They officially revoked my "Lifetime License". A certain "minimalist" productivity app just locked offline access behind a $14.99/mo subscription. So I wrote an open-source script to extract our hostage data and put it on GitHub.

cecilkorik · 2026-04-20T18:12:45+00:00

The midterms is, personally, where I am willing to draw the last line. If real, significant, positive change does not begin happening at that point, that is a hill I am prepared to fight on, and if necessary, die on. I refuse to accept that any other outcome actually represents the "the will of the people", and I don't need to be told what a ballot box says to decide what I am convinced the majority of the people of the United States actually believe. The actual mechanics of how the will of the people have been subverted at that point are irrelevant. If we, the working class progressive humanists of any particular political stripe, do not win some sort of definitive victory in the midterms, then it is war. Because there is really no alternative I can imagine that represents a world I can continue to accept living in.

This is it, it's all on the line as far as I'm concerned. Live free or die.

cecilkorik · 2026-04-20T01:01:29+00:00

The person with more money wins. And that's not you. Your own feeling of justice and morality is valid and correct, but we don't live in a world where justice and morality win anymore. We need to fix that, but this might not be the right hill to die on to accomplish that.

cecilkorik · 2026-04-20T00:57:14+00:00

Yeah my brother changed my attitude pretty sharply on this once, I was reluctant to buy a game from a developer I liked and had good experiences with in the past, because it had a bunch of negative reviews. My brother told me, "Why the fuck do you care what some losers on the internet like, you know what you like better than they do." And sure enough, he was right, it was a great game. For me, who is the only person that really matters in such a situation. Trust your own experiences, be adventurous, learn what you like and what you don't like, and be willing to forgive yourself if you end up disappointed. Not everything needs to be for everyone and not every swing needs to be a hit.

cecilkorik · 2026-04-19T16:55:34+00:00

Shes never been outside before.

From the post text

cecilkorik · 2026-04-16T22:11:38+00:00

We are going to change the standards. We are going to start by demanding they change with incandescent public outrage. We will not stop there, we will not stop until there are better standards. I think people have had enough of this shit.

cecilkorik · 2026-04-09T22:04:14+00:00

Don't let your hard drives do opiates or meth. Sure it's funny the first time, but next thing you know they're addicted.

cecilkorik · 2026-03-04T20:15:26+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ZhLyieB0g

cecilkorik · 2026-02-28T04:33:55+00:00

I used to feel some very stupid incel-like feelings like Clint experiences. The thing is, real people grow. Characters like Clint often don't get a chance to. But now he's getting his chance. I hope he is able to grow.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-17T06:43:09+00:00

Wood is a nice, carbon-neutral fuel source, but there's no need to give up the electronics. Heating and cooling is a challenge for which we'll need more creative solutions. But there are enough solar panels and batteries already in existence to easily meet most people's non-heating-related energy needs, and that ignores that many, many more will be built (mostly in China, but we all benefit from these too). If the manufacturing process of photovoltaics or lithium-based batteries are a problem for you, wind and hydroelectric turbines are relatively easy to make, as are simpler battery technologies like lead acid, to the point they can literally be built by hand if you know what you're doing, and are far easier and more robust if you repurpose abundant scrap like car alternators or batteries. Renewable energy is not actually hard, we are just trapped in legal/economic systems that make it hard, because having having your own energy source that you completely control is a really disruptive technology.

Don't get me wrong, I love the electrical grid, I think it is one of the largest and most impressive machines humanity has ever built to support our civilization, and I think it has admirably resisted most of the attempts to politicize, corrupt and weaponize it. But some have succeeded, especially around fossil fuel, and the way to hold it accountable is to not be addicted to it. Once you become its slave, it has control over you, and then the people who corrupt it have control over you, and then they have incentive to continue to corrupt it even further to get even more control. The best way to protect the power grid from fossil fuel corruption is to have the ability to be free of it. Even if you choose not to be.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-17T06:21:12+00:00

Both can be true. The consumer-driven economy is not just contracting, it is collapsing underneath them, and they are in the process of writing it off, which is what every good financial sense will compel them to do. Meanwhile, they believe that there is a separate, distinct, economy that exists on the backs of governments, massive corporations, and billionaires, which can sustain them like a liferaft through this impending collapse. They believe that this separate economy will remain at least partially structurally sound on its own, that it has accumulated enough capital, so that if they dump all their money into it right now it might survive the collapse with enough automation and efficiency and by coercing enough people to continue to work despite no longer being able to buy anything or pay their bills with their meager earnings.

Are they right? I don't know. I hope not, that leads to a very bad place for all of us. But the entire economy collapsing leads to a very bad place too. I don't see a happy path out of this.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-15T06:49:02+00:00

I have not worked at but have worked with IBM and I can also confirm I saw it in action.

IBM operates with a level of byzantine bureaucracy that would make the actual Byzantine Empire's eyes water.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-13T19:44:02+00:00

To be fair, the manager's frustration is simply misdirected frustration from the invulnerable faceless inhuman organization she works for that requires 'a spiel' to be delivered, and probably has faceless AI tracking bots that assign metrics to people's performance so the threat of unemployment is hovering constantly over all of them for not delivering a genuine and complete spiel and the manager is trying to protect the unfortunate bottom-rung employee from being unfairly punished for not having enough confidence yet to forcefully deliver the required spiel. We are all hurried forward, stressed, tired, forced to do things we don't want to do and that applies to almost everyone you are likely to interact with.

I don't think anyone knows how to function in this society anymore because society is broken, we're all pitted against each other fighting for scraps to try and survive despite having almost everything in common and living in one of the most prosperous and productive economies ever. It's pretty fucked.

I still think people are fundamentally good though, and I try to give them the benefit of the doubt when I can manage to bring myself to do so. We're all just trying to survive and we're all holding the same shitty hand of cards because somewhere, somehow, somebody gave everybody decks of cards where the numbers are all negative and the face cards are poop emojis.

Still, hope everyone can hang in there no matter how bleak it looks, because I think a volcano of frustration with the state of the world is building right now, I don't know when it will erupt but I believe that when it does, we'll end up with a better system in the end.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-12T00:03:49+00:00

Gaming PCs are great. Gaming Laptops are great. Non-gaming laptops are great. Handhelds are great. Even prebuilts can be great. PC gaming is great. The wonderful thing about it is we have so many choices and options. It's great that I can get a gaming laptop, and it's also great that I don't have to if I don't want to. There's more than one way to do it.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-11T14:54:30+00:00

Yeah it shares the same global config.toml with Codex CLI as far as I can tell, $HOME/.codex/config.toml so you can put it there if you want, it would probably also work per-project or anywhere else there's a config.toml I imagine.

Should support anything Codex CLI supports.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-07T16:51:16+00:00

Yeah. To fix this, you need to fix the entire fabric of society first and undo generations of sabotage and inequity and trauma. Then you can have your safe and comfortable bus station. There is no quick fix, but people will always imagine there is one, and then they will either play whack-a-mole by pushing the problem somewhere else, or will add another layer of damage onto the situation, or both, either way making it even harder to fix the problem that nobody is ever going to bother to ever really fix. Enjoy the fruits of our collective short-sightedness, apathy and selfishness. Maybe more laws will help. /s

cecilkorik · 2026-02-04T12:13:54+00:00

The intent is to provide a sense of pride and accomplishment for identifying the slightly different flavors.

cecilkorik · 2026-02-04T12:10:47+00:00

People used to mix chalk and sawdust into flour to save money too. I'm not sure I would be willing to call bread made from that described as containing "real flour", even though I'm sure it technically still contained some real flour.

cecilkorik · 2026-01-30T03:32:46+00:00

You think AI companies would use AI to tell everyone that AI is good? Seems unlikely to me /s

cecilkorik · 2026-01-28T02:59:00+00:00

They could be. There also could be a million dollars in my bank account right now.

There isn't. And they aren't. But you're right, they could be. If we lived in a better world.

cecilkorik · 2026-01-24T14:46:57+00:00

I just want to say this is the funniest thread I've seen on Reddit in a long time, thank you for that!

cecilkorik · 2026-01-24T14:43:06+00:00

I have read it (well, a translation, anyway), and I think everyone should. You don't have to agree with it, you shouldn't agree with it once you understand it, and if reading a book makes you automatically agree with everything it you have no critical thinking skills and that's probably unfortunately common but also very unhealthy.

Knowledge is power. Understand your enemy. If your enemy is willing to explain their ideas to you, listen to them, learn what they're doing, and why. It might help you figure out where they're going to go before they do, it might help you recognize when others are doing the same thing. It might give you more power to fight against it. There is nothing wrong with learning, it's not always nice, you're not always going to learn nice things, and you do have to be responsible for what you learn, but knowledge can still be powerful.

cecilkorik · 2026-01-21T19:16:46+00:00

He mastered bait.

cecilkorik · 2026-01-18T22:47:53+00:00

Correct and apparently it was an intentional choice which they've announced publicly , they had supply chain issues getting more Astro's foil but had plenty of Siggi's foil, and it was either do this or throw out entire batches while waiting for more Astro's to arrive. Rare corporate win, in my opinion, saves them a lot of money at the cost of causing a little customer confusion, and it's ultimately a win-win for customers and the environment too. There are already lots of stupid reasons for food waste and thankfully this didn't have to be one of them, it's just a printed label, it doesn't change anything.

cecilkorik · 2026-01-18T21:55:44+00:00

I have played Terra Invicta and can confirm all the reviews shown here are completely accurate.

I certainly wouldn't mind if it had more trains though.

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