schwim
@schwim@piefed.zip
- Comment on There's the army, there should be the legy 22 hours ago:
What kind of monster would downvote a dadjoke?
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 day ago:
I’ll be sad when I can no longer watch my subs but as they say, live by the corporate whim, die by the corporate whim.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 1 day ago:
local dial-up BBSs sharing gif and wav clips and chatting about anything that you felt like at the moment AOL chatrooms free hosted forums on Anglefire and Geocities Larger forums(SA, Fark, etc) FB/instagram Lemmy/Piefed
I think that would be my path as it relates to communities where I actually ended up having a social community involved. I would say that it also is a direct increase in toxicity as it works downward. I find Lemmy/Piefed just as toxic as any other platform but the lack of a forced algorithm lets me basically mute all of the negative content sources and it’s niche enough that you can actually mute the negative influence, which makes for a pleasant experience.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 day ago:
I imagine the fact that they allow the embedding of videos on other sites make it hard to restrict the playback to that degree. There seems to be a tipping point at which they’ll work on breaking something, more than likely based on it’s popularity When enough 3rd party frontends figured out background playback, they took the time to develop a way to break it. I think the same will happen when they feel too many people are circumventing their data scraping, ads or algorithms. They’ll finally go all in but it’s clear that they don’t want to do that just yet.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 1 day ago:
I’m sure that’s what he means. I scroll with “New/All” and this is a fantastic way to read new stuff you have never heard about BUT the caveat is: this is an enjoyable scroll ONLY after you’ve developed a good block list of users, instances and communities. Otherwise, you’ll get inundated with the few but very vocal and toxic communities that make Lemmy feel like a clone of Reddit/Twitter/etc.
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 2 days ago:
In the end, they all sell out.
- Comment on UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup 3 days ago:
If you love porn and talking about israel/Palestine, its the place to be. Otherwise, its an absolute ghost town.
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 1 week ago:
Are they really not aware of all of the public archiving that occurs constantly?
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 1 week ago:
Using an OS is like being at an airport. We don’t need to be made aware of anyone’s departure or arrival.
- Comment on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code 1 week ago:
So far, we’ve found and validated more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities. We’ve begun reporting them and are seeing our initial patches land, and we’re continuing to work with maintainers to patch the others.
If this is true, perhaps a list will be provided soon so communities can vet the effort for themselves.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
I am not intelligent enough to understand any of it but that was a fun read.
TIL the origin of Courier.
- Comment on Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety 1 week ago:
I believe that the negatives of social media far outweigh this perceived positive.
- Comment on Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today 2 weeks ago:
Sucks to be a Chrome user.
- Comment on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location 2 weeks ago:
Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.
It seems like the vendor can disable this leak. If we ever get a well-rounded linux OS phone, I imagine this will be moot for those on that platform.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 4 weeks ago:
Dumped Nova as soon as the sellout was announced. Replaced it with Octopi, which I found to be better anyways.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher&hl=en_US&pli=1
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not clicking that link.
- Comment on The more I understand mass shooters, the more I don't what they do. 5 weeks ago:
Checks out.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 1 month ago:
It makes sense, it’s a proven pool of gullibility.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 1 month ago:
I use Librewolf everywhere but android where I use Firefox. The sync feature works perfectly between the different brands. Librewolf does not currently offer a mobile browser.
- Comment on Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" 1 month ago:
I moved over to Librewolf last night (except on android) due to this issue. I’m not even anti-AI, I just don’t care for the current mentality to put it into everything and using it as the entirety of your marketing schtick. I don’t need an AI web browser. I need a web browser that can navigate something like chatgpt’s web interface if I want it to.
Librewolf has stated their intention to strip all ai elements from their fork of Firefox and that keeps me off of a chromium browser so I chalk this up as my personal best-case scenario.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 months ago:
Never watch a video that ends a statement with a question mark In the thumbnail.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update December 2025 2 months ago:
Thank you for the home.
I’ve not noticed bugs on the dev branch but look forward to improvements (I’d love for the default UI to remember my place when retreating back to it from an article).
Thanks!
- Comment on After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers 2 months ago:
I’m shocked, SHOCKED I say that they chose profit over people.
- Comment on Haunted videogame No Players Online resurrected on Steam after a disgruntled "former friend" had it exorcised via DMCA 2 months ago:
“Next week on As The Nerd Turns, watch as former friend steals all the game controllers and unplugs the snack machine.”
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 2 months ago:
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I guess anything that happens while using a computer fits the community now?
- Comment on About This Account reveals the scale of Twitter’s foreign troll problem 2 months ago:
Just wait until everyone reposting this hears about VPNs.
- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 2 months ago:
Western governments don’t need that. They already have access to all you do on your device via backdoors and agreements with vendors and software providers. They could know absolutely everything about any “free citizen” they wanted.
- Comment on Cold room floor help 2 months ago:
It’s a septic or sewer clean out. Code requires them at certain distances of the drain system to allow for access to clear any blockages. You can use that access to run a snake.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 months ago:
I have not met a too-big open world as of yet.
