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Confirmed it is slop and u can tell from the wording that it is too, all the LLM-isms are obvious. Also there's no usecase where syncthing and chezmoi make sense. The whole point o…

I know there's a lot of blog articles with blogspam ai slop with indian sounding names, so that's anecdotal but i have noticed that in tech.

The real thing i think people forget is that humans actually value time and effort from other humans. AI is often used by people who want to do neither and that's really what it bo…

A lot of those developing nations use it specifically to produce useless slop. Blog spam from India is also very common. I do use AI myself and don't believe its worthless, but I b…

100% and when you decide to use something else, you realize why systemd is actually good.

That's because it's a slop article and it's only really an advertisement for a particular linux distribution.

No they say there they block ads, and I do as well, so maybe they're not used to seeing this kind of crap.

One of the things which really annoys me is the idea that it's every acceptable to blindly "curl -fsSL" bullshit .sh scripts. Even large companies have adopted this crap and you do…

They never did this for user privacy, and yes I think you're spot on. This was just to remove liability. Now it just costs them the data and development cost to maintain. Any remai…

The last time I did this I used the isolandoftex docker image and set it up with DevContainers in vscode https://eccentric.dk/2025/08/25/using-texlive-with-dev-conta...

No its because the emails were not written by Bill. They were written by Epstein to himself and were drafts that were never sent see above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686…

Not everyone mentioned in the Epstein documents is associated with kid diddling. Also the thing about "surreptitiously giving melinda antibiotics" weren't actually written by Bill …

I really want to love the MTNU reform with its Kailh Choc White switches. I wish like there was a laptop that actually had a mechanical keyboard. That's why I've been thinking of p…

It's also worth noting the CAMM2 ram gets about the same performance.

I already have a server at home server. I used a MZ32 motherboard with a bunch of disks 3.5" in it as it's mostly a storage server. My HTPC is an old ATX desktop computer on its si…

The thing I don't get about the framework upgradability is that, what are you honestly going to do with the old system board or graphics card? I guess you could sell it. Who's goin…

> The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one The solution to not being poor is being rich. You could apply that logic to a lot of things. Have this thing instead of t…

> For conviction I agree, for suspicion not so much. Suspicion isn't guilt. The authorities should suspect people based on probable cause, courts should presume innocence and requi…

> The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one, not tolerate cp on the internet. Perhaps the problem doesn't have a binary solution.

There is no god. You can bet the persons who have the magical keys to all the communications will come close to it though. The world won't fall apart because people have secrets.

> There are solutions for anonymous payments using homomorphic encryption. Things like Zcash and Monero exist. The main problem is there are no products that solve the problem Chat…

"Negative", unless you're from the usual axis of countries that actually will deal with Russia. Saved you a click.

> If you log into accounts from your phone, that's also 1fa in the same way. Not quite, there's a lot more sandboxing on phones than what might go on with desktop.

I'd probably use Aegis on android https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis?tab=readme-ov-file#... it's a bit more modern.

> There's a vim plugin for org mode that I used to use, but TBH, Emacs excels at org mode. Which one did you use? I use https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ and am happy with it, it's f…