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veeti

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About veeti

Just trolling.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49213259

    Cloudflare and other WAF blocking is increasingly an issue with RSS feeds, especially if you use a centralized reader.

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    Comment #49202380

    Well, are those humans Iranian schoolchildren or Russian troops invading Ukraine? Hard to make a judgment without knowing.

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    Comment #49175404

    It sounds a little implausible at first, but Adform serves like a billion views on European consumer websites. For example, a state gambling monopoly: https://mstdn.social/@GossiTh…

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    Comment #49145607

    It's Monday morning and you arrive at your comfortable corporate cubicle. You fire up the old Cursor to work on some code and fire off a prompt in "Auto" mode. Without even knowing…

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    Comment #49099849

    So, instead of getting upset at the people taking a joyride on the gas guzzling Lamborghini or generating shitty slop memes on TikTok, you're upset the ambulance drivers are racing…

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    Comment #49099630

    Contributors may object to the Hitler AI on their personal ethical grounds, but it's not going to make their buggy and vulnerable code any less so. Because our societies critically…

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    Comment #49095901

    Did these guys miss who they elected for president again? No sane person anywhere else in the world is going to go along with said """governance""".

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    Comment #49095703

    No, it just means they want to keep the slice of the pie for themselves while they're at the top.

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    Comment #49085367

    https://visitorservice.kk.dk/en/explore-copenhagen/public-to...

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    Comment #49038743

    Yet those same Linux geeks have now decided not to take a "stand" against AI, but rather embrace it. Twenty years ago when the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars raged on, did they oppose …

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    Comment #49034537

    When even RMS seems like a more level headed political actor, you know you've gone off the deep end.

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    Comment #49021794

    > I’m willing to believe that the LLM-powered Sashiko code reviews provide a lot of good insights. However, to address just one externality of this tool, consider that AI companies…

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    Comment #49020467

    Do you also see your local library hosting Mein Kampf as statement of support for fascism on part of the librarian?

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    Comment #49020336

    There is no winning with this type of perpetually online activist. It is the moral prerogative of any open source project that wishes to achieve any success in the real world to ga…

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    Comment #49005784

    I use Linux every day, where AI coauthored analysis and code has already contributed to harden its security. Like it or not, any project that categorically rejects AI contributions…

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    Comment #49004353

    Unfortunately the truth is far worse, and some of us have to share a union with these fools ;)

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    Comment #49004290

    Yes, when you spend decades arguing "nuclear bad" (or "AI bad"), it turns out you get left in the past as Jurassic Park.

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    Comment #49004210

    Once you look at how German anti-nuclear lobbying set Europe back decades on its energy independence and made us dependent on authoritarian hellholes of the world, it all makes sen…

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    Comment #48976496

    I spent my first 12 hours glued to Minecraft back when it was a Java applet. Probably wouldn't have bothered to install...

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    Comment #48957655

    Germany is still there.

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    Comment #48932375

    > Many people use Linux not because it’s the best but for political reasons, for reasons of autonomy or to be part of a community. The Linux kernel however was not created to serve…

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    Comment #48860582

    I never got into Vagrant but "lima" has worked well for spinning up (temporary) VM's quick: https://lima-vm.io/ There's plenty of images for different distributions, automatic file…

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    Comment #48765355

    Bitlocker with a password has always felt like a second class citizen to me. You have to dig into a bunch of group policies to use it. Maybe most people don't even realize it exist…

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    Comment #48670290

    When I saw "600 comments" I knew this thread would be full of Germans falling over each other, explaining how this is ackshually the God given right system and you are very suspici…

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    Comment #48543155

    > EA takes in-game advertising too far with Battlefield 2142 (Oct 18th, 2006) > A while ago, EA told everyone how they could keep prices down by putting in-game advertising in thei…