Feyd
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- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 day ago:
Are they? What have they actually done to make it a bad choice? From my memory the last year or so they’ve:
- Added some AI stuff that I don’t use but isn’t in my way
- Added tab groups and sidebar tabs which I use constantly
- Clarified some legalese that didn’t change anything but caused everyone to say the sky is falling for no reason
- Refused to deprecate manifest v2
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying Mozilla is perfect and does everything I want. I wish they weren’t funded by google and I wish they didn’t waste so much money on executives, but not only do you need them to stand up to google by continuing to develop firefox (all the downstream gecko browsers would collapse), you need them to continue to participate in web standards committees so google doesn’t get to run away and do whatever the fuck it wants (no other non-big-tech entity has a seat at the table or would get one)
I swear there is astroturfing for anti-mozilla sentiment to undermine their importance in the ecosystem
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 day ago:
I’m usually a firefox defender, because usually people are blowing everything they do out of proportion, and straight up making up negatives.
That said, I don’t know what a “modern AI browser” is but I know it’s something I don’t want. Hopefully “AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.” Is a serious statement.
But also, the AI features they’ve added so far have been out of my way and haven’t bothered me, and if what you’re calling for is to use chromium based browsers (gecko down stream is fine) then you are making the wrong decision for the future of the internet. Firefox, chrome, edge, and safari are the only browsers which have a snowballs chance of being accepted in corporate environments, and supporting google over Mozilla is a losing proposition.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
Running those power hungry gpu based data centers is going to cost beaucoup bucks regardless of the usage.
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 1 week ago:
I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
There are plenty of cross platform frameworks and libraries that don’t involve web tech
- Comment on Shut up science!! 2 weeks ago:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believe
“To consider to be true or honest”
I don’t know what you think believe means but you’re wrong
- Comment on Looking for ARPGs like Ys Origin and older Zelda gamma 3 weeks ago:
Illusion of Gaia on SNES maybe?
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 5 weeks ago:
After work is exercise, which you need anyway, but it also shakes off the doldrums and provides a clean break between work and evening
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 5 weeks ago:
I use laptop trackpads with my thumb all the time
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes it feels like a portion of the community views complexity as a badge of honour
Adding GUI tools adds complexity
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
continues playing trails games in the corner
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 5 weeks ago:
The next hype lined up is quantum
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
Not defending pseudoscientific health regimens, but the acid in “a spritz of lemon” doesn’t neutralize an arbitrary amount of alkalinity
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 month ago:
Apocalypse is a sequel to the neutral route of iv
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 month ago:
You recognize that it is absurd to complain about recommendations and then recommend something you know nothing about and refuse to stand behind, right?
- Comment on Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions 1 month ago:
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 1 month ago:
Anytime I’ve ever complained about lootboxes/gacha/gambling mechanics, I’ve not been excluding valve. That said, there is a contingent of people that likes to chime in to conversations about steam to say people shouldn’t use steam because valve does lootboxes, and I don’t think it’s terribly relevant in those conversations.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
I mean yeah I’ll take higher quality. I’d just rather have less lossy compression than higher resolution
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
Yeah I’d way rather have higher bitrate 1080 than 4k. Seeing striping in big dark or light spots on the screen is infuriating
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 months ago:
“While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use.”
Lol sure. If that was the real reason they’d simply let you create a local account. The audacious lying is just insulting.
- Comment on Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds 2 months ago:
Did you even read it?
But the vast majority of people could use dry powder or soft mist inhalers,” Feldman said, noting that countries such as Sweden and Japan use alternative inhalers without any loss in health outcomes.
Feldman emphasized that the goal of the research is not to blame patients but to highlight the need for policy and pricing reform.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
Hallucinationsbullshit - Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
Trusting it to have not fucked with your data while formatting it is pretty bold.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
They are so much better than using a search engine to parse web forums and stack overflow,
The hallucinations (more accurately bullshitting) and the fact they have to get new training data but are discouraging people from engaging in the structures that do so make this highly debatable
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
You’re assuming honesty and they’ve earned the opposite.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
Even that description is vastly overselling it’s usefulness. Every time someone says it’s like a junior dev I just sigh, because literally the only reason I like junior devs is because they turn into not junior devs. Never once has assigning something to a junior dev made my job easier. The entire goal is to train them to the point they make PRs that I don’t have to walk them through reworking.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
It remains to be seen whether the advent of “agentic AIs,” designed to autonomously execute a series of tasks, will change the situation.
“Agentic AI is already reshaping the enterprise, and only those that move decisively — redesigning their architecture, teams, and ways of working — will unlock its full value,” the report reads.
“Devs are slower with and don’t trust LLM based tools. Surely, letting these tools off the leash will somehow manifest their value instead of exacerbating their problems.”
Absolute madness.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
But we already had tools that gave us 90%
More reliable ones.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 2 months ago:
People tell me the hallucinations aren’t a big deal because people should fact check everything.
- People aren’t fact checking
- If you have to fact check every single thing you’re not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 2 months ago:
If it’s like the last few trails game, it’s not really “you chose whether to play a action or turn based” but “play action mode to build up a meter to get an advantage in turn based node when you switch” and you only spend 10 seconds ago in action mode, and also bosses don’t even have an action phase.