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Re:OccupySaaS on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:51PM (#50332925)
> It can be re-made by AI as easily.

Because that's not actually true yet, and may not be for a while

Re:OccupySaaS on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:20PM (#50332338)
Yeah why is this Apache-2.0 ??
A casual user doesn't have 8 tbs?
Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:13AM (#50323588)
> I needed an .mp3 to .txt conversion

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No these require human cultivation to survive.
On the other threads it was noted that some of it had been frozen via USDT contracts
Re:French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:15PM (#50308841)
Yeah there's going to be a whole USB flash drive economy like in Cuba
Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:05PM (#50308695)
But it's not about privacy, it's about data locality, at least at this stage, as far as I understand.
Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:59PM (#50308608)
This person is so gross why do people like, or more importantly, _trust_ this company?
IRS fillable forms is really good in my opinion it should be more widely known.
Even Claude admits this after a bit of prodding.
Claude has caught this exact mistake for me, and asked for forgiveness, I think this was in the past few weeks it was like "omg I sent your email address in a UA". It seemed minor :shrug:.
That's neat, what aspect(s) are you formalizing? That a given tax statement is correct?
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:23AM (#50260741)
For sure, mental unblocking is easier than ever. Just muster the energy for that first prompt.
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#50259369)
Definitely working as much as ever but I must say that AI does make it about zero stress for me because delivering isn't really a question at this point.
The fuzzzzz man
Which if not all of these are honeypots?
Re:Migrate Your 300-Node Redis Cluster to Just 3 Lavik Nodes on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:44AM (#50255086)
what is anagent profile store that is deployed at the scale of terabytes? Do you mean, for example, logs of agent sessions that run on providers?
Please understand that none of that stuff matters. Trump/AfD etc is about being maladaptive and antisocial. Trump voters aren't reading emails and they don't care about the Epstein files either. The sooner people understand this, the sooner we'll be able to, maybe, just maybe, get out from under this.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:27AM (#50239502)
Hah! I'm stoked for the premium oxygen sub with fewer commercials
Yet it searches other spaces in ways other things cannot
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:10PM (#50238262)
Probably not much.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:04PM (#50238222)
Jeff Bezos, our neighborhood crack lord. Thanks Jeff!
France and Germany aren't Serbia, and Turkey is far from certain still.
These folks aren't "the right", they're people dishing out lazy answers to challening problems. They are, like Donald Trump, unserious and will undertake a state level smash and grab as soon as they're put into power, at levels previously unknown in the EU (like DJT here).

Lots of Europeans are turning "right" because they want easy answers to challenging problems, same as here in the US. For example, appeasing Russia is way easier than accepting that you need to fight Russia. Russia is at your doorstep, rabid, and ready to eat you up. And the European "right" wants to buy its gas. Hot diggity dog. That's scary.

Le Pen? AfD?
This looks nice, but I would use it with caution.

There was a post here recently, "Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea", my mind went immediately to using LLMs for scoring risk. Seems like a bad idea. If there's anything we still need a human for, it's assessing risk.

Yeah I was surprised to see that last year when they were targeted (and almost hit? or hit?) by Iran. Yikes.
In my defense, the likelihood that the US has schools on bases did occur to me. It's just I think you shouldn't put schools on or near bases and expect them to not get bombed, if not by accident. So I think it applies to all parties.

> Not every nation thinks it has a God-given right to go half-way around the world and bomb other nation's bases,

I would pause at this assertion. The US is a global thing, with global friends and enemies. Iran being one of our big foes is a knowing thing.

That's horrible. If they get bombed, we'll know why...

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