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on Agree · c/historymemes · 1 pts · 17h

Nah, I'm happy getting rid of my tabs at least once a week. If I haven't read/interacted with them in 7 days, I won't be in the next, so no big loss. I can find my way back later

It's one of the rare cases of a fangame that actually gets finished and is good. The soundtrack alone is worth a playthrough. If you enjoyed Undertale, UTY will feel like a game that fits perfectly in. It works as a prequel and you're the yellow soul kid (fully non canon, though the pacifist ending could work as canon)

Edit: And tell other companies, you didn’t like their customer “service” chatbot. Maybe it’ll trickle down the supply chain.

Or abuse the chatbot and keep asking it dumb stuff that ought to burn their tokens, try to jailbreak it or whatever.

on Literally · c/science · 5 pts · 18h

People have celebrated others' deaths since walking forward was invented. For a long time, public executions were entertainment. While we moved from that, feeling satisfaction at the death of people we consider troublesome or worse is the norm.

The battery? Was that the first discovered jailbreak hack? Because by the time I got a PSP (~2012), the jailbreak was "copy this program to your card and run it on the psp", which was about as idiot-proof as a jailbreak can get.

On the other hand, I did jailbreak my nintendo switch with the shorting on the right joycon using a bent paperclip. Lucky I didn't brick it, though until it booted back into life, I was sweating!

For a lot of things, yes, the native app is just an electron wrapper of their fucking webpage, minus any browser specific plugins that might give the end user a semblance of privacy, like ublock origin

Don't forget, however, that it is in google's interest that you don't have control over your phone and setting up proper privacy and security is hard and convoluted by design. They're an ad business and blocking ads hurts them. Hell, they're enshittifying chrome to protect their ads! APple likes to pretend they care about user privacy, but they're control freaks

The Dunning-Kruger effect was never about “dumb people not knowing they are dumb” or about “ignorant people being very arrogant and confident in their lack of knowledge.” - Because the effect can be seen in random, computer-generated data, it may not be a real flaw in our thinking and thus may not really exist

The tldr

One thing I find interesting and ironic is Friendica. In theory, it should be the best for anyone that wants to interact with as many different types of content (lemmy, mastodon, others), but, in my experience, it only really works for following mastodon and has iffy support for lemmy/piefed communities.

Dunno if it was a instance specific problem for me, but communities wouldn't show latest posts, would often fail to load the content and wouldn't show my replies to posts - I checked the main posts with this account of mine and double checked that the friendica instance wasn't blocked or defederated.

on If only I could · c/antiaialliance · 4 pts · 1d

To be fair, it's not "taking over the world". A lot of people are (ab)using it thinking it gives them productivity superpowers (it doens't and makes everyone around them see them as talentless hacks)

The real problem (besides the near infinite debt that won't ever be paid) is the neverending hype, with ai-evangelists being worse than cryptobros once they moved to NFTs