ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone

where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore

sigh

also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, …

surprise lemmy feature discovered:

that’s what makes it even better - from the “self-custody of keys!!! your own credentials! v v v v v importants!” world, these dipshits still had no clue

just truly awe-inspiringly terrible

and here I am building up a fucking pile of infra in advance of deployment of boards for exactly this reason

it’s almost like, irunno, maybe you could say I’ve thought this through! only maybe tho. I’m not backed by decamillions+ vc dollaridoos, so who can tell whether I know what I’m doing, amirite

look everyone knows Vice.Com is in a death spiral now that the parent company has been gutted

why’s everyone looking so confused

Even as far back as AI Dungeon he was claiming they had an intuitive understanding of physics

omfg, every day a new opportunity to learn things that hurt my brain even more. how the fuck can someone have looked at that shit with even an ounce of understanding of gradient descent and think “yes! it has COMPREHENSION!”???

fucking hell, what an utter fucking moron

is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments

and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)

irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but I’ve been “okay” with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didn’t have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.

like I would’ve likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.

how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium

yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming around…

also, slack, ~1h ago:

Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted

Your workspace, <snip> , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.

the ouroboros must be hungry.

Ayuuuuuuuuuuuda Kakovsvya

format/delivery is technically more than just talking head, I guess, but ykwim

indeed! I rarely get to watch them because of the length, but they’re always so good, thoughtful and thorough. one of best talking heads on yt I know of

double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in “No, do not use my data” for months

discord feedback: “Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team.”

previously

presently:

(you can turn it off but in typical fashion: sneaky new setting, default-on, way to make it turn off is hidden in settings instead of a direct “no fuck this” button. same shit twitter and fb pulled for years)

followed by the next level of hell: “oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?”, and crying in a corner

“what do you mean you can’t model your whole site on Posts”

seemingly yet more chatgpt jailbreaks just by providing input that barrierbreaks some n times, and then readily provides details

y’know, if I were the one making safety nets for these systems, I’d make them return such kind of results (or other typical honeypot type behaviour). and it’s possible that that’s what oai did. but it seems extremely unlikely that that’s what they did, because it goes again the bayfucker gottagofast philosophy (and, frankly, against the level of competence I’ve seen displayed in the genml space overall)

nod

I ran into some fedi post somewhere recently where someone showed some neat all-css hacks (for doing this), and I’m sure I have the tab or bookmark somewhere but … going to be hard to find atm. and flipside is probably it won’t work on the wp modes anyway because wp is of course utterly fucking cursed

perfect

I’ve been making use of wpcli for the small constellation of wp sites I have to deal with, primarily because it means I can actually do some semi-reasonable automation against the damn things (update checks, settings blocks, etc etc). Feel free to steal ideas for a script :D

speaking of, with darkreader loading your blog occasionally makes it go a bit wild. I haven’t tried to dig into it but you just made me remember about it

if/when it happens again, I’ll see if I can profile it to see what’s going on

I realize that these are going to have been utter fucking idiots to start with, but

no air channeling, no structures heatsinks, wide-open roof that could cause further air movement, mismatched fan sizes, extremely insufficient extractors

-15/10, would watch it burn again