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- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
They’ve already “flocked”. The site and userbase is a shell of its former self and it’s hey day is long passed. The users aged out or just went to places like kiwi farms, random discord channels, etc.
I mean you’re on Lemmy, a good chunk of old 4chan users are here, so you’re amongst them.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
nice of them to put everything in one place for easier access for the ruskies.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
I charge them more than I would if I was just developing for them from scratch. I USED to actually build things, but now I’m making more money doing code reviews and telling them where they fucked up with the AI and then myself and my now small team fix it.
AI and Vibe coders have made me great money to the point where I’ve now hired 2 other developers who were unemployed for a long time due to being laid off from companies leveraging AI slop.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for the bubble to burst (and it will VERY soon, if it hasn’t already) and I know that after it does I can retire and hope that the two people I’ve brought on will quickly find better employment.
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 4 weeks ago:
use either Mullvad (yes, I know, the GUI sucks) or set up your own VPN.
the mullvad cli is very quick and easy. it’s a lot faster than what it was. OR set up your own wireguard VPN on your server, again very easy to set up.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, when I have the time I’ll look into implementing this.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
No automatic browsing activity reporting - The extension only searches for Lemmy discussions when:
- A page finishes loading (background.js:119-128)
- URL changes are detected (content.js:37-54)
What data is sent:
- Only the current page URL and its variations (content.js:73-80)
- URL variations include cleaned URLs (no tracking params), with/without www, http/https variants (content.js:109-168)
Where data is sent:
- Only to Lemmy instances you’ve configured (background.js:149-152)
- No third-party analytics or tracking services
- All requests go directly to Lemmy APIs for post searches
Privacy protections:
- Results are cached locally for 30 minutes (background.js:141-143)
- No persistent logging of browsing history
- You can disable the notification indicator (content.js:172-184)
- Only sends URL when you actually visit a page, not preemptively
User control:
- You choose which Lemmy instances to search
- You can remove instances at any time
- The extension only activates on http/https URLs
Answer: No - The extension does not report all browsing activity to third parties. It only queries your configured Lemmy instances with the current page URL to find relevant discussions, and only when you actually visit a page.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
…it doesn’t view the browser history at all.?
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
Totally understandable. I added in some rate limits, search result caching, timeout handling and error handling (to prevent retry storms), there’s also a max result limit per instance. If this WERE to take off with like 1000+ users I’d have to adjust it further. But right now as it stands the impact should be negligible.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
It was easy to pull out of the browser as a standalone because really that’s all it was, just an extension that was baked into the browser. and since a lot of people requested it I just decided to do it.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
the extension: codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
Eventually yes, I will be turning it into a standalone extension.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 58 comments
- 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 4 weeks ago:
“You’re Absolutely right!”
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 4 weeks ago:
Yes there are things like hunting which you could. not. do. with poor vision
Matt Murdock took that personally.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 4 weeks ago:
Bingo. If you routinely use LLM’s/AI you’ve recently seen it first hand. ALL of them have become noticeably worse over the past few months. Even if simply using it as a basic tool, it’s worse. Claude for all the praise it receives has also gotten worse. I’ve noticed it starting to forget context or constantly contradicting itself. even Claude Code.
The release of GPT5 is proof in the pudding that a wall has been hit and the bubble is bursting. There’s nothing left to train on and all the LLM’s have been consuming each others waste as a result. I’ve talked about it on here several times already due to my work but companies are also seeing this. They’re scrambling to undo the fuck up of using AI to build their stuff, None of what they used it to build scales. None of it. And you go on Linkedin and see all the techbros desperately trying to hype the mounds of shit that remain.
I don’t know what’s next for AI but this current generation of it is dying. It didn’t work.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
The building that has my workspace has this great food court/library/work hybrid area where people who work remotely tend to go. a sort of third space. It has fantastic free wifi so it makes sense why people would use it and sit there all day working.
Everyday there’s this older guy who sits there talking to his phone about some of the most random subjects ever. I originally thought he was just talking to a friend that seemed to have extensive knowledge on everything until one day I walked by him and glanced to see that he was talking to chatgpt. Everyday. Just random conversations. Even had a name for it, “Ryan”.
Now? he’s frustrated. He doesn’t know what happened to Ryan and keeps screaming at his phone to “bring Ryan back!” or since GPT5 can’t maintain a conversation anymore it’s “You’re not Ryan!”. Granted the guy wasn’t mentally all there to begin with but now it’s spiraling. Got to the point yesterday he was yelling so loudly at his phone security had to tell him to leave.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 5 weeks ago:
ah so that post I saw the other day saying “begun the kernel wars have” makes senses. someone posted the fact they couldn’t play BF6 cause Valorant was installed.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 5 weeks ago:
Plus it’s great if the server is made specifically for a map you really love. Like TFC/TF2 with say 24/7 2fort. I love me some 2fort and yeah I will play it for hours on end, it’s comfy.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this episode before. something, something, WinXP.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 5 weeks ago:
no. I was talking about projects I was working on with him. he knew, he let me talk about them and said nothing.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 5 weeks ago:
the insulting thing out of it is I paid for his beers! he KNEW I was getting laid off and didn’t say “hey…maybe I should be paying for these” nope, gladly accepted my money. He tried to contact me after the fact and I just blocked him.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 5 weeks ago:
I remember years and years ago when I still a regular employee I got into work one morning to find I no longer had access to any git repos. nothing. Well already knew the reason right then and there. I usually got in before everyone else so by the time people were coming into the office I was packing my stuff up to leave. People were all “where are you going?” I said “well I either got fired or laid off so I’m leaving, I’m not sitting through a bullshit meeting telling me why I was laid off”
wiped the laptop, wiped my externals, walked out, went and sat in a coffee shop to revise my resume. I got a call like an hour later asking me where I was and why I didn’t attend the meeting I was apparently schedule for. I replied with “you laid me off” few minutes later they email me back saying they’ll just send my ROE and last paycheque in the mail and then proceeded to explain why I and a few other devs were laid off. I didn’t bother reading the rest of it.
Then I decided to become a freelancer and never looked back. best decision I made.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t this clown literally say like lastweek that if you’re a dev and you’re not using AI to get out? well…he’s out and look what happens.
Move to Codeberg, donate to them, or self host your git repos.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing it for like 20+ years now so I have a very solid client base and very solid referrals. All my new clients now are referred to me by previous/existing clients so it gives me the luxury of booking well in advance.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
you’re VERY justified in feeling skeptical, I’m seeing it first hand, you’re correct.
I’m a consultant/freelancer and I’m booked for the rest of the year and well into the new year with jobs that pretty much consist of me reviewing and cleaning up AI slop.
Most of my clients are startups and small companies that went full in on AI and vibe coding. Now they’re discovering that their attempts to save a few bucks by leveraging AI, cutting devs, etc is costing them more that what they envisioned on saving. The stuff they’ve built with AI doesn’t scale, is full of exploits, and breaks quickly. With the recent Tea App thing many of my clients are now in a panic because they essentially did the exact same thing. They don’t want their startup to be next in the news because some rando came across their house with the front door left open by AI.
the tech debt is massive, It’s costing many of these places more to fix their vibe coders/AI mistakes than what it would have originally cost if they just used a solid dev team. Make no mistake, I’m charging them a good amount also.
All if it could have been avoided though. They could have continued to use their LLM’s if they had all just kept a leash on it. if they dismissed the concept of vibe coding. A good chunk of it could have been avoided if the person feeding the prompts simply REVIEWED the code before hitting enter. I’m not kidding, IF they just LOOKED at what was being spat out things would be different. none of them did. they just trusted the AI to be smarter because they were lead to believe it was.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
and then you go on linkedin and all the middle manager tech bros will hail it as the second coming.
- Comment on No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online 5 weeks ago:
If the recent Tea App crap is anything to go by doesn’t even require a hacker for someone to gain access to your info. Just takes more companies using AI to build shit without security and someone will just happen to find their open to the public firebase bucket.
