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- Comment on I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list 4 days ago:
I’m curious to the apps anybody has found actual value in the apps on this list. I cannot believe that so many “we put AI in your _____” apps are at the top of this list.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I hear you. I was really hoping that violating children would have been the bridge too far—but so far those in power are holding on. It grieves me to wonder what more it would take.
As somebody with a lot of empathy for those in need it angers and frustrates me that the sentiment is not universal and that more is not being done.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Civil war isn’t the only option. If you folks stopped looking left and right and started looking up and down you could move right to revolution.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 week ago:
I plain feel sorry for the service that attempts to get between people and their porn.
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 1 week ago:
When tab folders finally landed in Zen Browser I just took a morning and copied them all in manually. So glad I did.
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 1 week ago:
They had a browser a lot of knowledge workers loved to use. Then they abandoned it to make an AI agent browser using ChatGPT, month before ChatGPT announced it was making its own browser. Instead of returning to Arc they shelved it regardless as their myopic CEO sought a buyer dumb enough to buy “something-something-AI-something-10x-something.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hey Monnie! sneer voice
- Comment on Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo 3 weeks ago:
I politely disagree. Apple legal will most certainly make extreme accusations and throw the book at individuals as a deterrent to other staff who may be considering bringing “trade secret” knowledge with them as they leave. Which is basically turns any kind of creative solution to a tech problem into a “trade secret” 🍆in this reality of patents and intellectual property.
I suspect that this person thought they were getting away with something minor and it’s being spun into mustache-twirling supervillains as a warning to staff.
- Comment on Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo 3 weeks ago:
Sounds damning, however the evidence will need to be presented. Apple’s legal team has a tendency to present and open-and-shut case to the media but it’s very much spinned in their favour.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
Yep! Our favourite now is creating and saving our own stamps.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
My little guy just started Mario Paint this week and he’s loving it. He’s not reading yet so a game with easy symbols and painting is age appropriate. Plus that fly game is getting him a lot of practice learning how to use a computer mouse.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
Because we all told Microsoft we desire software that fits these adjectives.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 4 weeks ago:
The Muv Luv series comes to mind. Robots vs unending overwhelming alien hordes who eat people like we eat lobsters. Not my favourite series but very gory.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 4 weeks ago:
I think this is where my family is landing.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 5 weeks ago:
My for-hire work has been off GitHub for awhile now. My patience for VS Code is razor thin with the stupid features creeping in.
20 years ago I decided to make websites as a career and I’ve been loving it—up until the people who want to sell me tools I don’t want start convincing my bosses that I’m somehow less if I don’t get on board with the always-guessing error machine.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 1 month ago:
First one I can recall was Trigun with the church scene. What beautiful guitar, too. One of my favorites in general.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 1 month ago:
It’s okay, I did too.
Basic can also mean approachable. My partner doesn’t usually like anime and she enjoyed that one a lot.
- Comment on Font Awesome API outage 1 month ago:
Unless you need to supply an arbitrary FA icon It’s more performant to import SVG symbols.
I think most affected sites will just have broken social media icons in their footers that nobody was going to click anyway.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
anxiously checks that Chrono Trigger made the big list
Okay then, carry on.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 1 month ago:
Most tradespeople are responsible for choosing and maintaining their own tools. In a lot of cases it’s the foreman of this metaphor who is making the choice and should be taking the blame.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 1 month ago:
That’s fine if that works for you. My wife doesn’t want the subscription and she also uses Ecosia. Anything non-Google is a win, IMO.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 1 month ago:
Kagi’s model is working well for them. A traditional search engine where AI results are limited and optional, and they actively try to filter away slop, images, clickbait, and other low quality results.
I’ve been paying for 3 months and I’ll never go back. I hope they increase their market share as others ratchet up their enshittification cranks.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund 1 month ago:
Just pay your taxes, dork.
- Comment on Second Fortnite submission to the App Store still stuck in limbo - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
Years later I still haven’t decided who the biggest asshole is in this case, and somehow that is absolutely correct.
- Comment on Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google 4 months ago:
Apple: “Siri, search for a big dumb basket for me to put all my eggs into.”
Siri: “Now playing Basket Case by Green Day…”
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 4 months ago:
This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 4 months ago:
Good riddance. Now do Teams.
- Comment on Aside from music anime, which ones do you consider to have a unique soundtrack? 5 months ago:
Trigun and Cowboy Bebop for sure.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yes but if one use hundreds of Proton or Fastmail-generated email masks it’s a big switching cost.