Feyd

@Feyd@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  hammering Wikipedia’s servers and using it as a training ground.

  They could just effectually download the freely available archive instead of being assholes but nooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why the “online advertising ecosystem” should not be allowed to exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If amnezia is sus they probably added mullvad to lend credibility to the overall statement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to discuss something just don’t respond lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out. There is no point taking with someone that repeatedly lies to try to support their point. Look, I’m against the majority of LLM usage and implementation as well, and I’d rather most of it not be in firefox as well, but:

  1. You keep making up things firefox does that it doesn’t. I’m not even convinced you’ve used it
  2. You keep talking about UX and dark patterns but you’re obviously making it to as you go
  3. Basing conversation on obvious falsehoods is a waste of time
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like this page has links, you can summarize them using a clanker” on a frequent basis.

  That doesn’t happen. I don’t recall firefox ever popping up a modal while I’m browsing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the fact that the confirmation feels “menacing” and defaulted to cancelling the opting-off (i.e. pressing “esc” or clicking outside the window; one must click the primary-colored “block” button which, contrasted to a grayish “Cancel” button, may psychologically induce the user into thinking “block” is a dangerous action), quite similar to the about:config warning screen.

  I don’t think it’s menacing at all. It gives an informative list of features, which is nice to know. I could see a lot of people wanting to turn off all AI then realizing they actually want local translate instead of sending everything to google.

  And you’ve got the button intents mixed up. Primary color is always the encouraged action in that kind of design. Dark pattern would be if the colors were flipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than link previews all the features they are opt-in in the sense you’d have to actually use the feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
  2. Smart tab groups which i don’t think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
  3. Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don’t want to accidentally do it
  4. A sidebar chatbot integration which you’d have to use on purpose
  5. Someone said perplexity in search engine options which you’d have to do on purpose
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You think VC is putting money into firefox? Wtf?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look man, if it’s a good solution it’s a good solution. You’re attacking things that haven’t been proposed (by the bill in the OP).

  I actually don’t think legislation in a US state is a good way to create a technology standard so I wouldn’t like to see this pass, but it’s honestly the best way that I’ve seen to provide age verification for websites.

  It puts the onus on the parents to set the date correctly and takes it off of businesses to comply by doing it themselves where privacy is definitely at risk. If this is what was implemented it would not harm privacy and it would defang the “protect the children” arguments they constantly use to justify completely destroying privacy.

  You can rant and rage until you’re red in the face, but those are the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you didn’t even read it before writing a diatribe accusing me of supporting things I absolutely don’t. It literally says in the fucking bill that you just input it into the device.

  Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user’s age bracket (age signal) to applications available in a covered application store;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where does it say you give anyone your ID?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc California had a similar proposal to this. I actually think it’s not a terrible idea at the core. It’s basically an API for parental controls. You set up a device (or account on a device) and say “this is a device for a kid” and that gets used for everything. It actually makes a lot of sense to do something in that direction. Part of the reason people are convinced something needs to be done is because managing parental controls across the different myriad services and apps is a labyrinth thattech savvy patents can barely navigate, and less savvy patents don’t stand a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyouka was the last one I remember like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just seems like a weird song to pick for it lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyouka was the last one I remember like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That appears to be a troll account from my instance that was created just to do that, but by that behavior they are almost certainly a hexbear. They’ll never change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes it so I don’t have to individually block the myriad trolls that emanate from that cesspool. I was seriously a couple pig shit images from never opening this site again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If my instance didn’t defederate hexbear I wouldn’t be on the fediverse at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on which retrogaming handheld I should buy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  retrododo.com has really good reviews. Another thing to consider might be if you’re interested in running a more put together OS than the random stuff that usually ships on these devices. If so the support list on rocknix.org might be a place to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think there was a lot to like in the bones but the execution was just so bad :(. The combination of 90% of the content of the game being doing ubisoft map slop and the story being broken up across media made it pretty miserable, but the moment to moment writing/character development for the party was top notch for sure. I really wanted to like it but actually playing it felt like a chore :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have the hallway complaint, and honestly I think it mostly came down to visuals and sound design. So many games people love have exactly the same level design, including FFX, but there is normally enough to look at, and you don’t have the “high heels on tile” footsteps exacerbating it. I’m also pretty sure a large part of it was a YouTube video pointing it out and people jumping on the bandwagon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never played dragon quest, but as a long time final fantasy enjoyer, final fantasy 15 sucked so much I put it down and I never went out of my way to play 16 because of that.

  FF7Remake was amazing. FF7Rebirth was good in many ways but also had way too much garbage and goofy shit so I have very mixed feelings about it. Also like the post said it’s a very long wait for a complete story. It also is not really an entry point because FF7 is a huge franchise in itself.

  If you take those out of the equation, the last FF games were 13 lightning returns in 2013 which I think is probably good but very different (I didn’t end up finishing but not because I didn’t like it) and 13-2 which in my opinion is one of the best in the series but gets slept on because it’s gated by 13 (2009) which I like but I wouldn’t call amazing or transformative.

  I think FF12 might would qualify as a worthy childhood formative game, which means (excluding 16 since I just don’t know) the last good FF that is also an entry point came out in 2006. 20 years ago.

  Tldr; I don’t know if FF16 is a worthy childhood formative experience, but if it’s not, the last candidate is TWENTY years ago, so ofc young people aren’t getting attached to the franchise. They’re probably playing jrpgs that are actually good instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No website is certainly a choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t dislike that art style in other games but nothing about that trailer gave me castlevania vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Animation and sound design reminds me of blasphemous and moonscars, which are games I like, but I wouldn’t say feel very castlevania-y

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has Cristiano Ronaldo and Salvatore Ganacci in it. Having a goofy soccer character as a character is out of place in that game, I don’t want real people in fighting games at all, and to top it off, Rinaldo is a piece of shit anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.

  Yeah I’m not playing a game when I’ll have to see a real life rapist in the character select screen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that way, but they smell awful to me and at best taste neutral

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It definitely seems different than the rest of their “unappealing” list.