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  1. Comment on RIP Cybertruck. You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd. in ~transport

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    This very much feels retconning his decisions for buying twitter. It also ignores that he tried weasel his way out of buying it in the first place.

    This very much feels retconning his decisions for buying twitter. It also ignores that he tried weasel his way out of buying it in the first place.

    28 votes

  2. Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech

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    It's already there. Though subscriptions are still the same amount of clicks for me. They are just somewhat obfuscated under "subs" in a top menu on the home page. Luckily on Android I can also...

    It's already there. Though subscriptions are still the same amount of clicks for me. They are just somewhat obfuscated under "subs" in a top menu on the home page.

    Luckily on Android I can also long press on the youtube icon and choose to go subscriptions directly.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech

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    To push back on this, YouTube has been making subscriptions less accessible and overall less visible gradually for years now. In general it somewhat irks me when people defend big tech UI...

    Now to be fair to YouTube here, my understanding is that we are in the minority here.

    To push back on this, YouTube has been making subscriptions less accessible and overall less visible gradually for years now. In general it somewhat irks me when people defend big tech UI decisions with "but that is how people are using it" while ignoring that often the way people use something is caused by deliberate UX choices and patterns from those companies.

    51 votes

  4. Comment on fxgl/steamac: Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon in ~games

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    I don't know, try it out and let others know?

    I don't know, try it out and let others know?

  5. Comment on fxgl/steamac: Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon in ~games

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    Windows and linux x86 games, through a translation layer. The steam frame also runs on ARM and uses that same layer to allow you to play games from your steam library.

    Windows and linux x86 games, through a translation layer. The steam frame also runs on ARM and uses that same layer to allow you to play games from your steam library.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Any tips for improving personal cybersecurity in 2026? (I'm concerned about rogue AI agents) in ~tech

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    Generally speaking you'd be using software that is actively maintained and where patches are quickly distributed. But as far as personal services go they are on my network and I connect to my...

    In this vein, how do people manage their updates on internet-facing servers

    Generally speaking you'd be using software that is actively maintained and where patches are quickly distributed.

    But as far as personal services go they are on my network and I connect to my network over wireguard. I never trusted myself to do security for services right so I just don't.

  7. Comment on Any tips for improving personal cybersecurity in 2026? (I'm concerned about rogue AI agents) in ~tech

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    Eh, the way Bitwarden has been acting lately doesn't sit right with me either. Their disclosure of bitwarden cli suffering from a supply attack was piss poor for example. Also, it is open source...

    Eh, the way Bitwarden has been acting lately doesn't sit right with me either. Their disclosure of bitwarden cli suffering from a supply attack was piss poor for example. Also, it is open source but the clients are all maintained by them.

    Personally I have switched back to keepassXC.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Discoverable servers on Discord will have summaries, public messages will be open for search indexing in ~tech

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    For anything that is already "public" I don't see it quite the same way. To be clear, if it is just about keeping a backup I'd say "fine", but people keep these records for wildly different...

    For anything that is already "public" I don't see it quite the same way. To be clear, if it is just about keeping a backup I'd say "fine", but people keep these records for wildly different reasons and not all of them benign. Considering anyone can already join public discord servers I simply already consider anything I say in there to be of public record anyway as at any moment a little troll, disgruntled and slightly unhinged asshole can record something I say and run with it. Not fiction btw, I have seen this happen countless times. Which is what I mean by a false sense of privacy earlier, more strongly a false sense of security. I rather have things be clearly public so there is no doubt about it.

    Besides, discord already has that backup of everything you are saying otherwise there would be no chat history to begin with. If you talk about Google, the biggest issue I have there is that it seems they are the only search party that is getting access. But I am fundamentally not against being able to search through public communities from the outside.
    So much support for things that previously would be on forums and other searchable media has moved to discord, Making it impossible to find some things without joining those servers, doing the whole onboarding sing and dance routine, wade through countless channels and use Discord's own shitty search just trying to find out of the information might even be there in the first place.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on myNoise - adjustable soundscapes in ~life

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    Yup it is great! The app as well, for long train journeys where I want to do some work it is great to just have something to drown out stuff around you while not being a distraction itself. The...

    Yup it is great! The app as well, for long train journeys where I want to do some work it is great to just have something to drown out stuff around you while not being a distraction itself.

    The white noise sound also has a voice preset which eliminates a lot of people talking.

    The full app is a separate purchase from the website donation that gives you full access there. But, I honestly don't mind considering it is a one time purchase.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Discoverable servers on Discord will have summaries, public messages will be open for search indexing in ~tech

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    Sort of, people use bouncers and back in the day many channels had public chatlogs. I always felt that this sentiment gave a false sense of privacy. Edit: To give a bit more context. As soon as it...

    IRC looks more and more appealing by the day. I didn't use it when I had it, but the days of "conversations are ephemeral and disappear quickly"

    Sort of, people use bouncers and back in the day many channels had public chatlogs. I always felt that this sentiment gave a false sense of privacy.

    Edit:
    To give a bit more context. As soon as it involves me interacting with other people online I assume one or more might be keeping logs for whatever reason. Which might sound paranoid but is in my experience very common as people do it for all sorts of reasons.

    22 votes

  11. Comment on Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job in ~tech

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    If you just want to do mail and not really use all the end to end encryption bibs and bobs (for which you could also use pgp) there are plenty of alternatives. Personally I am using mailbox.org...

    If you just want to do mail and not really use all the end to end encryption bibs and bobs (for which you could also use pgp) there are plenty of alternatives. Personally I am using mailbox.org which is Germany based, privacy friendly overall and has been around for a while.

    But there are others as well. As tea pointed out, if you have your own domain switching is also relatively easy.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job in ~tech

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    Personally that is why I didn't try to find a single solution filling in the entire stack. I strongly feel that this is part the web is the state it is in, because people get locked into single...

    The problem is that they're the closest solution I've found to a full non-Google stack.

    Personally that is why I didn't try to find a single solution filling in the entire stack. I strongly feel that this is part the web is the state it is in, because people get locked into single vendors housing their entire digital online presence. I house my mail in one place, documents elsewhere, etc. Sure, it isn't as neatly and tightly integrated as housing it all in one thing but it is more than workable.

    Having said that, my mail hosting provider mailbox.org does offer a lot that google also offers through ox.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    That's valid as well, it is why tried to frame it as the impression some of it might give rather than framing it as something that is wrong. It could still be an idea then to leave a little...

    That's valid as well, it is why tried to frame it as the impression some of it might give rather than framing it as something that is wrong. It could still be an idea then to leave a little comment. At the very least saying this to shape perception a bit better.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    And those people are problematic, plain and simple. I have little time today, but I have written about the last time it came up and we lost multiple people over it. I will not repeat myself, but...

    Because some people fundamentally disagree with the concept of being able to opt out of these discussions.

    And those people are problematic, plain and simple. I have little time today, but I have written about the last time it came up and we lost multiple people over it. I will not repeat myself, but the people you reference I feel like should have a good look in the mirror because of what I already mentioned the last time.

    Also, this is general advice, if someone tells something about their experiences in life don't see it as something that needs correcting. Most people get annoyed by that, some groups just have to deal with it more often making it more exhausting.

    For further context, I am linking previous discussions:

    And blocking people is no a solution it is a last resort.

    10 votes

  15. Comment on YouTube is looking to expand into audiobooks in ~books

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    This makes actually sense to me, more than the fact that you can play games on youtube (and netflix)

    This makes actually sense to me, more than the fact that you can play games on youtube (and netflix)

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Best way to setup email forwarding for a domain I own? in ~tech

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    It is also a free service offered by a giant company basically looking to offer loss leaders to tie people in their web. I generally have been trying to move away from big tech where possible....

    It is also a free service offered by a giant company basically looking to offer loss leaders to tie people in their web. I generally have been trying to move away from big tech where possible. Certainly cloudflare recently has not been looking good with various moves they made vibing up things.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    Yeah it is the sort of uncritical techbro stuff we can do without.

    Self promotion is one thing, reposting a PR or marketing release from AI companies and just highlighting parts of it in the submission comment is in the same category as influencer marketing to me.

    Yeah it is the sort of uncritical techbro stuff we can do without.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    Personally when OP doesn't reply to me specifically that's alright. But when OP doesn't reply to anyone, even in a post where they ask for perspective it does give an impression of disinterest in...

    From our perspective, we take our time to give OP a comment so it's understandable to feel left hanging when the OP doesn't reply with at least one comment. But from their perspective, they're inundated by many people and (by this expectation) equally many demands for conversation.

    Personally when OP doesn't reply to me specifically that's alright. But when OP doesn't reply to anyone, even in a post where they ask for perspective it does give an impression of disinterest in the topic even if that is not intended.

    In this case it feels like OP is aggregating the result of a discussion rather than being part of the discussion. In the case of their own blog posts it more or less can give an impression of driving traffic rather than genuinely being interested in the topic they have written about.

    And to be clear, I feel like you are tackling it more broadly where I am responding the context of how I see OP specifically operate on this website. It is somewhat less as part of the community and more along side it and people are clearly picking up on that and giving that as feedback to OP.

    11 votes

  19. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    That's not really a "on the other hand" but either me not making it clear or you somewhat misreading what I said. I am not saying it should be an obligation, but without such a discussion starter...

    That's not really a "on the other hand" but either me not making it clear or you somewhat misreading what I said. I am not saying it should be an obligation, but without such a discussion starter combined with the other context I can see where people are coming from. Maybe put more clearly, the overall lack of participation by OP in discussions (even ones they did start themselves as this very post) can create a feeling of them operating outside the community rather than part of the community.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    @rodrigo One more thing I have realized is that I now realize is that you have the tendency to create a post and then basically not check back on it for a while. For example, you are asking a...

    @rodrigo One more thing I have realized is that I now realize is that you have the tendency to create a post and then basically not check back on it for a while. For example, you are asking a question here, several people have replied and 12 hours later there is not a single comment from you. I don't expect people to be glued to tildes once they make a post and reply to every single thing. But no replies at all when a post still is "fresh" does increase the feeling of "hit and run" posting.

    24 votes