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gentleman11··on Does anybody like React?
What do you mean nobody is forced to use react? What is this brave new world where you can learn lisp and use it for everything you desire, where corporate culture has no sway over your tech choices?
gentleman11··on A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Why do you think the jobs directing the work will be dine by us instead of by huge data centers with manager ais?
gentleman11··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
Its to drive homeless people away, shamefully enough
gentleman11··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
Not to mention how parents might get in actual legal trouble now for not acting like this
gentleman11··on Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs
You mean coal?
gentleman11··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Based on their switch 1 track record, a new mario will run at 5fps on native nintendo hardware on the final boss (eg, bowsers fury)
gentleman11··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
the turing test of q3 2026
gentleman11··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The difference between an ai artist, and a human who uses ai to do all their work for them, is barely a difference at all. I think this is just a stepping stone for them while they wait for the public to accept/give-in-to the new state of affairs
gentleman11··on U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
Weirdly, peter thiel is going on tour right now promoting the idea that the antichrist is coming and may be an organization or social movement rather than a person. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I only skimmed the articles about it
gentleman11··on U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
I suspect that if we don't want to live in this future, we need some major open source tech leadership around making something like an anonymous version of this

I know, not exactly an easy problem to solve, but big tech or government is going to do it if we can't find better solutions first

gentleman11··on College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
I had a typewriter growing up and I remember thinking it was the coolest thing. I was amazed by it and tried writing several stories. Eventually my dad bought me a crappy old computer that was only really good for writing, and that was cool too. I loved that thing. It was small too, with an integrated monitor and keyboard, so it didn't take over the whole desk where I still used pencil and paper often

Imagine being able to do some writing without notifications going off every few seconds, and where you're not always one click away from a search engine and some website scientifically designed to drag your attention down a rabbit hole and keep it there

gentleman11··on Claude mixes up who said what
I honestly think llms perform worse and worse with context. Whenever possible, I disable it because things just get wacky when it has more than a little bit of context available
gentleman11··on Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.
How do you prevent people from having phones while inside?

Do you just get in trouble for whipping it out? Or do you have to drop it off with a phone valet at the entrance? If so, how do you prevent theft or mixups? Are all the staff comfortable confronting people who have taken their devices out, risking their tips and personal comfort levels? What if somebody gets cranky after being asked because they didn't know and it's halfway through dinner?

It's a tricky policy to enforce smoothly

gentleman11··on LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
I feel like this was written by somebody who thinks we've been in the room the whole time while things happened. It's so dense with allusions that nobody is going to be able to understand.

What is this even about?

- A licensing controversy with some cloud companies who used libre office's software?

- Some new tos thing?

- something else?

gentleman11··on Show HN: We open-sourced our content writing workflow as a Claude Code skill
This is the future of the internet. Bots talking to bots, optimizing websites to draw more and more of what I guess will increasingly be bot traffic (ai scrapers), sharing bot generated photos, bots then discussing these websites on "social" media... and it getting harder and harder to detect.
gentleman11··on 4D Doom
I don't want to be the guy who has to use this level editor (although, in a similar way, doom was 2.5d, and so the level editor could essentially be 2d, so maybe it's not so bad?)

If this is 4d doom, i wonder what 4d quake could be

gentleman11··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
To the people criticizing the comment above, think of all the other illegal things trump is already doing. It's not a matter of "can't", it's a matter of if he will and who will stop him (nobody, so far)
gentleman11··on Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
only big companies have access to the legal system. nobody else can afford it
gentleman11··on Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
What did everyone expect? I can't understand this community's trust of microsoft or startups. It's the typical land grab: start off decent, win people over, build a moat, then start shaking everybody down in the most egregious way possible.

It's just unusual how quickly they're going for the shakedown this time

gentleman11··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
I think this "emergency break" is just going to get eye rolls from most people
gentleman11··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
That wasn't an up cycle, was it? Wasn't Microsoft was doing that at the same time as adding ads and stuff to the os. Silicon Valley people were just wowed by the open source initiatives and money. Everyone worshipped the ceo for it while windows for users swirled down the toilet, while new analytics couldn't be disabled, etc etc etc
gentleman11··on FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic
Maybe not with the current administration pressuring the courts on the matter in some deranged manner or another
gentleman11··on ArXiv declares independence from Cornell
I doubt it was him who architected it. A team of lawful evil lawyers more likely
gentleman11··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
I've used linux desktop environments using Wayland and others using x11. No real problems with either.

Let's instead get excited by all the new linux users coming in thanks to SteamOS and Valve. If the trend continues, we might start seeing larger software companies releasing native linux versions of their software -- and then, the year of the linux desktop will start becoming an actual possibility!

(I heard affinity suite is linux friendly now btw, and davinci resolve too -- not sure if proton is necessary or not, but either way, really cool)

gentleman11··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
IP laundering is a big part of AI, it's why big companies are so excited and workers / artists are less excited
gentleman11··on Can I run AI locally?
ask apple to graciously allow you to install your own ram in the computer you "own"
gentleman11··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Also for me. I cannot even get interviews anywhere. Enjoyed a really senior role at my previous position
gentleman11··on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
I'll pass that along to my starving artist friends who work minimum wage jobs. thanks
gentleman11··on MacBook Neo
The limited ram is planned obselescence. It leads to massively increased swap usage and will wear out your non-replaceable ssd to make you get a new machine. In theory
gentleman11··on Anthropic, please make a new Slack
Just use mattermost. We alrrady have an open source wlack replqcement.
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