dbilitated @ dbilitated @aussie.zone

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I can totally see myself setting up an instance as a fun weekend project, letting people use it, then coming back a month later and finding a nazi hellhole. when you're doing something for fun/free it's easy to not take the boring and time consuming parts seriously.

well i tried to join programming.dev because i'm a developer and i figured devs would run a fast server, but I didn't get the email they said I'd get when my account was approved. By the time I worked out the account was active anyway, I'd created an account on a geographical server and it's fast as with zero downtime so I'm sticking with it. Set up a monthly donation to keep it running and I'm super happy with it, the admin seems cool.

I'm on windows but I think the Mac testing bed had the issue too

it was a couple of years ago and I've tried ff since and it's good, there's just always a reason to switch back.

yeah I really notice the difference. I wish I didn't, I'd rather use Firefox, but it feels slower and I want my settings syncing between devices

as a dev, we close bugs with a set SLA.

15 years is .. well, it's outside that.

it's not that niche - svg is a common format and it was difficult to work around. my point was more that the issue was known and just unlikely to ever be fixed, which makes me concerned about other issues I'm not experiencing today but might tomorrow.

I honestly would prefer to be using Firefox.

urghhhhh but firefox just doesn't perform as well. i tried, i really did. i found a 15 year old (!!) bug affecting svg drawing performance that was fucking up a page i was working on, i'm not imagining it.

I'm not sure if it's the same one but i just found a similar bug with a five year old comment saying i guess we're not fixing it anytime soon... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483868

I do have it installed and check in occasionally but it feels like a downgrade when i try to use it as a daily driver.

is there any way to get a functional de-googled chromium build with settings sync across devices?

Bruce Y Lee is only producing one a day but if you include Bruce A through X Lee, you get a lot more articles..

he could easily just be a bit burnt out and be using chat gpt to give him the bones of an article and a bunch of "amusing" phrases and stringing it together himself.

it'd probably what I'd do if i was a journo right now.

that's terrifying

I saw an issue that would allow admins to just point a sub to another server, if that community grows more. seems like a reasonable idea.

it's people arguing about whether or not they use sync

.. honestly tho I wouldn't be surprised, I'm using it a lot more now 🤷‍♂️

isn't the article about Cortana being replaced by a gpt powered one?

to be fair that seems to happen without AI too 😒

to be fair that happened a lot before AI existed

it's why I love the kakapo so much, so glad others remember it too

i don't know, probably go say thanks to my parents. take my dog on a really long walk with lots of play time.

I'm a developer and I always leave telemetry on .. when it's my code I find it useful when there's a problem so it gets fixed faster. As long as it's not being used to target ads at me I'm happy to help, esp when it's free software?

just finishing totk and downloaded Baldur's gate 3. I've run out of missions on totk but I'm waiting for my gf to catch up before proper finishing it so I thought I'd give Baldur's gate a go

I write code in C# but I love PowerShell. it's just elegant even if the syntax can be a bit clunky