AlienRobot

Do people not write tests anymore?

How is 1 + 1 = 2 hard to test?

Vibe coded implementation paired with vibe coded tests made to fit the implementation?

>AI billing audit startup Vaudit reviewed $34 million in AI invoices submitted by 60 enterprise customers and found approximately $1.7 million in mistaken overcharges — a billing error rate of roughly five percent.

That sounds bad.

When all you have is a hammer, but the hammer looks more like a swiss knife

I currently have a problem with Rust that I use Rust-Analyzer for syntax and autocomplete in VS Code and it has to run the compiler when you save a file to "refresh" things.

As you may imagine, this is insanely slow.

So slow that when I switch from a .rs file to a .ts file I feel like I switched computers.

A better comparison would be Python.

The way Python added types is the most disgusting thing imaginable... but it has type hints now, so I guess that makes some people happy.

They caught a 19 year old hacker that uses Edge, and all it took was the privacy of 1.4 billion Windows users.

That sounds like hell. All this just to set the X, Y of the mouse pointer?

I wonder if blender works on wayland, because it has a feature that makes the mouse cursor "loop" across the window if you are dragging something.

I'm not sure I understand. If X11 software requires a X11 server and you have a Wayland compositor, how do you "avoid" XWayland?

I may be wrong but I think the word you want is anthropocentric, not anthropomorphic. Anthropomorphism is turning something that isn't human into something human, e.g. an AI, while anthropocentrism is taking human as the center and default state of things.

One problem I notice with FLOSS is this.

If you have an issue with an open source software, you need to register on a website that is made for developers, that will try to sell you a git hosting service, write a bug following a technical format, and you are expected to given information in a reproducible way.

If you have an issue with a closed source freeware, you just use a contact form on their website or leave a comment on their blog or whatever.

The amount of friction to report a bug that FLOSS puts on users is absolutely insane. It's almost like it's trying to deny anyone who isn't a technical person from reporting problems they are having.

On the negative side, the code may not work.

But on the positive side, no dependencies.

That doesn't sound bad enough. It feels closer to "abandonment mode."

I don't have it yet. Probably getting A/B tested or slowly rolled out like everything else on Google.

I don't think that means anything. It's just some random words to add pretense to an arbitrary change.

I mean, just stop to think about it. You have a Youtube account, you post videos. Analytics shows traffic from Google but can't show you the keywords.

At one point, Google merged Youtube with Google+. Just did it outright without asking anybody.

Youtubers link their Youtube accounts with Google AdSense.

You can link your Youtube account with your Google Ads account if you want to advertise.

One of the latest features added to the Search Console was... an AI chatbot.

So Google showed us they can link anything with Youtube when it wants, and they can add new features to GSC if it's AI, but for some reason showing Google search terms for Youtube channels took 20 years.

I wish I knew a word like enshittification but for when something improves but at a rate so slow you don't even feel like celebrating it anymore. I think I'd use such word a lot...

"Cool product you have there... but what is it for?"

Serverlessless web apps.

Not even Sqlite?

CORS issues due to trying to a .json via file://.

CORS issues on a tainted canvas if you try to render an image from a file:// src.

>We became increasingly horrified at the programming practices we saw in Bun's codebase. Hacks on top of hacks. Abuse of assertions. Most of all, recklessly speeding past feature after feature with very little time taken for reflection and elimination of bugs and technical debt.

I'd like to know what the poor code quality in Bun looks like. Does anybody have concrete examples?

Fallin'

But if the comment wasn't considering you, then they weren't telling you to exercise.

Nobody is telling someone who physically can't run to run. There is no reason to interpret it this way.

Do these people you mention read a comment on the internet saying people should exercise more and think that comment is referring to them?

That's a completely different demand.

The question was "How would I, without any special services, consume multiple blogs today?"

You can do that with RSS.

Now you are saying it doesn't matter because everyone is on Instagram. So you aren't consuming "multiple blogs" in the first place, you're just consuming multiple Instagram accounts.

Keep in mind that nothing stops Instagram from providing RSS feeds for each user account.

You could literally just tell people to stop using Instagram and use Tumblr instead and the problem would solve itself. Tumblr hosts photos, photos albums, and videos, including blogs of several photographers. Tumblr has RSS feeds for each blog. You don't need to have a Tumblr account to follow blogs on Tumblr, you can just put them all into your RSS app and be done. You don't even need a separate RSS app. Vivaldi, a web browser, has an RSS client built-in.

Reddit has RSS feeds. Youtube has RSS feeds. Wordpress has RSS feeds (this is 50% of blogs, essentially). Mastodon has RSS feeds. Bluesky has RSS feeds.

There is nothing that we can do if people deliberately choose to go into a walled garden, but the open gardens still existand you have the full ability to use those instead.

Maybe if more people understood the value proposition of RSS's, they would have more reason to stop using Instagram and move.

That's good, since you are renting them.

RSS.

That's not true.

Some of those accounts get a lot of views...

by posting pirated content.

1000 subscribers, 4000 hours in the last 12 months, and you must have uploaded 3 videos I think in the last 3 months to be allowed to apply for monetization.

There is a different requirement if you only post shorts.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" is a reason why people don't open-source more often.

I don't like Discourse because it's not paged. Infinite scrolling a thread just feels weird.