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VCFundedGenYer··on The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
The Dock is a poor man's Start Menu / Panel. Missing major features such as a built in search, universal menu, easy window management (no, Mission Control does not count) and system options.

The Menu Bar at the top unnecessarily separates those out.

The Dock has always had a major issue of taking up a hilarious amount of vertical space in its default position. Having it vertical on the left or right side of the screen in "auto hide" mode is the most optimal configuration.

VCFundedGenYer··on Firefox Enterprise
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VCFundedGenYer··on Firefox Enterprise
Is this a real question?

It takes literally two seconds to install uBlock Origin.

You can even preload it by baking in the xpi file.

VCFundedGenYer··on Firefox Enterprise
Just seems like GPO options for Firefox, which already existed.

Page says a lot of nothing. Or just restates things that already were in place.

VCFundedGenYer··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
At this point they should post status alerts when the service is up, rather than down.
VCFundedGenYer··on Passkeys are a trap
I haven't swapped to passkeys because every website seems to implement and use them in different/strange ways. There's still no standardization here. Also the notion of just wanting everything in my KeePass + have it all integrated is my goal, and right now, that's just not a thing.

Strong password + MFA is still the way.

VCFundedGenYer··on An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
Pointless. LibreOffice exists. Trying to reverse engineer the closed source version is an exercise in futility.
VCFundedGenYer··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
If you believe the propaganda that AI will kill everyone, you need to step away from the marketing.
VCFundedGenYer··on "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill
Ironic comment as YT Premium is for suckers.

Firefox with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock is the correct move.

If on mobile, Duckduckgo app has Duck Player.

VCFundedGenYer··on Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute
Good. Consequences meeting actions for movie studios that cuddle up with AI thinking it's the future.
VCFundedGenYer··on Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?
> I look at Apple crushing decade old bugs and technical debt

Specifics on this? There is zero evidence of this.

VCFundedGenYer··on The Disease called Politics (1962)
Are you arguing the opposite? The redditor is correct. Just because you bury your head in the sand doesn't mean the world stops.
VCFundedGenYer··on Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
This gives decomps/recomps a bad name.

I'm tired of these terribly made AI projects in this space. It's just noise and low quality spam. I miss when these were done legitimately.

Some script kiddie ran this through a chat bot once and probably doesn't even understand the code.

For those who don't understand, watch this segment of DF Retro Super Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6gJTdk_BkI&t=165s

VCFundedGenYer··on 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone
I love the atmosphere of the original 3 features. A Grand Day Out especially, it makes great use of pauses and sweeping ethereal wide shots to give a great sense of scale and isolation.

As great as the post-A Close shave features are, something was definitely lost when they started adding more characters and expanded the universe.

VCFundedGenYer··on What should we tell our students?
Use of AI actively reduces brain capacity, especially when learning.

AI is never to take the place of understanding, knowledge, and education.

It's best that AI sycophants smarten up.

VCFundedGenYer··on Run Windows games (up to D3D9) in the browser
Many questions.

How is this legal?

Nearly every game is tagged as "unavailable" - I defer back to question 1.

VCFundedGenYer··on We have LLMs now. Why are the docs still wrong?
Because stochastic parrots are oversold/borderline scams and not nearly as good as people think they are.
VCFundedGenYer··on Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude
LLMs are not people, LLMs are not alive, LLMs are not to be anthropomorphized. They are stochastic parrots.

Anthropic of all orgs should know this. Dario has lost his mind.

VCFundedGenYer··on Why the AI future will be awesome
Terrible ostrich article.

It just basically ignores all the issues and goes "guys, it will be great, stop worrying! There's nothing to worry about!"

Pure schlock.

VCFundedGenYer··on Beauty in DVD Menus
Sudoku is a number grid game. Surely you used the wrong term...

Secondly, I'm assuming you're just too young to understand/appreciate DVD menus. Your wording sounds like you are of later Gen Z age and therefore couldn't have had the frame of reference to respect the history and progression.

VCFundedGenYer··on Beauty in DVD Menus
I specifically remember Shrek 1's DVD menu was a work of art and nearly a complete multimedia experience on its own.

It's ironic that the author chose the much simpler/inferior Shrek 2 DVD menu to showcase.

VCFundedGenYer··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
That’s just not how any of this works.

You’re conceptualizing. In reality, AI is expensive, power consuming, planet destroying, and overall productivity killing.

VCFundedGenYer··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
It’s always so obvious when these companies’ handlers issue them orders to do something. Just comical at this point.
VCFundedGenYer··on Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video]
Stochastic parrots are never dangerous.
VCFundedGenYer··on Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous
This has been covered to death already. Please search and read before making yet another thread.
VCFundedGenYer··on Account bans on Reddit
This happened to me a few years ago. My reddit account got randomly shadowbanned (a common major problem by overly sensitive mods/admins on the site), and upon trying to make a new one some time later, it was immediately banned.

Reddit is no longer a viable platform. They care more about banning users than creating genuine content.

VCFundedGenYer··on Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
Using AI for art is most shameful. Don't do that. Respect artists. Respect creativity.
VCFundedGenYer··on Reasons to Dislike AI Coding
Not to mention stolen/copyrighted code now being in your stuff. That alone should be a reason to never use AI.

I never understand why nobody here thinks of stuff like this.

VCFundedGenYer··on LibreOffice says 'no AI' is now a software feature
Nothing but praise for this decision. We need more orgs and projects to take this stance.
VCFundedGenYer··on Graphical UI
"build interfaces with Claude" no thank you.
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