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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this episode before. something, something, WinXP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bingo. they’ll just tack it on to what they currently have with most sites that have you sign in with your google/apple/meta account. mask it as the easier option instead of using another email/registering an account on your own.

  And they won’t just stop on websites. Google will also incorporate this with your phone. FRP will now require you have a valid ID with Google, same with account recovery OR simply signing into a new device with your existing Google Account.

  Hell wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft roles out that you must have a valid ID simply to install windows. Already requires users to have a Microsoft account and be online to install it, what’s to stop them from now requiring you provide a photo ID?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  back in the early 00s I used to do AOL tech support. Even then a lot of people were on cable or DSL. Vast majority of calls we got were from people out in the boonies or the elderly so it doesn’t surprise me that there are still a good chunk of people on dialup.

  Actually by that point most of our calls weren’t even for Dial Up. the thing with AOL support back then was if the user also had other computer issues unrelated to AOL that they brought up while on the line with us we HAD to address them and try to do support for it. Callers would discover this fact and use AOL tech support as a defacto go to tech support for ALL computer issues. They’d start off with some random easy to fix (they knew how to fix) dialup issue and then would say “oh wow you fixed it, I wish you could also help me with this problem I’ve been having for awhile with…” and yup, we’d roll our eyes and say “oh, what what’s wrong?” A good chunk of my calls, believe it or not, would be for printer issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  might be possible to just build a TUI for it then. I’ll look into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nicotine+/soulseek. won’t copy your spotify lists but you can manually download everything. will take time obviously as you’ll have to search for everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you don’t mind downloading the music then Nictoine+, it’s a GUI for soulseek. essentially Napster/Limewire. Anything you can get on spotify you can pretty much get there.

  Keep in mind, like Napster, it takes time to find things you want. If you have your own server or hell even a cloud server with unlimited bandwidth and a good chunk of space you can put your music on there that way you can just stream it to whatever device you use to listen to music. Essentially a media server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a year ago on Mastodon when EA started locking out games like Apex Legends, BF1, V, 2042, etc from Linux I said “I bet you Microsoft is about to launch a handheld and since they have a deal with EA and Gamepass they want EA Exclusivity on their handheld and to lockout Steamdeck/Valve” sure enough a few months later Microsoft announces their Xbox handheld with Asus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried gpt5 lastnight and I don’t know if it was just me but these people are going to be in shambles if they try to recreate their “boyfriend”.

  It would forget previous prompts within the same conversation. It felt like with each response it was like starting a new chat. I gave it a very basic prompt of “walk me through the steps of building my own one page website in basic HTML and CSS” and when I would ask a couple of follow up questions to either clarify something or explain a step in another way it would forget what we were trying to accomplish (how to build a one page website) or if I told it “something didn’t work” to try and fix the problem it would then forget what we were even trying to do.

  At some points it was almost out right dismissive of the problem and it felt like it was trying to make me go away.

  Again maybe it was just me but it felt like a massive step backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Floorp. it’s a FF fork by a Japanese dev team. Best I can compare it to is Vivaldi as far as customization (what Mozilla will allow).

  However the updates for it have been coming less frequently over time so I’m not sure how that bodes for the long term.

  But hey i’m currently building my own FF fork with fediverse integration, tree style/stacking tabs, and vim navigation sooooo look forward to that? /shameless self promotion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the opinion that Apple hasn’t produced a good consumer friendly product since like the Apple II or the original Macintosh (debatable). Hell even the Lisa.

  now people will say oh the original imac, ipod, and iphone were revolutionary and sure they were but they were by no means consumer friendly. They broke, and still do, easily. constant cord replacements, and computers you can’t upgrade unless you were on like a G8 or PowerMac and even then your options for upgrades were limited. Add to the fact you’re primarily paying for the name Apple more than anything else.

  Add to the fact anything you buy from Apple is guaranteed to be obsolete, per the company, within a year or less. hell at one point they even treated their OS post X the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Claude can already do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Read “The Big Short”. Wallstreet doesn’t need CEOs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok will walk you through how to bypass a FRP on a phone. i.e. you stole a phone and need to bypass the Factory Reset Protection. ask other LLM’s this and they’ll out right refuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, let them generate massive tech debt cause right now the majority of my current clients have hired me to clean up their AI slop.

  is it bad for their users? oh hell yes it is. Is it great for me an other consultants/freelancers? hell yes it is. Best thing that’s ever happened to my wallet recently are vibe coders. I love those dumb prompt monkeys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Github Copilot is so god awful. you’d think having access to millions of repos the thing could actually learn something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it…daunting. I couldn’t stick with it. maybe it’s because I like my RPGs to have a bit of action or random encounters I don’t know but I just couldn’t get into it. once I found myself skipping text and stuff I figured “welp, there’s no point in playing this now”.

  So yeah I guess I just found it daunting and boring. Just not my cup of tea. If you’re someone that enjoyed it, kudos. but personally I don’t think it’s the greatest RPG ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  well to say Xenosaga surpassed it…I mean that’s not hard to do.

  Xenogears is great but keep in mind it’s not finished. the entire second disc is proof of this. It’s an unfinished game that is regarded as one of the greatest RPG’s of all time. Same with Xenosaga. that’s an unfinished series. so to say Xenosaga surprassed it…well yeah it got further along than Xenogears did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman the Videogame on the NES, FFVII, the entire WipEout series, original soundtrack for Crazy Taxi, Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Sonic & Knuckles, X-Men on the Sega Genesis, WET, Omega Boost, Zone of the Enders, BurnOut 3: Takedown, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles, Roommania #203, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Mega Man 2 & 3, Doom, SSX Tricky, Xenogears.