Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 day ago:
“Your kid is safe at school, because we insist all teachers use condoms”
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 days ago:
60+ Haha, I can’t imagine it’s worth it. 20-59 Buy if it comes strongly recommended. 10-19 Impulse buy if the description and screenshots look cool. 1-9 Buy if I like the store thumbnail. 0 Hahaha FUCK no this will hold the game flow hostage every few hours to get me to pay infinite money.
- Comment on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code 2 days ago:
Don’t signal boost their lies.
Another spammy wave of invalid security issues is disgustingly disrespectful of the maintainers’ time.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 5 days ago:
Are they slowly inventing movies?
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 5 days ago:
I went to Librefox. It has some harsh defaults that I ended up tuning, but so far it works well. Could just port over bookmarks and such.
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 5 days ago:
As a Firefox user, this is not long-awaited. It’s a tepid excuse for a dead project. The forks of Firefox are the only real alternatives if you value privacy over convenience. If you don’t, then there are faster browers than FF anyway.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Silksong.
Love the game, but playing a few times a week isn’t enough investment for me to build up the necessary skill to complete it. Got to a point now where I literally spend the entire gaming session refreshing my fingers from last week, and decided to take a break until I lose my kids or legs or go to prison or something.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What if Z was X?
This thing looks like it can do okay on Q. It may be good at Z in the future!
Headline: “Thing does X!”
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”
- Comment on Cursor is better at marketing than coding 1 week ago:
Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.
The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.
Yet we now allow “it generated so much code!!!” to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 2 weeks ago:
Fun experiment: Ask Google if there are more stars in the solar system than grains of sand in a glass of water. See the AI confidently say “yes” and then refresh the query and see it confidently say “no”.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
We are?
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 2 weeks ago:
It is obvious, but we have so many liars lying to eveeyone and each other about AI that they get away with it. Skilled bullshitters shitting up clouds of smoke and using every manipulation tactic in the world.
Some hard evidence makes it easier to prevent their damage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Don’t ask for advanced advice for your business from forums hire a consultant jesus christ
- Comment on Asking AI if its useful and worth its costs. 2 weeks ago:
Just post your prompt, bro
This space filling word soup is just wasting people’s time
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 3 weeks ago:
I keep seeing the “it’s good for prototyping” argument they post here, in real life.
For non-coders it holds up if you ignore the security risk of someone running literally random code they have no idea what does.
But seeing it from developers, it smells of bullshit. The thing they show are always a week of vibing gave them some stuff I could hack up in a weekend. And they could too if they invested a few days of learning e.g. html5, basic css and read the http fetch doc. And the learning cost is a one-time cost - later prototypes they can just bang out. And then they also also have the understanding needed to turn it into a proper product if the prototype pans out.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
Hey I am not in need of convincing haha. Am Linux gamer and genuinely find it easier than Windows already.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
It is.
And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.
- Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn’t)
- Install the sound card drivers correctly
- Edit the computer’s config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates’ 640 kb RAM available to load a game
- Borrow (!) a network card from my dad’s computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
- Install network drivers
- Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
- Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
- Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight
We all did that back then!
If someone was a “gamer” they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.
Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider “mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux”, running GNU GUIX:
- Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
- Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
- Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.
O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.
- Comment on CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage 3 weeks ago:
Reading it yeah… The claim is not very plausible.
CrowdStrike saying “we are safe” but then later doing a fuckup does not constitute intention to defraud.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 3 weeks ago:
I can totally believe that nobody else felt like
bribingpaying out of their nose to have a Guinness employee fly over and look at a small computer and go “yep its small”. - Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 4 weeks ago:
Don’t be so negative! It’s also found a huge market in scams. Both for stealing celebrity likenesses, and making pictures and video of nonexistent products.
- Comment on Microsoft says Windows 11 is leveling up agentic development 4 weeks ago:
Wow so next time I have a burning need for agentic experiences in my life I know a product exists to serve my need.
- Comment on Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 5 weeks ago:
The awards are fun when I compare my vote list with my friends’ vote list, but the actual awards are just annoyingly pointless.
The winner of each category is predictable immediatelt. It will only ever be the game with the highest number of players and the category doesn’t matter.
If GTA6 comes out in 2026 and posts “we are hoping to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award”, it’s going to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award.
- Comment on How I Left YouTube 1 month ago:
It’s baffling how people in the US accept and even adopt the language of NDAs being trade secrets. They aren’t. It’s a weapon to make it harder for people to leave.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 1 month ago:
TBH he probably knows he is lying, but is making confusing claims in order to push some other agenda.
Probably firing core people to save money while maintaining plausiblish deniability that this won’t do irrepairable damage.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 1 month ago:
The expensive autocomplete can’t do this.
AI markering all wants us to believe that spoon technology is this close to space flight. We just need to engrave the spoons better. And gold plate them thicker.
Dude who wrote that doesn’t understand how LLMs work, how Rust works, how C works, and clearly jack shit about programming in general.
Rewriting from one paradigm to another isn’t something you can delegate to a million monkeys shitting into typewriters. The core and time-consuming part of the work itself requires skilled architectural coding.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a “wrong start” in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.
