isVeryLoud
@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca
He / They
Software Developer
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 23 hours ago:
Use Paprika 3, lovely app
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 5 days ago:
Have it in a way
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Yeah, 8 billion is multiple customers
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out “AI artists”.
- Comment on Meet Journiv! A Self-Hosted, Privacy-First Journaling App (Day One/Apple Journal Alternative) 1 week ago:
What do people generally use a journal for? Could be interesting!
Also, can it save to a WebDAV or is it strictly a DB?
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 1 week ago:
Just go to AliExpress instead of Temu / Wish. Save you some cash.
- Comment on Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict 2 weeks ago:
It’s a movie. Like you and I would go see at the cinema. But it happens to be pornographic in nature. These actually used to come on DVD before the Internet was a thing.
It is created and published with a financial incentive, and is otherwise public.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 weeks ago:
Great analogy
- Comment on Nextcloud plans to invest over €250 million in digital sovereignty 2 weeks ago:
Ridiculous that PHP is used for anything more than simple home made applications. It’s such a poor language.
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 2 weeks ago:
What a nice, large display. Here, have a 9px tall sliver of content. Enjoy!
- Comment on Opioid epedemic merch avalible now! 2 weeks ago:
💀
- Comment on Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain 3 weeks ago:
Because the shorthand for “government” in French is “gouv” not “gov”, as in “gouv.qc.ca”
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 3 weeks ago:
Exploding abscesses… Ugh
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
That’s very fair, I’m split about this as I hate how pervasive LLMs have gotten. I don’t think the service I want exists, I want to pay for everything and never be served a single ad without feeling like I’m stealing from the service by using an ad blocker.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, very interesting post. I’ve interacted with Vlad before, he’s very unhinged. I’m just using Kagi for a good time, not a long time.
I’m ready to jump off at the first whiff of them using my data for something funny, but I do really really like the idea of having a search engine that works this good and doesn’t show me ads or sell my data, I’m allergic to both. Searxng results were complete garbage on all instances I’ve tried.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
You know you could just disable all its LLM features? that’s the beauty of kagi
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, YMMV, and yeah I would probably prefer my data in Europe rather than Canada, but Canada is a good start.
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 weeks ago:
It’s not. Proton’s “security” is basically pointless and induces a huge hassle if you’d like to use anything else than the web client.
As you said, both Proton and any other mail client send mail in plain text over SMTP unless encrypted using PGP/GPG.
Fastmail is just a much nicer email provider IMO, and I can consume emails / calendar / files using third party clients. There’s also Tuta and other mail clients, I’m just warning you to maybe steer clear of Proton unless you intend to use Proton-specific features.
Ideally, I’d pick an email provider with data sovereignty in Canada, but short of self-hosting (which isn’t a great idea with email), there are basically no decent options.
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, and these rarely come anyway because most of the time, the US courts can simply subpoena Google or Microsoft for access to the interlocutor’s sent and received emails, this only really occurs with Proton to Proton communication, which I have personally never done as no one I know uses Protonmail.
Bref, better off just GPG signing and encrypting your emails and using a different provider. US courts can’t decrypt your mail more just because they subpoena’d it
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 weeks ago:
I migrated off of Proton Mail, they have no way to access your calendar from outside Proton’s apps and web services, you can’t access Proton Drive on Linux (and the workarounds never worked for me), and you need to keep running their decryptor tool if you want to use an email client other than their mail client.
Email is inherently insecure, zero knowledge encryption is worth nothing when 99% of your emails are being sent and received in plaintext. I’m on Fastmail now.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t own a Windows or Mac machine, I have no idea what the current product looks like, but I’ve been following Affinity for a while in the hopes that I can eventually buy their product with money.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What if not enough people pay for the AI features? Will Affinity enshittify?
Also, are these features going to be littered across the UI as greyed out buttons that show a popover prompting you to get a Canvas subscription when you hover them? That’s basically ads baked into the UI.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Oh god, how are they financing its development? Selling my personal data? Training AI on my data? Nagware? Not giving us a Linux version, ever?
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 4 weeks ago:
All cars catch fire, some more often, others more intensely. Doesn’t matter if it’s a swastikar or not.
Instead of pitting EVs against ICE, let’s all push to reduce car dependence and instead encourage the development of public transit!
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 4 weeks ago:
I’m this close to getting a fucking TomTom. I need something that can do turn by turn navigation in a car, ideally through Android Auto, but nothing good goes on Android Auto anymore.
How long until we crack this protocol anyway so we can use Linux phones with Android Auto?
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 4 weeks ago:
They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.
It’s how they justify a lot of the shit they do.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 4 weeks ago:
“reasoning” in LLMs is practically AI in AI, since the AI prompts itself.
- Comment on Due to Federal Government Shutdown, SNAP Benefits Suspended Beginning November 1, 2025 5 weeks ago:
The DNC would never rattle the cage
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link!
Are you expecting a news article or what?
I mean, yeah, that’s how providing a source works. You provide me with a news article that contains sources, or the source itself.
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah no I know there’s porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people