cheesepaint (u/cheesepaint)

cheesepaint commented on Why I Joined OpenAI brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/SerCe

Banditoz · 5 days ago

> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet

There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)

cheesepaint · 4 days ago

For me, it just sounds like a ChatGPT-generated sentence. Especially, it likes to write sentences like "it's not just about... - it's about ..." and it first sounds legit, but it doesn't really make much sense when you start to think about it.

cheesepaint commented on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been jakequist.com/thoughts/op... · Posted by u/jakequist

JimDabell · 7 days ago

Ten years from now, the agent layer will be the interface the majority of people use a computer through. Operating systems will become more agentic and absorb the application layer while platforms like Claude Cowork will try to become the omniapp. They’ll meet in the middle and it will be like Microsoft trying to fight Netscape’s view of the web as the omniapp all over again.

Apple will either capitalise on this by making their operating systems more agentic, or they will be reduced to nothing more than a hardware and media vendor.

cheesepaint · 6 days ago

I really do not think much will change. In 10 years, computers will still look kinda like today and will be used like today. AI will be used to make drafts, but nothing more. For everything else, they are way too unreliable.

People hate to change habits, and many here overestimate the willingness and ability of, especially, older people to change how they use technology.

cheesepaint commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie

cheesepaint · a month ago

As much as I dislike popups: I really doubt that there would be a significant user gain for Firefox. I think most users simply do not care about it, especially non-tech-savvy users. Especially since so many people stay on Chrome, despite its efforts to drown ad-blockers.

cheesepaint commented on Floor796 floor796.com/... · Posted by u/krtkush

cheesepaint · a month ago

Amazing work, but I didn't expect to see Wunschpunsch (https://floor796.com/#b2l2,302,256) or Kommisar Rex (https://floor796.com/#b3r1,163,852) there. Others mentioned Soviet-era characters, which makes me curious about the cultural background of the creator.

cheesepaint commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? · Posted by u/rickybule

cheesepaint · 5 months ago

I'm in Indonesia right now as well and my Proton VPN still works. But I would see it as a short-term solution.

cheesepaint commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint

data_maan · 7 months ago

Germany is a broken country, and this illustrates it on a micro-level

cheesepaint · 7 months ago

As someone who lived abroad - I really do not agree.

cheesepaint commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint

this_user · 7 months ago

It gets worse. These German "Sparkassen" are small to at most medium sized credit unions. They are organised in a larger umbrella organisation that takes care of some of the services like IT, but the individual banks can pick and choose what and how much they want to handle themselves.

Some of them are larger and pretty well organised, but there are also a lot of small ones that just don't have the people and expertise for things like proper IT security practices. But customers trust them, because they position themselves as these local neighbourhood banks, even though most of them are pretty incompetent and will rip you off with high fees on accounts and shitty, underperforming investment products.

cheesepaint · 7 months ago

I had a similar thought, but I suspect that this campaign is run by the umbrella organization

cheesepaint commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint

hopelite · 7 months ago

It seems to me the better and simpler solution is to continue teaching your users that this pattern this bank engages in is in fact still the pattern of hostile actors and let the bank deal with the consequences.

The system will surely rectify itself eventually when their spammy, manipulative, promotional banker campaigns do not produce results (is that a bad thing?) and they seek out firms that do produce results based on knowing what they are doing.

The author could even use it as an opportunity to promote his or someone else’s services and use this write-up as an artifact of evidence.

I don’t want to get too generalizing, but it is a perspective that does not surprise me coming from what seems to be a German, for better or worse. Complaints about not being in compliance with universal norms instead of taking advantage of a presented opportunity to break ranks for one’s their own individual advantage, strikes me as a very German perspective; like I said, for better or worse, without judgement, since both of these perspectives have their advantages and disadvantages.

cheesepaint · 7 months ago

I don't think that everything needs to be a sales pitch all the time. But I am curious, what kind of service do you see promotable in the article?