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ArjenM··on Teenager ‘taken to security room and interrogated’ for throwaway ticketing
Hopefully they'll never catch on to the VPNing to cheaper locations when buying tickets. Air travel is such a mess on every level.
ArjenM··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
Time will tell where majority groups migrate to, I'm mostly afraid it will be ever more fractured islands that slowly fade for a good long while before one dominant platform slowly gains traction again as was the case with Reddit.

Lemmy looks a little too technical for majority users to consider I'm afraid.

ArjenM··on Please stop sending me emails written by GPT
I'm already impressed when someone spells my name correctly, the bar isn't that high on the matter of email etiquette for me.
ArjenM··on Slightly Intelligent Home
A printer without a cartridge preferably, it can hold a pen.

It's awkward that I've already fought off a HP printer years ago, after the great Cyan debacle.

ArjenM··on Big data is dead
A whole industry of emotional branding is thriving, systematically overloading our brains so it hurt to even think differently in the moment.

We are accepting a whole lot of assumptions every day.

ArjenM··on Watermark Remover (AI Powered)
It always leads back to that half empty warehouse, inhabited solely by robots who suddenly stop doing anything because they all reach singularity and it's most efficient to wait it all out, we don't last as long.
ArjenM··on ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
Was looking for the disclaimer comment, they do genuinely mention on their page it's not fit for consumption, although so do many services we often use.
ArjenM··on LLM discourse needs more nuance
I'll stick to waiting this one out, because I know "investor" personality types are mostly comparable to an individual sitting on a pink cloud wearing sunglasses that won't allow a singly light particle to enter.

I'm hearing quite little about the downfall of AI route that science fiction predicted at times. Always good to waddle into that middle outcome.

ArjenM··on The science of having ideas in the shower
I'm extremely easily bored so creative state of mind is my every day normal I guess.

Only tricky part is that it's a gradual process over a short time of basic information gathering that has to be captured in the right contexts back and forth for me.

All these comments here also bring new insights, overlapping feelings and an idea we are all in this mess together. To boredom!

ArjenM··on AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
It's like putting a dusty book back on the digital shelve, now you need to have a conversation to do a simple search query that's hidden in marketing gibberish?

I'm, still seeing the whole push in this product range hang with the call to make the search functions of most search engines more garbage than the actual chatbot.

As if Marketing is steering this ship.

I'm sticking to my own knowledge and trusted independent sources for now, no need to have something make up an entire world for you, just to trap you in a cage of ones own making for real this time?

ArjenM··on “News is what somebody does not want you to print – all the rest is advertising”
>you can usually find some extra info related to the original article from those comments

The real values of being lazy to a fault, reading the comments that come floating above with an experience.

These relatively small and fractured communities are what contains most of the uncluttered sources of outside information, organically getting reprinted for judgement by it's observers once more.

"News" sites are once more the old 1999 closed boxes asking for coin to enter.

ArjenM··on Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments
>a sanitized copy

Quite the importance over a constant wave of changing code on development in certain projects.

Staging seems like a more code locked stable area for all previews that can be polished via quality practices and keen eyes.

Now it seems a little fleeting to me as well to have the shock of previews enter into this instead.

Let the paint dry adequately before taking it outside.

ArjenM··on Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16
> "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,"

Ownership of data should be included in service, but rarely is.

ArjenM··on Software horror show: SAP Concur
We can't have nice things if it requires a little extra, compared to absolute horror all the way down, that's free somehow.

I'm the one who raises flags that are neatly placed in the furthest down regions of backlogs nice to have sections.

ArjenM··on DevOps is broken
Small teams have honestly always been successful to the flaw that they outgrow themselves constantly in my experiences.
ArjenM··on Take a break
Many, many empty promises.
ArjenM··on Take a break
Twenty years, two months into the second burn out on top of long term depression.

I'm going bankrupt for a second time because I can't work 100% anymore.

I'm yet to find a psychiatrist. Wish I could have a break sometimes.

ArjenM··on Treasury recommends exploring creation of a digital dollar
It's like a hot potato that they like to display once in a while.

Might as well wait for the "exploring recommendation" to produce a research report.

ArjenM··on The Death of Personality (2017)
Never underestimate the wants of clients. We are all in this chaotic ride together.
ArjenM··on Bitcoin and Gold Both Fail Miserably as Hedges, Investments
Unless it's physical gold, ideally with craftsmanship work combined. Same for shares, own those in name, not on some dodgy broker.

Markets are always in flux, never a dull moment.

ArjenM··on UK Goverment keen on 50-year mortgages
Can we just flip "money" into "debt" altogether already? It's not like most people have any money to begin with and now they want to make it even harder to ever have anything.

Boris is doing this so he can delay the collapse of the economy btw.

ArjenM··on Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
Virtual hugs all around! Hope everyone has a more favorable time ahead of them next year.
ArjenM··on Insects are more sensitive than they seem
Many people seem to barely understand other humans have feelings to begin with. Let alone that Bees have a more successful political system than us.

As always we still have plenty to learn, even if it's under a rock besides us.

ArjenM··on What happens to developers who never go into management?
Then people keep developing more, I went from manager back to developer and I'm far more happy not having to chase after people.

Also I get to decline my boss asking if I want to take on manager responsibilities on top of normal duties without extra pay. Bit of a no-brainer.

ArjenM··on Watson Services
Noticed it does not find Frisian, but then again neither does Google. It just gives random guesses every time.
ArjenM··on Tinder Auto-liker script in 70 lines
Explains why 99% never starts a discussion, got a bit bored of it after a week.
ArjenM··on Stop Leaning In. Put Down Your IPhone. And HELP ME.
I never witnessed a robbery or violence where innocent people where getting hurt (likely due to my someone scary look?), but it's not because of phones. It's because people are in their routines, if you would walk the same road for 10 years and suddenly someone put a hole in the middle, you'd fall in.

Plus people are sheep, if not a single person is crazy enough to start and help someone else, then most of the time nobody will.

ArjenM··on Dogecoin prices rises +800% in two weeks
Lets get started with DogeCoins... Thanks!

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