – Mastercard on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:21PM (#38921008)
I disagree. I objected to the implied demand that we all collude to pretend that these people trick us into thinking they are the opposite sex. I didn't slur or attack anyone. If you want to cultivate yet another place people can't speak simple truths online, delete my account.
Re:True Name – Mastercard on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:24PM (#38903079)
Good point, I guess they could also be Men In Black aliens too and I wouldn’t know that either.
Re:True Name – Mastercard on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:06PM (#38902915)
> You wouldn't know they are trans*, except for their name.

Here’s another delusion I won’t participate in. We all, each and every one of us, make a crossdresser within 0 seconds of meeting him. There’s like 12 of them that pass.

Re:Live proxy and VPN detection on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:55AM (#38830326)
Didn’t detect my VPN. Hopefully this technology sees wide adoption!
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:54AM (#38807126)
I use Librewolf and Orion on MacOS, Orion on iOS/iPadOS (which is Safari I suppose, but the shell is awesome)
Re:Generation Junk on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:52PM (#38789831)
I _love_ Walter Kirn.

> Weak-link computer chips in items that don’t require them also came in for abuse.

Indeed.

I cannot recommend his podcast with Matt Taibbi [1] or the print-only newspaper he edits-at-large [2] highly enough. The man is an American treasure.

[1] https://www.racket.news/s/america-this-week

[2] https://www.countyhighway.com/

2600 is still in print
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:56AM (#38583444)
Beeper would have interested me, maybe in 6 months if it had seemed like Apple was willing to live with it. I don't want to use iMessage though, I just want to use it more than SMS or RCS. I have gotten a few of my close contacts on Signal. The whole landscape is completely chaotic. All I really want is to be able to send and receive e2ee messages with everyone else who has an extremely capable computer in their pocket.
Re:Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:16PM (#38565382)
This is what I do, new Pixel 7 + GrapheneOS. Works great, I highly recommend it.
Re:Gemini – Google DeepMind on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:25PM (#38547678)
Ironically I go to gemini to get away from google.
Re:UniFi Express on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:08AM (#38505209)
> virtually no way to deploy it in a business context.

...there is tailscale

Re:Google Drive has lost user data on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:17AM (#38428832)
I can't imagine having any data in someone else's so-called "cloud" like this, let alone important data.
Re:Amazon Making Its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:32AM (#38237875)
I do not anticipate this will be a race to see who can produce the best OS for the consumer, or the most privacy conscious OS either.
Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:40AM (#38231807)
Addiction isn't a question of will. You're not weak for not being able to walk away, and you wouldn't be strong if you were able to.

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