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Comment on Pure HTML just works and beats AI slop in ~tech
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Comment on Pure HTML just works and beats AI slop in ~tech
delphi Link"Your website is your soul and must reflect who you are" I wish more people understood this. Throwing mine in the ring, by the way. I'm quite proud of it. https://rmv.fyi/ Haven't updated it in a..."Your website is your soul and must reflect who you are"
I wish more people understood this.
Throwing mine in the ring, by the way. I'm quite proud of it. https://rmv.fyi/
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Comment on Google receives response from Project Suncatcher prototype satellite in space in ~space
delphi LinkSure, cool, but I don't think this is as impressive as it seems. I can run Gemma 4 on my phone, and communication with tiny cubesats has been figured out for a while now. I'll be impressed once a...Sure, cool, but I don't think this is as impressive as it seems. I can run Gemma 4 on my phone, and communication with tiny cubesats has been figured out for a while now. I'll be impressed once a whole constellation splits a Gemini class model between them, call me a cynic.
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in in ~tech
delphi Link ParentThere's no reason for them not to, I understand this. But I do wish that, considering how many of their employees were active users, old r/reddit.com style redditors, they'd take the user...There's no reason for them not to, I understand this. But I do wish that, considering how many of their employees were active users, old r/reddit.com style redditors, they'd take the user experience a little more seriously.
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in in ~tech
delphi Link ParentIf you tap that 403 error, it just dismisses it and kind of works sometimes!If you tap that 403 error, it just dismisses it and kind of works sometimes!
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in in ~tech
delphi LinkTL;DR: Are you ready for the pain of using a third party Reddit client in the year of our Luigi 2026? Just today I was struck by how annoying it is to actually use Reddit. I have an allergy to...TL;DR: Are you ready for the pain of using a third party Reddit client in the year of our Luigi 2026?
Just today I was struck by how annoying it is to actually use Reddit. I have an allergy to advertisements, and I'll go to ridiculous lengths to satisfy this neurosis, and I just picked up my iPhone Duo (I promise this is relevant). So, because my pain needs to be good for something, I'm recounting my experience here.
Problem: I would like to browse reddit on occasion, mainly for images. Yes, this means mostly adult content, their collection is still very good (until they inevitably burn that Library of Alexandria to the ground out of sheer malice) but browsing it in the app is painful. It's also not optimised for the folding display, but I can deal with this.
Solution: The app that was sort of-kind of meant to work around this, Artemis, has been... deleted from the App Store. I dig up an old build through my App Store history, and I can download it. But by now, they've removed Reddit from that app entirely and only support Lemmy and Pixelfed. Next.
Solution 2: Use a different client. I don't mind paying, but I would like to avoid it since I don't really actively use Reddit anymore. Options here are Narwhal, which has no free tier at all, citing Reddit's insane API pricing for this. Dystopia is the only one on the App Store that is exempt from the general API ban, because of some technicality about accessibility rules. It works, surprisingly, but it has not been updated since the Biden administration. It's not great.
Solution side quest: Someone revived Apollo, the app that I was using before Rexit and who's subsequent banishment from Mount Reddit caused me to abandon the platform in the first place, as an open-source project you need to sideload! I can do that, I develop for the platform, so I clone the project, make some minor changes and slap it onto my new phone. Wow! It looks so pretty, and it even has a complete folding UI before the official app does!
Problem 2: You can't log into Reborn Apollo. You have to make an application on your Reddit account settings. I try that. Without an error message, it fails every time I try. I go to the GitHub to figure this out: Lo and behold, in their infinite wisdom Reddit has disabled this self-serve development portal (but god damn inexplicably, not removed it from the menu).
The official workaround? Download Dystopia and log in, then wait for the email that confirms you've connected an App to your Reddit account, copy the App ID (it's only ever shown in that email) out of the Email, paste it into Apollo and set the user agent to mimic Dystopias. And, finally, at last, it works.
Except I still can't see adult content, it just tells me that I need to use the official app for that. That's a lie, by the way, because Moderators get to still do that. Any moderator. So I create a burner subreddit, set it to private, give myself moderation permissions, and suddenly all the smut I could ever want arrives over my pirate radio API.
Like, come on, I get wanting to limit people's access to your platform if they don't make you money, but I've never seen a more user-hostile platform continue time and time again to saw off the only branch they're sitting on, this being their user base.
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Comment on Contender for the most non-viable startup: Reflect Orbital in ~tech
delphi LinkI really hope these guys will make it, only because it'll be incredibly funny when their infrastructure inevitably gets hacked and we're getting disco ball earth for a nightI really hope these guys will make it, only because it'll be incredibly funny when their infrastructure inevitably gets hacked and we're getting disco ball earth for a night
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Comment on Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job in ~tech
delphi LinkI'm not god damn surprised, pardon my Swiss German. It's always weirded me out how they are so high and mighty about security, but didn't even offer good clients back when I was with them (which...I'm not god damn surprised, pardon my Swiss German. It's always weirded me out how they are so high and mighty about security, but didn't even offer good clients back when I was with them (which was... I dunno, 2018-2020 or so). They always seemed very preoccupied with the appearance of competence and played very much to the enterprise crowd. A new and flashy Exchange, really. I get that SMTP/IMAP aren't secure per se, but simply... not offering a way to connect another client is also the opposite of user friendly. (Yes, I know about Proton bridge, which didn't work for me at all when it came out).
That and, at the time, they didn't at all seem interested in meaningfully contributing to open source or even listening to the community of high-power security nerds that naturally clustered around them. I'm not saying they're incompetent, they've not had a data breach yet, so clearly, they're doing something right, but with this whole recent pivot to being a Google alternative (Proton Drive, Proton VPN, Proton Documents or whatever) I have a feeling they're not exactly interested in catering to the turbo nerds that made them big to begin with.
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Comment on ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems in ~tech
delphi LinkThat is, considering 404's recent output, indubitably the funniest possible thing to happen to themThat is, considering 404's recent output, indubitably the funniest possible thing to happen to them
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Comment on Playport: Run Windows games on a stock, non-jailbroken iPhone in ~games
delphi Link Parent(Bump to get this back up after my edits)(Bump to get this back up after my edits)
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Comment on Playport: Run Windows games on a stock, non-jailbroken iPhone in ~games
delphi (edited )LinkI'm gonna go try this out. Gimme an hour or so. I have an iPhone 15 Pro, so I can't imagine this running... gosh, what's a game in my library that should be reasonable? Something not too old but...I'm gonna go try this out. Gimme an hour or so. I have an iPhone 15 Pro, so I can't imagine this running... gosh, what's a game in my library that should be reasonable? Something not too old but also not too demanding? I'm gonna go with... Manifold Garden for now. I'll see you on the other side.
Edit: I have a paid developer account, so sideloading the app was more or less painless once I set the Increased Memory flag in App Store Connect. Then it was a matter of opening the app, pairing to the developer mode menu in the Settings app, installing LocalDevVPN (iOS sideloaders will know this step well), and logging in to steam. The UI is super polished, it even supports Steam Cloud Saves (that's insane, right?)
Unfortunately not all games work. In fact, most I tried - even smaller games like Balatro - didn't even attempt to load. This has been my experience with the majority of games I tried (Deus Ex, 20 Small Mazes, Anode Heart, Balatro , even Half-Life 1 and so on). But man, when it does work, like in BioShock, it rips, at 60fps, on my iPhone screen, and it really makes you wonder why Apple is not doing this themselves and instead choose to hold the platform back.
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentYeah, that's the correct take. Mission fucking accomplished. Glad we agreeYeah, that's the correct take. Mission fucking accomplished. Glad we agree
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Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes
delphi Link> Any changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely > Looks inside > Certificate expired I mean, I guess> Any changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely
> Looks inside
> Certificate expiredI mean, I guess
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentI don't disagree, but look at it from a pragmatist perspective. How exactly will you, reliably, filter out LLM generated bug reports if they're not necessarily labelled as such? The advent of AI...I don't disagree, but look at it from a pragmatist perspective. How exactly will you, reliably, filter out LLM generated bug reports if they're not necessarily labelled as such? The advent of AI made all bug reports more common, regardless of if they were marked as AI assisted or not. And, to play devil's advocate, it would also exclude real bug reports that had an AI trace the issue back to a specific place in code - not fully AI generated, but definitely assisted, and may help a maintainer isolate the issue.
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
delphi LinkI had to stop this video multiple times because I could not handle the smug superiority of Mr. Gerard. Letting alone that the entire justification here is that "I say AI is slop, and therefore all...I had to stop this video multiple times because I could not handle the smug superiority of Mr. Gerard. Letting alone that the entire justification here is that "I say AI is slop, and therefore all code ever made with AI is slop by default, and that means it is bad" is a level of disingenuous cherry picking you really only see in the open source community and, maybe some right wing discord servers, there's a serious level of... entitlement? Betrayal? An undertone of disappointment? It's weirdly emotional. Linux is an open source project, and unless you're personally involved with the maintainers, Linus Torvalds personally does not owe you anything. Open Source goes both ways: It's free of charge, and free of warranty.
And for the entirety of this video, he never stops being a fence sitting curmudgeon. AI-reported bugs drown issue trackers, so the Kernel team fights fire with fire. That's fine. I can personally tell you that I'd rather have the nonsense filtered out first before I actually start working on issues that matter to the open source project I'm voluntarily contributing to. What would Mr Gerard prefer? That maintainers waste their time trawling through mountains of garbage? Would he like to see the maintainer's time wasted? At least he can sleep soundly knowing that No AI Was Used, Promise!
I would put another paragraph here, but the man's just exhausting me with his insufferable presentation style. It's one thing to have an opinion, even a contrarian one, but only shitting on the project without any suggestions as to how to actually fix the problem he claims to care so much about makes me... eh, you get it.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 2 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
delphi LinkUniversal Serial Box update: I think I'll table this project for now. I still want to do it, but this month is full of other work, especially contract work. So, lords of Timasomo, I hope I can ask...Universal Serial Box update: I think I'll table this project for now. I still want to do it, but this month is full of other work, especially contract work. So, lords of Timasomo, I hope I can ask for your grace just this once - but I would like to still show something, so I'll put together a little showcase for the big software launch I've been working on for weeks now (including one aspect that has been so far constrained to October, to appease the Timasomo clerics).
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
delphi LinkEverything about Omarchy just weirds me out, especially considering it's a "first linux" for so many "tech bros". Like, Arch, with its rolling release scheme, is probably the last place to start...Everything about Omarchy just weirds me out, especially considering it's a "first linux" for so many "tech bros". Like, Arch, with its rolling release scheme, is probably the last place to start if you're new to Linux, but what do I know.
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Comment on Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died in ~space
delphi LinkThis one hurts. The Dolly Parton of the computing world. Brilliant and humble. A true loss for our planet. May her memory live on foreverThis one hurts. The Dolly Parton of the computing world. Brilliant and humble. A true loss for our planet.
May her memory live on forever
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 1 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
delphi LinkBecause I'm also working on a pretty major software launch (still debating if I'll show Tildes this, but it's connected to delphitools) I didn't have much time to work on The Second Amendment, my...Because I'm also working on a pretty major software launch (still debating if I'll show Tildes this, but it's connected to delphitools) I didn't have much time to work on The Second Amendment, my universal Serial-to-USB box. I did pick out the components I need though and dropped the whole "completely software-rewireable" aspect as that just made everything impossibly complicated in terms of wiring. But I know I want to use an ESP-32, which would add the ability to make it a Wifi-connected remote terminal too. Just plug it into the machine you want to link to, connect USB power and it'll show up as it's own Wifi network with a little browser based console. Much easier than getting out RealTerm or some random app...
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Comment on Given everything we know about AI so far, what do you think it can or cannot be good for? in ~tech
delphi LinkI'm also skeptical on the tech, but I'd be blind if I said it wasn't useful. I do think it's a nice democratisation of technology, that we're all able to just tell the system to "write me a...I'm also skeptical on the tech, but I'd be blind if I said it wasn't useful. I do think it's a nice democratisation of technology, that we're all able to just tell the system to "write me a userscript that fixes this horrible website I don't like to use". Of course, even considering to do this requires a significant amount of computer brain, so YMMV.
In my ideal world, you'd get an AI license from your local university after a HAM-radio style operator's exam.
Thank you, thank you! Lots of praise here. I do believe that your website is kind of your public digital front yard, and i want potential friends/enemies/clients to know what I’m about.