iamacyborg

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Comment · 6 days ago
> Judge the work on its merit.

We are, it reads like shit. Calling it slop is being polite.

Comment · 6 days ago
From the first tool page. Clearly LLM slop.

> Löffelholz does not open his book with a showpiece. He opens it with a practical tool you can adjust: choose a size, clamp it, work.

Comment · 6 days ago
Claude loves announcing counts as well.

“X things follow”, or from your example, “It waits for Y things to line up”.

Comment · 7 days ago
I've read too much Claude slop. It's very easy to spot the sentence construction.
Comment · 7 days ago
Hah, you can literally tell from the subheader.

> Rules downloaded from their server decide your pieces, your score and your ads. One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

Comment · 7 days ago
At least replace it with dbt charts rather than a whole new vibe coded mess.
Comment · 12 days ago
Read Article 4. "PII" is not a thing in the GDPR.
Comment · 12 days ago
PII is not a thing under the GDPR. Like, at all. Personal data is. Personal data and PII are not the same thing.
Comment · 12 days ago
You’re conflating PII with personal data.
Comment · 15 days ago
> A non-zero amount of it is probably going directly to the AI companies through tokens...

Much the same way that VC money has been funnelled to Google and Meta through advertising budgets.

Comment · 15 days ago
No, it really isn’t.

Putting a static, printed poster on a wall is in no way analogous to surveillance.

Comment · 16 days ago
The fact one of the spyware cos was named after the fish that swims up your dick hole is too funny
Comment · 16 days ago
Showing an advert is fine. A poster on a billboard is not deploying mass surveillance.
Comment · 16 days ago
> Wait what, so there is no content disarm between companies making ads, and the publishers? They can literally push whatever they want? Wild.

RTB (real-time bidding) does not incentivise publishers to care about what ads are actually being shown to individual users, so long as CPM is maximised.

Comment · 16 days ago
> For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.

Why not?

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