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Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:58PM (#49529997)
That's interesting, I didn't know that's what they were called. I definitely try to avoid widows and orphans in my own writing, and have definitely chosen words carefully to that same effect.

I thought it was just my own OCD.

Sorry, it was always meaningless. The shiny toys just distracted our attention enough to trick us into thinking there's a golden pot at the end of the rainbow. But now we can reach the end of the rainbow and it's emptiness.

Read Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." Everything under the sun is vain, as we will all eventually find out.

Nothing will satisfy us because our emptiness was never meant to be filled with code, knowledge, or whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvOrTq4Bes

Re:No more zero-retention policy for OpenCode go on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:27PM (#49127529)

  because we added the new deepseek which we do not yet have a ZDR with we cannot blanket say we offer ZDR
  
  nothing about the other models have changed
https://x.com/thdxr/status/2083178051052155182
Re:Reverse-engineering is cheap now on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:30AM (#48988802)
I would love to be able to tweak or have fully customized firmware/mobile apps for all my smart devices, without risking bricking them.

Various firmware bugs that I’m sure could be fixed but aren’t, because they don’t bug the manufacturer enough? But they certainly bug me on a daily basis.

Re:Do we just want slaves? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:22AM (#48988738)
Reminds me of https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/japans-design-for-humans/

America’s culture of independence is such a race to the bottom in terms of “what can we get away with”, rather than “now that we have AI, how can we better take care of each other”.

Personally I’m exploring ways that AI can better serve people, rather than how I can replace people in my life.