Here’s the statement from IGF jurors that’s related to this. (The link is likely a repost; I don’t think the person is affiliated with IGF.) This hardline, purist stance removes all nuance over when AI. The question shouldn’t be if AI should be used at all. It should be more about how it is used. Adopting this stance doesn’t mean developers are going to be suddenly honest. Some devs will be even without this stance, but many others will take time to hide or disguise their AI use. The part about coding especially bothers me, because AI can be very useful for debugging, but to them, based on this statement, any use of AI is the same as vibe coding a whole game.

Just automating stuff like config options based on what I’m downloading (song vs a video), and whether it’s a single video/song or a playlist of videos/songs. There’s more, but I don’t wanna ramble on lol.

It’s funny that this post comes up in my feed, given I’ve been spending weeks customizing yt-dlp for my use case.

I’m sure the most common reaction to this is “Wait, he wasn’t already?”

Not really? The upside of buying Nintendo games (1st party specifically) and consoles is that they keep their resell value really well. So, if I wanted to, I could sell my Switch 2 right now and get a lot (if not all) of that $400 back, especially since the price for a new one has gone up due to the memory shortage. Same idea for the (1st party) games: I could get a lot of that money that I paid for it on the 2nd hand market. Also, the console was $450 at launch, not $400.

Even ignoring the fact that they discontinued port forwarding, there is the whole controversy about their CEO donating to far right politicians. It’s a shame because they seem to be pretty good service-wise, and I might’ve considered going with them despite the no port forwarding.

Interesting website, thanks for sharing.

Whoops I responded to the wrong comment. This was meant for the reply mentioning IVPN.

Interesting, I’ll have to look into that.

I’m considering them despite the UI issues and the fact that they don’t have a Firefox extension. I just don’t know if I want a service that doesn’t have the latter. For context, I’m particular about the extension because I want to able to whitelist specific websites from the VPN. Currently, ProtonVPN’s app doesn’t offer that (and I’m not sure any other VPN offers that either) so I have to enable split tunneling to disable VPN for Firefox, then install the extension to use the VPN in Firefox, except for websites I’ve whitelisted.

They seem legit except they discontinued port forwarding and they’re out of my price range.

Cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

It’s funny that the easiest way to break infrastructure around the world is not to be a world class hacker, but to ask computers to simply subtract a second from their clocks.

I had a hunch going into the article and I was right.

I could have had some pity for those devs who are supporting the open source ethos being flooded with AI grifters spamming bug reports for the money. However that pity instantly goes right out the window given that they’re working for one of the biggest companies pushing AI and why tech hardware is becoming more and more out of reach for the average Joe.

This reminds me of that episode on Last Week Tonight about lethal injection. Lethal injection isn’t about a “humane” way to kill someone. It’s more about providing comfort to people who support the death penalty but don’t want to think about the morbid details about killing people. I wonder how many people would stop supporting the death penalty if they were forced to witness an execution live, especially if it’s lethal injection. If the horror of witnessing a botched lethal injection doesn’t at least give people pause about the whole idea of execution, then I don’t know what will.