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4,501 karma · joined February 4, 2016

ignores everyone, my comments are fire & forget, don't expect a response and if you think I'm wrong, that is your problem not mine.
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consp··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
The failure rate waving is quite a stretch though. If you take into account reporting rates and time (since most people do not have the watch for long) I'm quite concerned. And I own a PT2. The "look big number, it's not a problem" does not translate to actual sensible failure rates.

To be clear: 51 broken screens in less than two months results in a yearly failure rate of over 1% which is find quite high for a watch.

consp··on Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
> At the same time, don't hesitate to seek help from a therapist

I'd like to add that for certain kinds of people, the process of doing this on your own is near torture.

consp··on Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
I've been there (without the LLMs and antidepressants since therapy is healthier). The 1 year is quite optimistic from my perspective. Good luck though. Prioritize yourself.

The different usages of I or i though ... please fix the LLM type checking it.

consp··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
sudo useradd -m [username] ?

su [username] ?

Or am I understanding your idea about switching context wrong?

consp··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
I'm still wondering how this is compatible with laws concerning disabilities, the elderly and those with certain religious believes. They already keep everything governmental related multi modal (you must be able to do it some other way, and almost always this include by proxy and on paper). This is some Draconian way of doing it.
consp··on IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11
Went with windows 10 for a VM, less cow manure to deal with (still bloated and useless without debloating). After booting nearly all of the calls home got rejected anyway because they were marked as spyware related. I would imagine they got that close to 100% on windows 11.

Gaming on linux is fine, framerates and cpu usage are higher and less despite the wine/proton wrappers.

consp··on FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
Sounds like a morning star reference (via some obscure Christian texts) which I will draw further towards Lucifer via Latin. Do with this idea as you please.
consp··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Here in the Netherlands it is 877 euro for an A1 call (emergency, no delays), and 384 for B1 calls (non emergency, planable). You also get a 4.83 euro per km cost. You pay up to 375 euro if you haven't had any medical cost that year, otherwise zero.

Stand by cost are about 154 euro/hour. E.g. for sport events.

ICU transport is about 2500. All are law mandated.

The total cost might be more as the insurers also put in undisclosed amounts and some cost is shared with the emergency departments at the hospitals.

consp··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
So you get other bugs when rewriting in another language without existing tests, got it. This is why I hate all the announcements of "it is rewritten in rust so it is obviously better than the original since it passes all the tests". Edit: and it's an LLM rewrite. Add that to the pile of over hyped messaging.
consp··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
That last part is I think called negligence. And in some industries that becomes criminal negligence quite quickly.
consp··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
I have a Lenovo thin client running Debian as internet gateway/firewall. With some minor modifications and a small low power blower fan you can add a dual sfp pcie card in it (not all versions can, though there are more manufacturers of thin clients with 4x pcie slots). The blower fan is because the main fan stops often and it needs some cooling.
consp··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
So the next step is a hardware or boot firmware backdoor?

(Good to know it remains useful by using openWRT and doesn't become landfill)

consp··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
We have an 80 kph sign about 6m after the autoweg sign (100kph), why they didn't combine them is anyone's guess. My detection system always misses it, and often there are speed checks. Fortunately I can disable sign recognition for the cruise control.
consp··on Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
I've had a few hundred reports over the years as a teaching assistant (digital but must be your own) at the algorithmics course of my university. If I saw that LLM generated uniformity as described they'd all have gotten a plagiarism mark. There were many differences in how people describe things and you could easily see if someone understood the subject or not. That is gone with LLMs as I see it now.
consp··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
I am pretty sure my job would be on the line if I neglected to report a security issue. It is Google's incentives which are not aligned.
consp··on Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
Afaik they did that during calibration. Take known close by objects, compare results, make sure they are the same (up to the capabilities of your ground truth).
consp··on Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
While abused by LLM vendors, that phrase in one form or another I've been hearing since the early '00s and it's likely way older.
consp··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
It's not just google. Try removing an unpublished but uploaded iOS app. Wasn't possible for decades and I guess it still isn't. You eventually could hide them. The only way to remove it was to publish it, but that requires app validation, which a failed app is not suited for.
consp··on How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI
Inside can be as well. Please manually review these 5000 lines of slop I generated while watching YouTube and verify the unreadable readme due to all the bloat and icons is correct with the code.

If that is not soul crushing I would not know what is.

consp··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
It can be helpful in your understanding the choices made by asking questions and thus in reassurance, but it requires something most people lack: understanding you are likely wrong since you are just collecting information without understanding it.

Pretty much the like most manager these days, so I understand the frustration of the GPs.

consp··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Of course no services to fake this exists or have existed. I mean, a well determined person can het around such issues.
consp··on The last Romans are still around
Barbar, likely short for barbarus which in this context likely means foreigner. It can also mean cruel, uncivilized or savage but I'm taking the not-roman approach here.

I'll add "unable to understand context" to my list of frustrations about LLM usage.

consp··on The Doorman's Fallacy in action
Isn't the hard data the loss of the hotel a few years down the road due to being noncompetitive due to declining customers caused by the penny pinching?
consp··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
Most of the AM allowance is grandfathered in if you had an A or B license, some still combine them though. For some countries (like mine), while AM has those maxima, but the only vehicles allowed in the AM category are low power mopeds (sub 45kph). So it's arranged via vehicle allowance, not drivers license requirements. Any ebike with a throttle would fall under that category.
consp··on Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
Why didn't the review process spot this obvious error? Oh wait ... @codex review this
consp··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
A vague promise which you pretend to beleave and can make believable to other is just business advice unfortunately.
consp··on Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
You don't need a car for football matches. You need a car for convenience because [fill lazy reason]. And if one person rents a van you can take half the team...
consp··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
Your first paragraph sounds like a religion.
consp··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
> Can you actually saturate the links with the spinning drives?

I can mostly saturate my toy 100gbit link with it on read (to memory, since the other side also needs to not be the problem). Just for as long as it's already in the ZFS cache (which can be huge with in the hundreds GB of ram in servers in general). Not in practice since when you hit the disks you take a massive penalty, but then again, it can be done.

consp··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
If you are at home and want to do DIY you can put OpenWRT on quite a few of them in case you don't want to sell them or dump them as e-waste.
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