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viccis commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
canada_dry · a day ago
To protect my privacy, I have a photoshopped drivers license with a photo of my dog that I've successfully used for verification (e.g. AirBnB) in the past.

Though, with AI being used I suspect it wouldn't pass any longer.

viccis · a day ago
Youtube flagged one of my accounts as a teenager because I watched a few pop videos (lol) and I was not able to trick it with fake IDs, though I didn't try all that hard.
viccis commented on Claude Composer   josh.ing/blog/claude-comp... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
viccis · 4 days ago
>I love art and music, but unfortunately have no artistic talent whatsoever.

Then go pay someone to teach you to play <instrument>, and you'll get a life skill that will be satisfying to watch grow, instead of whatever this soulless crap is.

edit: Oh god after listening to those samples, send Claude to the same music teacher you choose...

viccis commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams   euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn
jeltz · 4 days ago
Having used both I think you are way too kind on Teams.
viccis · 4 days ago
I've used both and written code to integrate into both. You never have to worry about, for example, losing access to all previous messages in your Teams channels if you get a new phone.
viccis commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless
whinvik · 5 days ago
It's weird to see the expectation that the result should be perfect.

All said and done, that its even possible is remarkable. Maybe these all go into training the next Opus or Sonnet and we start getting models that can create efficient compilers from scratch. That would be something!

viccis · 4 days ago
>It's weird to see the expectation that the result should be perfect.

Given that they spent $20k on it and it's basically just advertising targeted at convincing greedy execs to fire as many of us as they can, yeah it should be fucking perfect.

viccis commented on In Tehran   lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/janua... · Posted by u/mitchbob
ghusto · 5 days ago
> It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide.

10,000 dead in 2 days.

> The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever

Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.

viccis · 5 days ago
>10,000 dead in 2 days.

Again, "genocide" doesn't have to do with the scale of the killing. It's a specific word with its own meaning.

>Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.

Governments don't have "morals". They do whatever is most expedient. We have never done something because it's the moral thing to do, and we never will. That's just not how hegemonic powers like the US work.

viccis commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams   euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn
toomuchtodo · 5 days ago
Microsoft Teams already is already terrible UX, we have nowhere to go but up. Perhaps you are unaware, and if so, you should be thankful you don’t have to lose time using it. There are objectively better solutions available.
viccis · 5 days ago
Matrix is so much worse than Team it will make your head spin. It suffers from design by committee to an unbelievable extent, and its various end-to-end security features are wonderful from a privacy standpoint but make things much much more complicated.
viccis commented on Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award   aljazeera.com/news/2026/2... · Posted by u/defrost
e40 · 9 days ago
It’s sad that we don’t have recordings of his work, and all we really have are people’s recollections of him.
viccis · 5 days ago
Good news, you can search him on Spotify or Youtube and get tons of recordings of him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti_discography

viccis commented on In Tehran   lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/janua... · Posted by u/mitchbob
ghusto · 6 days ago
> "Genocidal" is not an order of magnitude; it's a description of purpose. What's going on in Iran is an atrocity, but it's not "genocidal."

Oh, well that's alright then. Hey fellers, we got off on a grammatical technicality.

> We're not the world police.

It's your mess, now clean it up.

viccis · 6 days ago
It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide.

>It's your mess, now clean it up.

The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever. If we take action in Iran, it will be solely to our benefit, and it may or may not improve those peoples' lives. In all likelihood, it will be another Libya or Afghanistan situation in which we take what we want and leave a power vacuum in our wake.

viccis commented on In Tehran   lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/janua... · Posted by u/mitchbob
pesfandiar · 6 days ago
> We're not the world police.

That has been the bargain since WWII though. Pax Americana meant the US owned and enforced a global order, in return international trade and finance ran on its platform. Most Americans can't fathom how bad the alternative is to not being the world police.

viccis · 6 days ago
The US doesn't make foreign policy decisions altruistically. If we are involved somewhere, it's solely because it's to our benefit. The idea that we enforce order is childish; we do nothing that doesn't enforce our own international supremacy.
viccis commented on In Tehran   lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/janua... · Posted by u/mitchbob
behnamoh · 6 days ago
It's troubling that most of the free world stands by and watches as a genocidal-level massacre takes place in Iran. Persians don't expect China/Russia to respond, but come on, no action from the West?

Imagine negotiating with Hitler to give up his V2 missiles and nuclear plans while the Holocaust was taking place. History will judge us for negotiating (and therefore, legitimizing) with the islamic regime that's occupied Iran for 47 years.

viccis · 6 days ago
>genocidal-level massacre

"Genocidal" is not an order of magnitude; it's a description of purpose. What's going on in Iran is an atrocity, but it's not "genocidal."

>History will judge us for negotiating

We're not the world police.

u/viccis

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