This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
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@hacks4pancakes Cognitive dissonance is a bitch and a half.
Definitely a case where two things/both cannot be true. It is one or the other, and I would lean towards the thingz being fishy.
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I think that is because they’re all attached to really hype, addictive, subversive things, and We Computer People think we’re immune to that. To the point of getting aggressive when someone says they’re bad.
@hacks4pancakes i've come to accept that many need to learn the hard way and find out themselves. I joke my home office walls are plastered with 'i told you so's.
you'd think that over time one's track record would change things... but nah 😅
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The one I haven’t won out on because thankfully the other shoe hasn’t dropped is insecure child tracking apps but omg
@hacks4pancakes
Was the prediction more specific than this? Or different timeframe? https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/07/catwatchful-child-monitoring-app-exposes-victims-data -
@hacks4pancakes Yeah. Somebody bad is gonna... yeah.
@jmax @hacks4pancakes Oh. Oh no. Fuck.
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@hacks4pancakes This. And then there’s the massive FOMO every time bad but shiny tech gets hyped. Tech people loooove shiny things, and FOMO is the mind killer.
FOMO is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my FOMO. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the FOMO has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
@hacks4pancakes I have been the guy with twigs in his beard saying "don't use that thing everybody uses" for twenty years now. I keep being proved right. But I don't have a huge marketing budget or a horde of uncritical fanboys.
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
@hacks4pancakes Same.
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@hacks4pancakes This. And then there’s the massive FOMO every time bad but shiny tech gets hyped. Tech people loooove shiny things, and FOMO is the mind killer.
@schrotthaufen @hacks4pancakes seriously. when the old hands complain about some shiny new thing, sometimes it's not because we're being crotchety old nags who are out to spoil everyone's fun
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You’re mad because you’re so deeply invested and wired into something that me yelling that the emperor is naked makes you want to fight.
I have no problem with someone who is willing to fight for what they believe in. It only becomes a problem when confronted/presented with the rest of the facts, that they do not have the courage to reevaluate their beliefs.
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@haakon @lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes A naive intern who's also working for your competitors. 🙃
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
I was really confused about the grassy knoll thing, one search later and I discovered people are still discussing the death of JFK on the year 2026 -
@vegai Trump and his ear bullet
Oh, and here I thought it was about JFK's shot -
You’re mad because you’re so deeply invested and wired into something that me yelling that the emperor is naked makes you want to fight.
@hacks4pancakes at this point I wonder if the emperor *ever* had cloths... :/
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
@hacks4pancakes The lack of both critical thought and curiosity is appalling, but also (at least in the US) a sign of the success of our war on education, and by extension, thought.
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@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Last night, my uncle (investor/manager, zero computing background) called me saying he wants to install OpenClaw on his machine (and "to automate my company") with a lot of FOMO energy. He asked me because he didn't have the skill to figure out how to install that (and yet still thinks it is fine to let it "automate" his company, unmaintained?) I honestly don't know how to dissuade him.
@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes isn't that what it comes down to? All that work making money sucks, wouldn't it be nice to just make money without the work part? Or pay a little extra to make the work part go away. That seems to be the general consensus, work is for suckers. Let the suckers do the work, just give me money.
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@schrotthaufen @hacks4pancakes seriously. when the old hands complain about some shiny new thing, sometimes it's not because we're being crotchety old nags who are out to spoil everyone's fun
@shadowspar @schrotthaufen @hacks4pancakes Actually it is? You get to be a crotchety Old Nag by being too smart to fall for the BS and avoiding those parts of the map labelled 'Here be Dragons!', and NEVER trying the places labelled 'Here b...🔥🔥 🔥 ' etc.
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
@hacks4pancakes same! Well done us. Still not sure anyone is listening…
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This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something
(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)
And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,
Within two years I’m proven extremely right.
@hacks4pancakes what do you currently have a bad feeling about?
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@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Great idea, if you don't know enough to see the problems.
The Dunning-Kruger effect, monetized.
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@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Last night, my uncle (investor/manager, zero computing background) called me saying he wants to install OpenClaw on his machine (and "to automate my company") with a lot of FOMO energy. He asked me because he didn't have the skill to figure out how to install that (and yet still thinks it is fine to let it "automate" his company, unmaintained?) I honestly don't know how to dissuade him.
@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes
"Are you happy to hand the unsupervised day to day running of your business over to somebody who is also working for your competitors and would you also be okay with not knowing what they're doing, how they're doing it, why they're doing it, and what they're doing with your customers assets, resources and customers or who they're sharing them with?"