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VCFundedGenYer··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
There aren't small problems in these posters though. They're huge, obvious, and an indicator that the one who made the flyer didn't care whatsoever.

When it includes an American Flag with more than 50 stars + the bottom row is cut off, you know they didn't even bother to proofread it.

This is the kind of garbage we're suffering with.

VCFundedGenYer··on How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?
A lot of people here are AI brained, unfortunately.
VCFundedGenYer··on Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
This is embarrassing. These companies need to stop these obviously coordinated stunts.
VCFundedGenYer··on Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country
Supporting fascists by 50% is pretty damn alarming to me.
VCFundedGenYer··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Did you ask ChatGPT to explain that and then copypaste the output?
VCFundedGenYer··on There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
Turning off your brain with LLMs is how you get fired.

Even with small things, you need to be at the wheel. The other day I had to stop copilot from literally deleting the file I was working on. Why did it choose to go down that route? I don't know, but I nixed and reported the chat once it did that.

LLMs are dangerous and if for some reason you are stuck with using them, do NOT ever turn your brain off.

Ideally, you should not be using LLMs at all.

VCFundedGenYer··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Android has been so thoroughly disappointing through the years. Started as a great open free form alternative to iOS, to becoming the very thing it sought to combat.
VCFundedGenYer··on AI Protest in Montreal
It's not a culture war. It comes down to whether you care about the environment or not.

LLMs are destroying the planet.

VCFundedGenYer··on Economic policy for AGI
AGI does not exist and never will. This might as well be fantasy.
VCFundedGenYer··on How to Write with an LLM
This article should just be one word:

Don't.

VCFundedGenYer··on I don't like passkeys
If the concept isn't easily understood nor well implemented by the majority of platforms, it's not a good concept.
VCFundedGenYer··on I don't like passkeys
This is generally the same experience I've had.

Microsoft is especially poorly prepared for this - Often if you have a passkey, it will CONTINUE To ask you to create a passkey (a new and different one), and it may save it in a different place, which is infuriating.

Strong password + MFA is the way, and I don't see that changing.

VCFundedGenYer··on Computer Reset, Dallas
LGR did a great series of videos about this when he went.
VCFundedGenYer··on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)
Stallman is very problematic, a terrible person, and is the wrong one to deliver this message.

It may be a correct message, but him delivering it makes it DOA.

VCFundedGenYer··on I hate you Microsoft
The author has many, many free alternatives.

LibreOffice. OnlyOffice. Collabora Office. Keynote.

While it is scummy that MS did this, the author needs to grow a pair and look up the millions of ways to open a .pptx.

VCFundedGenYer··on The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
No.

You are projecting things will happen when there is no guarantee.

The DRAM issue has halted the industry.

AI companies need to back down. That is the only objective solution.

VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others
If a site like reddit gates off its content, you expand all comments, CTRL A, CTRL C, and paste into a text file that you feed into the bot.

I do this for a lot of things actually. If the bot can't see/read something, take the content and dump it to a file, then have the bot read that.

Gets around a lot of red tape of asking for approval for "integrations" or when companies are snippy.

VCFundedGenYer··on Our framework for reporting model misalignment
Explain, precisely, how he is wrong? Everything he's spoken about has come true so far. Are you made that he's good at prediction?
VCFundedGenYer··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
I'm worried about the slow burn.

Current students are all cheating using ChatGPT. The numbers are staggering. Nobody is learning anything.

In about a decade or so we will have a shortage of critical roles like doctors, pilots, etc. due to all the cheating, shortcuts, lack of knowledge, skills atrophy, cognitive surrender, etc.

It will result in accidents.

VCFundedGenYer··on Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
The neurodivergent community thoroughly and resoundingly rejects AI and for damn good reason.
VCFundedGenYer··on This Code Is CRAP (2011)
No, we were writing them in 2011.
VCFundedGenYer··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I am so tired of this. Especially when MS, who has the worst LLMs of them all, is throwing the stones.

All of these companies need to be shut down.

VCFundedGenYer··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
> Vibecoding has been the norm for months

That's your editorialization.

VCFundedGenYer··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
Did you even click the link? That's not true at all. The title matches the tin.
VCFundedGenYer··on Small programming tricks
I would probably retitle this less as "programming tricks" rather instead make it "bash/zsh CLI tricks" as this only really tangentially refers to programming.
VCFundedGenYer··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
I remember running the docker container for ollama and its knowledge cutoff is somewhere in 2023 still. That's unacceptable.
VCFundedGenYer··on Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back
This is an AI-generated slop article. Pay it no mind.
VCFundedGenYer··on Leaving Linux
The author is going to have massive remorse if they think moving to macOS will let them customize things.

Using macOS (especially Apple Silicon era macOS) feels like being in maximum security prison. If you thought Windows Vista UAC was bad, macOS is doing it worse right now.

The reasoning is all wrong.

> I'm 30 this year, and computers don't have the same level of whimsy and excitement as they once had.

Also wtf. I'm far older than this author, and this statement they made is just complete and total schlock. They don't have enough experience to say what they're saying.

VCFundedGenYer··on Firefox 156 shows ads in the address bar (dubbed "Firefox Suggest")
Reminder that Waterfox removes all of this nonsense.

And if you want an even more security hardened fork, LibreWolf.

Vanilla Firefox lost the plot a long time ago.

VCFundedGenYer··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
That’s not correct. It reaches back to the 12.

They might be referring to the Apple Intelligence features in particular.

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