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   Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:04:26 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

   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.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:04:25 JST Rich Felker

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     @hacks4pancakes Same.

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     Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:15:44 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

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     I’m kinda just over people yelling at me. The more people get super angry about me saying something is fishy as hell, the more south it’s going.

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     Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:27:05 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

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     Yes, even the collapse of American free speech and democratic government because deep American exceptionalism and trust in stability is 💯💯💯 lifelong brainwashing too.

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     Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 08-Mar-2026 23:27:06 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

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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.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 00:09:20 JST Rich Felker

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     • Joe (TBA)

     @haakon @lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes A naive intern who's also working for your competitors. 🙃

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     Craig Askings (haakon@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 00:09:21 JST Craig Askings

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     • Joe (TBA)

     @lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes the best I can suggest is to frame it as “Would you let a naïve intern run your company?”

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     Lesley Lai (lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 00:09:22 JST Lesley Lai

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     • Joe (TBA)

     @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.

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     Joe (TBA) (regguy@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 00:09:24 JST Joe (TBA)

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     @hacks4pancakes Decades ago, this company was claiming to have invented the operating system that would work across all computer platforms, Micro, Mini, and Mainframe. They hyped it, and it was called OS-2 (of all things, unrelated to MS OS/2). A friend who was an investor asked me to look at it. I explained in detail why it was not a good investment, and he didn't invest $50K. I was laughed at and told I was wrong.

     Where is OS-2? A money pit that vanished a year later.

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     Lesley Carhart :unverified: (hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 00:09:25 JST Lesley Carhart :unverified:

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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.

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     Matt Palmer (womble@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 08:52:09 JST Matt Palmer

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     • Rich Felker
     • Craig Askings
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     • Joe (TBA)

     @dalias the naive intern who is the favourite child of your biggest, nastiest, least trustworthy competitor.

     @haakon @lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes