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Yuck, the LLM writing style is obvious, and strongly suggests you didn't do the work you claim. Why should we read this?

Maybe he sold his company, or never completely owned the name himself?

Builders and gamers can install regular Windows. They can run a de-crapifying script to strip it right back - cut the AI, OneDrive, adverts etc. It flies along very predictably wit…

How is "without being able to really put it in words" a mark of experience ? Surely an engineer should be able to justify why an architecture should be arranged the way it is!

But there's been security fixes in most releases of rsync! Even then, why would a security fix be some kind of strike against AI? We've all seen LLMs being used to tease out the mo…

The risk of an "upstream cloud provider" is not something you need to tolerate in your supplier of internet infrastructure!

Yep you can look up a car's MOT status publicly, including their mileage history at each inspection. I wonder if they'll send a bill from that report, or expect garages to act as t…

Sounds like a bargain. In the UK we'll be paying £0.03 per mile from April 2028.

This is very cynical, why would you not thank the Wallet Inspector

Microsoft say it's no longer true that EV certificates get special treatment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/package-and-d... The only option to avoid a SmartScreen…

Er yeah same. I can believe it's a PITA to self-host because why would they care to make it easy. It's open source, good luck. $10/year seems pretty fair to avoid all that. The cli…

This OS doesn't says it's maintenance-free! But it skips a whole load of maintenance you'd need to think about with a traditional base system, because 1) there's almost nothing the…

The internet of 20 years ago was awash with info for running dedicated servers, fragmented and badly-written in places but it was all there. I can absolutely believe LLMs would ena…

I founded a hosting company 25 years ago when User-Mode Linux was the hot new virtualisation tech. We aspired to just replicate the dedicated server experience because that was obv…

There was a time before Google when various mailing lists of grumpy sysadmins in key institutions could decide the fate of a new mail sender, internet-wide. But yes that "internet …

Or just switch your browser to Reader Mode and it's free.

I have seen it start on a sentence, get lost and finish it with something like "Scratch that, actually it's fine." And if it's not giving me a reason I can understand for a bug, I'…

The law (OK, well, British law) does recognise that many terms can be Unfair especially when one of the parties is an individual, and especially when it relates to employment. They…

Pasting a big batch of new code and asking Claude "what have I forgotten? Where are the bugs?" is a very persuasive on-ramp for developers new to AI. It spots threading & distribut…

Absolutely the opposite here, after reading a few paragraphs I was a bit bored. Then I saw the length of the piece, noticed the AI imagery, quit, came here. I read your comment and…

"I'm sorry to ask, but have you forwarded me unedited output from an LLM? I'd rather hear what you think!"

I had internalised that it was Windows Defender hooking every file operation and checking it against a blacklist? I've had it forced off for years.

Right?? There is a working original After Burner in an arcade in Leeds - on free play and just open to kids of all ages. Sooo many places where it could trap a finger, and it moves…

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