rozodru

@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s insulting. It’s one thing to try and be nice and send a genuine email to Dr. Pike thanking and acknowledging their outstanding contributions but to have your crappy LLM write the email?

  Surprised Claude didn’t hallucinate the majority of this because it certainly hallucinates everything else on a daily basis. Boggles my mind how one LLM that used to be praised for coding assistance can turn into such garbage in the span of like a couple of months. You’re better off having your cat help you with coding than utilizing Claude or Claude Code at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for anime with at least three of the following criteria: short, 80s-90s, cyberpunk, hyperviolent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I should have added no need to go beyond season 1. which is a shame cause I REALLY liked Psycho Pass season 1 and the rest was just….really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Didn’t their CEO like several months ago pretty much defend a known fascist/tranphob on the platform and essentially told people who complained about it to “not post” out of protest? Also Bluesky is extremely quick to bend to the whims of whatever government body makes demands. They were one of the first sites to quickly implement age verification in the UK I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you hit the nail on the head. I run my own piefeed instance and I have lemmy.ml and hexbear a long with a few others blocked on it. But I had to KNOW about those before hand. It’s not like Reddit where you pretty much have to go looking for that content if you want to see it and/or block it.

  I’m by no means a fan of moderation but I think we need to at least have some kind of rating system when selecting an instance or something and not have it be purely based on user count. Have it similar to how we already have it with users where you can see without clicking on anything if a user has a bad reputation. just add that to instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for anime with at least three of the following criteria: short, 80s-90s, cyberpunk, hyperviolent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 1 and 2, Armitage III, AD Police Files, Memories, Neo Tokyo, Megazone 23, Venus Wars, Techno Police 21C, AI City, Dominion Tank Police.

  Most of these are movies or very short series (like 4 episodes max).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  same. I have over 300 games in my steam library that i’ve bought over the years and the vast majority of which I never launched. So now i’m going through them. combine that with finally getting retroarch/libretro all PROPERLY set up I’ve also got a shit ton of roms from various consoles to play also, games I couldn’t afford as a kid.

  Like right now I’m FINALLY playing Ocarina of Time for the first time ever and it’s a blast, now I understand why people love it so much. Also started playing New Vegas and System Shock on the PC which I’ve owned for years and never played and both those are great too. New Vegas is REALLY fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonic Adventure came out in ’99 outside Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨until next year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the password was “starwarssux”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's interesting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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