Rule #4: Don’t submit low-quality posts.

Also, this user is a bot. Look at the post history. No normal user posts 40 entries in a 24 hour period. And no, I don’t mean they post a bunch of posts in one period, and bunch the rest in another period. I mean they are consistently posting 2-3 entries an hour without sleep, without a break.

EDIT: Holy shit… 1.69K posts in two months.

Yep, there it is. There’s the hook. This bot moderates exactly one forum as the only moderator, to sell a bunch of PC parts. There’s the scam. This is just like those YouTuber bots that link to a personal profile for a porn website.

They should bring Hope to anybody.

Asshole is still president, still defrauding millions of people with rug pull scams, still making billions of dollars with insanely shady means.

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Meanwhile, pirates are still doing the public good, in the name of digital preservation, a lack of physical media be damned.

We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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I taste no appreciable difference between the brands,

Either you don’t have any taste buds, or you don’t order pizza that often. A statement like this is like saying “I taste no appreciable difference between Coke and Pepsi”.

• Papa Johns’ has an almost-sugary pizza sauce that I don’t like that much. I also prefer pan pizza, but their default is that floppy NY pizza style. I consider them one of my least favorite option. Fucking Yum can’t manage any of their brands.
• Domino’s used to suck about 15-20 years ago, but they have improved in every way now. Typically my go-to delivery, for a major chain brand.
• Pizza Hut is still pretty good for pan pizza, but some think is greaser than others. They tend to use a lot of cheese, which is fine by me.
• Little Caesars, absolute fucking garbage. I’d rather heat up a cheap pizza at home.
• Cicis, barely above Little Caesars, about the same quality as Chuck E. Cheese or Mr. Gattis
• Jet’s Pizza, really really good pan pizza, a bit more expensive, but better than old standards like Domino’s or Pizza Hut.
• Mellow Mushroom, Old Chicago, Blaze Pizza, all S-tier pizza restaurants, though they don’t deliver. Making your own pizza with Blaze just makes it the top pick out of all of these.

You post this on a piracy forum?

Sorry, I don’t get any ads on my downloads.

Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.

Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.

If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person.

Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.

Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that’s not supposed to be a bad thing.

Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is “BitTorrent is only used for piracy” bullshit all over again.

Did you download the source code? It’s on GitHub. It’s literally on GitLab. It’s on Bitbucket with ads. It’s literally on SourceForge. You can probably find it on Savannah. Dude it’s on Azure DevOps. It’s a Codeberg project. It’s on Gitea. You can download it on Gitea. You can go to Gitea and download it. Log into Gitea right now. Go to Gitea. Dive into Gitea. You can Gitea it. It’s on Gitea. Gitea has it for you. Gitea has it for you.

Imagine two glasses, both 8 oz. One is titled usability and the other titled security.

And one is the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

I feel like these security arguments are overblown. Linux is still pretty damn secure, and the Linux community is still tough on fixing security bugs.

Would you rather be using a UNIX-based secure OS, or Windows update-and-crash 11?

I don’t see any open-source forks of a BSD spinoff (only proprietary ones like what runs on the PS5)

I wonder why. Maybe if they were GPL, they wouldn’t have that problem.

Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.

But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.

Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.

I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.

You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:

B: “Go make this thing!”

D: “What thing?”

B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”

D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”

B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”

That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.

People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.

Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.

No mob is good at nuance, which is frustrating. Black and white mentality bullshit.

Yes, the sociopath, narcissist and billionaires have taken over. There is no more democracy. There is no more rule of law.

And what do you do to those sociopaths, narcissists, and billionaires? Talk to them to death? Your words have no meaning to them. You can’t expect empathy from sociopaths. That’s literally in the definition of the word.

There is probably no way, at this point, to end the corruption peacefully. Possibly no way at all.

No, there isn’t. We were past that about 10-20 years ago.