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>Exponential increase in CVE is nothing?

AI solving the problem it created? Woaow, the future is now!

>Case in point: the proliferation of furcons.

Which has been good & bad with some of the shadier smaller conventions, mismanagement and overgrowth of some of the larger conventions into worse hotel/con experiences.

But to go beyond furcons, nerd conventions in general are now dealing with gen-ai art showing up in lazy con hosts who are just trying to scrape money from the hobby. Struggling to police makers who just download common models online and try to sell budget 3d printed crap at dealer dens / artist allies, taking spaces from actual artists.

did the agents convince you of an alternative definition of reverse engineering?
These fridges were easy enough to hit that it could just be bored teens fucking around with shodan.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:11AM (#50305047)
smooth sloperators, smooooooooth sloperattorrrrrssss
Re:The importance of communities around software on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#50296019)
sloperators are so easily offended when their token use doesn't give them access to a welcoming community of people who actually want to do their work.
Re:The importance of communities around software on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:06PM (#50295982)
>I never thought I’d see a vomit diarrhea load of bumper stickers, but a digital form at the end of the article.

It's a revival of old web whimsy. Sorry for your loss of it.

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:42PM (#50295593)
No we all have a deep appreciation for Shakespearean actors.
Sounds like the smart move is to continue to ignore EV only and Luxury brands and continue buying from OEM's of the past that happen to have EV models and better supply chains for parts.

I'm not gonna buy a car that doesn't have a dealer network. Being able to go in person and complain when shit hits the fan is a requirement.

First major thing to wear out in my EV was the Air Conditioning Evaporator core after less than 3 years.

Never change Ford, never change.

Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:27PM (#50294504)
>otherwise we risk human relations improving!

Given how this AI push has been extremely anti-labor, we are actually fighting for human relations to improve.

Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:24PM (#50294474)
sloperators, slopborgs, maybe slopbiote
Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:39PM (#50293875)
>HN just really hates mobiles and unironically goes to amazon.com rather than using the damn app.

Well yes because I will never install a shopping app, fast food app, travel app, hotel app, the list goes on.

Github taking their 99% uptime and completely destroying it has been the funniest thing of this slopwar so far.

Glad Microsoft did this to themselves.

The original pi zero even had $0.99 price moments at Microcenter with a limit of one per customer.
Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:16AM (#50288506)
Currently seeing an influx of interest from new people who want an OS with strong anti-ai stances.
>I dont think the cotton gin or steam engine led to increased spam in any direct way.

Non-sense, trains can easily haul spam and transport fraudsters around!

>I will say, the drink prescribed by my own GP tasted just fine, like any electrolyte sports drink in powdered form, so I think you were unlucky there!

Mine was so bad I almost vomited it all up immediately from the taste. Would very much like your option next time.

I would also like to do it without the anesthesia next time to save $1500.

>But what made you get tested ?

Tested at 37, because occasional bloody stool. Found a few polyps but no cancer. Still had to fight with insurance to keep my costs below $2500 for the whole experience. Still upset the doctor thought I was joking when I requested a DVD or Memory stick with the tour of my insides on it.

Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:52PM (#50280743)
Ahh a modern purchase! I get temptations every time I've seen a sparc powered laptop end up on Ebay, but never for a low enough price to justify the the tinkering urges.
Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:40PM (#50279710)
Alternatively

>Look I'm not an anti-AI supporter, but you can't put your head in the sand about the environmental and social destruction it causes. Even if you use it to do good it's still incredibly harmful.

We aren't putting our heads in the sand, we're objecting to increasingly frantic pushes on a global scale to force this shit on us all. We're doing harm reduction on every front we can from personal lives to software.

Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:31PM (#50279572)
>I had an RDI PowerLite laptop

Just out of curiosity, why the Sparc laptop? While I'd love to find one today to tinker with, I assume anyone who had one back then was mainly working on sun machine's / unix and needed some at home familiarity.

Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:28PM (#50279517)
> Wrapping that all up in an opinionated installation (like Omarchy recently did to Arch) would be a more survivable effort.

Well we currently have fallout in FreeBSD land because of Jordan Hubbard slopping together Daemonarchy.

Going about as well as you expect when you even loosely tie yourself to a crazy white nationalist like DHH. Even in what is barely a reference to his slop dotfiles masquerading as a distro.

Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:24PM (#50279452)
>I don’t understand this hard anti-ai stance from open-source groups except as a submission volume issue.

plagiarism machine can not be trusted.

therefore plagiarism machine must not be allowed to make decisions.

> But it gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

It's kinda funny that you can put that after all of the big jumps in technology:

Email: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

Cellphones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

Texting: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

Social Media: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

Online Gaming: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

Smart phones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

And now AI: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.

My change will be killing the computer. I will then thrive.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:56PM (#50278013)
we have computer keyboard playing mode in nearly every DAW under the sun. It's useless
Re:LiberNT - A free NT operating system on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:04AM (#50259565)
>LibreNT is shooting for a serious alternative to modern Windows.

I would say good luck combining "serious alternative" and sloperating systems, but then modern Windows is going off a cliff so maybe compared to Windows this is serious.

I'll take "Shit people on the orange site say" for $400 Alex.
>You can't put a corporation in jail

I don't see why we can't just put an entire board of a company in jail. Might inspire them to do better.

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