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- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 1 week ago:
The term open source has lost its original meaning for some time now.
- Comment on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project 1 week ago:
According to the article all of them.
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
That would just not bring in enough. Remember that this is their last resort to prevent collapse.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Win11 already is, the the latest few months of “security updates” breaking basic operation system functions.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The problem is upper management. Without touching that there is no hope for improvement.
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 4 weeks ago:
Poweline should be prohibited. Because people don’t know shit about this (or don’t care). I was able to kill all DSL lines in my house by maxing out the line. My neighbors were clueless what the cause was. Just don’t use unshielded wires for this kind of stuff kids.
- Comment on Selfhosted coding assistant? 1 month ago:
LM Studio in combination with Kilo Code for IDE integration works pretty nicely locally. Here is a good video covering the basics to get you going: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp5EwOogWEw
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 1 month ago:
Apparently we live in a reality in which you don’t need to have a product in order make it shit anymore.
- Comment on MySQL users be warned: git commits in mysql-server significantly declined 2025 1 month ago:
With few new features and heavy focus on code base cleanup and feature deprecation, it became obvious to many that Oracle had decided to just keep MySQL barely alive, and put all new relevant features (e.g. vector search) into Heatwave, Oracle’s closed-source and cloud-only service for MySQL customers.
In case anyone was wondering what is happening
- Comment on How do you get a certificate for an internal domain? 1 month ago:
You don’t need a cert authority to self-sign. You can do it once and be good to go.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 1 month ago:
Who in their right mind would channel all his employee email through Google? That shit gets scraped the hell out off.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 1 month ago:
You should add a maybe. The will try to push it. You can’t do that with an off by default feature.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 1 month ago:
Impressive how management can blindly ignore their own core pricipals.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 months ago:
Pardon me, but that is exactly what MS is doing.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Yup, RIP
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
Yup, people prefer to enrage themselfes, the facts don’t matter anymore.
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 2 months ago:
The funny part is: the fix does not change the unsafe block at all. The issue is elsewhere in safe rust code.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Clever, so you have to agree to the terms either way.
- Comment on Password managers... 2 months ago:
That’s why tools like keepass allow you to require more than just a password to decrypt.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 2 months ago:
It goes to show: developers should make sure they don’t make their livelihood dependent on access to Google services.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 2 months ago:
What an odd comparison. What differentiates Mozilla from others is their close relationship with their community. Just read their manifest and you will see Immediately why they are getting flag for humiliating their own supporters.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 3 months ago:
If you think only llms can do these kind of beginner mistakes you are mistaken. That’s the whole point of the argument.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 3 months ago:
Oh the great technology god will help us. We will have so much reduction, you cannot imagine! We have no idea how but surely throwing money at it will get things done. Trust us!
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 3 months ago:
Yup thanks for the heads-up!
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 months ago:
You missed some disadvantages. For example the UX and complexity are terrible.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 4 months ago:
Theoldreader.com on the desktop and gReader Pro on Android. That app is ancient but still works and no modern app comes close to its UI.
- Comment on How to Train Your Own ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Resource Guide to Custom GPTs 6 months ago:
Misleading title. This “article” has nothing to do with training.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 6 months ago:
The company is doomed with this kind of leadership
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 8 months ago:
Yup, I think this is the root cause for Mozilla’s inevitable failure: the wrong management for the job.
- Comment on Open Source CAD In The Browser 8 months ago:
Agreed. It is very powerful but the interface has a long way ahead to be user friendly. Still, it is worth the effort if you really care about sticking to linux.