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vultour··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
It's funny because he tried to excuse it in another comment by saying he's using speech-to-text. I really don't understand what this lie was supposed to accomplish since he seems to be the only person using a STT system incapable of proper capitalisation.
vultour··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
I'm not sure I can trust someone who seems completely oblivious to capital letters.
vultour··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
So you don't actually have anything to support your argument other than "trust me bro". Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
vultour··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
It entirely depends on the language you were using. The quality of both questions and answers between e.g. Go and JavaScript is incredible. Even as a relative beginner in JS I could not believe the amount of garbage that I came across, something that rarely happened for Go.
vultour··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
Half the vendor software I come across asks you to mount devices from the host, add capabilities or run the container in privileged mode because their outsourced lowest bidder developers barely even know what a container is. I doubt even the smallest minority of their customers protest against this because apparently the place I work at is always the first one to have a problem with it.
vultour··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
If you're at a point where you are exposing services to the internet but you don't know what you're doing you need to stop. Choosing what interface to listen on is one of the first configuration options in pretty much everything, if you're putting in 0.0.0.0 because that's what you read on some random blogspam "tutorial" then you are nowhere near qualified to have a machine exposed to the internet.
vultour··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
Why didn't you just buy one with no camera at all?
vultour··on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
This post doesn't read anything like ChatGPT. Correct grammar does not indicate ChatGPT. Em-dashes don't indicate ChatGPT. Assessing whether something was generated using an LLM requires multiple signals, you can't simply decry a piece of text as AI-generated because you noticed an uncommon character.

Unfortunately I think posts like this only seem to detract from valid criticisms. There is an actual ongoing epidemic of AI-generated content on the internet, and it is perfectly valid for people to be upset about this. I don't use the internet to be fed an endless stream of zero-effort slop that will make me feel good. I want real content produced by real people; yet posts like OP only serve to muddy the waters when it comes to these critiques. They latch onto opinions of random internet bottom-feeders (a dash now indicates ChatGPT? Seriously?), and try to minimise the broader skepticism against AI content.

I wonder whether people like the Author will regret their stance once sufficient amount of people are indoctrinated and their content becomes irrelevant. Why would they read anything you have to say if the magic writing machine can keep shitting out content tailored for them 24/7?

vultour··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Yes, that's an absolutely deranged opinion. Most tech jobs can be done on a $500 laptop. You realise some people don't even make your computer budget in net income every year, right?
vultour··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Do you expect Sam Altman to come on stage and tell you the whole thing is a giant house of cards when the entire western economy seems to be propped up by AI? I wonder whose "sober" analysis you would accept, because surely the people that are making money hand over fist will never admit it.

Seems to me like any criticism of AI is always handwaved away with the same arguments. Either it's companies who missed the AI wave, or the models are improving incredibly quickly so if it's shit today you just have to wait one more year, or if you're not seeing 100x improvements in productivity you must be using it wrong.

vultour··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Nobody associates the word handmade with whatever you're talking about here. You hijacked a super common word and are now pretending it's related.
vultour··on Control LLM Spend and Access with any-LLM-gateway
Which self-hosted one would you recommend?
vultour··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
It's funny how everyone seems to be having a meltdown over this. I didn't even notice anything was wrong until I read about it on Reddit 5 hours later, even though I was working all day. Sounds to me like people are too reliant on random websites.
vultour··on AI World Clocks
It's crafted with a prompt that gives the AI the current time, then it simply refreshes every minute so the seconds start at zero correctly.
vultour··on Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
Except you have no idea why Apple is changing the signal display. They could be lying, or they could have a standardised test in which newer hardware performs better. This guy, on the other hand, is clearly saying that Google has no such thing and they're blindly copying Apple regardless of the performance of their hardware.
vultour··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
First of all, RAM is not cheap. Second, the average consumer is not able to install more RAM even if it was. Consumer hardware often has barely enough RAM to run Windows.
vultour··on AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
> I hope actual users never see this

I have bad news for you, this website has been appearing near the top of the search results for some time now. I consciously avoid clicking on it every time.

vultour··on Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
The comment you’re replying to is incredibly concerning. Is he saying people at Google are purposefully misrepresenting signal strength so they can “compete” with Apple?
vultour··on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
I have a "plain Python file" that only imports TensorFlow.
vultour··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
This entire house of cards is built on the expectation that "AGI" is just around the corner. The moment Altman relents in his grift is the moment the bubble pops and we're in for a wild ride.
vultour··on Sora 2
How many more years do you think you'll need to keep saying this before it's actually true?
vultour··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
This is why I refuse to interact with people who use AI. You have to invest orders of magnitude more time to review their hallucinated garbage than they used to generate it. I’m not going to waste my time talking to a computer.
vultour··on I’m Not a Robot
The camera one is optional.
vultour··on I’m Not a Robot
Why? I did it on the first try and have never played games like osu!, there seems to be quite a bit of tolerance for hitting the wrong keys.
vultour··on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
Sometimes I wonder how many lifetimes have been wasted by people all around the world fixing CI because a script expected a branch called master. All for absolutely pointless political correctness theatre.
vultour··on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions
The last three GitHub issues I ran across when looking something up had people literally copy pasting the entire ChatGPT response as their comment. It feels like I'm living in some crazy dystopia when several _different_ people post a 30+ line message that's 95% the same. I'm sorry but I refuse to interact with people who do this, if I wanted to talk to a computer I'd do it myself.
vultour··on A subtle bug with Go's errgroup
This seems like a terrible misunderstanding of the errgroup package? The entire point of the returned context is that it's cancelled if an error occurs, yet the author never uses it again until after he's done with the errgroup. The behaviour is also clearly documented in the only function exported by the package.
vultour··on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant
I suggested we do this at work. We’ll add a tip field to our Jira tickets and whoever’s ticket is worth the most gets priority. Oh you submitted a production incident a week ago? Sorry, there’s not even $5 on it, we filter those out.
vultour··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
These problems plague so many new cars it's incredible. I know people who don't want to buy a new Mercedes S-class, but are instead looking for low-mileage units of the previous generation because it has the same issues. I don't know what the fuck is going on with cars these last few years but the manufacturers need to wake up.
vultour··on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
How did Principal Engineer Copilot not prevent this?!
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