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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
delphi Link ParentI really hope nothing changes. I really do, but... I mean, at least, before I could pretend. Now we all know. It feels like the head of the AV club looking into the clubhouse and going like "oh,...I really hope nothing changes. I really do, but... I mean, at least, before I could pretend. Now we all know. It feels like the head of the AV club looking into the clubhouse and going like "oh, you guys are still here? well, lock up when you leave". Yeah, we can stay as long as we like, but the vibes have changed.
Heck, I'm emotional. I might delete this post tomorrow. It's not exactly great for the digital footprint to get mad over a guy not-even shutting down a forum I liked.
But fuck, man. I don't want to find a new community again.
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I'm not ready to let this place go
With the announcement of Tildes maintenance mode, it's finally official. Tildes has an expiration date. We don't know when it'll be, but we'll surely know when it's passed. I... I don't want to...
With the announcement of Tildes maintenance mode, it's finally official. Tildes has an expiration date. We don't know when it'll be, but we'll surely know when it's passed. I... I don't want to go. I love this place. I love the people on it.
I got here after Rexit, like many of my peers, because reddit was my home online. I participated in discussions. I spent so much time there. I met my husband. It was my little corner of the internet, because it had exactly what I wanted and nothing else.
All that's gone now. When Apollo shut down, I deleted my account out of protest. I regret that now. People pointed me here, to Tildes, and for a moment, just a moment I could smell the musty carpet of the first websites I was ever on. This was it. This was it. A tiny forum with just enough modern convenience to tolerate using it, full of people who were interesting, discussions that were respectful, little to no drama, and a minor legend of the former web at the top, generally content with ruling as a benevolent dictator.
I posted. I participated in discussions. I had such a grand time talking to people, Season One of the Minecraft server will forever be in my heart as the "golden days" of it all, if I had to look back. I check this place religiously. It's in my favourites bar. I still post. I still comment. I still like the people. It's small enough that I can go "hey, there they are!" when I see Creesch or Bauke or Tea. For the first time in a long time I could call a communal web space my... home. It's cheesy. I know.
And now I hear that it's supposed to end? That the experiment has run its course, that sooner or later, but probably sooner than I'd like, it'll all be gone? That I have to pack up all my shit again and find a new place, a new community? What a sick joke, I say, with metaphorical tears in my eyes, because getting mad is at least something. Getting mad is more than removing the stupid bookmark and forgetting about this place like I forgot about LiveJournal, about MySpace, about Blogger, about fucking Ello.
I don't want to go. And I know nobody's asking me to go. But everyone expects everyone else to go at some point. And even though none of you actually know me, truly know me, I still feel like we're familiar. We have tiny, tenuous, brittle relationships that could snap at any point, be it from hostility or apathy. I know that none of this is real, but god damn it, I liked it.
Now you'll say, oh god, Delphi, shut up, this is a forum, it's not that deep, and you're right, so damn right, I couldn't agree more, none of you should mean anything to me, I have friends, I have a life, I have people who love me out there, for real, I shouldn't care about this, but then tell me, why do I have tears in my eyes?
What's the point of this post? Catharsis? Maybe? I didn't expect to feel this way about a little corner of the internet that's sometimes a little snobbish, sometimes a little too high on its own farts, sometimes a little too elitist, but that's where I'm at.
I don't want to let this place go. But I also know that I won't be the last one here.
So if this is the last time I see some of you, I don't blame you. Just know you were part of my life, and that I quite liked that part.
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A little edit after crying it out: You’re all right. I hope that Tildes won’t change. I certainly won’t, I’ll stay here, and I hope we’ll have many more years together. This entire thing just dredged up memories of losing online spaces before, and… well, you can imagine the rest. Love y’all.
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
delphi Link ParentOh, I know. I've been here for a while. It's just... different when we hear our fearless leader say it. Half joking here, but it... made me feel something. I dunno. Humans are weird like that.Oh, I know. I've been here for a while. It's just... different when we hear our fearless leader say it. Half joking here, but it... made me feel something. I dunno. Humans are weird like that.
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Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official
delphi (edited )Link(Recommended ambiance for this comment: A crackling campfire at night under clear skies in a remote part of the Nevada desert) I dunno, does that make anyone else a little... sad? Sure, the site...(Recommended ambiance for this comment: A crackling campfire at night under clear skies in a remote part of the Nevada desert)
I dunno, does that make anyone else a little... sad?
Sure, the site works great, I'm not debating that. If you pressed me on the issue, I don't even think I could think of a feature that I'd want added or changed. Tildes is fine as is, and I certainly aren't missing anything.
But hearing that out loud, Tildes is in minimum maintenance mode, even though I know it true in my heart of hearts, is... bittersweet. I dunno. Mark this as noise, but it feels kinda weird to say. Yeah, this is the little camp of tents at the side of the information superhighway, and yeah, eventually it'll be over, and we'll all pack up and move on to somewhere else, that's how these things work. That's how we got here.
I just hope it's not anytime soon.
I'm going back into my tent. See you all tomorrow.
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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
delphi LinkI like my agent. I've been using it for months now and I've built several custom connectors (MCP-style) and microservices to make it super useful for me personally. And in terms of quality of...I like my agent. I've been using it for months now and I've built several custom connectors (MCP-style) and microservices to make it super useful for me personally. And in terms of quality of life, it's absolutely worth it!
I also run a decommissioned enterprise server in my closet, know what Kubernetes is, have built several web applications, have successfully set up printing on Windows and seem to be blessed with an innate technopathy that makes computers and machines work better when I'm near them. This is not a joke, I actually believe this.
Obviously these "agentic systems" are completely out of the conceptual reach of the untarnished, the pure, the virgin non-computer-touchers, and no amount of marketing can change that.
That's also not a bad thing, per se.
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Comment on What JavaScript framework should I use? in ~comp
delphi Link ParentEmber has a vibrant community and Ember 7.1 was released a couple of weeks ago, it's far from dead, unlike Angular. Ember just had the highest NPM download week ever, and if it's good enough for...Ember has a vibrant community and Ember 7.1 was released a couple of weeks ago, it's far from dead, unlike Angular. Ember just had the highest NPM download week ever, and if it's good enough for Apple Music's web player it's good enough for me
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Comment on What JavaScript framework should I use? in ~comp
delphi Link ParentYeah, that's what it's gonna come down to, realistically. I'm between Vue, Svelte and Ember right now, with Ember coming from a personal recommendation of a close personal senior designer friend....Yeah, that's what it's gonna come down to, realistically. I'm between Vue, Svelte and Ember right now, with Ember coming from a personal recommendation of a close personal senior designer friend. Going through the tutorial right now and I quite like it so far.
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Comment on What JavaScript framework should I use? in ~comp
delphi Link ParentI don't mind a strongly typed language, but you know, I'm not building missiles here. I don't need my compiler to yell at me because i forgot a "type: whatever" in a context where only one type...I don't mind a strongly typed language, but you know, I'm not building missiles here. I don't need my compiler to yell at me because i forgot a "type: whatever" in a context where only one type would ever be passed anyways. It just kind of cramps my style. I'm familiar with strongly typed languages. Hell, I started with C# back in the late 2000s. It just feels shoddy in TS, but I'm also not an engineer, so this might be a personal hangup.
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Comment on What JavaScript framework should I use? in ~comp
delphi Link ParentAh, that was my bad - I mean, little abstractions. I write JavaScript or HTML, the next time I reload that should be what's loaded, and not go through endless levels of minification, obfuscation...Ah, that was my bad - I mean, little abstractions. I write JavaScript or HTML, the next time I reload that should be what's loaded, and not go through endless levels of minification, obfuscation and caching, at least for development environments. Bad wording on my part, and glad you're enjoying DT!
I hear good things about Svelte, it's currently in the running along with Ember and my personal front runner Vue, but I've had personal bad experiences with a messy Svelte codebase before, so I guess we'll see?
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What JavaScript framework should I use?
Little backstory. I'm the sole developer of delphitools, a collection of free and open source tools for artists, developers and just computer touchers in general. I'm using Next.JS and as such,...
Little backstory. I'm the sole developer of delphitools, a collection of free and open source tools for artists, developers and just computer touchers in general. I'm using Next.JS and as such, React, but I don't think I like it anymore. DT is a completely offline exported application, and Next is meant for middleware-heavy apps with server layers, which I just don't have. I also just don't get on with React's endless
use effectgarbage and have little love for TypeScript, and if I'm honest, DT happens to be made like that because I wanted to try the shiny new thing. Now that I have around 60-ish individual micro-apps contained within, I think it's time for a rewrite.I'm therefore looking for discussion and insights on what tooling is best for me, on the following grounds:
- delphitools is export only. There's no server component and it runs completely in the browser. Server capabilities or middleware are not a concern.
- I'm not married to JavaScript as the runtime. It's just what I know best, I've been in the industry for a long time, although I'm more familiar with classic JS, not necessarily the JSX react syntax. I'm confident I could learn something new though.
- I'm looking for fast build times, a smart-ish compiler that can ideally hot reload and give me insights into bad practices (Next.JS does this quite well)
- As close to bare metal as possible, I can't begin to enumerate the amount of times the NextJS Turbopack auto-caching thing has caused me significant headaches.
I'm a designer, not a developer, but I can manage my way around. I'm also not opposed to using Agents, but I would like to - if for my own sake more than anything - be able to work without them if need be. Suggesting Ruby that compiles to HTML or some other crazy new pipeline probably won't work.
Curious to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!
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Comment on Keep Android Open in ~tech
delphi Link ParentEh, if it was about security they'd crack down on bad actors, implement App Review a la Apple, tighten permissions, fix API holes, patch systems like Device Administrator Apps and so on. This...Eh, if it was about security they'd crack down on bad actors, implement App Review a la Apple, tighten permissions, fix API holes, patch systems like Device Administrator Apps and so on. This seems to me that they want to prevent another Epic Games from happening. You remember, when they added non-Play-Store payments to Fortnite and Google and Apple threw a hissy fit over not getting their cut?
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Comment on Keep Android Open in ~tech
delphi LinkMaking an entire website postulating that "your phone will stop being yours" and that "android will stop being free" is a lot of the same fearmongering they accuse Google of doing by providing the...Making an entire website postulating that "your phone will stop being yours" and that "android will stop being free" is a lot of the same fearmongering they accuse Google of doing by providing the officially sanctioned alternative.
And for what it's worth, on android, this might absolutely be about security. It's not, I get that, but the Play Store's security screenings don't do shit, and there's plenty of malware already on the Play Store. If there's ever a platform that would meaningfully benefit from even marginal improvements to the security landscape, holy hell is it ever android.
Oh, also, very transparent AI slop website, I can't be bothered to check Pangram but all the website copy text makes my AI senses tingle. I could be wrong, but I'm not. If you demand human attention, demonstrate human effort.
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Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? in ~tech
delphi LinkThe answer is yes. The entire article is a very eloquent way to say: Yes, you belong in tech. You, Ky Decker, if you ever read this, you belong in tech. You've explained why. Your engineers don't...- Exemplary
The answer is yes. The entire article is a very eloquent way to say: Yes, you belong in tech. You, Ky Decker, if you ever read this, you belong in tech.
You've explained why. Your engineers don't care, and when tokens become too expensive to maintain the habits, they're going to be left with overcommented garbage code. They don't care about design if the AI churns out things that are passable, for a few weeks, until the internet has been so saturated that we can all spot the AI Habsburg jaw on any given web app.
That is exactly why you belong in tech. Money can't buy taste, compute can't generate values. There absolutely needs to be a person, a Rubin, if you will, who's willing to put their foot down and say no, you fucking morons, we're not putting AI images on our home page. Who can say no, you will take the time to review the 1000 line PR. That is what you're paid for, god damn act like it.
The luddites didn't hate the machines, the luddites hated what the machines turned the factory owners into.
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Comment on US judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over books used to train Claude in ~books
delphi LinkI think plenty of authors would agree to a $3k paycheck for just a copy of their work, not even publishing or IP rights.I think plenty of authors would agree to a $3k paycheck for just a copy of their work, not even publishing or IP rights.
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
delphi Link Parent"Considering a trillion-dollar-company fired the first shot" is I think a little disingenuous when what happened was that Bun was bought by Anthropic, and then switched to Rust as their runtime...."Considering a trillion-dollar-company fired the first shot" is I think a little disingenuous when what happened was that Bun was bought by Anthropic, and then switched to Rust as their runtime. There were no shots fired here, and I still think this post - regardless of your opinion on the Rust rewrite, which I'm not even particularly opinionated on - is a little childish and reeks of "I could have done so much better if they had just picked ME"
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Comment on Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentI own that one already. Unfortunately it's just enough of a pain in the ass not to be worth it. I really want the pin because of the little laser projector that was, as far as I know, an actual...I own that one already. Unfortunately it's just enough of a pain in the ass not to be worth it.
I really want the pin because of the little laser projector that was, as far as I know, an actual unique idea and a custom patented part.
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Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with?
Title, frankly. I’m looking for an old stock Humane Ai Pin (that stupid clothes pin gadget so bad it sunk the entire company that made it and then had the remaining employees move to the HP...
Title, frankly. I’m looking for an old stock Humane Ai Pin (that stupid clothes pin gadget so bad it sunk the entire company that made it and then had the remaining employees move to the HP printer division, frankly a fate worse than death) to play around with. I recently learned that the sticker on the back covers four pins, which just expose standard USB, and it’s an Android device so in theory, it’s hackable.
I wanna try turning it into something more useful. It was such a cool little piece of hardware, although the software, pitch, whole idea really was of course threadbare to garbage. I guess I am still romanticising the Star Trek com badge experience.
Willing to pay up to 200 USD, excluding shipping to either the EU or continental US, whichever’s more convenient. Sorry if requests like this aren’t allowed, but I’m kinda drawing a blank. Even emailed the guy who designed it, but he doesn’t have any either.
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Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentSo am I. I currently use a classic email service that just gives me bog standard IMAP/SMTP. This is good, but it's not exactly modern or great. I trust the friend who recommended HEY to me a lot,...So am I. I currently use a classic email service that just gives me bog standard IMAP/SMTP. This is good, but it's not exactly modern or great. I trust the friend who recommended HEY to me a lot, and he recommended it specifically because of the unique features and the non-traditional metaphor of messaging HEY uses compared to classical email.
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Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentThanks for the recommendation, but if I just "change mail servers", my workflow won't actually change. I have it on good authority from a colleague I massively respect that the "special sauce"...Thanks for the recommendation, but if I just "change mail servers", my workflow won't actually change. I have it on good authority from a colleague I massively respect that the "special sauce" (screening emails, auto-sorting and so on) is a meaningful departure from the classical Email experience to the point where it'll actually make my life easier.
I like that. That’s a good way to see it.