kyle @nin.ten.dog · 14/09/2026assuming your privacy is being violated is a good default, but people go too far with it. e.g. everyone is still convinced that Apple lets Facebook listen to all your conversations through your iPhone mic 000
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 14/09/2026Amazon beat everyone to this joke two decades ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_...en.wikipedia.orgAmazon Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by kyleMax Read @maxread.info · 10/09/2026folks theyve they solved the millennial prize problem--they stoiped giving out participation trophies! 1602
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/09/2026the people yearn for "dunks", they want schadenfreude and drama. the platform that really optimizes for the dynamic is Quora (anonymous insane strawman questions with redundant answers that don't contribute much) Bluesky should do what it can to incentivize substantive dunks, at least 010
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 03/09/2026it's not Cursor's money though, it's their customers who are buying GPT/Claude access through Cursor. Altman wants to cut out the middleman, his gambit is that users/companies who want to use Astra will start subscribing to OpenAI directly 010
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 03/09/2026the hard part was doing time estimates, now you can just use a stopwatch 050
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 02/09/2026it's about people getting mad at the Paint.NET guy for using Claude Code to build experimental Linux support 040
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 02/09/2026Ed Zitron is a stochastic parrot, he may seem to "think" but under the hood he's just predicting bubbles 1350
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 01/09/2026I assume he won't merge the code to main until he's thoroughly reviewed it. once you review the code, it's not vibe-coded anymore. it's "agentic-engineered" or something (none of the attempts at buzzwords for "AI assisted but thoroughly human-reviewed" have been as sticky as "vibe-coding") 020
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 01/09/2026per Rick's post, the base version of Paint Dot Net is not vibe-coded, all the changes to the core codebase are thoroughly reviewed. the Linux compatibility layer is what's vibe-coded, and that's in an experimental branch. 220
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 01/09/2026I have bad news for you about Bluesky and most other software that's been updated in the last ~6 months 2240
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 19/08/2026this is a good description of what using these tools felt like a year ago, but in my experience, the "futzing fraction" went above 1 around the end of 2025. for most tasks they are writing the same code I would have, and it's faster for me to read and thoroughly review it than to write it. 000
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 31/07/2026Gwen's overall concerns may be valid but what she said was "playing nyt games is an insult to trans people", and I don't think that's a statement that need to be addressed with the utmost sincerity. 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 31/07/2026I did, I'm just not clear if you're saying Gwen is being "thrown under the bus"? or if Ken is throwing the entire trans community under the bus by quoting them as saying "trans people are not a monolith"? 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 31/07/2026idk I think making jokes on social media is fine, that's what it's for. even celebrities shouldn't have the obligation to treat every challenge like a serious matter that can't be joked about. 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 01/04/2026he posted a screenshot one time of a google doc with like 20 of them and I wish I had saved it 0110
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 17/10/2025I feel like I haven't heard as much conspiracy talk centered around him ever since they hired a Soros Fund partner as treasury secretary and he decided to give Argentina $40 billion 1130
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025I hope you're less afraid that weapons are hidden in future metaphors you encounter, it's good to keep an open mind. 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025you are assuming "weaponization" to scare yourself. chill out, have a good night! 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025I'm not the one who invented the term, you don't have to swear at me. however they came up with it, it's become standard jargon so I don't think there's any use in getting mad at it 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025I'm sorry you feel victimized by the weaponization of a term coined back in the 70s, I hope you can move past it to understand what the metaphor means 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025a magic 8-ball is just a D20. there's a difference between random number generation and artificial neurons. 110
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025ok but to be clear, do you think that an "artificial neuron" is a real concept or just a marketing term? 300
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025well those terms have been in use for decades so if you think the tech is interesting then imo you should be more open-minded about it 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025I think cryptocurrency/blockchains are r-worded and LLMs are genuinely interesting tech, AMA 100
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 04/10/2025mass migration to another PDS only lightens the hosting costs for Bluesky. maybe an exponential increase in distinct PDS hosts would add measurable marginal cost, but distributing existing bsky PDS users onto 3rd party hosts with moderation that's *more* strict than 1st party bsky is the dream. 030
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 01/10/2025if I send you some PRs to discourage reddit behavior would you take a look? 000
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 30/09/2025this is untenable. dan at least tries to riff but they go right back to it 0140
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 30/09/2025I genuinely think this is a UX problem, and bluesky needs to take steps to avoid it the option to view replies in a tree is part of the problem, but even with the default view: replies more than 3 deep shouldn't be visible until you drill down. it just encourages this behavior 1120
Reposted by kylenattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War II was fought with tanks and guns 750463
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 03/06/2025@nytimes.com is trying to gaslight me by swapping out today's spelling bee 020
Reposted by kyleRib ΘΔ @rib.gay · 23/04/2025By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one! 5686101
Reposted by kyleMelissa Lewis @melissa.news · 20/04/2025TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.fontsinuse.com“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSAFrom Wikipedia: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa... 6659167
Reposted by kyleGale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025springsteen: at night i wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head 4 year old me in my thomas the tank engine phase: it's like he knows me 674799
kyle @nin.ten.dog · 14/04/2025are you guys going to keep deleting features from the website to force people to download your app? is Strands up next on the chopping block? 000
