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footlose_3815··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Reality is often a parody of itself. Did you know he famously quoted that empathy "Does a lot of damage"?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote...

footlose_3815··on Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Yes. Last week sucked. We were thinking of sticking with them, but it seems they're shakier than I thought. With all that, and GPT5 just kicking Opus 4.1's butt in cost, reliability, and quality, I'm leaning OpenAI again.

Who knows how it will be next week.

footlose_3815··on Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Phishing campaigns are about to get a lot more effective.
footlose_3815··on iPhone Air
Once again, stuff I don't care about. We would be 3x as impressed if it was 3x as wide and 3x battery life.

TouchID is also still sorely missed, and I will die on that hill. I'm on a 2022 SE hoping they change their mind one day. FaceID is a repellent experience.

footlose_3815··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
Maybe a month ago, I started getting bombareded with every element of the right wing media ecosphere on Facebook. "Trump for President", Ben Shapiro, JD Vance, and piles of dogwhistle-named Facebook pages who are reaching for every way to feel relevant.

Just recently, all of them, in-concert, started trying to focus on the lady who stole that Baseball at that game. All they are talking about for the last week. Promoted content, sent directly to people's facebook profiles.

Whether or not I feel nationalist terrorists are running the US government, either way I feel the government shouldn't be working this closely with social media. It's extremely dystopian, and it cheapens everything around it.

footlose_3815··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The frog has boiled. These companies actively profit when kids are engaged and unhappy.
footlose_3815··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
In related thought, when I listen to Suno, when I create "Epic Power Metal", the singer is very-often indistinguishible from the famous Hansi Kursch, of Blind Guardian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansi_K%C3%BCrsch

I'm not sure if he even knows, but that is almost certainly his tracks they trained on.

footlose_3815··on What happens when 10k AI agents are left to self-govern in a virtual world?
I... Don't want to join, or watch, or contribute, or login... But the clickbait headline had me for a sec.
footlose_3815··on The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making
*Hand-drawn 2D animation. There's tons of 2D animation out there right now, and I hate it all from "A little bit" to "It's unbearable to look at".

Animation rigging, squeezing and bouncing every part of the character to convince the viewer it's alive, but all it's doing is calling computer routines to wobble each part, instead of actually animating the damn character. Everything is shortcuts now.

Recently, I started re-watching Dexter's lab. It's great. No CGI at all, no computer-assisted calarts. Trying to watch anything modern from the same creator, everything is just unbearable to look at. Everything looks like disjointed parts, and screams low-effort. All the flash animators of the 2000s grew up, and they're now running things. And everything just looks like wobbly flash.

There's some shows that did this modern animation style well though. But not many.

So I come to the same conclusion, repetitive low-effort stuff repels people.

footlose_3815··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
Whelp, time to restructure Mozilla... sadly...
footlose_3815··on First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis
A tech industry veteran? You would think they could realize it's a disingenuous exchange between him and the AI, but nobody is immune to mental illness.
footlose_3815··on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
Not sure if it's been declared generally yet, but debugging is harder with AI.

Once your requests start to veer away from the direction you wanted (Especially if at-any-point, you transition to Cursor's "Free" mode, and it misunderstands and bulldozes all your previously-working features)

Not only is it harder, the physical stress caused by debugging with AI is something new. It gets some requests so-incredibly-wrong and follows directions totally-contrary, your brain forgets it's talking to a computer, and reacts in a way you would to a person who did all the wrong things here.

Version control has never been so important. I never use cursor without it. And even then, sometimes I just open the client, and a bunch of files changed.

footlose_3815··on Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Those are just the anecdotal bad things unions are known for in political smear campaigns.

Blockade from what? Flip the script and they're protecting their own. Someone joined a group that protected them. Seems like a good deal to an individual contributor.

But then you got cop unions, who move abusers around and shield people from consequences. But they're different because they're state power with the power to ruin lives at him. So of course they get bad raps.

Not all systems are perfect, not all unions are the same, but the philosophy of them in-general, unions are decidedly better than without for those who benefit from them. That includes the general public who knows their traffic light wasn't put up by a corner-cutting SC who doesn't care what happens to it in 3 months.

footlose_3815··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
In its current form, the game is a shell of its former self. They took away a lot of features and maps. They even combined the reviews of CS:GO and CS2 to make CS2 look better.

You can't even play CS:GO anymore. It was all moved to CS2, with cosmetics as the highest priority.

The hostage map rotation used to be 5 maps, with variety. They've cut it to 2 maps, and are outright neglecting any variety. You can play some other maps but only in private matches.

They even got rid of the very fun drop-in mode where you could do Last man standing in pairs.

It's like they don't even care. I've completely stopped playing since CS2 and I hope they can see the metrics of other long-time gamers who also stopped.

footlose_3815··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Sucks they trained on our data and hard work when all we wanted was a place to put our code and have others look at it.

Microsoft ruins everything they touch. They will find a way to ruin Github shortly.

Anyone posting a step-by-step to do a full migration from Github to another provider would get a lot of traffic to their blog in short time.

footlose_3815··on Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread
Twice
footlose_3815··on White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

Thoughts? You must feel conflicted. Since Trump's actions are in violation of this logic.

footlose_3815··on White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives
Supreme court said people could deny business to anyone for any reason during the gay couple cake fiasco, no?

If dude wasn't fed from a silver spoon, he'd know better and watch his lying mouth.

footlose_3815··on Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids
To think, it's possible this entire thing was vibe coded.
footlose_3815··on U.S. intelligence intervened with DOJ to push HPE-Juniper merger
Are you OK knowing how much it costs taxpayers for him to stay at his own golf course? It's corruption at its core. He's robbing taxpayers. It comes to around 10 million per trip of the taxpayer dollars.

He gives smoke and mirrors with "I don't take salary" but it's in plain sight he's profiting from his seat, which no other president did at this magnitude in recent times. They made Jimmy sell his peanut farm.

footlose_3815··on U.S. intelligence intervened with DOJ to push HPE-Juniper merger
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footlose_3815··on Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
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footlose_3815··on Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
>Esp when the lowest setting isn't even meant to be purchased

Yes, I'm glad they finally went to 16/18GB for the new processors.

M3 non-pro processors were shipping with 8GB. That was less than a year ago.

>People are still using OG M1 macs because they're still very capable machines.

If precedent holds up, they won't be for long. The 8GB M1s are already dead in enterprise. There's m1 8GB airs out there that are next on the obsolete block. Soon, some basic web browsing + the OS updates will throttle it to barely usable. (Still better life than a Chromebook, but low bar).

On an enterprise level, the 8GB M1s are no longer deployable for us. Add antivirus, a zoom call, slack, mail, calendar, and a few SaaS app tabs, and it's not usable.

Every yearly OS update there's closed-source overhead that's introduced to the users silently. After dealing with macs for 10+ years, it's the one of only things I can rely on.

Old macs work great until you give them updates, or run modern software on them. Or until a few years after they change chip designs.

As for trusting them to maintain the headroom a few years from now, I really doubt it. They will find a way to fill that headroom, they always do. My 16GB M1 pro practically dies trying to run Logic Pro now. All my shiny expensive intel macs of the 2019 series are now basically paperweights. They don't get extra years of good use like the M1 does. They're no longer deployed because they all started having performance issues right-on-schedule. i9, 32GB RAM goes for $400 on Ebay right now. Lower specced models going for ~$200. A huge loss in value and performance.

footlose_3815··on Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
$1200 for 4TB upgrade is so ridiculous. Manufacturers holding RAM for ransom is very annoying. Esp when the lowest setting isn't even meant to be purchased, and the specs are so low they will underperform, or be obsolete in a few years.

This is kind of why people start cloning macs in the 90s. They were too expensive straight from the factory.

footlose_3815··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
The very first thing I said was he was touting a feature that was already available in all other AIs. That was the whole point, Musk described something that was a feature of literally every other AI. Grok's features are independent of my parent comment. I only assumed his lack of knowledge was of the usual suspects, which all have have real-life evidence of happening.

Prove Musk doesn't has a circle of yesmen, prove he tested cursor (That's a hard one, given the context), and doesn't have a long history of lying.

Shows much more about your eagerness to put someone down who's even a little critical of Musk.

My whole first comment is independent of his billionaire-scale social media driven tantrums, election influence to give himself tax cuts and ads for his cars from the white house lawn, and nazi salutes. But you know, that stuff is just public knowledge and due public criticism doesn't just come out of thin air.

footlose_3815··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Cursor is a leap in difference because it writes to your filesystem and is an AI agent in front of other AIs.

Musk obviously didn't test Cursor, and either got this from his yesmen, or he's just lying unchecked as usual.

footlose_3815··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
These apps are cancer. Otter.ai for example, by default, will scrape the call's contacts, and email every single one, saying they can access the notes if they sign-up. A 300 person meeting, their spam bot sends out 300 emails. Totally captive audience, and the person who installed the notetaker is often none the wiser that it happened.

Even if just one person installs it, it resets the iteration and can begin again.

Just like malware.

footlose_3815··on 10 out of 12 people cured in Type 1 Diabetes Study
"Cured" seems to be words chosen by OP.
footlose_3815··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
Someone needs to go into congress and demonstrate to them, live, how easy it is to lift their phone numbers and call them all at once.
footlose_3815··on LinkedIn Is a Fucked Up Circus – Flee
Let's not draw attention to Microsoft packaging it up in a pretty subscription for dataminers to download.

People will put stuff on professional networks forever, but only once you subscribe can you get that stuff real fast over API, can you really start leveraging these people's data at-scale.

All they need is a linkedin account, rocketreach account, and they have literally everything they need to spearphish your entire executive team at their personal cell phones.

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