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Comment on Just published my first game in ~games
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Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes
all_summer_beauty LinkGreat as always, thanks for your work! Only comment I have is that the comments bar takes longer to show up than expected when I scroll up (specifically compared to the rest of the UI that hides...Great as always, thanks for your work! Only comment I have is that the comments bar takes longer to show up than expected when I scroll up (specifically compared to the rest of the UI that hides itself when scrolling down) - I have to scroll further for it to show than for the rest of the UI. Very very minor note though, I'm just happy this is still being worked on!
Android 16/GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8
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Comment on Just published my first game in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentOh interesting! I can't think of a single app I've ever used in the entire time I've had a smartphone that had one-finger zoom configured the way you describe. I had no idea that the way I'm used...Oh interesting! I can't think of a single app I've ever used in the entire time I've had a smartphone that had one-finger zoom configured the way you describe. I had no idea that the way I'm used to wasn't universal.
@AaronNight - maybe a toggle would be more appropriate for this then, if you decide it's worth pursuing.
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Comment on Just published my first game in ~games
all_summer_beauty Link ParentHappy to help! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.Happy to help! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
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Comment on Just published my first game in ~games
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkThis is awesome, congratulations on finishing a game! That's more than I've ever done. I really like this. When I first read your post I was like "oh that's a cool twist on minesweeper, maybe I'll...This is awesome, congratulations on finishing a game! That's more than I've ever done. I really like this. When I first read your post I was like "oh that's a cool twist on minesweeper, maybe I'll get a game or two out of it", but I've now played several games without really meaning to haha.
Feedback:
- The screen cutout for my camera (Pixel 8) blocks some UI (the "no guessing mode" indicator)
- The tabs on the "info" page in the main menu could probably be bigger, they're fairly small tap targets as-is
- One-finger zoom feels backwards (dragging down should zoom in, not out IMO)
- When I switched apps it wiped the board - seems like the side swipe when using gesture navigation can trigger the bottom two UI buttons (it opens the menu instead if I aim for that specifically).
- It's very easy when releasing a drag to have it continue to spin the sphere very slightly, which I find annoying, but may not be a big deal for others
- Some empty tiles have small red dots and lines that I think are just texture details but they read as indicators/alerts to me initially - this was the first thing I noticed upon starting my first game
- It might be worth having an option to switch the input for "place flag" and "reveal tile" so that the latter is a long press - revealing tiles is dangerous while placing flags is not. This would help prevent accidentally triggering a mine that you meant to mark instead. It would also remove some friction from the much more common action (placing flags).
- Maybe tiles that you've placed a flag on should be highlighted red instead of green, since by flagging them you're saying "danger, this one's bad"? Unless the green is intended to indicate "all done here"? Idk.
- I just realized that the numbers unnoticably rotate as you turn the orb so that they're always right-side-up to the camera. That's the sort of thing that is obviously absolutely fundamental to the experience once you realize it, but it didn't even occur to me for quite a while that it was happening. Very nicely done!
- I love my big golf ball with flags sticking out of it all over the place lol
Congrats again! And yay for Godot!
Edit: many small wording things
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
all_summer_beauty Link ParentI'm not Romanian but one of my favorite people is! She's an exceptional pianist (like, has won competitions and taught at the college level) and an even better person. My life is better for having...I'm not Romanian but one of my favorite people is! She's an exceptional pianist (like, has won competitions and taught at the college level) and an even better person. My life is better for having her in it.
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Comment on Executive (dys)function flavors? in ~talk
all_summer_beauty Link ParentI'm glad you have some answers! I hope things continue to get clearer for you. If you don't mind sharing, how much did the assessment cost? My therapist has suggested that I look into it and,...I'm glad you have some answers! I hope things continue to get clearer for you. If you don't mind sharing, how much did the assessment cost? My therapist has suggested that I look into it and, while I certainly didn't expect it to be cheap, I was kind of shocked by how high the estimate was from the first place I reached out to ($3-5k USD). I'm going to check with my therapist too of course, but I'm curious what your experience was in this regard.
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Comment on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent in ~tech
all_summer_beauty LinkI also didn't read every single word in this post, but I think the argument that this is fine since it's a local model (and thus more private) is weakened by this part: I can definitely understand...I also didn't read every single word in this post, but I think the argument that this is fine since it's a local model (and thus more private) is weakened by this part:
Here is the part that should make every privacy lawyer in the audience put their coffee down. When Chrome 147 launches against an eligible profile, the omnibox - the address bar at the top of the window, the most visible piece of real estate in the entire browser - renders an "AI Mode" pill to the right of the URL field. A reasonable user, seeing "AI Mode" sitting in their browser's most prominent UI element in 2026, with the well-publicised existence of on-device LLMs in Chrome and a 4 GB Gemini Nano binary already silently installed on their disk, is going to draw what feels like an obvious inference - that the visible AI Mode is using the on-device model, that their queries stay on the device, that the local model is what powers the local-looking surface.
Every part of that inference is wrong. The AI Mode pill in the Chrome 147 omnibox is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface - every query the user types into it is sent over the network to Google's servers for processing by Google's hosted models. The on-device Nano model is not invoked by the AI Mode UI flow at all. They are entirely separate code paths - the most visible AI affordance in the browser does not use the local model the user has been silently given, and the features that do use the local model (Help-Me-Write in
<textarea>, tab-group AI suggestions, smart paste, page summary) are buried in textarea-context menus and tab-group right-click menus that the average user will discover, on average, never.Think about what that arrangement actually is. The user pays the storage cost of the silent install (4 GB on disk, plus the bandwidth of the silent download). The user's most visible AI experience - the pill they actually see and click - delivers no on-device benefit at all because it routes to Google's servers regardless. The on-device model is therefore a sunk cost imposed on the user, with no offsetting transparency benefit at the surface where transparency would matter most. To put it another way - if the on-device install had given the user a clear "your AI Mode queries stay on your device" property, the install would have a defensible privacy framing (worse storage, better data flow). It does not - the install gives Google a future-options resource (the model can be invoked by other Chrome subsystems without further server round-trips) at the user's disk-and-bandwidth expense, while the headline AI surface continues to send the user's queries to Google as before. The local model is a Google-side asset positioned on the user's device - it is not a user-side asset and one could argue it is nothing but sleight-of-hand to hide that actually, the visible AI mode is NOT using the local model.
That arrangement, on its own, engages at least three of the deceptive design pattern families catalogued in EDPB Guidelines 03/2022. It is misleading information because the visible label "AI Mode" creates a false impression about where processing occurs - the label does not say "cloud-backed" or "queries sent to Google", and a reasonable user with knowledge of on-device AI will infer locality from the proximity of an on-device 4 GB model on their disk. It is skipping because the user is not given a moment to choose between local-only and cloud-backed AI surfaces - both are switched on by the same upstream rollout, with no per-feature consent. And it is hindering because turning AI Mode off does not also remove the on-device install, and removing the on-device install does not turn AI Mode off - the two are separately controlled, and discovering both controls requires knowing about both
chrome://flagsandchrome://settings/ai, neither of which is obvious in default Chrome.So: not just a non-consented install, but a non-consented install that doubles as cover for a parallel cloud-backed surface that misrepresents to the user where their typing is being processed. Both layers compound the consent problem.
I can definitely understand how some might not see this as damning, but I think it at the very least changes the conversation.
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Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp
all_summer_beauty (edited )Link ParentI was wondering about this, actually. I've encountered a couple cases where I simply can't turn it off (as in "the toggle just makes it visually break in different ways instead of deactivating")....I was wondering about this, actually. I've encountered a couple cases where I simply can't turn it off (as in "the toggle just makes it visually break in different ways instead of deactivating"). I'll have to look into Page Shadow. I was exploring Dark Reader alternatives a few weeks ago because I wasn't satisfied with DR's theming options and occasional inconsistencies, but I didn't find anything that seemed better.
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Comment on Linux privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431) in ~comp
all_summer_beauty Link ParentGotta get you Dark Reader! (It's a browser extension.) I didn't even realize this site didn't have a dark mode because DR did a solid job with it. Full disclosure, the results are kinda ugly maybe...Gotta get you Dark Reader! (It's a browser extension.) I didn't even realize this site didn't have a dark mode because DR did a solid job with it.
Full disclosure, the results are kinda ugly maybe 40% of the time, but it's still better than being blinded by your screen turning into the surface of the sun out of nowhere.
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Comment on What Google thinks you're worth in ~tech
all_summer_beauty Link ParentHuh, do you not use it for navigation? That's the one thing keeping me from having location always off.I have yet to find a use for location services in the first place
Huh, do you not use it for navigation? That's the one thing keeping me from having location always off.
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Comment on Indie Pass, a PC subscription service for indie games to launch on April 13, 2026 in ~games
all_summer_beauty (edited )Link ParentEdit 2: Actually I think my original idea still applies? If you can figure out what your browser is trying to pass to the launcher, you should be able to go into the system settings where the...Off the top of my head (...)Edit: Well, I tried, but I misread your comment as saying the breakdown in communication was launcher -> browser, not browser -> launcher. In that case I have no ideas, sorry!Edit 2: Actually I think my original idea still applies? If you can figure out what your browser is trying to pass to the launcher, you should be able to go into the system settings where the filetype:application associations are registered and make the link manually (set the launcher as an app to use to open whatever this thing is). As for how to figure out the format of the object that's being passed, I unfortunately have no suggestions, but I do think that should be possible.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
all_summer_beauty Link ParentYeah, while I personally wouldn't have phrased your initial question the way that you did (and from what I've seen quoted in the thread, I think I agree with others' reading of the GDPR anyway), I...Yeah, while I personally wouldn't have phrased your initial question the way that you did (and from what I've seen quoted in the thread, I think I agree with others' reading of the GDPR anyway), I thought the underlying sentiment of caution was perfectly reasonable. I've also been here for years (previously under a different name) and I do remember Bauke now, but until kfwyre reminded everyone I couldn't place the name. Recognizing community members is one of the things I enjoy most about Tildes, but I think it's unfair to assume everyone remembers the names they see or even cares to.
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Comment on Very Important People: Boris Tarshkokan in ~tv
all_summer_beauty LinkThe lightning bit from this was great! That's a dangerous amount of power to give Jeremy Culhane haha.The lightning bit from this was great! That's a dangerous amount of power to give Jeremy Culhane haha.
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Comment on Hank and Bernie talk about AI (for real) in ~tech
all_summer_beauty Link ParentYep, I suppose I could have clarified that for those unfamiliar with his stuff, thanks for mentioning it.Yep, I suppose I could have clarified that for those unfamiliar with his stuff, thanks for mentioning it.
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Comment on Happy 17776 Day! in ~misc
all_summer_beauty Link ParentSpoilertown Wait, what the hell? I never saw the page/video where Juice makes fun of the plaque and Nine loses power for a second. That makes it so much better. The ending would not have seemed...Spoilertown
Wait, what the hell? I never saw the page/video where Juice makes fun of the plaque and Nine loses power for a second. That makes it so much better. The ending would not have seemed weird to me at all had I seen that. When I read it I went straight from Nancy talking about her grandpa's Browns sign to Emily and Jason talking about NYC. I guess I bumped "continue" by accident and didn't notice somehow? That's annoying. Thanks for clueing me in!
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Comment on Hank and Bernie talk about AI (for real) in ~tech
all_summer_beauty LinkHank Green sits down with Bernie Sanders to talk about regulating AI, specifically a datacenter moratorium bill the senator has recently introduced. There's not a ton of specifics in here, but...Hank Green sits down with Bernie Sanders to talk about regulating AI, specifically a datacenter moratorium bill the senator has recently introduced. There's not a ton of specifics in here, but Hank and Bernie both had some comments which I thought offered a bit of fresh insight. It's also just comforting to be reminded that someone with power is trying to do something about all of this.
(Once Hank starts playing connections, the video's basically over; he talks more after that but TBH I don't think there's really anything of substance in that closing bit.)
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Hank and Bernie talk about AI (for real)
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Comment on Happy 17776 Day! in ~misc
all_summer_beauty (edited )LinkThis is fantastic, thanks so much for sharing! Spoilery questions Edit: Somehow I missed a page?This is fantastic, thanks so much for sharing!
Spoilery questions
Edit: Somehow I missed a page?
I'm a little confused about the ending - it seems extremely abrupt. Why is Nine going to sleep? Was this referenced earlier on and I just forgot? Why does Juice have such limited time to answer remaining questions? -
Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech
all_summer_beauty Link ParentSure, crypto is an option too. Signal accepts it as well. I'm sure plenty of people who care enough to want to keep their payment info separate from their Signal/Proton account are also wary of...Sure, crypto is an option too. Signal accepts it as well. I'm sure plenty of people who care enough to want to keep their payment info separate from their Signal/Proton account are also wary of anything to do with crypto, though. But as for "how do they know if an account is current?", it sounds like that's possible with Signal's method?
Using the anonymous credential scheme that we introduced for Signal private groups, clients make payments and then associate a badge to their profile such that the server can authenticate the client is in the set of people who made a payment, but doesn’t know specifically which payment it corresponds to.
Like, it doesn't specifically mention attesting currency, but couldn't it? The "badge" in the above statement could be a digital stamp on your account that says "yep, this one's paid for until YYMMDD". It basically already is; the visible badges you get on your Signal profile only last for a certain amount of time. Doesn't that require the same functionality as "tying features of your account to payment" would? And it sounds like the server never knows which payment corresponds to which account. I don't see another way to read that statement, but it's totally possible I'm wrong. Am I just missing something?
Yeah, I was just going to say what AaronNight said, it's all over the place in my experience. But it's also never the only option available and you're never forced to use it, so I can understand how someone might not know it's there. It's a "both/and" situation rather than an "either/or" one.