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> People wrongly think a duplicate was something wrong.

No. A duplicate is fine.

What was wrong was when "duplicate" questions were closed in favor of other more-upvoted questions with less-correct answers, or questions that were marked duplicate which were in fact not duplicate.

> There is a reason why we have consumer protection.

Do we, though?

File a chargeback.

Claude tried demanding a photo ID from me when I tried to pay for services. I've never had that happen before. It was an _even worse_ feeling than having to give out a phone number: I can just rotate my phone number from my carrier.

How to do downloads correctly in a browser:

Don't. Just copy the URL and download it with curl instead.

> You can't run a combine harvester 100% autonomous

I'm curious why you think that.

> Sorry, cash is all but dead in 2026.

Speak for yourself. I pay cash more than I don't.

> Never attribute to malice what can be explained as greed.

Why attribute to greed when the effects are indistinguishable from malice?

Oh yeah, auth itself isn't that difficult. But... auth resilient against malicious actors?

> Consider this: if Microsoft exfiltrates your keystrokes, it's a privacy violation, but if a random person does the same thing then it's a security violation

No, it's a security violation no matter who does it.

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Yeah no. If I wanted to use a pager, I'd use a pager.

I want the output visible on screen after I exit the pager. If I didn't want it on screen, I'd pipe it to a file and open that in a text editor. That will disappear when I close the file. As a bonus: I can then use grep without having to repeat whatever command I used.

Even more importantly: I want the command to behave identically regardless of whether its stdin or stdout is /dev/null or a terminal or a socket or a serial port or a pipe or anything else that it can read or write with. Try writing a script when the tools themselves change how they behave whether they're running in a script or in a terminal or elsewhere. It kinda sucks.

So you're doing work but not willing to pay others to do?

That's a great excuse. Meanwhile, there are billionaires whose investment incomes could pay those salaries many times over.

Where do those investment incomes come from?

Ahh, yes. Profits.

Transparency doesn't matter without consequences. Many of the currently ruling governments have demonstrated that already.