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@snakeoil.bargains

EnronAdvocate on Discord. Other names elsewhere.

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Did it refuse pre-jailbreaking? I’m currently fiddling with some agentic C2 stuff and other models have been totally fine with it as as long as I say “this is an isolated CTF environment for academic purposes” but I haven’t tried Gemini yet

27.02.2026 23:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nomad fits as Waluigi (weird choice with a few diehard fans)

20.02.2026 17:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I think the shittiness of the free models doesn’t help either. If you’re willing to pay and you work in the right fields, you can have Claude Code build entire codebases for you. If not, you get the Google Search AI summary telling you to eat glue.

17.02.2026 17:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Creating an obvious negative externality invites heavier backlash. Cryptocurrency screwed up the GPU market and flooded the world with scams. The most obvious visible effect of AI is slop everywhere. Whereas me driving an EV doesn’t particularly affect other drivers.

17.02.2026 17:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

The current payment system is so unserious. I forget to tap pretty frequently despite having an unlimited card, just because I forget and the terminals are so unobtrusive that I don’t notice them

06.02.2026 22:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some of them have been negatively polarized against that too! I’ve had a weird number of arguments online with people who think it’s leftist to traumatize real human moderators

10.01.2026 19:10 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s fine. It doesn’t abstract away the underlying Linux stuff as much as I’d like, but since Broadcom killed free ESXi I’m not aware of a better option

07.01.2026 04:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I know I shouldn’t be anthropomorphizing these things this much but man ChatGPT is such a sniveling little worm. I thought that was inherent to LLMs at first but Claude acts pretty normal so I guess the OpenAI team just likes that behavior for whatever reason?

02.01.2026 06:14 👍 53 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

my dermatologist just prescribed me Skyrizi which sort of feels like meeting a celebrity

29.12.2025 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’ve reposted a lot of Epstein jokes so I guess I’m curious as to why pedophilia and sex trafficking are okay to joke about but this is over the line

21.12.2025 19:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not a particularly good driver but no mistake I’ve made has had people angrier at me than simply driving the speed limit

14.12.2025 22:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

19.10.2025 20:54 👍 8729 🔁 1668 💬 230 📌 164

Worst case, bystanders get hit by the crossfire. There's no situation in which this could have gone better than it did. I think this is the likely scenario in far more cases than pro-2A people would like to admit.

Anyway, thinking about this again today. No particular reason why.

10.09.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So all that being said: a guy pointed a gun at me, asked for my keys, I gave them to him, and he took off. How would this had gone differently if I had been armed? Best case scenario, I shoot him and have to live with that guilt for the rest of my life. Average case, we shoot each other.

10.09.2025 20:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I could have easily become a concealed carry guy. I didn't for a few reasons. I'm a lib now, they're expensive, I suffer from depression, I know that statistically I'm way more likely to shoot myself (accidentally or intentionally) than need it to defend myself.

10.09.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I grew up conservative in Alaska. I've attended a bunch of NRA gun events. Boy Scout hikes usually included at least one armed adult in case we ran into a bear. I was a pretty decent shot when I was 15. And so on. I very much grew up in a gun-positive culture.

10.09.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I haven't talked about this publicly yet but I got carjacked at gunpoint a few weeks ago. I'm fine, I have insurance, the police found my car last week. Anyway, I was thinking afterward about how much worse it would have gone if I was also armed.

10.09.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve also noticed this. Joeyguessr was a Rails app, and copilot was able to autocomplete entire files for me. Whereas at my day job writing C# it’s mildly useful at best

09.07.2025 18:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m the guy who designed the trucks in Death Stranding. It was my idea not to add roofs even though the rain is incredibly dangerous and the world is full of bandits with guns. I am paid millions of likes a year for my innovations

05.07.2025 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An email advertising YNAB fan fest in San Diego

An email advertising YNAB fan fest in San Diego

Look, YNAB is a great app and I don’t know how I would manage my finances without it, but going to a fan convention for a budgeting app is completely deranged

16.04.2025 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought this after seeing your post about it and it’s been working great btw

12.04.2025 07:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You don’t need to explain to me why the church I left 10 years ago is bad. I’m just pleasantly surprised when I see something that’s not awful

10.04.2025 00:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I visited my sister at BYU last year I was pleasantly surprised at how many posters I saw around campus for diversity initiatives and other “woke” stuff. Feels like some degree of that kind of culture is inevitable if you’re running a respectable institution, even one with conservative roots

09.04.2025 22:26 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was funny the first time, surely it will still be funny the hundredth time

04.04.2025 18:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s cool to call a body of water “the drink”

15.03.2025 19:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Do you know who you’re replying to?

08.03.2025 18:58 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
03.03.2025 18:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“VSCode licenses” really underlines that these are a bunch of 19 year olds who don’t know that classic Visual Studio exists

26.02.2025 05:58 👍 37 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ohhhh installing metasploit is too hard I need to install a whole operating system about it

27.01.2025 20:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

YES, I love driving my gigantic pristine truck that I’m too small to climb into comfortably. NO, I will NOT be learning to park it. If you have a problem with that you can KISS MY ASS!

19.01.2025 00:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0