rozodru

@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they’re clearly not taking it all that seriously as it should be an Opt-IN feature, not an Opt-Out. They’re banking on a majority non tech savvy userbase to not even bother disabling it. fine, whatever, that’s on the user.

  But it’s just more Firefox bloat that I have zero desire to deal with. If I wanted bloat in my browser I’d go use Vivaldi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  you don’t even need AI for that and can do it on your phone. Piefeed for example asks you when initially setting up an account “Hey do you want to see stuff about Trump, Musk, etc? no? cool we won’t show you that” and that’s it. works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is now live⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.

  there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting this and I believe a lot of people think that when you’re online in China you’re CONSTANTLY monitored by someone assigned SPECIFICALLY to you or something.

  There used to be like I guess a modern day old wives tale where if you’re playing an online game with someone from China and typed into in-game chat “Tianamen Square Massacre 1989” it would knock the person from China offline. I remember doing that a few years ago and the other guy, from China, took awhile to respond and when he did he simply said “that’s our history”.

  It’s like you said, the vast majority will follow the rules and won’t use a VPN but others will just be like “ok, what are you going to do?” and do so. It’s like pirating stuff in the US. I’ve heard stories of people getting sued out the wazoo by movie studios for pirating and sharing but those stories are few and far between and generally the people doing it aren’t smart about it. I’ve been pirating content for decades and have never gotten a notice or email or letter about anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 517 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the beginning of Halo 2 is so good. This right here probably being my favourite level in the entire franchise other than the entirety of Reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonic Adventure came out in ’99 outside Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨until next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is the one anime I’ve always wanted to get into because everyone loves it and at this point…no, I don’t think it’s possible.

  I remember One Piece being on Fox Kids or something when I was in high school or my early 20s, I’m in my 40s now, I don’t think it’s possible to even remotely try to catch up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would i abbandon KeepassDX?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Vaultwarden hosted on my private server. It’s great, will never use another PW manager. and yes it’s cached locally so you’re good. on PC, at least via the bitwarden CLI, you do a one time login and that’s it. you’re logged in until you tell it to logout, logs you in automatically on restarts and what have you. plus it’s very easy to access on whatever pc or phone you want to use. for pc you can just add the bw extension and have your passwords where ever or just simply login to your vaultwarden page remotely. this has been a life saver for me a couple times when I needed a pw for something but I wasn’t on my machine and borrowing someone elses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “StopAntisemitism” oh please. These people will continue to use that as a crutch until the sun burns out. I’m anti-zionist, I’m anti-israel, and if that makes me an anti-semite then so be it.

  Being labeled an antisemite doesn’t hold as much weight anymore as it used to. It only holds weight for the people committing mass genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the password was “starwarssux”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's interesting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for when the baby gets sick and GPT5 hallucinates a cure that ends up giving the kid Super Aids or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I daily driver QuteBrowser and have for awhile now. I like it. does everything I need it to do and the vim style navigation is awesome.

  Sure there are some quirks that can be solved via userscripts and trust me I have a lot written for it but everything that requires an extension in firefox or chrome i have working on Qutebrowser. I don’t get adds with youtube in fact dare I saw I have it set up better than what you could get on Firefox or Chrome, I have my password management via bitwarden, it all just works. And the dev, The Compiler, is great and is always on top of issues that come up.

  there’s yet to be any site i’ve come across that just doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always said LLMs are fantastic rubber ducks. But taking said rubber duck and telling it to build something end to end or hitting tab without verifying anything is going to lead you to a world of hurt. the person doing it won’t know the world of hurt is coming because they simply don’t know any better. the company won’t know the world of hurt is being built around them because like the vibe coder they dont’ know any better.

  then suddenly it’s finished, pushed to production, and there’s your world of hurt.

  but hey I get paid to fix said world for them so keep on trucking I guess. at this rate I’ll be retiring by the end of the next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Umamusume: Cinderella Gray 2nd Cour • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Part 2 - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen clips of this show pop up on my shorts feed recently and that theme song is now ingrained in my head.

  So these girls are supposed to be horses right? and they’re all based off real life race horses? and there’s a game for this too right?

  seems like it just came out of nowhere and blew up in popularity. is it good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a dumbest opinion out of all the dumb fediverse opinions i’ve read.

  I go to pixelfed to post my art and view other peoples art. that’s it. I don’t go there to read posts or what’s going on in peoples lives. For that I have Akkoma/Mastodon. If I want further interaction and discussion I have Piefed/Lemmy.

  this blog post just reeks of “I need my voice to be heard on all the various platforms at the same time and I don’t want to go to each individual platform to do it” well I’m sorry cupcake that’s now how things work. Why isn’t this person complaining about Piefeed posts not showing up on Mastodon or vice versa?

  If I sign up to Instagram I don’t expect to see facebook posts. Most people understand this concept. People aren’t going to go to Pixelfeed and then assume they instantly have access to view Mastodon and Lemmy at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cannot be deleted”

  sure. Based on ALL the youtube vids from India of unlocking phones or bypassing FRPs, etc I imagine it won’t be long before you start seeing videos from India on how to easily bypass this.

  I mean some of those FRP videos are wild with the steps they go through to unlock an Android phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  amusing thing is that when it came out someone ripped all the wallpapers from the app and put them online for free. most of it was AI slop anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in the late 90s/early 00s I went through a few of these drives. OP, they break, they just die. once you start getting the “clicks of death” it’s only a matter of time before the entire drive craps out on you. it generally doesn’t happen all at once. few clicks here and there. but eventually it’ll become more frequent until every zip disk you pop in just starts clicking. Just how it goes. and the thing is they’re pretty much impossible to fix. when it’s dead, it’s dead.

  All I can suggest is enjoy it while you can because it WILL die and the fact the thing has lasted this long is impressive.

  Eventually after the 4th drive died my Dad was done with them, had enough. Spent the money to get a CD-RW drive.

  So they’re great for nostalgia. they’re neat in that regard. but don’t put anything you would consider even moderately important on those zip disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah for iOS ply:sub is the way to go. my friends and family who use my Navidrome server and have iphones all use ply:sub. Android friends use Symfonium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He has his own private chef to make him food, he has maids to take care of his house(s), he has assistants to do all his errands, if he has kids he has nannies to take care of them. So in his backwards ass head he can easily “work” more than 70+ hours a week and doesn’t understand why us lowly peons can’t do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know what Paradox was smoking with this one. They get the license, cool, they hand it off to a studio that…while is known for being a support dev or doing ports they DID manage to get the original Bloodlines writer on board and then it was delay, delay, delay, fire the creative team, more delay, switch studios, start completely over, call it a day, and then claim “yeah we’re not going to make one of these style games again…we’d rather continue to nickle and dime our customers with strategy games.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you’re now interacting with unhinged strangers or unhinged family members and no one wants to deal with that in their daily lives.

  This isn’t like the days of Myspace or early Facebook or even old PHP forums where you essentially chose who you interacted with and in turn selected who could interact with you. But it’s also the fact, at least for me personally, I just don’t want to share all the details that go on in my life anymore with everyone. It used to be I could post something personal online and only the people I trusted or very close friends could see it and thats who I wanted to see it. I didn’t want my Parents to stumble across the fact that a girl I was dating had a weird/unique fetish or whatever. Once my parents got on Facebook then it was over.

  Social media is fine when you’re allowed to keep it within a contained, personal, and customized environment. Once you open the flood gates and allow EVERYONE into your life you might as well be screaming on a street corner about what you had for breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it’s your first time reading a furry dev blog post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  add to the fact that these platforms are still relatively small so I can recognize usernames thus making it feel more personal I suppose?

  Also I run my own instances of everything in the fediverse so I have more control of what and whom I want to see/hear from. If you’re a person I don’t agree with and have negative opinions then I can easily block you from everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if a lot of it is because Microsoft will say your computer isn’t compatible to upgrade but meanwhile it actually CAN be upgraded and users are just taking what Microsoft tells them as truth and not investigating further.

  I myself have upgraded a couple of family members machines to Win 11 even though “technically” Microsoft claims they can’t be. just went ahead with it anyways. I could have just thrown Linux on them like Mint or something but some people are just comfortable within windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the issue is at one point, like say a year or so ago, LLMs weren’t that bad. they were fairly accurate in their solutions. But lately within the past few months they’ve all collectively gotten noticeably worse. They ate up all the content available and then proceeded to start eating each others waste and vomiting out that as a solution. Claude for example at one point was a decent coding assistant. now? now 8 out of 10 solutions are hallucinations. GPT5 is a clear downgrade from previous versions and now the thing just rants and rants in hopes that somewhere in it’s rants and info dumps there’s potentially the correct solution. It also now fails to remember the context of a prompt most of the time. If you can’t get the correct solution within one answer from GPT5 you might as well just close the tab because it’s never going to get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stranglehold. I friggin love this game. It’s the John Woo videogame that is technically a sequel to the movie Hard Boiled and has Chow Yun-fat as the lead. I don’t know but I just really dig this game. Similar to it Enter the Matrix I also love. I go back and replay both every so often.

  It’s also a bit of a comfort type of thing as those came out in the early 00’s when I was in my early 20s and still living at home and had more money than I knew what to do with hah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  after looking at their site….oh fuck no.

  they offer lines of credit to pay your rent. but you have to pay back said credit by the end of the month so….why? If you’re having trouble paying your rent getting a line of credit to cover it and then having to pay back said credit by the end of the month on top of a percentage AND membership fee it just sounds exactly like a payday loan where you KNOW they hope you roll over so you’ll never be able to catch up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it and don’t hate it. If one of my projects took off like that and gained traction the absolute LAST thing I’d want to be is CEO of the whole damn thing. That’s just not who I am. I’d hope I’d be able to find and hand it off to someone more qualified for that position. So I totally get where Eugen is coming from as I would have done the exact same thing.