Feyd
@Feyd@programming.dev
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 2 weeks ago:
some bring their own lunches (home or leftovers) to cut costs
Students bringing a lunch box is very common in the US
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Do you think people should have to stay in their houses if they want to read/game?
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 2 weeks ago:
He didn’t explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 2 weeks ago:
Jensen compared today’s AI tools to machinery that was invented during the industrial revolution
They really want this to be an apt comparison and it’s really not
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Nice. I already got one that deteriorated shockingly quickly then decided a retro handheld was the way to go. As a bonus the emulator fast forward helped me finally make it through persona 1 lol
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
weird/guilty using mine in public
Some people would talk shit, but no one ever blinked an eye at reading a book. Now everyone is on their phones if they have to wait in a line for 30 seconds lol
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
As far as I’m aware it’s impossible to get a decent quality battery replacement for PSP these days
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 2 weeks ago:
Yeah screaming and flipping the table like a toddler totally makes you look like a rational person /s
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
Does the research support this argument though? (Spoiler: it doesn’t)
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 3 weeks ago:
Hacker news is not a news outlet. It is a forum/aggregator
- Comment on Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes 3 weeks ago:
Play-by-appointment is the gateway to all the other anti features, and not being about to focus on studying because you’re worried about your dailies shouldn’t be something 12 year olds (or anyone, really) are exposed to
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
8gb of RAM is completely unserviceable. A browser and 2 electron apps will have you suffering.
- 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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:
- You keep making up things firefox does that it doesn’t. I’m not even convinced you’ve used it
- You keep talking about UX and dark patterns but you’re obviously making it to as you go
- 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
- Local translation which only happens when you trigger it I believe (and is cool)
- Smart tab groups which i don’t think anyone cares about and only happens when you ask it to
- Link previews which I think happens on link hover which is undesirable if you don’t want to accidentally do it
- A sidebar chatbot integration which you’d have to use on purpose
- 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 month ago:
You think VC is putting money into firefox? Wtf?
- Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Where does it say you give anyone your ID?
- Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Just seems like a weird song to pick for it lol
- Comment on Hyouka was the last one I remember like this 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 month 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 1 month 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.
