isVeryLoud
@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca
He / They
Software Developer
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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’ 1 week 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 1 week 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’ 1 week 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
The DNC would never rattle the cage
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah no I know there’s porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 2 weeks ago:
Source?
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 2 weeks ago:
Teams!
/j /j /j
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 2 weeks ago:
Oh hell naw, I thought I bit the onion 💀
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I’m not old enough to remember those days of Wikipedia, my memory starts in roughly 2010 wrt Wikipedia use 😅
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
Nope, we all misunderstood what they meant. Wikipedia is not an authoritative source, it is a derivative work. However, you can use the sources provided by the Wikipedia article and use the article itself to understand the topic.
Wikipedia isn’t and was never a primary source of information, and that is by design. You don’t declare information in encyclopedias, you inventory information.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
0 byte video on my end
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
I legit can’t get over the name, and the interface is buggy.
The name is either made to enounce the sound of a plunger releasing its suction, or it’s meant to be pronounced “floor pee”.
I’ll pick Librewolf instead.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 weeks ago:
So that’s how they’re still alive!
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 weeks ago:
Someone’s getting assassinated over this.
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 5 weeks ago:
ur a tewwowist uwu :3c
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 5 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if /s
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 5 weeks ago:
💀 y’all okay in the us?
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
Thanks for the correction, it’s somehow worse because it low-key confirms he wants a christian theocracy, since there won’t be any non-christians left in his ideal America.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
He also said Americans won’t have to worry about voting again
- Comment on Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder 1 month ago:
And CD is for Commit Disaster
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 1 month ago:
/joke
- Comment on I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 1 month ago:
ngl that looks pretty good. Does it support vertical tabs?
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 1 month ago:
I’ll argue that calling them unintelligent dismisses their capacity for harm.
CEOs tend to be intelligent, cold and calculated. They will take whatever decision it takes to maximize profit, with complete disregard for human life. Even when they seemingly echo conspiracy theories, they generally do it with the end goal of increasing profits by pushing some narrative, for example.
We need to understand that they know exactly what they are doing, and that they and their companies need to be controlled using legislation.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 1 month ago:
Studies show that sociopaths and psychopaths are better fits for CEO roles.
If you look at it from a strictly financial angle, Patrick Collison would get really wealthy from a US annexation of Canada as his company would get access to the very lucrative and deregulated US market.
You need to have zero conscience to take the best strictly financial decisions for a company, with no regard for suffering or human life.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 1 month ago:
The same CEO who wants Canada to join the US