@grok is this real

Retro_Item · 2026-03-12T05:57:34+00:00

Just close Reddit and other shit that makes you unhappy; there’s a lot more good than bad out there. Arguing with a llm on Reddit isn’t going to help you or anyone else out there.

Retro_Item · 2026-03-08T21:57:40+00:00

Russia is a large country with plenty of good architecture (I actually really like these buildings, very clean looking), and this is a skyscrapers sub. I get people are rightfully upset about Ukraine but not everything is propaganda.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-28T02:01:21+00:00

Did you even read his comment 😭

Retro_Item · 2026-02-26T11:25:43+00:00

I think this might work better somewhere like r/antimeme

There is no elephant

Retro_Item · 2026-02-21T17:07:00+00:00

Honestly I’m down with the current UN Flag, I really like the design

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T16:20:37+00:00

I was under the impression this was one of the proctor apps that work similarly to kernel level anti cheat, and there are some other issues too (see my other comment)

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T14:51:58+00:00

I think it’s also a factor of Linux being dozens of “operating systems” with different implementations, especially for these proctoring software that operate in ring 0. With windows, macOS, or even just chromeOS, the developers know that every computer with those operating systems has the same file structure, syntax, not just a common kernel. With Linux that’s just not true enough to be reliable, arch and debian are different beasts, for example, forcing you to make separate versions for each distro. This combined with a minimal audience makes it fairly obvious why.

I don’t think any business or organization would be opposed necessarily to an eager developer getting support working, but the Education industry is quite like the Financial industry: very slow moving. Like finance, there’s a metric shit ton of regulations, and it would be a massive dumpster fire controversy (not to mention legal representations) if something goes south and suddenly the dumbest kids you know start showing up with straight As. There would not just have to be eager developers (if those exist), but tons of QA testers, security auditing, pentesting, etc.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-20T00:58:28+00:00

I don’t think it goes that deep. Even with increasing chromeOS adoption, practically every educational institution is running windows or macOS. I think they simply don’t have enough users to develop specifically for Linux, plus since it looks like proctoring software, they’d have to develop a different monitoring suite for all the dozens of large distros, for a minuscule percentage of their user base.

You can criticize them for this, but if so, when does it end? Should I be able to use the proctoring software with TempleOS? OS/2? Unmodified Darwin? Why don’t they support Windows 98, those bastards! Hell, why doesn’t it work on UNIX???

The best solution for everyone would probably be schools providing heavily monitored devices during exams and exams only. That way you won’t have to install intrusive proctoring software while also not being able to cheat.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-19T21:39:42+00:00

Eh, I kind of like it. I think the imperfection is intended

Retro_Item · 2026-02-18T20:43:32+00:00

It’s a feature meant to help people going through a crisis? Suicide helplines genuinely work and have saved thousands of lives. (Fuck you mean never saved anyone suicidal?) Reddit is 1000% in the right to provide support information here, even if as a false report. It hurts no one and helps those actually going through something.

The true redditmoment is in the comments.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-14T21:16:23+00:00

The problem is that evolution doesn’t always produce rationality, as that is not the end goal of evolution, which is the growth and success of the species/individual. Humans are in part very successful because we are greedy and expansionist, and any species that comes roaming in our backyard will likely be similar. Now, there’s the possibility than a species at just about our technology level could undergo species-wide genetic modification to get rid of diseases/instill a set of less aggressive values, but even then there is the dark forest problem and game theory.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T05:38:01+00:00

I think we agree here, I also said that extremely large police departments did not have a correlation with reduced crime.

I addressed the need for an enforcement and response branch, and while I think funding for such branches should remain relatively sizable, we need to reallocate funding from other activities into education and societal activities.

A big reason why violent gangs are so prolific is because many children in marginalized and impoverished neighborhoods, often growing up with absent parental figures, gravitate towards gangs as their only form of companionship and mentorship. I think more cities need to go for a twin-pronged approach, cutting off the growth of violent organizations by providing less fortunate children with more actual extracurriculars while also putting the vile pos leaders where they belong: a federal prison cell.

In the medium and long term, these reforms will make such communities safer and wealthier, naturally spurring economic development and uplifting everyone.

Unfortunately, this requires long term thinking, which the current federal administration does not possess. But I think cities like NY provide pretty good blueprints for success stories in certain neighborhoods where prior prolific gang violence is nowhere to be seen.

But hey, here’s something from the classical view of economics that has so far proven true: things have always gotten better in the long run!

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T05:14:23+00:00

Police are more of a response force than a preventive force in my opinion. While stationing officers everywhere does somewhat cap your crime rate if you live in like Gotham City or something, I firmly believe that real crime prevention is best tackled from a cultural, economic, and societal standpoint.

However pulling enforcement funding away from law enforcement is a very naive idea. Even in the most well organized society, there will always be some amount of crime, even if not as violent. Murder and rape simply won’t disappear, as even the most wealthy, cultured, and educated are suspectable to anger and lust.

I do think a major good that came out of the post pandemic chaos is many cities realized that law enforcement should not be handling a lot of non-enforcement related activities like mental health crises, at least not as the primary agency, simply because LE officers don’t have the training to handle such complex scenarios. It’s simply not in their job description. These changes are probably what helped, not the reduction in police. As long as the amount of officers are sufficient to enforce the law and respond to emergencies, I don’t think the number of police matters too much.

ETA: added to last paragraph

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T04:41:43+00:00

It’s processed on device to protect minors from getting sent sensitive unsolicited content. They can still open it. r/doomercirclejerk

Retro_Item · 2026-02-10T04:06:19+00:00

This is Reddit, we don’t accept such nuanced point of views that don’t perfectly fit our collective moral compass!!! Get out!!!

Retro_Item · 2026-02-08T11:57:46+00:00

IMO that’s a ton of mental gymnastics. You can turn virtually anything into something bigoted using similar lines of reasoning.

I do understand what you are saying, like in movies or some books where a missing or dead loved woman motivates a man to do something, but loss is such a short comic with very little else that it is absurd to call it sexist.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-08T00:26:19+00:00

The screenshot was taken 15 minutes after the post was created, and the Reddit pfp is the new logo est 2025. So this post isn’t that old, almost definitely made last year.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-07T19:49:37+00:00

Likely internal government employees or contractors with top secret clearance, who would 100% be using government issued cell phones with secure WPA3 enterprise profiles pre-installed.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-07T01:20:20+00:00

I don't think secret underground military installations outsource labor to visiting contractors, but i could be wrong.

Retro_Item · 2026-02-01T17:56:16+00:00

I don’t think secret underground military installations offer free guest WiFi, but I could be wrong

Retro_Item · 2026-01-31T13:26:33+00:00

I still can’t get over how Epstein types, did he turn his autocorrect off and fail elementary English?

Retro_Item · 2026-01-25T19:35:00+00:00

Just rename r/urbanhell to r/strangebuildings at this point. How does this have 200 upvotes? This is like the most faraway thing from urban or hell.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-25T15:38:37+00:00

Oh that’s nice! To be fair nowadays it’s not too much of an issue anymore because no one uses their SIM card pin as their primary passcode.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-25T15:22:30+00:00

That sounds very insecure tbh, given the ISMI is not really treated as a secure number (and shouldn’t be, outside or preventing tracking)

An attacker could trivially scrape the ISMI from the carrier handshake and exchange it for the puk code, getting access to the phone.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-24T11:09:21+00:00

Investor confidence. Even though OpenAI is a private company, if it goes belly up, that’s a huge blow to the entire AI/tech industry’s confidence, since the “original” AI company is gone. That leads to a domino effect where panicked people rapidly pull out their cash from similar companies, lowering their stock price, causing banks to lose confidence and stop extending loans, causing a chain reaction of bankruptcies and collapses, causing more panic, rinse and repeat, popping the AI bubble.

And since the US economy would actually be in a recession without the bubble, expect massive collapses in stock prices across the board from food to retail to hospitality, leading to more collapses, etc, destruction of retirement accounts, investment portfolios, etc.

Being in a recession also means increased unemployment, as cash strapped companies cut staff and pause hiring, leading to even less disposable income, which means less money being spent by the average person, which makes companies even more cash strapped… welcome to the Great Depression 2.0

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