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- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
True, in a broad sense. I am speaking moreso to enshittification and the degradation of both experience and control.
If this was just “now everything has Siri, it’s private and it works 100x better than before” it would be amazing. That would be like cars vs horses. A change, but a perceived value and advantage.
But it’s not. Not right now anyways. Right now it’s like replacing a car with a pod that runs on direct wind. If there is any wind over say, 3mph it works, and steers 95% as well as existing cars. But 5% of the time it’s uncontrollable and the steering or brakes won’t respond. And when there is no wind over 3mph it just doesn’t work.
In this hypothetical, the product is a clear innovation, offers potential benefits long term in terms of emissions and fuel, but it doesn’t do the core task well, and sometimes it just fucks it up.
The television, cars, social media, all fulfilled a very real niche. But nearly everyone using AI, even those using it as a tool for coding (arguably its best use case) often don’t want to use it in search or in many of these other “forced” applications because of how unreliable it is. Hence why companies have tried (and failed at great expense) to replace their customer service teams with LLMs.
This push is much more top down.
Now drink your New Coke and Crystal Pepsi.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
Tech companies don’t really give a damn what customers want anymore. They have decided this is the path of the future because it gives them the most control of your data, your purchasing habits and your online behavior. Since they control the back end, the software, the tech stack, the hardware, all of it, they just decided this is how it shall be. And frankly, there’s nothing you can do to resist it, aside from just eschewing using a phone at all. and divorcing yourself from all modern technology, which isn’t really reasonable for most people. That or legislation, but LOL United States.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 months ago:
Did you follow a guide, or know one you could link? I’m thinking this is the path for me and my friends too.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 2 months ago:
Hello comrade.
- Comment on Ratatan - Official Gameplay Trailer | ID@Xbox 3 months ago:
Hilarious that this is being promoted on Xbox. Absolutely ridiculous Sony didn’t keep this team going.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
With Obsidian, you don’t have to use folders. I’m generally of the opinion that having a tool is better than not having access to it. Tags and Folders are just an option to use. Fundamentally Logseq and Obsidian otherwise can be very similar.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Interesting. I’ll have to give that one a shot later. Though I’m probably fine with Obsidian.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Yes, but the syntax and documentation on the queries is obtuse as hell in logseq. Like it is ridiculous how granular you have a to get of you want to return all links within a time period or something. If I need to write SQL to pull notes, I should just use a database, lol.
The nice thing about tags as a distinct entity is it offers the option you can utilize if you choose. It gives you two buckets you can sort into and connect between. And it does make creating “topic groups” easier than manually linking them all to a tag page in logseq, imo.
Conversely, I would massively prefer of Logseq abolished support for hashtags entirely if they are functionally identical to wikilinks. Or combine them so the hashtags auto-convert to wikilinks or vice versa. But supporting hashtags in any manner when they are frankly not a “real” feature is more frustrating. Making topic links in Logseq is harder because of this.
Also, the existence of tag pages themselves is a confusong abberation given the above…
Logseq is a great tool, but very different in terms of what it is best suited to handle. I think I will revisit it for if I do a lot of writing, but for disparate ideas or notation it is good but could be better.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
I’ve tried logseq for the last 6 months (no commercial license) at work, but while it’s really good for outlining, it’s lack of a tag function is what feels like a critical weakness to me. I realize structurally it’s different in concept. But making everything into bullets doesn’t always suit the task.
I would love Logseq for journalling or writing though.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Holy shit this is huge. I can finally use obsidian at work! I was avoiding it due to the license and using Logseq. Which, to be fair, did admirably. But it’s much more and Outliner or journaling system than a knowledge base I feel.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 months ago:
Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner’s wasn’t hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 months ago:
Better Calibre integration.
Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
So long as this is genuone, and not a stealth sabotage, that’s a genuinely good response and reaction.
I would respond to them that that isn’t a bad idea, so long as the therapist isn’t “primed” on the issue, and you’re able to actually go in with a blank slate.
Also, no idea where you live, but in the US make sure your therapist agrees to keep your therapy notes in some kind of shorthand. Musk and Trump don’t care about violating HIPPA to harm your rights, so be smart yea?
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 6 months ago:
For low res, no.
Hi res, sure. Make it optional, or let players download the region they like. Or just the airports with much lower res landscapes, etc etc.
Or just, let them have it all and make these choices. Memory is CHEAP nowadays. If you’re a flight sim enthusiast, a few terabytes for the map data is the least expensive part of your setup by far.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 6 months ago:
God I love having a future where my ability to play a fucking flight simulator depends on both internet access and server reliability.
Completely unnecessary to boot. Store a low res copy locally, offer the high res as regional packs. 0 reason to stream this data in.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 6 months ago:
“AI” cannot make rational choices.
It is a giant word association machine.
For the love of god this should never be involved in military applications.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 7 months ago:
We just decided to never go back after McDonalds decoded to weigh in on Israel/Gaza by (their regional branches) feeding the IDF for free, and McDonalds corporate letting that be.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
An online database is still a file ultimately. A SQL or other DB file stored in a webserver, accessed through a web interface.
Vaultwarden, etc, are the same, only the database file is less directly visible IMO. Keepass IMO is simple. The DB in a bespoke format, stored outside the application.
You could put the vault in system32 and name it “trustedinstaller.log”, and if someone saw you had keepass they wouldn’t even know where your vault is.
Given the number of well documented breaches of online password vaults, I would much rather do a private device to device sync via syncthing and keep it out of webservers.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
Syncthing is encrypted transfers.
The database is encrypted.
And you can set it to not use relays for data, only matchmaking between your own devices.
So it’s an encrypted file, encrypted again, and sent directly from an IP you own to an IP you own.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
F-Droid syncthing-fork is still actively developed and had a patch in the last few weeks.
So hopefully this isn’t the end.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
F-Droid syncthing-fork is still actively developed and had a patch in the last few weeks.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
Keepass vault synced over syncthing.
I keep not regretting it.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 7 months ago:
See: Kaizo Mario directly inspiring Mario Maker.
See: LttP Randomizer, along with literally any other randomizer.
See: speedrunning streams literally making the market that Nintendo then sold the Nintendo World Championships cart into.
Nintendo absolutely benefits from this. They just want to crack the whip and take over. Fuck them.
Also, still can’t buy Mother 3. Double fuck them. Tons of titles play better on emulation. I shouldn’t have to justify it.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 8 months ago:
Jesus, why not fine them 5 bucks?
What a joke.