natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx) 6 hours ago:
Did I miss something? Title is “DIY” but it looks like a sales page?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 days ago:
Floorp misses the mark for me. Waterfox and librewolf seem to be a better fit for most people.
Always celebrate more options, though. I hope ladybird does well and doesn’t shit the bed the moment it gets some market share.
These days I’m tempted to just write myself a super minimal front end to Servo though because I don’t want 90% of what modern browsers ship with.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 days ago:
So, like, are you just not capable of building an argument not built on strawman hyperbole?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 days ago:
I’ll have to look at this when I get a chance, but my understanding of these products is that a “custom model” isn’t from scratch using only your data, but that they add your data to a core model that has already been trained to behave in certain ways… using data that isn’t yours.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 days ago:
“All genAI bad” is a nuanced take. When you look at genAI from a moral, ethical, or sociopolitical perspective it always demonstrates itself to be a net evil.
The core technology is predicated on theft, the data centers powering it are harmful economically and to surrounding communities, it is gobbled up by companies looking to pay less to profit more, and it’s powered by a bubble ripe for bursting which will wreak havoc on our economy.
GenAI is indefensible as a technology, and the applications it may have for any tangible benefit can probably be accomplished by ML systems not built on the back of the LLM monster. We should all be protesting its use in all things.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 week ago:
I have considered this, as the only reason anyone would willingly eat celery.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 1 week ago:
3 mostly solved this, it was way more reasonable. 2 was a great game with fantastic voice acting that was really diminished by the character models.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 weeks ago:
It’s frustrating that a small number of really good franchises are locked into the Nintendo bullshit business model.
Xenoblade Chronicles, Zelda, Mario, and a couple of other series running on Steam Deck without the emulation nonsense would make me tremendously happy.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 2 weeks ago:
The reasons are many, but the main one is to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year.
From the company that brings you the same fucking game year over year, with paid dlc to get the same maps from old games again.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 3 weeks ago:
The military recruits from young people who are some combination of naive or desperate and then brainwashes them with tried and true indoctrination. I don’t think they’re ever going to want for recruits.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
Heads up, you’re really invested in arguing with someone who does not appear to be arguing in good faith. Just block them and move on, you will be a happier person for it.
- Comment on Replace your boss ... before they replace you 3 weeks ago:
Even in AI dystopia female representation at the executive level is nonexistent.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
For clarity: I didn’t write the article, it’s just a good reference.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
The cost here only really impacts regular users, too. The type of users you actually want to block have budgets which easily allow for the compute needed anyways.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
There’s a caddy config out there that works as well as Anubis without the catgirls and mining: fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
I feel comfortable hating on Anubis for this. The compute cost per validation is vanishingly small to someone with the existing budget to run a cloud scraping farm, it’s just another cost of doing business.
The cost to actual users though, particularly to lower income segments who may not have compute power to spare, is annoyingly large. There are plenty of complaints out there about Anubis being painfully slow on old or underpowered devices.
Some of us do actually prefer to use the internet minus JS, too.
Plus the minor irritation of having anime catgirls suddenly be a part of my daily browsing.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: Anubis is not awesome: lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks ago:
This is an excellent clarification, thanks.
Fuck LLMs, though.
- Comment on European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s 4 weeks ago:
This all sounds great. I wasn’t able to figure out how they plan to enforce it though.
I want to believe that the list of things they outline can be enforced by just killing them entirely but I know that is a pipe dream; does that mean even more privacy destroying age verification systems?
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 4 weeks ago:
I get the point, but I just don’t agree with it.
For example: I put some thought into finding a final fantasy 14 guild to help with putting together parties for content (so I don’t need to wait 40+ minutes for less common but mandatory ones) but virtually all the ones I found were “discord required”.
I just want someone to play content with occasionally, not a full time, always on community that demands I engage with it all the time.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense, seems like most guilds now require discord. I just have no interest in being beholden to another enshitified service.
- Comment on A community dedicated to 30+ gamers. 4 weeks ago:
Discord required
Nope.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 4 weeks ago:
Of course he can’t, he’s too much of a loser to eat shit and die. He couldn’t manage it.
Eat shit? Maybe. But not eat shit and die? No sir. No way. I won’t believe it unless I see it for myself.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 5 weeks ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Pokémon Red
- Stardew Valley
Think I’m good with those 4.
Throw in Math Blaster so I can pretend to value humanity or something.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 5 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, “there is a lot of controversy” isn’t actually the same as “I hold a strong belief”.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but… there is a lot of controversy over if Epstein actually committed suicide or not. Saying that he did over and over again, where in the past how someone died would not be brought up ad nauseam, seems more like a statement of political propaganda than anything else.
Like, normally you’d stop saying “x, who died by a heart attack” after a while too.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 5 weeks ago:
Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019…
This phrasing is so common and so nearly verbatim that it’s hard not to wonder if we’ve got some Minitrue action happening here.
- Comment on Are you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing quite like gagging yourself with a finger to get that fucking bit of shell out of your throat.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 month ago:
Converting those roles to debuggers and active devs does a lot for both the business and the workforce.
Hahahahaha… on wait you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
They’re just gonna lay them off.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 months ago:
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.
The music video: youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI