chasteinsect

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Valve is a shitty company.

Does valve make some good things? Yes. Do they make shitty things? Yes. Not hard.

You just stated the exact nuanced position I was defending from the very beginning, while simultaneously insulting me for holding it 😂

chasteinsect @programming.dev 6d ago

Well, now I see why there was an avoid OpenAI movement. They actually allowed Persona to create an internal database of their users and may be a potential AI provider for gov surveillance.

Since when did OpenAI started using Persona, and is it widely known that they use it ? Does anybody know? I used their service way back at gpt 3.5 days, back then you didn't need any verification.

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 6d ago

It's not.

Look, you are not necessarily wrong in holding the opinion that Valve's monetization practices are so horrible, that they ruin the company's entire reputation. It's a valid moral boundary. But at the end of the day, it's just an opinion, not some objective law of the universe and other people can weigh the scales differently without being an evil person. Yet you portray it as the TRUTH. And it's a bit ironic, that when people disagreed you started talking about echo chambers and attacking the community. This is why you got downvoted.

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 6d ago

I feel like you're straw-manning here.

I never said it's okay. All I'm saying is that a mega-corporation can simultaneously exploit psychological loopholes for profit (loot boxes) while actively pushing open-source ecosystems (Linux), providing great value to consumers and fighting other pc gaming monopolies (Microsoft). Look at the whole picture.

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 6d ago

Maybe just maybe it's because it's not as black or white as you make it seem? Especially talking about a company that did so much for Linux and looking at what their competition is doing....

chasteinsect @programming.dev 7d ago

Last week, we published our team's findings about an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that contained over 160 indices and held 8.7 billion primarily Chinese records, ranging from national citizen ID numbers to various business records.

Last December, the team uncovered an unprotected database containing 4.3 billion records, some of which included LinkedIn-derived personal information. The 16TB-strong instance contained emails, photos, employment histories, and other personal data. A single collection alone contained 732 million records, including photographs.

In July, Cybernews covered one of the largest data leaks in history, after researchers discovered several collections of login credentials, containing 16 billion records. The team found 30 exposed datasets, each containing tens of millions to more than 3.5 billion records.

The leaked data included login info for just about every online service, including Apple, Facebook, Google, GitHub, Telegram, and even government platforms.

Damn....

chasteinsect @programming.dev 7d ago

That was a great xkcd

chasteinsect @programming.dev 1w ago

My biggest gripe with it that makes it unusable as a serious replacement is that it purposely only stores conversation history for two weeks.

Huh that actually makes it more appealing to me from a privacy perspective.

chasteinsect @programming.dev 1w ago

I switched from Obsidian to Neovim mainly because of Vim-motions and keybindings. Obsidian has Vim-motion support but it's pretty basic and some stuff doesn't work... it's just not the same.

I have a pretty minimal Neovim setup and don't use any special plugins for markdown. I just use Treesitter to create some custom highlight groups to highlight links, codeblocks, headlines and similar stuff. I don't do images or complex tables or all of that other jazz and I know markdown by heart for the most part so I don't really need any markdown preview plugins. But there are plugins that render markdown in the Neovim buffer itself, instead of having you go to your browser to see your changes.

It's way simpler. I use gO to see the outline of my file, also mini.pick which is just a grep and fuzzy finder to find specific lines, words, files and navigate between them. I have been using Neovim for over a year so and use it basically everywhere so the benefits keep compounding as I learn how to navigate where I want faster. It's a powerful tool. One thing I will say is because you use Neovim you don't need to really organize your notes as you just use your picker to find stuff for you and it's sooooo much faster and better than whatever Obsidian had. You never have to go to your file tree or whatever and search for that file.

This wasn't a switch that I did fanatically. I went back to Obsidian a few times for a couple of days / weeks and just used that. It's fine ... It works... But afterwards every time I just went back to Neovim, did some modifications to my config, and started using it more and more until it just became way better.

All of that being said ... would I recommend someone start Neovim just to write markdown? No. As you said it has a pretty steep learning curve and you will never get back the time you spent on it, it's also a bit overkill to use it just for markdown, you will need to make some modifications as well... But I find it more fun and enjoyable to work with.

chasteinsect @programming.dev 1w ago

If you don't need voice channels and all of that jazz, Matrix is a decent alternative. Someone mentioned that using a separate service for voice communication like Mumble works great.

Honestly with the comments on this site I had worse expectations, but if you stick with Element it's a pretty good experience. I didn't self-host (yet), wanted to first try it out with my small group of friends so there may or may not be more problems there. But I do think I could easily switch to it and never look back. If my group doesn't end up switching it will probably be only because of the lack of gif / custom emoji support. We tried Cinny and some other clients, but they all had some problems, Element seems to be a bit more polished.

I can't stop thinking all of these other alternatives while may work for a specific group, will not lead to any widespread adoption.

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 1w ago

I also came across this :

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/index.html

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 2w ago

I wonder is this something to actually worry about outside of the US?

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 2w ago

SOON

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 2w ago

I used Discrub to delete all of my messages from certain groups and 1:1 DM's before leaving them. Worked great, not the fastest thing but it works. Also has Firefox extension.

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chasteinsect @programming.dev 2w ago

So what happens if you say you don't have any social media? Do they just accept it ?

In addition, travelers could be asked to submit any phone numbers used in the last five years, email addresses from the last 10 years, and more detailed information about their family members, including names, dates of birth, addresses, and contact details.

The fuck

chasteinsect @programming.dev 2w ago

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

Whether or not that matters depends on how much and how you watch it.

Ads while I listen to music = annoying

I want to navigate fast to different videos on PC to find something and almost every time an ad appears on a new video = annoying

I'm watching some chill drive or walk while reading a book and a loud ad appears = annoying.

But when I just go and watch 1-3 videos before bed on my ipad? I don't care if I get those 2-4 ads, I just mute and wait those couple of seconds. I have no youtube adblockers or different clients on ipad / phone for that reason.