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GeorgeOldfield··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
that would brighten my day for once this year
GeorgeOldfield··on I said no and Apple said yes
but mac has software at least
GeorgeOldfield··on Taste Is All That's Left
pangram v4 model says 100% of this article was LLM-generated.

pangram v4 reports a 0.0041% false-positive rate (~1 in 24,000 human texts) and a 0.3396% false-negative rate (~1 in 294 AI texts)

and i also think it was AI generated

GeorgeOldfield··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
i think it's misunderstanding what people mean when they say that. i understand this as - bad code + good marketing == money. good code + bad marketing == no money. code isn't the bottleneck.
GeorgeOldfield··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
gemini isn't even that good. just tested 3.5 on usual complex prompts to opus/chat 5.5. meh
GeorgeOldfield··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
so we are losing the only point of Android -- sideloading apps -- now it will be literally worse at everything compared to iOS :(
GeorgeOldfield··on MacBook Neo
that's it boys. apple will take over the ENTIRE market with this. they will be at schools everywhere. only reason to not get a macbook before was the price.
GeorgeOldfield··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
my 64GB M1 pro max is still fast AF. faster than my regular M3 in practice

i wish the new mbp had 256GB of ram :(

GeorgeOldfield··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
I'm interested in the Ultra with 256GB/512GB ram :)))
GeorgeOldfield··on I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
the problem is - these don't work unless everyone uses them worldwide.
GeorgeOldfield··on I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
yeah I think trillions alone wouldn't be enough to replicate Apple's success and market dominance (especially the most valuable demographic)
GeorgeOldfield··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
nobody is switching
GeorgeOldfield··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
damn you guys are naïve. this is ragebait (not the blog author, the person who told AI what to do...)
GeorgeOldfield··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
I'm not saying the author is malicious. These are typical vibe-coded codebase characteristics.
GeorgeOldfield··on Trump Accounts
Mr. Rand, not just goods and services. also anything that taxes pay for, done by younger people than you. roads laid, cleaned, police, firefighters, public parks, etc. deal or no deal? there is no third option. if you're really mad about it i can make up a third option specially for you but you won't like it, probably.
GeorgeOldfield··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
it's fun but PLEASE watch out for malicious code/supply chain attacks from random vibe-coded .sh scripts:

downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later

edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion

parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"

GeorgeOldfield··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
not this grifter again
GeorgeOldfield··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
the upfront cost
GeorgeOldfield··on Trump Accounts
fine but the tradeoff is you are not getting any benefits or services from people younger than you. deal or no deal?
GeorgeOldfield··on Trump Accounts
What is very disturbing, apart from the obvious, is the fact that they are using Google generated AI images. take the picture of the kid, put it into gemini.google.com and request @SynthID
GeorgeOldfield··on Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
most of them are needed at one time or another.

also a mandatory: and yet the macbooks are faster and more battery efficient than any PC laptop with linux/windows

GeorgeOldfield··on OpenClaw is changing my life
skill issue
GeorgeOldfield··on Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
it's real, i have the leak.
GeorgeOldfield··on Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
he's a sophist. not terrible like Jordan Peterson, et al. but he is a sophist 100%
GeorgeOldfield··on Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function
i think alcohol is also a gateway drug. anything that creates REAL addiction/disinhibition/escapism (not food). paradoxically i don't think cigarettes are a gateway drug, but weed is because of how it works
GeorgeOldfield··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
why is this nonsense trending here? this is a random blog
GeorgeOldfield··on First, make me care
not true because the meta changes constantly. The accounts that are popular for a long time have someone talented at the head.
GeorgeOldfield··on Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
it's almost like it's better to have an external owner of social media companies
GeorgeOldfield··on Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
do you guys understand that different experts are loaded PER TOKEN?
GeorgeOldfield··on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
I read the title and i thought we are considering if nuking Northern Europe is a good idea.
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