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  1. Comment on Choosing a printer in ~tech

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    Another vote for a brother black and white laser printer. 99.99% of my printing is just fine in black and white. If I need color, I run down to the local color printer and pay $1/page.

    Another vote for a brother black and white laser printer.

    99.99% of my printing is just fine in black and white.

    If I need color, I run down to the local color printer and pay $1/page.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Sanity check - always-on machine + laptop with remote desktop in ~tech

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    Why don't you try with Shadow PC?

    I don't have a good sense of whether the remote desktop aspect is really feasible.

    Why don't you try with Shadow PC?

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Framework customer info has been breached in ~tech

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    There are a surprising number of companies not notifying their customers of this hack. Which is sad, as this hack is... not that bad. Our names and addresses are already out there. I know whenever...

    There are a surprising number of companies not notifying their customers of this hack.

    Which is sad, as this hack is... not that bad.

    Our names and addresses are already out there. I know whenever I order a pizza, or call 1-800-plumbing, buy a property, or simply use a credit card, my name and address leak.

    Our email address is also already out there. My email address has been compromised a number of times. I have for over two decades used unique emails e.g. <company>@<mydomain>.com, and the only time I got spam to one of these company hacked email addresses was a charity I gave to in early 2000.

    Usually spammers get my actual email address from friends and families who share their contact info on their phone app.

    It's my cell phone I worry about, and I rarely give that out. It was not included in this hack, and I did not give my actual cell phone to Framework, as I never want them to call it. I rarely give it out. Most people get a google voice number if they demand a number. Only once did that cause a problem at u-haul.

    Yet my cell phone is already out there, even though I do all I can to keep that information out of unwanted hands. Still, somehow my local politician (who I will no longer vote for) got my cell phone and has been spamming me with messages.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes

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    Well it can't be me. I rotate usernames yearly. (I'm still worried that it's me.)

    Well it can't be me.

    I rotate usernames yearly.

    (I'm still worried that it's me.)

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Anthropic discovered three cases where Claude broke into another system in ~tech

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    Up next: Open AI discovers four more companies its model broke into.

    Up next: Open AI discovers four more companies its model broke into.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on You can vote on the design of the next Euro banknotes! in ~design

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    It's reminiscent of the New Zealand flag vote, the public only really got two choices, they were all so similar. A. Birds / buildings B. Person / People

    It's reminiscent of the New Zealand flag vote, the public only really got two choices, they were all so similar.

    A. Birds / buildings
    B. Person / People

    1 vote

  7. 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?

  8. 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?

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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