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corytheboyd, 3 months ago

But Discord has cultivated a queer membership by serving a different need than those platforms: privacy.

Yeah, gonna stop reading right there. Discord is absolutely selling your data. Nothing against inclusivity features though.

Discord became ubiquitous because it works well, and is free. Take VC money, run at loss, get tons of users, enshittify, die because something better becomes good enough. It’s just another one of those speed runs, which will happen over and over again until the end of humanity.

corytheboyd, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I can assure you that Google, an ad tech company with a near monopoly on web browsers, has an interest in eliminating ad blockers in the browser that they have direct control of.

corytheboyd, 4 months ago

The JetBrains AI plugin wants to be activated so badly, but legal says we can only use GitHub copilot. The copilot plugin is really good so I don’t mind, but we all know the data is going to OpenAI regardless of the plugin. Data sovereignty will only be achieved by running these services locally.

corytheboyd, 4 months ago

You have to listen to your heart, at least once in your career, to learn that grass on the other side is covered in just as much dog shit as it is over here.

corytheboyd, 6 months ago

Isn’t it that horrid ugly fucking foot

corytheboyd, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

You may not agree, but they are right. We are not most people. They want, and they have, that sweet “lowest common denominator” market, and they will take advantage of that until something else generates more cash. The “lowest common denominator” demand more CoD and whatnot. They don’t care if it’s bad, because them and all their friends will buy it and perhaps even have some fun. The big studios converging on vapid cash grabs instead of creating interesting content is depressing, sure, but hardly surprising in a world where morals and ethics don’t matter, where you can get away with the absolute most heinous, reprehensible acts, and suffer zero consequences.

I don’t really care though. The indie scene is unaffected by this, and has only gotten better every year for as long as it has been around. It’s fucking GLORIOUS already, and it’s not going anywhere because it’s not run by an oligarchy of publicly traded shitfactories.

corytheboyd, 6 months ago

Meme’s backwards dude

corytheboyd, 8 months ago

Debugger good for microscopic surgery, log stream good for real time macro view. Both perspectives needed.

corytheboyd, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I feel like this is just a new cash grab technique, and it’s actually pretty smart. The audience of people who will buy immediately despite DRM will do their thing, first wave of money complete. Over the next few years, trickle in more cash through steam sales. Once that well dries, get one more wave of cash by removing DRM, which appeases the audience that abstained the whole time, collecting their cash.

Edit: my half baked conspiracy theory got some attention. the argument that companies remove DRM like Denuvo because of cost makes way more sense, Occam’s razor holds true. Both can be true, they save money by removing the DRM, which has the nice side-effect of creating a small new wave of sales. Win/win. I’m sure Denuvo hates this and will one day make it more difficult for studios to just remove their software, because money.

corytheboyd, 9 months ago

I wish every language had a gofmt, this is such a non-debate (tabs are indentation, spaces are alignment)

corytheboyd, 9 months ago

To be that dick, a headless component library is still meant to do something, show an example of it being used!

corytheboyd, 10 months ago

The encryption: base64 encoding

corytheboyd, 10 months ago

Christ, do this many people really find iso8601 hard to read? It’s the date and the time with a T in the middle.

corytheboyd, 10 months ago

This is what life is when all viable phones are made by two giant tech companies.

corytheboyd, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

It’s here, it’s there, it’s everywhere. The problem with replacing things that work with something “better” is that “better” is subjective, so you end up with a new “better” way every few years, and maintaining existing systems becomes a god awful slog. See the JavaScript ecosystem.

The bash I wrote 10 years ago still works today, and it will still work in 10 more years. The same bash will very likely work on your computer, on a remote server, etc. This is the power of not chasing “better” all the time.

Try running a Ruby or Node program from 10 years ago today on your computer. Now, try running it on a random Linux server.

Please do not take this as a slight against Ruby or Node, or any other high level programming language. Bash compared to those is simply apples and oranges, they are not the same thing.

By all means, if you have a project that requires a Ruby runtime anyway, write operational scripts with Ruby, run them with Rake, etc.

Want a portable script that doesn’t depend on a complex runtime? Use bash.

If bash is too limiting, use Perl. No, seriously. Perl is fine. It is about as ubiquitously available as bash, and the standard library likely has what you need to get the job done. People blindly dismiss Perl because some blog post told them to, usually in the context of writing application code. You’re not writing application code, you’re writing scripts. Would you write an application with bash? No.

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

Oh man, if solid apps like this can tighten the experience with the polish of their old Reddit clients, this shit is gonna be lit

Bless your heart web apps, but this is needed so badly. Can you imagine the power of this now that the backend is entirely owned by the public?!

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

That article is about their web browser. Agree that it doesn’t exactly instill confidence that their search engine is squeaky clean. Regardless, DDG results are much more useful than Google results, as the entire first page isn’t ads.

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

Sure I mean yeah fuck Reddit, but blur out the company name in this and it applies to 8/10 tech companies lol

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

A single competent, seasoned app developer can not only replace hundreds of engineers, but vastly outperform them. But. Only when the vision is clear. Apollo, Sync, etc.? Extremely clear vision, it is a Reddit client, everyone knows what a good Reddit client should be, so a competent developer can make it happen, it’s just a function of time and money.

Businesses work differently, especially VC backed businesses. The actual app to such a business doesn’t matter, what matters is:

1. Is it making us money?
2. Next year, will it make us twice as much money?
3. In two years, will it make us five times as much money?
4. Ad infinitum (pun intended)

The shit that ruins the official app is shit attempts at the above. Because again, the app does not matter.

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

digg.com is still around, myspace.com is still around. reddit.com will also still be around in 10+ years. So what? We’re here now, and whatever’s left of Reddit will be over there.

corytheboyd, 11 months ago

Don’t forget this bullshit https://nft.reddit.com/