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katzenq··on Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
I don't understand the point of praising somebody for their 'great work' when they clearly did none of the work and love to brag about that fact, and everybody here is aware of that
katzenq··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
Go fuck yourself. You're doing nothing but flooding spaces with spam and ruining communities of people who do real work and art.
katzenq··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
You should feel bad about yourself, and people like you are ruining a lot of communities. It's not 'your' game if you didn't put any of your own work into it.
katzenq··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
I've been doing it for a lot longer than that, in communities where trying to pass off generated shit as your own work gets you rightfully shamed. Actual game development still values human art and effort.
katzenq··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
I'll take that as 'none'. When you say work do you mean telling a chatbot to make a change?
katzenq··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
It doesn't look like a human designed this or wrote any of the text. The layout is broken on a phone. What work did you actually do here?
katzenq··on Sudo – A dedicated music player designed around listening to music
It's unfortunately hard to justify not using the phone currently in my pocket at that point.
katzenq··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Ask an LLM to 'review' any text that it's generated vs something human-written and see which one it thinks is flawless.
katzenq··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
Probably related to this (2016)? https://www.altoros.com/blog/kone-monitors-1-1m-elevators-an...

Sensor telemetry with a pretty dashboard

katzenq··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
It's like doing the calculations yourself (with whatever tools you want) and knowing what you're doing, steering the process yourself, rather than begging someone to give you the result so you can then show it off like you did the work. I can understand and explain what my calculator is doing and I'm not offloading decisions to it. Using a language model to shit out projects that you can't fully understand the structure of yourself is insane. Ceding control of any design decisions to a language model is insane. They're fine as second-order autocomplete and semantic search engines. Humans should be handling design and implementation entirely, making things for other humans. An LLM running in a loop can't build humane systems.
katzenq··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
It should have stayed that way. Be a good search engine and encourage the human to do the work themselves.
katzenq··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Vibe-coded garbage full of nonsense LLM text.
katzenq··on When did Google get so weird?
FWIW, I've done exactly this + DKIM & DMARC on a residential IP and was able to deliver to Gmail & Protonmail with no problem, but didn't test it long term. Same with a server on AWS. I'm not sure if self hosting email is an overblown problem or I've just been very lucky somehow. Obviously it's still a big issue if for ex. Outlook's spam filters happened to be slightly more sensitive and dropped my mail; I never encountered issues but eventually I just used a custom domain via Proton for peace of mind.
katzenq··on Factorio that you can touch
Do they really load so many spirites into memory it's heavier than 3D?
katzenq··on F-Droid 2.0
Was talking about syncthing-fork here to be clear, but I also agree
katzenq··on F-Droid 2.0
I personally think that software design skills naturally lend themselves to good UX and aesthetic design skills and you can infer one from the other. It's fine if you disagree and I should've said it less objectively
katzenq··on F-Droid 2.0
Programming is design. Good code requires design sense.
katzenq··on Goodbye Google
Makes some important and objectively correct points and then completely blows any chance of looking sane or being taken seriously in the last paragraph. Is the coming collapse not also part of God's plan from your framework or is it only relevant when it's comforting?
katzenq··on F-Droid 2.0
That app itself also has some of the most revolting UI I've seen in a modern Android app (Vertical gradient filled buttons with thick gray strokes surrounded by not-quite-Material UI widgets, in a nonsensical custom control they had to go out of their way to make rather than just use a dropdown). Android developers really just don't care.
katzenq··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
What do you mean by 'declared an auditable' here?
katzenq··on Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams
Give a shit and write your own text, or even comments. Generated spam is worthless to post. If you can't put in the effort of typing a few human words about 'your' project then how can the actual thing possibly be trusted?