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  1. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    Interesting! So are you using openclaw or codex or something else to vibe code?

    Interesting! So are you using openclaw or codex or something else to vibe code?

  2. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    Fascinating! What architectural choices did you make? E.g. Go & Sqlite on a digital ocean droplet? Python & MySQL on a more traditional hosting provider? Pregenerated html with an apache?

    Fascinating!

    What architectural choices did you make? E.g. Go & Sqlite on a digital ocean droplet? Python & MySQL on a more traditional hosting provider? Pregenerated html with an apache?

  3. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    mycketforvirrad: you can ask Deimos questions on any day you want except Tuesday cfabbro: why not Tuesday? mycketforvirrad: because you are Deimos on Tuesday ...a conversation that actually...

    mycketforvirrad: you can ask Deimos questions on any day you want except Tuesday
    cfabbro: why not Tuesday?
    mycketforvirrad: because you are Deimos on Tuesday

    ...a conversation that actually happened... right now... in my head.

    10 votes

  4. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    I think Deimos gets alerted whenever the community tags something with malice. He runs this in addition to his day job, so I don't think vacations factor into it, the only issue would be if he is...

    I think Deimos gets alerted whenever the community tags something with malice. He runs this in addition to his day job, so I don't think vacations factor into it, the only issue would be if he is out of pocket, then it can take him a few days to respond. There were plans to automate this, but it never eventuated. @mycketforvirrad and @cfabbro can edit titles, there are more users who can edit tags, no one else can delete topics, or ban users that I am aware of.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    As already mentioned, I would start by posting interesting content in https://tildes.net/~news/1uym/offbeat_fridays_the_thread_where_offbeat_headlines_become_front_page_news or...

    As already mentioned, I would start by posting interesting content in https://tildes.net/~news/1uym/offbeat_fridays_the_thread_where_offbeat_headlines_become_front_page_news or https://tildes.net/~society/1uzu/weekly_us_politics_news_and_updates_thread_week_of_july_6...

    Tildes is setup so you can ignore these threads if you want, or if you revisit them Tildes will highlight what is new. So anything that I am unsure about goes in one of those threads.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've brought back my old logic puzzles forum. The static site was always there, but the related forum was offline for so long due to a spammer all of a sudden figuring out my low tech spam...

    I've brought back my old logic puzzles forum. The static site was always there, but the related forum was offline for so long due to a spammer all of a sudden figuring out my low tech spam avoidance techniques.

    I am no longer using phpBB, I instead vibe coded something. It mostly generates static HTML. I finally pushed out a Russian translation of my puzzles, and whoa nelly, a few days later I got so many Russian spammers.

    Weirdly a simple javascript check still seems the most effective thing at blocking spam. I've added a couple more layers and am thinking of potentially adding a third. My goal is to block spam, even if that means I miss a few genuine submissions.

    Sadly, my little website has lost most of the google rankings it used to have, so I am only seeing spammers try to contribute spam so far. I used to get so many people commenting, and submitting solutions. Part of me is curious how that has changed in a world of AI.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    As you can tell, only serious conversations are allowed here... Tildoes... Heh heh heh... We have one admin here, he removes anything high conflict, and there is almost zero tolerance for intolerance.

    As you can tell, only serious conversations are allowed here... Tildoes... Heh heh heh...

    We have one admin here, he removes anything high conflict, and there is almost zero tolerance for intolerance.

    13 votes

  8. Comment on I made a satirical AI detector in ~tech

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    Hopefully at least one of them already knows...?

    Hopefully at least one of them already knows...?

    1 vote

  9. Comment on My parent is a bad person [rant] in ~life

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    Please do talk to a therapist. It's OK to have conflicted feelings about who this parent is to you. They may not be a good person, but they are still your parent. They may still be married to your...

    Please do talk to a therapist.

    It's OK to have conflicted feelings about who this parent is to you. They may not be a good person, but they are still your parent. They may still be married to your other parent. A therapist will help you navigate this.

    In terms of identity: You decide you who are. You decide who you will become. And I think you already have.

    I am sorry you are going through this.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on ‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the rise of basedsploitation in ~movies

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    Law Abiding Citizen is twice the movie Citizen Vigilante was, and I really didn't like Law Abiding Citizen.

    Law Abiding Citizen is twice the movie Citizen Vigilante was, and I really didn't like Law Abiding Citizen.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on ‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the rise of basedsploitation in ~movies

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    Warning. Spoilers Citizen Vigilante is one of the worst movies I've ever fully watched. The fact that people actually like this incoherent nonsense is just inconceivable to me. It starts off with...

    Warning. Spoilers

    Citizen Vigilante is one of the worst movies I've ever fully watched.

    The fact that people actually like this incoherent nonsense is just inconceivable to me.

    It starts off with a rather spectacular bit of gratuitous violence. A dude with a kitchen knife kills a mother in front of her young child. For no apparent reason. Does the young boy grow up to be the vigilante? No. Does the killer ever face justice? No. Do you spend the rest of the movie waiting for some sort of tie back to the opening scene? Yes.

    Then we learn about the vigilante. He is so angry at violent illegal immigrants, he kills them. And their families. And their lenient judges. And any police who get in his way. It's somehow OK though... because he is a rich American slum lord living illegally in Europe... So we have an illegal immigrant who is violently killing off other violent immigrants... does the movie ever explore this interesting paradox? Of course not.

    Sometimes bad movies become cult classics. Cult movies don't set out to make a bad movie. The directors just end up making bad movies. Edward D. Wood Jr was famous for this. This movie seems more deliberately bad. Yet people seem to like it. Like there is some inside joke that I just don't get.

    10 votes