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Captainant

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  1. They're the ones controlling Yotta, right? It's wild, that "savings account" is just a depository for a literal online casino now
  2. lulz wtf is an AI Browser? Who the hell would use one of these?? Really good example of prompt injection vulnerabilities that you would be making yourself exposed to. But yeah the "AI browsers" are just SUPER userdata vacuums. All hail surveilance capitalism
  3. Lee Atwater said it best nearly 40 years ago You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n****r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N****r, n****r.”
  4. bro do you want shareholder returns or not you goddamn commie pinko
  5. So like the broken brake (or was it gas?) pedal, they're re-glueing and riveting it on? Wow what craftsmanship for a 100k turd
  6. You're telling me that the senate can pass resolutions with a simple majority?? I'm in a state of incredulity!
  7. Hey man are you some kinda pinko commie? John Deere would be betraying their shareholders if they weren't extracting value out of every link of their valuechain by charging a fee to access their own data, and repackaging customer data into whitelabel products for the open data market. Farmers and farming doesn't matter. Putting the shareholder first matters.
  8. Yup, they borked a bunch of shit with a bad DNS update
  9. huh Azure had an outage today caused by a bad DNS update that hit most of their M365 services and a few businesses pretty good. I wonder if Oracle or GCP will do one too just to be trendy
  10. There's one off Westheimer, pretty dang good chicken
  11. his last comment - "but the power!" is extremely apropos. There's been some solid work and writing around energy usage per million tokens consumed, and agents can routinely burn thousands to tens of thousands per simple "hello/good morning" responses. Even the most efficient setups consume a couple of kWhrs to process a million tokens. There's a hideous amount of power being consumed to do really no actual work aside from running up NVDA's market cap note: "token" is a model-specific metric that refers to the size of each block of input given to a LLM, typically 4-6 characters including punctuation and spaces per token.
  12. If it wasn't the remains, it would be something else. This is HOW BULLIES AND FASCISTS OPERATE. Always find a new grievance to nurse that gives you surface-level justification for ratcheting things up another notch
  13. goddamn he doesn't even live in the US? Why tf was he getting sourced to so much doing the 2020 summer of love and election cycle then?
  14. See: Anthropic's work on model poisoning. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
  15. That's because John Deere's bigger business is collecting farmers soil data and building data products to sell to futures market makers and other interested parties. It's literally because JD is collecting a data stream from farmers and collecting 100% of the revenue from selling their data. THAT is why they're so anti right-to-repair. It puts revenue directly at risk.
  16. It's wild because the valuation based on future sales that are not guaranteed. They'll sell a boatload of chips if a BUNCH things break their way. But market exhuberance gonna exhuber There's SO MUCH mark-to-market accounting going on here, so it's really more a question of if you think you can stay liquid longer than the market can remain irrational. Typically, that's a tough bet to time right
  17. lmao Ian Miles Cheong, noted milkshake survivor
  18. Doctorow talks quite a bit about this book in that Adam Conover interview I posted a few days ago - one of the biggest mechanisms that got us here is the DMCA. Under its provisions, it's a federal felony to break a "digital lock". So you're legally prohibited from cracking encryption to root your own device, or doing anything at all to interfere with their almighty Intellectual Property rights. Because there's an inherent "lock in" effect to EVERYTHING these days, it sets the stage for enshittification to happen. Because there's much higher opportunity costs for a consumer to change a behavior, it creates an economic environment where customer exploitation and extraction becomes a more viable and ideal business strategy
  19. If I were doing it again now, I'd be more interested in trade school than a 4 year university. It worked out well for me, but I had a way different "board state" than your son does. I was an ok-not-great student and I wasn't worried about finding a job - just if it would be a good (read: cool) job. That's definitely not the case anymore, like for fucking ANY degree holder. A trade school is a much more sure deal, and will give much more tangibly useful knowledge compared to the breadth of knowledge a bachelor's degree encompasses.
  20. Damn that's some incredible marksmanship - a world champion shotgun shooter had trouble knocking them down with his specialized M4
  21. AMZN posted their planned Washington layoffs to their WARN database https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database looks like lots of hardware, game design, supply chain, and HR folks. I'm making an inference that most of the software engineer roles are within those hardware/games teams, but that feels accurate
  22. I've personally seen more projects fail than succeed where the implementation partner touted their accelerated timeframe thanks to their coding assistants. I use coding assistants myself and it's incredibly helpful, but """vibe coding""" replaces about 10% of what software engineering is. In my experience "coding" is working with stakeholders to ensure that what's being made is actually meeting the business need - NOT just crapping out code and throwing it over the wall.
  23. 2025 you wild'n https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/ Authorities said the driver of the truck carrying the monkeys told law enforcement that the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.” Authorities say they took the appropriate actions after being given that information. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said all of the escaped monkeys, except for one, “have been destroyed.” The sheriff’s department is still looking for one of the monkeys that is still on the loose.
  24. Ya know, the most annoying part of GRUhorn constantly coming back like a bad case of herpes is that it's harder to shame him for being so fucking wrong all the goddamn time https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c891ex72nj7t BBC: Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks
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