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walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
Calling someone a "fucking idiot" is far kinder than falsely accusing them of being a LLM poster, but I don't even see a flag on the comment which I was replying to.

Do you just have a preference for better disguised insults?

>It also looks like you've been using multiple accounts to comment in the same threads, which is abusive and not allowed.

maybe don't build systems that only serve to encourage behaviour which you would seemingly prefer to discourage?

walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
lol
walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
> How can we know the IRA “won”?

In signing the GFA, the UK effectively gave up on it's sovereignty over NI. That was never going to happen through "peaceful and democratic means"

walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
>And even then mostly because a lot of people were supportive of their cause even if they were against their methods

But IRA didn't win because those people supported their cause, IRA won despite those people being against their methods.

It was the force they used which directly led to the GFA, without the bombs and the killing the British would never have surrendered.

walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
There's no credit due for correctly reading your adversary?

Obviously the Israelis could have just kept their mask on, but Hamas was clearly correct in their calculation that they wouldn't.

walletdrainer··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
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walletdrainer··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
>We tried that. That didn't work.

Ah yes, because businesses just love to turn down free money.

>Once again, nobody is asking that. So you are misunderstanding SKG.

If SKG really does not want games to remain playable after EOL, they're certainly piss-poor communicators. I thought the whole point was to "stop killing games", i.e. make them last longer.

walletdrainer··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
>> You're suggesting a subsidy for gamers which everyone else would to pay for

>No, that's not how it works. Not even close.

As far as I can tell, legislation which enables you to play a game in perpetuity instead of for a limited time will likely reduce the amount of tax revenue your gaming-related activities generate.

A useful metric to focus on here is the cost per hour of entertainment. The price of the game itself might stay the same, but the cost of your gaming itself would be subsidized.

walletdrainer··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
> but due to you actively portraying your opposition as malicious

It's extremely difficult to see how the statement quoted below is not fairly characterized as malicious

>The industry should only be allowed to comment after the laws have been written and fulfill the goals of European citizens.

If the opposition simply seeks to silence you, rather than to argue against you, how are they not malicious?

walletdrainer··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
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walletdrainer··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
It's particularly funny because "monster-in-the-middle" appears to be a deliberately quirky marketing term invented by cloudflare.
walletdrainer··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
Those sources feel more than slightly contrived.
walletdrainer··on Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet
>I'm a bit confused about why you are still wondering

They did admit to being German.

walletdrainer··on 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
If something like this had been implemented 20 years ago, we'd probably be exactly where we are now. What's the point?
walletdrainer··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
Maybe look at how people actually use it? Not sure why the Indian blogspam is worth looking at.

"Engagement" has a specific meaning. It's different from "like farming" or "karma farming". Some platforms specifically reward engagement, making it a reasonable thing to farm on those platforms.

> using automated systems for mass liking or following

Clearly the author was clueless, this has nothing whatsoever to do with engagement farming.

walletdrainer··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
> There is no guarantee that they will be a big part of the stock market. It is not "absolutely" sure, for them or for any new public stock

It's really hard to believe that you'd be writing this in good faith.

In reality, even without being publicly listed(!), these companies have already managed to become an absolutely massive part of the market. After the IPO? Hah.

walletdrainer··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
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walletdrainer··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
> The biggest mistake I made was high uptime. arjie.com was up for 10 years plus on a Hetzner VPS so that by the time they wanted to sunset the machine underlying I had no idea what my teenage self had set up. I have the backups but the site hasn’t been up in a decade

LLMs have solved this problem, they’ll happily deal with the software archaeology on your behalf. This is the kind of task they really excel at.

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Also, you just don’t get LLM-isms at this rate if you’re simply using them for translation. (From the common commercially available products)
walletdrainer··on Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities
Yes, but academic HPC environments are very 90s and are far from what is generally considered reasonable in 2026.
walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
> Rather: Josef Průša is not a native English speaker (his mother tongue is Czech).

Are you joking? Guy has been tweeting in English for almost two decades, that’s not the problem.

Here's the frequency of the " - " pattern in tweets by "josefprusa"

  2020:  8 / 761 tweets  = 1.1%
  2021:  5 / 533 tweets  = 0.9%
  2022:  9 / 597 tweets  = 1.5%
  2023: 21 / 450 tweets  = 4.7%
  2024: 57 / 725 tweets  = 7.9%
  2025: 23 / 390 tweets  = 5.9%
  2026: 15 / 136 tweets  = 11.0%
walletdrainer··on Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities
> Can we make the kernel vulns less important?

Local kernel vulns are totally unimportant in any vaguely reasonable environment.

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Banal accusations?

Here's the frequency of the " - " pattern in tweets by "josefprusa"

  2020:  8 / 761 tweets  = 1.1%
  2021:  5 / 533 tweets  = 0.9%
  2022:  9 / 597 tweets  = 1.5%
  2023: 21 / 450 tweets  = 4.7%
  2024: 57 / 725 tweets  = 7.9%
  2025: 23 / 390 tweets  = 5.9%
  2026: 15 / 136 tweets  = 11.0% 
Now, go ahead and tell me this guy is not yet another spammer polluting social media with LLM-generated garbage.
walletdrainer··on Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
You can come upon such information by other means

In sports? Perhaps you just observe a player get injured in a car accident and bet based on that.

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
The information contained within might be accurate, but the information clearly wasn’t important enough for the person posting it to actually bother communicating it like a normal human being.

That’s pretty telling!

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Do people genuinely not understand how stupid it makes them look when they copypaste ChatGPT output onto social media like this?

Based on his tweets, Josef seems like a guy incapable of coming up with his own original thoughts.

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
> AI-generated text is worth skepticism, but humans can be idiots and spout nonsense too.

Sure, but anyone posting chains of incredibly long LLM generated tweets can safely be ignored as an utter moron.

walletdrainer··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
The tweets by Josef Prusa also seem LLM generated, this whole story is slop.
walletdrainer··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
There are two different schools of thought:

1) It’s OK to do just about anything to win a CTF, including installing malware on the organisers computers months before the actual event so you’ll have an easy time stealing the flags.

2) It’s not ok to try and win the CTF with a solution the authors did not intend.

Recently the #2 crowd has been winning because the hacking scene has turned corporate and boring. People started to partake in CTFs in the hopes of landing a job(!)

CTFs are indeed ruined for those people, I personally don’t mind.

For the people in group #1 LLMs change little. Attacking the challenges directly was always a last resort.

walletdrainer··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Bizarre font and poor contrast, yep.

The text itself being exceedingly long for no obvious reason doesn’t help.

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