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efdee··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
BlueSky is so much more toxic than Twitter/X ever was. And I say that as a left-leaning centrist.
efdee··on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now
You kids and your iPods. ;-)
efdee··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
Sorry, but teenage me, growing up late 90s, wildly disagrees with this statement.

It's always been addictive and destructive. I was staying up past 3am to talk to my American friends, knowing I'd have to get up at 7am to get to school.

Painting the past with such a rose brush does not help anyone.

efdee··on A spectre is haunting Unicode
And "je ne sais quoi" perfectly describes that. Quod erat demonstrandum
efdee··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Swiss.
efdee··on Claude Opus 5
Why would it ask to see the image if it was already told it cannot see the image?
efdee··on Claude Opus 5
I don't see why? If they give you a math test and tell you you cannot use a calculator, should you just say "please can I use a calculator" and quit?
efdee··on Claude Opus 5
On Max it is just included in your subscription.
efdee··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Can you tell me the difference between that and doing code review for a task performed by a non-senior?
efdee··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Comic Chat had its own IRC servers ran by Microsoft. You weren't supposed to use it on "regular" servers.
efdee··on Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion
I have assumed from the get-go that they would just keep extending it week by week.
efdee··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
In that case you'd be better off waiting 6 to 12 months before buying into SPCX.
efdee··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
I've been with DO since checks mailbox 2014. Honestly never experienced an unannounced outage.
efdee··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I can only speak for my countries, but almost all payment terminals now have the option to scan a QR code with your mobile banking app to pay using Wero.
efdee··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
If they haven't been redirected to their bank, verifying with their mobile banking app using a QR code will not work.
efdee··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
That's why you can mark any WiFi connection as "metered" in Windows.
efdee··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Surely it will wait when the connection is marked as metered.
efdee··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
That is about production. The story that you don't get from these graphs is that Belgium is highly dependent on imported energy because the production is just too low.
efdee··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Strictly: Engie was forced by a previous Belgian government to decommision the nuclear power plants.
efdee··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
If it's not working on Chrome nor Firefox, it's safe to say it's incompatible with almost all browsers.
efdee··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Already banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.
efdee··on Building a TB-303 from Scratch
In his defense, he built the entire language :-)
efdee··on Building a TB-303 from Scratch
The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.
efdee··on A list of fun destinations for telnet
I hate to be that guy, but HELO/EHLO is smtp, not pop3
efdee··on FVWM-95 (2001)
It actually still works to this day. Doubleclick the top left menu button (the one with the app icon) and your window closes.
efdee··on S&box is now an open source game engine
"abusive", "silly", "couldn't care less", "nonsense", "literally illegal". I don't think you'll find many people want to join your cause if you are this aggressive.

More on topic, I agree that you should be allowed to do with your computer what you want. That includes defeating their anti-cheat measures. Your computer, your rules. In return, they can refuse to support you or ban them from their servers. Their stuff, their rules.

But this idea that you are entitled to tell them they have to provide you with a version that does not have their anti-cheat measures, that is pretty far out there. That is where most people will stop following your reasoning.

YMMV.

efdee··on S&box is now an open source game engine
It's not clear what freedom you are sacrificing. Nobody is forcing you to play those games. If you don't want to let them run their anti cheat system, don't do it. This is not some unavoidable measure.

What a strange hill to want to die on.

efdee··on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
Why would AGI not be possible?

It might be hard, it might be difficult, but it is definitely possible. Us humans are the evidence for that.

efdee··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
I respectfully disagree, but disagree hard.

a) Nothing about letting AI do grunt work for you is "not being a craftsman". b) Things are subcontracted all the time. We don't usually disrespect people for that.

efdee··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
For me, AI is definitely a table saw. YMMV.
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