makingstuffs (u/makingstuffs)

makingstuffs commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

makingstuffs · 4 days ago

I don’t know if it is just a symptom of growing up during the days of the net’s Wild West and navigating through sites like gamecopyworld or what, but I just seem to have some inbuilt filter which doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of ads.

It’s hard to explain but it is like some subconscious filtering that occurs on a preRecognise hook or something. Weird.

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makingstuffs · 18 days ago

The hotspot issue is my absolute pet peeve. It is so bad for me that I just had to accept that I have two options for hotspotting:

1. Go to settings and change my phones name then connect. Every. Damn. Time.

2. Use a cable and hope the MacBook Pro picks it up.

Honestly the quality of iPhones has deteriorated to a point where my next phone will just be something like an oppo or xiomi. I’m done paying £500+ for a phone that doesn’t do what it’s meant to while forcing a load of crap I don’t want down my neck

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slg · 21 days ago

And if we want to go beyond that, we really just have to blame capitalism. What happens when you build a society around the adversarial collection of money? You get a society that by and large prioritizes making money above all else including ethics and morals.

makingstuffs · 21 days ago

That and the fact that money and media presence is essentially what wins elections. The only way we can really have democracy is with a truly informed populace and the only way people can make a truly informed vote without all the noise is to have anonymous voting. By which I mean you do not know which politician/party you are voting for, you just know the policies they have promised to enforce.

Further to that, there needs to be accountability. Right now, in the UK at least, governments are not held to account, at all. They get into office with grand promises of flying elephants and golden egg laying geese but obviously never follow through with said promises. The populace, ultimately, just shrugs it off with ‘politicians lie’ and continue complaining about it within their social circles.

Our political systems are fundamentally broken. We shouldn’t care if policies are from party A or party B. All that should matter is the content of the policy and whether it is ever actually materialised.

Right now we have a situation where people are manipulated left, right and centre into believing a given party’s absolute BS manifesto which they write under the full knowledge that not delivering will have very little impact on them as they’ve just had a substantial amount of time getting paid lucrative salaries to essentially argue with a bunch of other liars in a shouting match on tele.

Remove the football-esque fandom which applies to political parties by removing any ability to publicly affiliate any given person with said party and I’d bet we see different results across the bar. Remove all this absolute nonsense of politicians promoting their ideologies on TV/Twotter etc and you will remove a lot of the brainwashing which happens. Remove the most corrupt situation of all: private firms and individuals being able to fund political parties and you level the playing field.

Obviously this is a hard pill for many to swallow as no one likes to be told they’ve essentially been brainwashed into their thoughts and ego is everything in modern society.

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makingstuffs · 22 days ago

Think the notion that ‘no one’ uses em dashes is a bit misguided. I’ve personally used them in text for as long as I can remember.

Also on the phrase “you’re absolute right”, it’s definitely a phrase my friends and I use a lot, albeit in a sorta of sarcastic manner when one of us says something which is obvious but, nonetheless, we use it. We also tend to use “Well, you’re not wrong” again in a sarcastic manner for something which is obvious.

And, no, we’re not from non English speaking countries (some of our parents are), we all grew up in the UK.

Just thought I’d add that in there as it’s a bit extreme to see an em dash instantly jump to “must be written by AI”

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skrebbel · 25 days ago

Few things give me more dread than reviewing the mediocre code written by an overconfident LLM, but arguing in a PR with an overconfident LLM that its review comments are wrong is up there.

makingstuffs · 25 days ago

I can’t agree more. I’m torn on LLM code reviews. On the one hand I think it is a place that makes a lot of sense and they can quickly catch silly human errors like misspelled variables and whatnot.

On the other hand the amount of flip flopping they go through is unreal. I’ve witnessed numerous instances where either the cursor bugbot or Claude has found a bug and recommended a reasonable fix. The fix has been implemented and then the LLM has argued the case against the fix and requested the code be reverted. Out of curiosity to see what happens I’ve reverted the code just to be told the exact same recommendation as in the first pass.

I can foresee this becoming a circus for less experienced devs so I turned off the auto code reviews and stuck them in request only mode with a GH action so that I can retain some semblance of sanity and prevent the pr comment history from becoming cluttered with overly verbose comments from an agent.

makingstuffs commented on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 businessinsider.com/insta... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

amrocha · 2 months ago

I think this is a situation where you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Network effects mean that the more people are in the office the better. On the other hand, if even a single team member is remote then the entire team must adapt to that. If half the team is remote then I might as well stay home too.

I don’t want to have an office to go into. If that was the issue I could just get a shared office to work from.

I want to work at a company where most of my direct coworkers come to the office regularly.

I should get to have that. Not every company needs to be a remote or a flex company. If you don’t like RTO you can quit. Likewise for me, I’m not too happy with my current office situation, so I’m looking for a new job.

makingstuffs · 2 months ago

Are you not doing the exact thing you accused me of?

makingstuffs commented on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 businessinsider.com/insta... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

amrocha · 2 months ago

Good thing for you that you’re productive anywhere.

I’m not. I much prefer working from an office. I’m way more efficient and happy in an office than working from home.

It’s not a matter of mentality. It’s a matter of being in an environment conducive to work.

You would benefit from not assuming that everyone is the same as you.

makingstuffs · 2 months ago

> You would benefit from not assuming that everyone is the same as you.

I’m sorry if it came across that this was the point I was making. I was not. I acknowledge and understand everyone is different.

The point I was making was about trusting people to be responsible adults and do what is right for the productivity without dictating a binary decision.

People who are more productive at home should not be punished because others are not and likewise for the inverse.

makingstuffs commented on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 businessinsider.com/insta... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

makingstuffs · 2 months ago

Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me.

If your employees cannot be trusted to fulfil their responsibilities (whether in an office, their home or a tent in a woodland) that is not a geographical issue. It is a mentality issue and you are always going to face productivity issue from that employee regardless of from where they work.

I’ve been told time and time again by an array of managers in a bunch of departments and companies that my productivity never changes. That is regardless of whether I am travelling or at home. This is including being in Sri Lanka during their worst economical crisis and facing power cuts of 8 - 12 hours everyday. As a responsible adult I prepared in advance. I bought power banks which could charge my laptop and ensured they were charged when the power worked. I bought SIM cards for all mobile networks and ensured I had data. It really is simply a matter of taking responsibility of one’s situation and having a sense of respect for, and from, your employer/employee.

Forcing people into working conditions in which they are uncomfortable is only going to harbour resentment towards the company and if you are in a country where workers actually have real rights you will have a hard time firing them.

I fear that this is all simply a smokescreen for the authoritarian shift which has occurred throughout the globe. It started pre pandemic and was exasperated during it. Scary times lay ahead.

makingstuffs commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

et-al · 2 months ago

FYI two years ago, the Indian government shut down mobile service in the state of Punjab to catch one person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35303486

makingstuffs · 2 months ago

I was there during this, literally text my wife when got notice and said “I do not know when I will be able to text next so keep an eye on your email”.

makingstuffs commented on UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion' netpol.org/2025/11/28/gov... · Posted by u/robtherobber

nebula8804 · 2 months ago

And go where? The US is in pretty bad shape and sinking. Europe can be a bit better or much worse depending on your background. Is there any solid alternative?

makingstuffs · 2 months ago

You’re right in that there is no one place which will solve all of one’s problems. There is an entire continent across the channel which will at least permit you to easily travel through, and settle in, a decent number of countries with very little effort.

While it’s not a silver bullet by any means, being able to freely move between, and experience, multiple cultures outweighs the melancholy we have back in Blighty.

We, in the UK, are constantly told how great we have it in terms of healthcare and welfare. The reality is the opposite. Our healthcare is barely fit for purpose. Our welfare system fails to help those who need it the most.

The one thing I have noticed more than anything else during my travels is that we, in the UK, have resigned our ourselves to a mentality of hopeless acceptance of the status quo. We tend to shrug it off with reductive statements such as ‘well, X has Y problem’ as if that justifies the swathe of issues which should not be present in a country which has tried to position itself on the world stage as a vestibule for decency and morality over the past century.

Nowhere is _perfect_, but many places are _better_.