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qustrolabe··on Boring is good
Predicting AGI and all those "complete replacement of jobs" are boring example of this. What's more annoying to me are people who do that arguing into existence about reality they want where AI is completely useless and fake and can't do anything and make you stupid and ten more loudest clickbait titles of recent year
qustrolabe··on I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
Probably good for people who use like 3-5 apps at most on their phone, but I prefer grids of icons with folders
qustrolabe··on I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
Whatever happens on wallpaper side under the hood on old android versions is so messed up. At some point of using my Android 11 tablet and experiencing a lot of lag when any custom wallpaper was visible on the screen (but not when default one), after lots of digging I discovered that lag was completely gone if I set my wallpaper in portrait orientation. Had to install some separate wallpaper app from google for that but at least lag's gone. Just another little example of weirdness
qustrolabe··on I Don't Have Spotify
Registration is free though
qustrolabe··on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords
So that your domain could one day expire and someone could host their email server completely impersonating you
qustrolabe··on Are we decentralized yet?
Can someone explain how Fediverse instances or any decentralized platforms deals with most obvious issues of decentralization? Like if I join some node then one day it's offline and all my data lost. I mean surely instances usually don't disappear without notice but it still a totally possible thing. Or what about those times when entire instances get involved in dramas and end up defederating? I don't want to lose my connection with potential friends from such instance just because of something like that. I even remember some time ago when there were news about Threads being federated some people deliberately gathered "signs" across lots of instances to collectively defederate from Threads and it's just ridiculous to me that this even happened. What all this talk about fighting censorship while actively engaging in constant "self-censorship" making own echo-chamber as tight as possible?
qustrolabe··on I Am An AI Hater
As all AI haters do this one also uses false interpretation of Miyazaki quote
qustrolabe··on How I code with AI on a budget/free
I bet it's crazy to some people that others okay with giving up so much of their data for free tiers. Like yeah it's better to selfhost but it takes so much resources to run good enough LLM at home that I'd rather give up my code for some free usage, anyway that code eventually will end up open source
qustrolabe··on Vibechart
GPT-5 would've caught this mismatch for sure
qustrolabe··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Firefox is awful. Both as a browser itself and as a base for other browsers. Such a shame that Zen didn't use Chromium :(
qustrolabe··on I write type-safe generic data structures in C
pretty sure C has to go
qustrolabe··on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
Why? What the point of just blocking several popular sites? Sounds like you just wasted time and money setting up weird thingy
qustrolabe··on AI is not our future
Easiest marketing farm for any creative company right now. Say "we won't add AI" and continue doing nothing as before
qustrolabe··on Just Fucking Use React
Some time ago I myself was in camp of people who preferred minimal web as opposed to all these "bloated" frameworks. But one thing that changed me is Tailwind, it improves the complicated stupid old way I wrote CSS classes so much that all people who keep hating it just because it's one of those "bloated" things of modern webdev are just ridiculous.

Then I tried React, quite liked it but preference for something as small and fast as possible lead me to Preact. And as I have no need for hosting websites with backend (I just want client-side interactivity so static pages) I found how to do prerender workflow where all necessary html is generated at build time and interactivity gets hydrated on top of that by bundled js module. It's so much better than trying to figure out pure js interactions in site made with static generator with some obscure templating.

Though for some reason people nowadays mainly focus on running site as SSR through Node rather than just hosting static pages and figuring out static build workflow in those frameworks can be very challenging.

qustrolabe··on I'd rather read the prompt
It's actually doesn't matter. I hated this hassle of writing various texts while studying so much. Like does it really matter whether student would generate this text or just go google and copy paste some paragraphs from somewhere? And don't even hope for them to genuinely write all that stuff themselves because it's a huge waste of time even for those who actually cares and interested in the subject.
qustrolabe··on Migrating away from Rust
If anything, making your own game engine makes process more frustrating, time consuming and leads to burnout quicker than ever, especially when your initial goal was just to make a game but instead you stuck figuring out your own render pipeline or inventing some other wheel. I have a headache just from thinking that at some point in engine development person would have to spend literal weeks figuring out export to Android with proper signage and all, when, again, all they wanted is to just make a game.
qustrolabe··on Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'
doesn't matter, for me it will always be go-dot
qustrolabe··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Is there video of any successful drops?
qustrolabe··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
While laying in bed with fever I realised it's much more easier to imagine moving things than static ones. Imagine red apple? To hell that, my apple gonna spin and rotate, and be chopped by sawblade flying by, while slowly oxidizing cut parts
qustrolabe··on Yi 1.5
Version in repository name feels wrong
qustrolabe··on Are We Watching the Internet Die?
5 times this website popped "subscribe to my newsletter". 2 times as full screen annoying pop up and 3 times in between paragraphs. If this crap is not direct evidence of "internet dying" idk what is
qustrolabe··on Niagara Launcher
Tried using it on tablet some time ago. Felt handicapped comparing to Nova Launcher, some useful stuff was locked behind premium. Instead of nice easy to use app grid you have unbearable list where all apps grouped by letters and you have to manually choose certain letter to see what apps available there. The only positive thing about that launcher is that it helped me localize issue with lagging wallpapers but after that I happily deleted it.
qustrolabe··on Ask HN: Buying Laptop Without Windows?
Best thing to do is to search for widely used in linux community laptop to be sure that all it's features supported by linux or at least every problem well documented on sites like archwiki, even if it has Windows pre-installed.
qustrolabe··on We Are Doomed: A pessimistic point of view of "modern software engineering"
So the problems in article are: Apple doesn't support Vulkan, Apple chips were incompatible with Docker, Apple deprecated OpenGL support, Apple don't make their Metal multiplatform. I think I see a pattern here, hehe
qustrolabe··on FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
Either wait some time for 2.17 AnkiDroid release or just use 2.17alphaXX from github. I'd prefer first option to evade any major bugs
qustrolabe··on Tachiyomi – It's Joever
The way Tachiyomi worked is that it used specially written extensions to automatically connect to different web sites that provide access to manga and download from them. I mean simply saying it worked kinda like web browser except if you had to download search engines yourself. And in that comparison any legal threats against it looked very dumb. Like someone said "If Warner Bros sued Google Chrome because it gives access to piracy sites". With last update they even completely removed direct access to download these extensions and instead you have to manually provide link to third-party repo with them. I really thought that big change would safe Tachiyomi from any legal trouble for a long time
qustrolabe··on Reproducible Git Bundles
Feels like bundles is a bad idea for back ups. Perhaps --bare repo in zip archive would be better
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