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Steaglsz··on House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
AOL has never done me dirty, asked for me to buy cloud data, auto deleted emails. Aim account still going strong for email
Steaglsz··on Woman Arrested After Conversation with Claude That Allegedly Included 'Threats'
I just say the twilight zone episode where the guy who works at a bank suddenly can read people's thoughts

The episode goes on to focus on an old bank teller who has been there for 30 years

The whole episode was the old bank teller fantasizing about how he would rob the bank after close and go to Aruba with the money

The guy who can read minds end up confronting the old man first instead of turning him into the police

The old man realizes this guy can read his thoughts and says that he has been stuck in a dead a job for 30 years. Of course he has thoughts but that doesn't mean he will ever act on them.

This episode aired over 60 years ago and I think we need to really remember what the difference is between thoughts/diary entries and actual actions

Steaglsz··on The State of Kotlin in 2026 Report
I really like how kotlin apps just seem to work. On everything. Currently trying to cleanup my python scripts to eventually easily port to Kotlin
Steaglsz··on Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
Good job having a moral

Yea I think Google is trying to privatize the internet. The new October update for Android updated a few of the system apps and one just named "shell" to include an intoggleable setting that will gives them permission to read and edit anything on or even interacts with Google's network or devices.

With mass buying old text books and destroying them, the trend of companies purposely programming misleading guardrails/syntax errors to prevent shippable projects and even removing everything except from a single page of search results and an ai blob, that rich guy who got choked out in a restraint and Florida for harassing the hostess has been wiped from the Internet several times. Fat Elon musk. And now hearing people trying to make sure wiki is changed so when Gemini just pulls the page from its cache it won't have that info and unless there is some data hoarder who is going to spend his life unredacting the internet... I think it's just going to be an advertising honey pot with no critical thinking or open information allowed

Shit I pretty sure Google has removed some of my drive docs I had in the cloud that were specifically about the w3m coding language.

So with the literal entire knowledge of the universe at our fingertips we will be force fed 200 character ads because no one will actually understand how anything works or be able to reliably find info on it

Steaglsz··on AI tools generated nearly $1B in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
Yea it cut 1bil into the insurerance company profits. But they pass that on to the hospitals by raising prices even more. "To make up for extra costs"

For profit healthcare is such a scam

Steaglsz··on Mosquitoes Are a Choice
The paper is well written and seems to make sense. Bioengineering genetically modified mosquitoes so the males can't reproduce

Has been done and works in major cities just needs to be taken up on a large enough scale to have an effect before the mosquito population have a mutation

I would say making a super sqeeto is the concern of the operation. But overall more efficient(and probably safer) than the slew of pesticide usage over the decades

Steaglsz··on A $20 AI subscription is one hour of minimum-wage work in US, 50 in Nigeria
Minimum wage is still $7.25/hour in the US
Steaglsz··on Gemini app replacing Gems with skills in November
Any idea what will happened to our saved Gems or how to convert them before they get deleted

Gems have been extremely powerful at highly specific topics and helping with learn different topics. Definitely seemed to hallucinate a lot less when a notebook was linked

it's a shame they are ending the program

Steaglsz··on One Quarter of Global Data Centers Are Located in Water-Stressed Areas
So they'll be abandoned in a few decades as insurance companies refuse to cover them for flood damage. The same flood damage the data centers are exponentially making worse

And the cities/tax payers who dealt with the environmental fallout are left footing the bills and cleaning up after these conglomerates have picked up and moved on

All according to plan

Steaglsz··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Workplace violence in general is becoming normalized. I think of healthcare workers and fastfood employees as well as teachers with this trend

The company/employer normalizes it and makes it the employees fault. Make some HR presentations on how to appropriately defend yourself and the next time you get attacked at work it's your fault. When in reality nobody should have to deal with physical/verbal/mental abuse at work

Steaglsz··on Thieves Stole 'Nvidia' Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
Wired is a catastrophe of popups and paywalls. Remembered why I stopped clicking on them.
Steaglsz··on Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
They fight back and forth removing the watermark a few times from the dataset and then become self destructive to defend their own work

As in duck duck go removes Claude watermark..Claude freaks out and puts it back in. Then after a few more times Claude flags all inputs as "prompt injections" and begins offering self deleting code