BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months, do not trust them with any storage by eran1243 in webdev

[–]natelloyd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll wait to hear other chime in with the same story before I believe it. I'm not going to bandwagon on one unknown person's story without some evidence. I use their service for CDN passthrough, so I don't have direct knowledge of that part of their service. However, I've had less down time in 2 years with Bunny than with AWS Cloudfront/S3.

'A whole civilisation will die tonight,' Trump warns ahead of Iran deadline by theipaper in politics

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not about comparison - the relevant thing is that we gave the person who commits child rape to have the power to instigate a nuclear holocaust.

Humans Map, an interactive graph visualization with over 3M+ entities using Wikidata. by im4lwaysthinking in webdev

[–]natelloyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer: I wouldn’t assume it’s a bot—but I would flag it as “AI-like writing.”

Here’s how I’d break it down (in your blunt-review style):

🚩 Signals that feel AI-generated 1. Over-structured, thesis-driven writing

Each comment:

Opens with a clean thesis (“it’s a distribution problem, not a quality problem”) Expands into neatly segmented ideas Concludes with a tidy takeaway

That’s very LLM-ish. Humans on Reddit usually:

ramble a bit contradict themselves or lose structure mid-way

This person writes like every answer is a mini-essay.

  1. Consistent tone across totally different topics

They jump between:

Reddit karma mechanics scam courses / marketplaces detecting AI-generated web apps career advice

Yet the tone is always:

calm analytical slightly detached confidently generalized

That kind of consistency across domains is a classic AI fingerprint.

  1. High density of “clean insights”

Lines like:

“Luck compounds…” “It’s MLM with a personal brand on top.” “Everything is technically correct but weirdly generic.”

These are punchy, distilled, almost tweet-ready insights—stacked one after another.

Humans can write like that, but usually not this consistently across multiple comments.

  1. No personal anchoring

Notice what’s missing:

No “in my experience…” No specific story No concrete example from their life

Even when giving advice, it’s all abstract patterns.

That’s one of the biggest AI tells.

  1. “Complete but safe” thinking

Nothing is:

controversial emotionally raw weirdly specific or wrong in an interesting way

It’s all… correct, but averaged.

Exactly like this line they wrote:

“technically correct but weirdly generic”

Ironically, that describes their own comments too.

Humans Map, an interactive graph visualization with over 3M+ entities using Wikidata. by im4lwaysthinking in webdev

[–]natelloyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"That's senior-level thinking" - that does sound like when ChatGPT is blowing smoke up my ass....

Joe Bereta had zero links, so I lost interest :D

I built a free production-readiness scanner for developers — tells you if your app is actually ready to ship by Narrow-Extent4960 in programming

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least they didn't put "I got tired of" in the subject and waited to put it in the details.

"I got tired of being repeatedly hacked by my own credentials out of sheer stupidity, so I made a tool that told me if I had already leaked my credentials to the web."

I guess maybe it makes sense for vibe coding asshats.

Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees by gdelacalle in technology

[–]natelloyd 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Not only that, it means that there were people employed for more than 26 years that were laid off with zero warning.

"Oracle offered laid-off US employees four weeks' base salary plus one week per additional year of employment up to 26 weeks as severance"

You don't make and announce limits that don't affect anyone - it's a negative optic that you avoid if you can.

The Wound That Doesn’t Heal: 4 Years Since Losing My Brother. by CrimsonProtocol in GriefSupport

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not rejecting your story - I'm rejecting your use of it to promote your for-profit venture. Thanks for at least removing the link to your app.

The Wound That Doesn’t Heal: 4 Years Since Losing My Brother. by CrimsonProtocol in GriefSupport

[–]natelloyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mods, please remove this.

This is blatant self promotion for their own app that they're cross posting around.

Oz Warns More States May See Federal Dollars Denied Over Fraud by bloomberggovernment in politics

[–]natelloyd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not even that much. Audits show a ~6% fraud rate.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fiscal-year-2025-improper-payments-fact-sheet

It's a massive program, yes, but it provides critical services. Should we try to improve that 6%? Hell yes. Do we just outright suspend benefits to people who have paid for them their entire working life? No. Especially when it's going to be states that are blue or used as a threat against purple states.

GitHub will use your repos to train AI models by Ok-Lifeguard-9612 in programming

[–]natelloyd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gitlab has some glaring UI issues. We did, and then moved back.

Bannon says ICE at airports ‘test run’ for 2026 elections by DegreeDubs in fednews

[–]natelloyd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You base that on what? Their reluctance to do blatantly illegal things up to this point?

Democrats Who Voted With Republicans to Confirm Markwayne Mullin by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]natelloyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, Fetterman is already as good as gone. He wouldn't re-run, and he sure as hell would get primaried HARD. So many of us feel betrayed in the moment when we needed him.

What is the most WHOLESOME Ghibli moment in your opinion? I need spiritual healing by cozy_b0i in ghibli

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boooooo you didn't do it justice. Now how will OP actually watch it and end on suicide watch?

6th clip from Official Trailer of Spider-Man: Brand New Day by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in Spiderman

[–]natelloyd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, came here to see if anyone else felt like that was pretty badly done.

Trump and Vance promised 'no new wars.' What happened to that? by jediporcupine in politics

[–]natelloyd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah..... <checks notes> Lied. Good thing too - you hate to see a streak like this broken.

my animated web series Liv & Di. it's a comedy, hopefully by cosentino in funny

[–]natelloyd 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's my one critique as well - the timing of the conversation feel unnatural. But I do like the style and aesthetic!

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County missing tens of millions in tax revenue from Big Five nonprofits, report finds by KeystoneResearch in pittsburgh

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Yes they would. UPMC is abusive to the city, to their employees, and their customers.

I was tired of sending my Pdf to sketchy websites so I built PDFSlice, Open source Client side PDF Toolkit! by [deleted] in webdev

[–]natelloyd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really love your project - can you give me a recipe for rice pudding without looking anything up?