purplemonkeymad

@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are talking about the home page, I blocked the container for “featured content” using ublock, that kills short and news in the feed. If you get linked to a short, you can use a extension to redirect the URL to the normal watch player.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming didnt exist in 1970⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost forgot about the winamp video streams. I do still remember the 24/7 red Vs blue stream that was on it though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The species has existed for longer than Pleiades

  Now that blows my mind. I often think of astrological timescales to be so much longer than anything on earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might be something that happens during that short pause before a video starts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They did this with outlook before so it not a new trend. Though the question is if they have added an option to open externally like in other apps. (I’m not going to install the pos to check the settings.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Na this is vide ops. Anyone who thought a coding machine could do ops probably assumes anyone who codes can also do ops. It’s going to be making the same mistakes that have happened in DevOps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like those platform ideas came initially from people who wanted to build something cool. Something people would use. The ads were a side effect of being part of the tech company.

  Now I feel they are built because it’s a way to show ads or harvest data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’ve never taken up the “free tiers” of these big cloud hosting. I looked in to it and there was absolutely no way to limit billing. There is reports and some people say, “setup automation,” but that is something they should have done. Why do I have to code features into their platform?

  The lack of control is intentional, the business is happy when this happens as they can extract more money from people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention what if someone does something silly like start a war and push the price of oil up. Solar does not increase in price after it’s made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to lower the price of the hosted desktops then, it’s still way more cost effective over time to buy a laptop/desktop for a 3 years cycle than to rent a monthly virtual desktop. The only business that wants it are opex obsessives that hate any capex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t often see people making the mistake that way around. I mostly saw people not realising that the outer wilds was a different game to the outer worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well those would have included the update checker. So if you installed from a package manager, then let it update when prompted for the new version, you could still have been at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The protection of dismissing the update dialogue because it appears at start up, which is when I need to get something done. I guess I’ll just manually update it from now on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Around a year ago WhatsApp had large ads that just said “no one else can read your messages.” I don’t think most people thought that some one could, which makes me wonder why they were paying so much to say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I do find that often there is no bandcamp page, or it’s 5 years old with no new albums. In those cases my next check is qobiz as they tend to have more large artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That will never happen unless CEOs can actually explain what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The basic stats I can see are the prompt count, number of active days, and last active date. By default reports are anonymised but that can be turned off by the admin.

  Iirc paid licenses let you do data purview searches on prompts. But I can’t see that in my one as we only use the basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do ever end up in that situation again, (or someone else is,) you can download the notebook by moving it into a folder in OneDrive. Then go to the web and use the option to download the folder. That will zip up the folder, with the real one drive files inside.

  You’ll still need to find an app to import them into your new note taker though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today in “Google Broke Email”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He needs to use a mta that supports arc sealing and setup his Google workspace to accept the arc from his server. Pretty sure Google also supports connectors for email so he could even just have Google accept all emails from his ip. I suspect he is cheaping out and doesn’t want to pay Google for a business grade service.

  I don’t care what he did in the past, it is obvious he is not an up-to-date email admin. Using free consumer accounts as your primary email, is not a defendable position for anyone other than the self employed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can believe it, on my music profile there is consistently a video in the first 6 items on the home feed that is an ai generated 2 hour stream of one genre mashup. (With a fake ai woman as the thumbnail.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know for sure all the ai companies are on that torrent. Expect new music models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backing up Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I’m sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won’t take too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, have they changed the shape of her face?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get carried away with the corn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is now the future in that meme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just hoping the front doesn’t fall off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced this is the reason for the Imgur block. They were asked by the UK about how they processed the data for minors at the start of the year. They refused to provide it, and were then fined. When the age check was implemented I think they used that as an excuse to block the UK, so they “weren’t operating in it” and didn’t need to answer the questions.

  The UK gov disagrees with that and is planning more legal action iirc.

  If they had done the block without that law, people would be asking why they were not revealing how they process data of minors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used ublockorigin to block the container for shorts and news. Much better, also set up a redirector that changes shorts URLs into the normal yt format, so that you don’t pulled into that feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this tells me that EGS is going to be pushing lots of ai developed games without any disclosure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed this was due to the bandwidth of interfaces at the time. It would be to much for the hardware decoder to copy the output back for compositing. Thus the card rendered directly onto a mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! We can get (almost) a whole year of using it with Exchange Online before EWS is turned off!