drmoose
@drmoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 20 hours ago:
Sorry dude just tired of this defeatism online and even if voting with your wallet doesn’t work we never collectively manage to even test it. Just exhausting. Maybe youre right maybe it doesn’t work and it’s stupid but the bigger point is that people just don’t put effort into it.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 21 hours ago:
are these other forms in the room with us?
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 22 hours ago:
Where was that again?
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
You’re a dec and use PWAs on ios and don’t know that you can’t even get push notifications? There’s no web bluetooth, no web nfc, no background sync, 50-100mb storage limit, no background processes, no service workers.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
ah good ol Cynicism. Might as well find yourself a giant pot to live in while they’re still available!
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
Defeatist subservient take
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
Except PWAs are heavily limited on apple devices so Apple could get that 30% cut.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 days ago:
I code with LLMs every day as a senior developer but agents are mostly a big lie. LLMs are great for information index and rubber duck chats which already is incredible feaute of the century but agents are fundamentally bad. Even for Python they are intern-level bad. I was just trying the new Claude and instead of using Python’s pathlib.Path it reinvented its own file system path utils and pathlib is not even some new Python feature - it has been de facto way to manage paths for at least 3 years now.
That being said when prompted in great detail with exact instructions agents can be useful but thats not what being sold here.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 6 days ago:
Instant Noodlius also coincidentally my male stripper name
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
honestly it seems like we’re kinda in agreement here
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
I live in remote locations as a digital nomad and this would never really work. The maintenance overhead of even normal ground wind turbines is too much for remote areas. Solar and battery storage is really unbeatable.
Some new generation wind turbines can be decent ive heard but there are also small novel solutions like mini water turbines can be surprisingly useful.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Basically every other option will almost always be better, no? I guess we’ll see as someone actually brings some of these to the market but my guess would be that this is not going to go anywhere.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Well maybe its a dead end then. You’ll have regular use of highly inefficient alternative with a huge maintenance overhead just because an emergency might happen some day?
Cool tech but entirely impractical and probably will never be deployed at any scale higher than a demo.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
The one you posted is not for scaling either. I just dont see how this maintenance overhead could ever scale for mass use.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
The article literally says its for earthquake relief which absolutely makes sense. The lines are down and power is needed for emergecy operations and I can see how this would be useful.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
This is intended as emergency power relief not a full time energy source.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
I like how everyone conveniently leaves out the part that this is an emergency backup not actual full time scalable tool.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
Yes but does Cloudflare provide you detailed metrics of who and when was denied access to the website? They just tap themselves on the back and admins are blindly losing customers without even knowing.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
Not sure what does have to do with the fact that cf providers no metrics of false positives but sure.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
You control the score but not how its calculated. My score is incredibly high just because I’m on Linux with Firefox - how important is that to you as an e-commerse site admin?
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
The control is very limited unless you’re enterprise subscriber and even then CF is super sneaky and doesnt actually report the real world. I had a few clients where they were clearly suffering losses due to cf implementation (you could literally see sales dip when cf is enabled) but they didnt believe me because cf dashboard doesn’t report false positives or anything of that sort and they had no in house analytics to really understand the issue.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
Gendered language is stupid and antiquated and I say this as a native speaker of a gendered language. It’s just such a poor communication design.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
Nope. Cloudflare use a complex set of fingerprinting tools that determine security scores. It’s literally social credit system for web user agents and the site admits have little control over that.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
Same roll it is today? Sell spyware and data hosting.
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 1 week ago:
It’s a rage bait article that’s why they leave out all of the information. It’s working too.
Seems like a popular Kuwait based e-commerce app in the region:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alshaya…
That being said android apps are sandboxed and dont really have any capabilities unless launched. Still shouldn’t be included by default but this is still rage bait.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s like idiots killing idiots September
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Skill issue
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Nah I said nothing about disability. This notion that healthy adults need mental herding is very pervasive and has absolutely captured the pop tech culture.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
This topic is always twisted and based on some random dom deceitful surveys. Yes I’d commit AI code but mostly because that code does a test or implements some one off function that I read through anyway.
Do I enjoy baby sitting AI? Eh its a mix bag. Its great for writing tests and boilerplate and bootstrap you into real solutions but I dread any code base that claims their mostly written by cloude code. The AI is still incredibly stupid.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a toddler so don’t need help with “distractions” so nothing. That’s like reverting computers to windows 95 just because modern operating systems can run Steam.