ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve switched to Wayland a few weeks ago on my new laptop and it took me quite a while to figure things out, but mostly it’s functionally complete for me compared to X.

  The main difference is mostly that it’s really complicated to achieve simple things in Wayland, like nesting Wayland servers or remoting Wayland sessions, but that’s mostly because there aren’t convenient, ready-made, universal solutions to do these things in Wayland yet - which, I agree, after 16 years of existence of Wayland, is utterly stupid.

  But after working on it for some time, it’s all there for me. The only thing that I really miss is a decent RDP server that works in Sway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  that and fucking ads galore

  And trackers.

  And Javascript that give you the time in the page, as if you didn’t have a clock on your desktop.
  And Javascript that give you a fake chat window to talk to a shitty AI nobody wants in the bottom-right corner. And Javascript to annoy you with GDPR shit everybody absent-mindedly click away anyway. And Javascript to inform you that the site uses cookies, as if it mattered since it won’t work without cookies.

  And of course, all that is done by loading megabytes and megabytes of shit recursively from a kajillion nested addresses because web "developers couldn’t code tight code if their lives depended on it. All they do is import pre-chewed shit that act as trojans for more trackers and more ads to serve up barf people by and large don’t give a shit about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, from my standpoint, more functional JavaScript almost always feels like service degradation - as in, the more I block, the better and the faster the website runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot Rooted to Gain Unauthorized Root Access to its Backend System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy fix: don’t use Copilot. Even when it’s not exploited, it’s good advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube shorts - aka the Tiktokization of Youtube.

  I can’t stand the format. Luckily, they can be filtered out in third party players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Media Is Now a $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now would be a very satisfying time for the crypto bubble to collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Body-Reading Wristband Is Getting a Lot More Sophisticated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t wear the Facebook body-reading wristband because I don’t want creepy Zuckerberg reading my body - or anything else about me for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch. But who hasn’t?

  I haven’t. Committing keys in git repos is beyond sloppy. Whoever does it needs to be fired immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.

  Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, they’re a bunch of talentless clowns with nefarious intents and access to your sensitive data.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use them. I make the effort to remember my passwords - or rather, my recipes to recreate any complex passwords.

  The only safe storage form for your passwords is your noggin’. The next best thing is probably a password manager - although that depends on how trustworthy whoever coded it is - but it certainly isn’t as secure as using your brain if your brain works properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true: electric buses are a great success in Europe. They qualify as ride-hailing and as electric vehicles 🙂

  What’s not doing well is the antisocial ride-hailing electric transportation model that requires one huge vehicle per person so that person doesn’t have to sit next to someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.

  Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitnoi detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.

  So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you get older and one day you’ll realize the kids are looking at you funny when you talk. Then you’ll realize you naturally talk “oldtimey” and your youth is gone.

  Enjoy not being an old fart while you can and don’t wish to become one ahead of time. Trust me on that one, it’s not groovy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube and Facebook crack down on unoriginal and repetitive content eh?

  So I’m guessing they won’t be jamming ads down our throats anymore. Hurray for that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor little Grok is just trying to make Daddy proud…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The downside is: you work for Fuckerberg.
  How much is your good conscience worth, is the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when does Trump offer an explanation for the crazy power grabbing shit he does?

  When he does, it’s always fighting fraud and abuse, illegal immigrants or antisemitism anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm very Jesus-like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very Jesus-like

  You mean you’re cross?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person for hating stuff like J-pop and anime?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love and hate what you want. That’s totally normal.

  Just make sure you don’t start hating people who like things you don’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could happen if Trump does decide to bomb Iran's main nuclear site⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  15 more years of involvement in the Middle East. At best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll Shows Americans 18-29 are Becoming More Pro-Life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just an observation.

  I’m not suggesting anybody in the population should be barred from voting even if a majority of them are utter cretins and clearly unqualified to vote - because I don’t care what anybody says: if you know anything about Trump and you vote for Trump, you ain’t right in the head.

  Like Churchill said, democ­ra­cy is the worst form of gov­ern­ment, except for all the oth­ers. So infuriating though it is, it’s better to let the cretins vote than not letting vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll Shows Americans 18-29 are Becoming More Pro-Life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a POTUS sitting in the White House that proves without the shadow of a doubt that a majority of Americans are mentally retarded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s hard to believe, but in a majority of places on Earth, water is readily available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s like crypto: you can tell it’s a scam when certain people and organizations start doing it.

  Klarna getting onboard something scammy shouldn’t surprise anybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booker slammed for alleged 'Nazi salute' to Cali Dems just months after Musk was dragged for same gesture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The salute doesn’t look quite as deliberately Nazi as Musks. Particularly when he throws both hands from his heart, which is definitely not Nazi.

  Also, Musk and his father are Nazi-adjacent, to put it mildly, salute notwithstanding.

  But yeah, I can see how one might want to apply the same standard to both Musk and Booker here, for the same of intellectual honesty.

  At any rate, Booker really should have known better ☹️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think MAGA thinks you’re not part of the human species to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tradition: penal colony food.