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cohan@cohan.dev

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corobo··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti

corobo··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha

Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.

It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!

corobo··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
Christ I'd be so embarrassed to find out my AI robot has been discussing things with outsiders without my oversight

Does nobody have any shame lmao

corobo··on YC's Biggest Scandals
I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers
corobo··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
Dunno what it is with the wording but my brain started reading it in a bit of a "Hello Clarice" Hannibal Lecter style lol

>The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters

Is this one true? I've not made any changes to fonts on my phone that I know of, wouldn't it just be bog standard iPhone fonts?

Curiosity not challenge

Would be cool if you actually did track just to prove the point like "you've opened this page 6 times now, 2 of those were via VPN and one time was using the Firefox Focus browser. Have you found any flaws in the data yet?"

corobo··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit.

Decent for stuff that doesn't really matter, even if it gets it wrong.

Still gonna be polite to it because I'm about ready to slap the next person that talks to me like an LLM, I don't want to get used to not being polite in a chat interface

corobo··on GPT-5.5
Oh no they gave GPT ADHD
corobo··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao
corobo··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
It takes the recurring out of recurring revenue, 100% churn
corobo··on Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
The malware of "up next" that eats billions of hours a year lol
corobo··on Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
LLMs are an amazing advance in natural language parsing.

The problem is someone decided that and the contents of Wikipedia was all something needs to be intelligent haha

corobo··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
As long as they start with the titular character that's a fair end to the species

Chances are half of humans would vote for it too

corobo··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
> maybe these robots don’t last that long

Landfills full of broken robots is totally something humans would do haha

corobo··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
How are they going to stop it?

A certain combination of nonstandard characters will make an AI character drop an n-word no problem

I guess they could chuck the output through whisper or something to see if it transcribes back to anything dodgy?

LLM security feels very ball of sand held together with duct tape haha

corobo··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
I feel like such a dumbass for falling for it.

At first I thought it was just super American cheerful or whatever but after the South Park episode I realised it's actually just a yes man to everyone.

I don't think I've really used it since, I don't want man or machine sticking their nose up my arse lmao. Spell's broken.

corobo··on Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The second most enviable is locally hosting "Computer"

The entirety of the future Starfleet on our current timeline gets bricked whenever us-east-1 goes offline

corobo··on Being poor vs. being broke
Low salary for the role in my local area and not moving to a city when I still had the ability to take credit out
corobo··on Being poor vs. being broke
I work and earn money, my balance has never been above zero. Worded it clumsily maybe.
corobo··on Being poor vs. being broke
No consolation needed - if I come across as woe is me it's not the intention. It is what it is and all that. I've got food, I've got shelter. It'll do.

You're born, you keep your head down, and you die - if you're lucky.

corobo··on Being poor vs. being broke
> a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha

corobo··on You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK
I think we might need a bit of pain if we're going to dislodge this silly thing.

For what it's worth I salute anyone blocking, whether through an excess of caution or just as a middle finger.

corobo··on ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links
Pretty sure you can nuke all your domains old content by blocking archive.org in robots.txt
corobo··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
Would be easier for everyone else if you parented your child in addition to raising them
corobo··on iPhone DevOps (2023)
Something that might be worth a look at for anyone in this situation is the Twiddler, it's a one handed mouse and keyboard. Connects via USB and/or Bluetooth

I know of it via a streamer who uses it to control OBS, but this is more its native use case haha

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

corobo··on Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures
Ah dammit the AGI has ADHD
corobo··on Recovering from AI addiction
Then your higher power is logic and reason, and the question:

"Why are you doing this?" Give it the old 5-whys.

Your thermodynamic gubbins know how to enjoy the entropy while they're temporarily in this configuration without booze too.

Or just die in pain when your liver gives in, all good options.

corobo··on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over
Interesting idea and kinda really makes sense.. I guess at the time I just chucked them into todos as I have plenty of friction free ways to get tasks into Todoist haha.

I'll give it a go, nice one

corobo··on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
This is going to be like that thing where we have to fix printers for the generation above and below us isn't it, haha

Damn kids, you were supposed to be teasing me for not knowing how the new tech works by now.

corobo··on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
I would click the link in the event to go say happy birthday to the person! I guess I wasn't the norm though aye, it's big numbers that matter
corobo··on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Unfortunately not on mobile web, just takes me to the homepage (even if I replace the www with m to rule out a blanket redirect to mobile)

I guess I could restrict my Facebooking to desktop if it still works there but then I'll visit even less haha

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