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timedude··on My Software North Star
No bug left behind
timedude··on C++: The Documentary
With great power comes great responsibility and blown off legs.
timedude··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
Yes tell me about what happened at Tianenmen square
timedude··on Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
Yep, gotta keep breeding more little tax slaves to keep the plantation operational.
timedude··on Incident with Actions and Pages
Aws made a very big mistake to stop their CodeCommit service. They could have eaten Githubs lunch if they had continued to build it out
timedude··on Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
Monero fixes this.
timedude··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
> Business owners who think they can do without developers because they think LLMs replace developers are fine by me too. Natural selection will take care of them in due course.

Thing is, natural selection will take care of you at the same time. Because you'll also come to rely on products they make, or services they offer, either directly or indirectly. So eventually, you too, will suffer the consequences of the enshloppification.

timedude··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
Let me tell you, there is a ton more to learn in this reality than llms are capable of finding out on their own, especially when it comes to truth, ethics and morality. And those are the only thing that matter in the end when you leave this reality. A greater challenge does not exist.
timedude··on Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
This is so depressing. It feels like all around me every product is being enshittified to hell. I am afraid for the future and for all the good we are losing.
timedude··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
That's kinda stupid. The passwords could get swapped to disk in the swap file in plaintext when memory is low by the OS.
timedude··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
The people operating in it are the system.
timedude··on OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
Yup, deliberately making the model retarded
timedude··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear? Right?
timedude··on EFF is leaving X
"But You're Still on X?" Yes. And we understand why that looks contradictory. Let us explain.

EFF exists to protect people’s digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms and subjected to their corporate surveillance.

Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use X every day. This platform hosts mutual aid networks and serves as hubs for political organizing, cultural expression, and community care. Just deleting the app isn't always a realistic or accessible option, and neither is pushing every user to the fediverse when there are circumstances like:

You own a small business that depends on X for customers. Your abortion fund uses X to spread crucial information. You're isolated and rely on online spaces to connect with your community. Our presence on X is not an endorsement. We've spent years exposing how this platform suppresses marginalized voices, enables invasive behavioral advertising, and flags posts. We’ve also taken action in court, in legislatures, and through direct engagement with their staff to push them to change poor policies and practices.

We stay because the people on this platform deserve access to information, too. We stay because some of our most-read posts are the ones criticizing the very platform we're posting on. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you need to protect yourself, the better.

timedude··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
It is in the present AI climate
timedude··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
So has the quality unfortunately
timedude··on Show HN: Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search
When is this available on AWS in Aurora? Anyone from AWS here, add it pronto
timedude··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Switch to GrapheneOS
timedude··on Have a fucking website
Except, this time it is necessary
timedude··on Have a fucking website
Excellent photography
timedude··on Hetzner bans website for 'violating terms'
Seems like certain topics are not allowed these days. Probably not a good idea to host in Germany given current political climate.
timedude··on GPT-5.4
Absolutely amazing. Grateful to be living in this timeframe
timedude··on Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
Been following this guy for a few months now. On Iran i think he is right on the money. He also has some very good lectures about personal development.
timedude··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
"GPT‑5.3 Instant is available starting today to all users in ChatGPT, as well as to developers in the API as ‘gpt-5.3-chat-latest.’ "
timedude··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Well everything you chose to sync gets synced. Like photos, documents etc. You can also set up apps in such a way where they make automatic local backups on your phone in the folder that gets synced. There are multiple android apps for syncthing
timedude··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
If this partnership with motorolla becomes a success, samsung will follow as will the chinese.
timedude··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Before the iphone came and all the android uniformity, i used to use motorolla phones a lot and they were excellent. If the quality is still the same, with GrapheneOS they are going to have an excellent product.
timedude··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
There are various options, but if you use syncthing, it is as easy as creating a share on your PC or backup machine and on the phone. Everything gets synced automatically.
timedude··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
None of those problems exist on GrapheneOS. In fact i regularly do a clean wipe and am up and running again in minutes.
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