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solid_fuel commented on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git   kraxel.org/blog/2026/01/t... · Posted by u/dzulp0d
tuhgdetzhh · 2 days ago
I still think it is just a matter of time until scrapers catch up. There are more and more scrapers that spin up an full blown chromium.
solid_fuel · a day ago
Cool, if they're running full blown chromium maybe the next step can be mining bitcoin on any pages served to bots.
solid_fuel commented on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number   theintercept.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/lehi
x1ph0z · 3 days ago
What are some ways users can insulate themselves from something like this?
solid_fuel · 2 days ago
Vote for politicians who support checks and bounds, demand accountability from those in power, and participate in civics.
solid_fuel commented on Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'   nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Eddy_Viscosity2 · 8 days ago
Not sharing course outlines is not going to help make this problem better. Better to face those groups head on than hide.
solid_fuel · 8 days ago
> Better to face those groups head on than hide.

Cool, if you feel that way then go face them. Don't force professors to stand in the firing line in your stead.

> Not sharing course outlines is not going to help make this problem better.

It would make finding targets more difficult than just doing a ctrl-f, which obviously would make the problem better just by making it harder to find professors to harass.

solid_fuel commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
onlyrealcuzzo · 10 days ago
> A former NASA engineer with a PhD in space electronics who later worked at Google for 10 years wrote an article about why datacenters in space are very technically challenging

It's curious that we live in a world in which I think the majority of people somehow think this ISN'T complicated.

Like, have we long since reached the point where technology is suitably advanced to average people that it seems like magic, where people can almost literally propose companies that just "conjure magic" and the average person thinks that's reasonable?

solid_fuel · 10 days ago
It's just the thought process that comes with shallow understanding:

    "I can buy a server"
    "We can put things in space"
    "What do you mean I can't get a server in space?!"

solid_fuel commented on Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings   oregonlive.com/politics/2... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
gtowey · 11 days ago
> “Just one year after completing (the program), I’m in my own place, halfway through a business degree, focused on building a stable, secure foundation for my daughter and myself, and working toward becoming a nonprofit leader who supports her community.”

I know, right? She did all that just so she could give her social workers the feedback they wanted to hear! Those liberals are so dastardly!

solid_fuel · 11 days ago
Those sneaky freeloaders, materially improving their lives and futures just to “prove” that social programs work.
solid_fuel commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
Saline9515 · 14 days ago
Maids are unaffordable in most rich countries that do not have access to ultracheap foreign labor or/and have stringent labor regs.
solid_fuel · 14 days ago
What do you consider affordable?

I can google "maid service seattle" and see dozens of entries. The first one in the yelp list is available to book and will clean a 1000 - 1500 sq ft, 2 bed, 2 bath house for well under $200. There's even a decent discount if you book is as a weekly or biweekly service.

That feels pretty affordable? I know it's a scale, but minimum wage here is $21/hr now.

I have enough time to take care of my own space, but for comparison Comcast internet is well over $120/month for crappy speeds. I think in comparison a little more than that for 1 deep cleaning a month is reasonable.

solid_fuel commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
lallysingh · 15 days ago
If a robot can do basic cleaning, laundry, and dishes, that's worth a lot to a lot of people. Dual-professional households have the money, and not having to do this housework could save some marriages.
solid_fuel · 14 days ago
> Dual-professional households have the money, and not having to do this housework could save some marriages.

Dual-professional households could hire a maid and pay for marriage counseling and still save money compared to a $20k robot plus whatever a subscription would run.

solid_fuel commented on Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy   jellyfin.org/docs/general... · Posted by u/mmoogle
cedmans · 15 days ago
Brazen usage of LLM output is a disrespect to the target audience to begin with. If I'm being expected to employ the mental capital needed to understand the context and content of your writings, I at the very least expect that you did the same when actually authoring it.
solid_fuel · 15 days ago
It also feels like using one of those cereal encoder wheels, to some degree. If someone sends me 10 paragraphs of output from chatGPT, and they only wrote a sentence to prompt it, then the output is really just a re-encoding of the information in the original prompt.

Quite literally - if they sent me the text of the prompt I could obtain the same output, so the output is just a more verbose way of stating the prompt.

I find it really disrespectful to talk to people through an LLM like that.

solid_fuel commented on In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives   reuters.com/world/us/evid... · Posted by u/petethomas
throw0101c · 15 days ago
> Nonviolent crowd control does not seem to be a core competence of these federal forces.

Why is crowd control even needed?

ICE existed for many, many years before now, and them doing their job never caused crowds previously (under both R and D administrations), so what (rhetorically) changed?

solid_fuel · 15 days ago
There's a big difference between seeing an immigration raid where you know whoever gets picked up is going to have access to a lawyer, be subject to proper due process, and at worst be sent back to their home country. We knew - or at least believed - that if they detained someone who was a citizen, that person would be released.

Now, when we see ICE grabbing someone, we know that person probably won't have access to legal representation even if they are here legally, even if they're a citizen. We know they might be sent to a concentration camp in a foreign country they aren't from, and we know they might even get murdered in the street. It's a very different dynamic.

solid_fuel commented on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in   mcsweeneys.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/randycupertino
shepherdjerred · 15 days ago
Are you really implying that generative AI doesn't enable things that were not previously possible?
solid_fuel · 15 days ago
Can you name one thing generative AI enables that wasn't previously possible?

u/solid_fuel

KarmaCake day1299October 19, 2023View Original