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crummy··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
for consumption as raisins? I think raisins come from a particular variety - wine grapes aren't even that good to eat fresh, I would guess they wouldn't make good raisins either.
crummy··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
The same thing is happening in Marlborough, NZ - the center of the wine industry in New Zealand. (And probably elsewhere in NZ, but Marlborough is where I grew up). All my life, every year has seen more and more vineyards throughout the valley, until a few years ago it began to slow and recently they've actually pulled some out, which is totally unheard of.
crummy··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I understand the potential for abuse, but it is useful when I search for python and get programming languages and someone else gets snakes.
crummy··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Didn’t Epstein get sent to prison?
crummy··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Doesn’t Musk’s twitter prevent you from saying ‘cisgender’?
crummy··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
Well, the Bible sort of compels you to share it, and in some societies you are economically and socially encouraged to do so.
crummy··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
I don’t know, I read this and think: if these unpredictable machines somehow get it into their heads to upload our source to a public space, or hack our competitors, or steal credit cards to buy more ec2 instances, all to fulfill some simple ask like “make this algorithm faster”, I’m not going to be happy.

I want tools that do not surprise me.

crummy··on Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study
It’d be fairly easy to set up an experiment to validate if that were the case.
crummy··on Introducing MicroLighter
Or even setting bold would be nice.
crummy··on Asus Bike Booster
That’s the same as a pushbike right?
crummy··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Plenty of other services (like Spotify) stop showing you ads if you pay them enough money.
crummy··on Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Splitgate matched new players with bots for the first few hours. It meant I had fun (then eventually I levelled up enough, matched with players, got stomped, and never picked it up again…)
crummy··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
I remember taking general ed classes in college that I didn't want to do but had to to get required credits.
crummy··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
does Astro do WYSWIYG?
crummy··on Grok 4.5
I am inclined to agree but grok 4.5 seems to be almost SOTA. They could be frontier soon.
crummy··on Grok 4.5
Out of curiosity, I just asked Grok and learned:

* Biden won the 2020 election

* vaccines do not cause autism

* global warming is not a conspiracy

In each case it seemed to do a web search so perhaps it is happy to rely on the top results.

crummy··on Grok 4.5
There are plenty of places in the developed world where it just doesn't make financial sense to roll out fibre. In NZ about 90% of the country has fibre access... probably that number will creep a bit higher. But I doubt it'll ever reach 100%.

Whether or not Starlink can build a business on selling broadband to <10% of the developed world I don't know.

crummy··on Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)
Billionaires also want vaccines, sometimes do they have our best interests in mind. They can’t extract wealth from the poor masses if we’re sick!
crummy··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
Would you use a value class if you wanted to represent a fraction?
crummy··on Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land
Why can’t gifts have contracts?
crummy··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
so... they made a society with a lot of inequality and it fell apart?
crummy··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
Are you arguing against the concept of progress taxation entirely?
crummy··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
I have not read Piketty. But I could imagine a society where the poor are 10% better off and the rich are 1000% better off to be a less stable society that ends up falling apart.
crummy··on Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
I think your detector is overly sensitive. That sounds like a very common way to phrase a sentence.
crummy··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Doesn't Apple already ask you for your age when you set up a new device? And I think Microsoft requires you to be 18 on your admin account.
crummy··on LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years
That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.
crummy··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
This makes it seem like roughly an even split:

https://imgur.com/a/4W9Ub2t

crummy··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
Some footage: https://youtu.be/CiWX1nsvqBs?si=lE5autC2y2b8ez2X

At a minute in you can see the satellites being ejected out one by one.

crummy··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
I thought they paid barely anything to artists because they are only getting fifteen bucks a month from each subscriber. And their price is restricted because they’re essentially competing (as a business model) with piracy.
crummy··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
does it have some kind of sandboxing for its extensions?
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