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remslave··on Customs asked for his phone passcode. Now he faces a felony
Why is the latter portion of the article reversed and nonsense text? Is this a gibberish paywall or some anti-AI measure?
remslave··on HP admits 30% of PCs reject Windows 11, and it's why Microsoft caved on support
I will never use Windows 11. To me it is Vista/8 all over again.

Waiting for 12 to come out in 2030, when they correct their mistakes and make it more sensible

remslave··on Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
They default to authing you via a sms code usually still, even when you have an authenticator paired
remslave··on America is destroying itself. It's no surprise
Guardian is a British news organization. They will be long destroyed before America, rest assured!
remslave··on World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US
Just pay and leave, you're not required to tip most places. It is just way to thank good service.
remslave··on Are these enhanced AI images on NYT?
Looks like a photo taken by a smartphone app with an AI enhanced vibrancy filter.

Either way, the article itself is more of an advertisement anyway, so it's all trash.

remslave··on Basic Income: Housing Stability, Health, and Wellbeing
If it is not universal basic income, it is simply welfare. Every month a new basic income study where they just repeat the requirements, effects, and conclusions from welfare. Never actual universal basic income. Everyone but the recipients hate welfare, hate paying for the laziness of others. It has to be given to all to have any chance actually working out.
remslave··on Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption
I always wobdered how does protonmail filter spam and detect abuse like multiple sign-up emails being delivered? It seems incompatible with everything being encrypted, and it is not being done locally in the browser.
remslave··on Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion
I posted a project a few months ago to a niche hobby subreddit and was dismissively criticized as using an AI and being unable to write my own paragraphs. Once that comment got more likes it just snowballed into insults, hate, and threats.

I was never big about reddit anyway but now I will definitely never interact with that site again.

remslave··on Agentic CEO – An AI research organism that hunts, critiques, and evolves itself
Strange underlying theme of hunting, predation, meat, etc
remslave··on Firefox 150
>share button for tabs

I have never used these in any software, ever, instead they are just clutter that I periodically click on accidentally. Windows is so bad with stuff like this, it just accumulates.

remslave··on (Synced) Passkey Is Weak
I will never use passkey.
remslave··on This Finnish Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Wants You to Forget Google Exists
Peak consumerism hardware tourism, paying this for hot new garbage should be a crime when google-free alternatives have existed for like a decade now for so many phone models
remslave··on Firefox is and always has been terrible
Mozilla, but yes. The very first release of firefox was awesome compared to IE.

Nowadays you have to use a fork like Libreworlf. But same with Chrome, you use ungoogled forks.

remslave··on I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64
Correctly guessed this guy based on the title alone. He was once developing a really fascinating portal demake for n64, but nintendo got the project cancelled.

It was rough at firsr, but in a way it feels like that freed him into doing his own things now, being more creative and original. This open world game engine for n64 probably would not have happened otherwise.

remslave··on ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets
Yeah, confuse people and get them frustrated they cannot talk to a human for help, so they give up and the ticket auto closes after a week!

Google and other big techs have been doing this forever with website self-help endless loops, no AI necessary.

It is a sad reality when you must be relatively famous online and then proceed to whine on social media to hopefully get in contact with someone who might be able to know someone who possibly can help.

remslave··on Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist cracking
Superb way to generate more microplastics
remslave··on In Search of a Discord Replacement
Matrix/element is the best bet atm. Had a solid 40m users compared to Discord's 140m at some point, which is good proof they can scale up compared to other. Hardest part is convincing your groups to switch from Discord. But you can bridge the two in Matrix and talk between them which might help ease the transition.

Teamspeak has been drama-free at least and spared from bigtech bullshit, but simple things like changing your username havent been working for like 6 years now, it is in rough but ok shape if you want a drop-in replacement. You can freely make group chats and categorize them by right clicking them to create Discord-style chatrooms or voice chat rooms. Otherwise you must pay to set up a Teamspeak community for your friends.

remslave··on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder
Matrix/Element seems the best drop-in replacement for Discord. Can set up chatrooms in Discord "server"-style, or as persistent DMs with others. In the chatrooms, you can make text chat spaces and call spaces. No dedicated voice chat space, you just dont turn on webcam for the call spaces. Pretty sure it uses same voip tech. Selfhostable if you want. Encrypted. Really it is just a barebones but functional Discord. Matrix can be bridged to Discord as well so you can talk between either, should help ease the transition period for anyone jumping ship.
remslave··on I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
Have done this a few times. Updating the thing and keeping my data is always annoying even with web storage. The limitations of CORS also make it annoying the moment you want to do anything more involved.

In the end I usually just write a normal program for myself in autoit.

remslave··on Dark mode is essential, not a design preference
Bright text on dark backgrounds is unreadable garbage to me, like a kaleidoscope of strokes and shapes. I think it is because of astygmatism, not sure.

When software doesn't provide a light theme, I can't use it at all. Thankfully websites are easy to fix with browser addons... ffmpeg documentation in particular looks so bad by default in my opinion.

You should always give the user a choice because it's usually very trivial to make a theme and saves everone trouble down the line. Finding the option to switch can still be a pain sometimes which is silly.