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gentleman11··on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
I know kids avoiding many high paying careers because of ai right now, and artists just giving up everywhere i look. Thanks, ai
gentleman11··on Where things stand with the Department of War
if all the good people leave all the important positions, what will happen?
gentleman11··on Where things stand with the Department of War
they should rename it to the department of invasions, domestic surveillance, and coups
gentleman11··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
simple solution: go to a convenience store. Show your id, maybe 2 pieces. They frown, shrug, and give you an anonymous verification token, usable once (or maybe a set of 20), that you can then use to anonymously verify your age.

Yeah, people will sell these tokens online, but that's not the end of the world. People have bought liquor for minors who sit around the corner from the liquor store since forever. It's still a reasonable comporomise

gentleman11··on iPhone 17e
I'd still be using my iphone 5 if the battery didn't swell and if apps still worked with it and updates (sabotages) didn't slow it down so much
gentleman11··on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
might be location based? I've used claude a lot this week and had no downtime at all
gentleman11··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
The newer have worse ergonomics than the old ones. I used to use my previous ipads all the time for reading, but now I find them all fairly uncomfortable for reading and end up not using them. Slightly tempted to sell them and get older models tbh
gentleman11··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
ICE is trump building a personal army
gentleman11··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
--and then, all the decent people no longer work there, and it's like certain other careers populated entirely with psychopaths
gentleman11··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
Open ai, the former non-profit, whose board tried to fire the CEO for being deceptive, which is no longer open at all, isn't exactly about ethics these days.

Even on a personal level: OpenAI has changed it's privacy policy twice to let them gather data on me they weren't before. A lot of steps to disable it each time, tons of dark patterns. And the data checkout just bugs out too, it's a fake feature to hide how much they are using everything you type to them

gentleman11··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Trump doesn't want another election to happen. He needs some powerful tools to ensure that happens, ie, massive scale ai surveillance and manipulation. Eg, like Xi uses in China. I bet anyone here he starts a war as his excuse
gentleman11··on Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
if trump threatens them for making him look bad, and they cancel the polls and then say it was because of pressure, then they lose both the poll and make trump mad
gentleman11··on Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE
"don't be evil"
gentleman11··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
The dream. Although a map display would be nice to keep us from needing to fiddle with our phones. And backup camera
gentleman11··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
today's tech demos are tomorrow's everyday
gentleman11··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Fears of mass surveillance? It's already mass surveillance
gentleman11··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Youre joking, right? Nobody i have ever voted for has won anything
gentleman11··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Expect a visit feom ho.eland security 10 years from now
gentleman11··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
They dont want it to be private. They want to profile you and sell your data
gentleman11··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
They also cancelled 25M good shows and played 800% more ads in the same time
gentleman11··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Substack also wont let you contact human support without spending days fkdskf around with its ai chatbots who refuse to ever, ever escalate to a person
gentleman11··on Is AI the Paperclip?
Honestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be
gentleman11··on Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent
I think this ship has sailed and windows users dont trust windows at all any more
gentleman11··on Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2P06aHpvnQ

I saw this on youtube yesterday. It is some animation directors micro social media website, limited to 50 people.

I dont care for the ethereum. But wouldnt it be cool if major social media platforms were like this?

gentleman11··on Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
Depends on the developer and on their organization they work for. Ideally, most do, but the pressures of work and the styles of project management sometimes sideline that, or the team ends up in survival mode where they merely try to stave off the inevitable spaghetti apocalypse
gentleman11··on The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)
Slight call for help:

I'm close with somebody who is experiencing extreme 10/10 withdrawal or other side effects from their ssri (escitalopram). They tried to quit, then went back ionto it due to severe withdrawal, and its actually gdtting worse every day now even 1.5 weeks later. What should I read or watch to understand what is going on?

gentleman11··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
My question is: how did you manage all that the refined art in such a small amount of time? I can see the coding but I always assume art takes forever unless you have a partner who handles the art
gentleman11··on Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?
Stop celebrating the guy who brought spyware and ads to windows
gentleman11··on Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer
The core issue is software freedom. Software, when it’s commercial, is something you basically give control of your hardware to and you have to trust that it won’t abuse that power. Or, you dont even use your own hardware, and you just send your data in an even more opaque way to the cloud. Will it be misused?

Typically, yes, egregiously. We need either computing platforms that sandbox things fully, or else full control over our software. And an end to these Eula’s Eula’s that, let’s be honest, could ask for anything and we couldn’t say no. Even governments get stuck here and can’t refuse

gentleman11··on Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement
Yeah, they say programmers get paid that too, but not where I live
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