puppinstuff

@puppinstuff@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the world connected on Skype⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good riddance. Now do Teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aside from music anime, which ones do you consider to have a unique soundtrack?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trigun and Cowboy Bebop for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet spammers find my clients’ contact forms as send dozens of emails an hour until I put on recapcha and then it stops.

  I would love an alternative that isn’t swapping one insidious company with another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but if one use hundreds of Proton or Fastmail-generated email masks it’s a big switching cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t have the energy to play email host hopscotch. Every capitalist CEO is going to stay something I don’t agree with eventually.

  While completely disagreeing, I can tolerate Proton leadership having a preference towards the political party that imposes less red tape. But after the decade of the month it’s been the dude will probably reverse his opinion now that his money is in danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much. I don’t want to wake up to find out my email stopped working because a rapist wrote a new executive order after his Big Mac-fueled fever dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want companies to make robots to vacuum for me. I don’t want them to make my own drudgery time more “convenient”.

  Nobody: “Now my boss can text me any time of day even when I’m doing housework!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So disappointing. I just transitioned my personal browsing from Arc to Zen Browser because it was the closest vertical tab experience I could find. Now I hope one of the other browsers will figure out and implement good drawer-based vertical tab UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's wrong with denmark⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quatre-vingt douze isn’t incredibly onerous when you use it in practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having some AIs that do this and some not will only muddy the waters of what’s believable. We’ll get gullible people seeing the ridiculous and thinking “Well there’s no watermark so it MUST be true.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TimesSquare/Alley was the place to be for gaming news. And webrings were more useful than search engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When Discord enshittifies to the point it shows ads in chat, Instagram will be ready to swoop in and capture the market with the same shitty ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US immigration service wants social media handles of visa applicants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an unreasonable request. If the shoe was on the other foot I’d want to be screening every American coming to our border to check if they were active on topics like annexation or shudder cyber truck enthusiasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cute. He thinks people will still be using WordPress when he retires as he continues to alienate customers and developers week after week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been happy with Hover for several years. They don’t bug me and they’re owned by Tucows so they’ve got decades-old staying power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shot if Firefox goes I guess we’re back to carrier pigeons and smoke signals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton will no longer post on Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelensky isn’t facing down prison and treason sentences on their way out. But he would have to avoid Russian tea service in his retirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say he’s headed for his billionaire bunker but he likes golf too much to follow the scared dictator playbook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I ethically use LLMs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I eat meat, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I ethically use LLMs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the same way as people can be okay or not with eating meat, I think it comes down to individual values.

  LLMs have consequences to climate, labour, and (if you don’t disclose in some situations) how others perceive your creativity.

  For me, I would have no problem asking and AI agent to speak to a colleagues AI agent to automatically find a mutually acceptable time for a call or meeting.

  I would not use AI to compose a best man’s toast or funeral eulogy from scratch.

  The quote about “I want AI to do my dishes and laundry so I have time for more creativity, I don’t want AI to do my creativity so I have more time to do dishes and laundry” applies to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t start grey but then I read the issues tracker.