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blog (gemini): gemini://gemini.hackers.town/lori/
blog (html): https://d-shoot.net/
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Last Notes

2024-06-18 16:51:28

There is no fucking reason that looking at websites should require as much RAM as high end gaming and we never should have let this happen.

2024-06-18 16:51:28

There is no fucking reason that looking at websites should require as much RAM as high end gaming and we never should have let this happen.

2024-06-18 04:28:10

the details aren't really mine to share here but it is confirmed now that the account that posted that "$300k salary sounds like a lot but..." post is in fact the cohost funder and not some weird troll just pretending to be them

2024-06-14 15:22:22

Fedi, if you know any good books or guides or tutorials or w/e on writing networked Linux terminal-based games please let me know. Like maybe guides for MUDs or something, I'm not looking to make a MUD but they'd probably have a lot in common from a programming perspective with what I'm wanting to play around with. Just something focused on running an online game on a Linux server where users are connecting to it via a terminal. I feel like the answers I seek might be of the "some book scanned on the Internet Archive from decades ago" variety so you better believe a modern day search engine wont' get me there.

2024-06-12 20:47:42

https://cohost.org/staff/post/6403911-may-2024-financial-u everyone shut up it's time

2024-06-07 00:21:08

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This was actually part of why Blaseball fell apart so hard. They spent a lot of time listening to their discord. The discord users thought they were The Core Players. The devs thought the discord users were The Core Players. Then towards the later part of Blaseball's life, they actually sent out an email survey to players. And found out that the overall player population was COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than the discord people. They wanted completely different things from the game, they didn't give a shit with or even at all interact with the more fandomy elements...the discord people weren't the average players at all! Because the average user of almost anything doesn't join a discord for it.

2024-06-07 00:18:48

I'm actually going to post an even hotter take: the people in your discord are the LEAST important people to listen to. Because 99.999999% of your users/players/etc. will never join your discord. The discord users are in fact the outliers.

2024-05-17 02:24:28

Begging everyone who uses #Proton #ProtonMail to do the user survey and make it clear Fuck AI, because it is asking A LOT of questions about your interest in AI. If your interest in AI tools existing in Proton is A Negative Amount Of Interest, make that extremely clear to them please. It's getting fucking impossible to avoid this shit.

2024-04-30 15:11:13

If I'm being less generous, a lot of tech proposals feel to me like my childhood on RPGMaker forums where someone would go "I have a great idea for a game! Now I just need someone to do the art, and the music, and the programming, and the story,"

2024-04-20 20:24:19

Has anyone ever made a wiki/database of fake video games in tv/movies/etc. or is that my job

2024-04-12 20:19:31

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The cynic in me thinks that it's because depending on where you live it may be illegal to record a phone call without their permission, so proving what happened in it later can be an issue. Something like this happened with Apollo's dev when talking to Reddit. It's a lot easier to prove what someone said to you via email.

2024-04-12 13:31:52

If you have to feed my short blog post into AI to summarize it for you don't even bother you aren't interested in knowing information

2024-04-11 23:16:25

As many of you know, I posted recently about my experiences and outlook on Kagi, the paid search engine. It's gotten some positive press recently, ironically right after I made my blog post about why I no longer liked or trusted it. This blog post was called "Why I Lost Faith In Kagi" and was a pretty simple quick collection of my thoughts that I primarily wrote so it'd be easier to find again later to link to people when discussing Kagi versus making it a fedi thread I couldn't search for easily later. Across the four social media platforms I linked this blog post on, I'd say it got a total of about 40 likes and few reblogs.
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
I say this because this morning I woke up to an email from Kagi's CEO, Vlad, who had seen the post and was upset about it. I have an email address listed on my blog (which is why I didn't bother removing it from these logs), which is what he sent his emails to. I am posting this entire email chain in this thread and will briefly post my thoughts about it, but I feel like it's something that needs to be seen. Please take note of the subject of the email as well (EDIT: It got cropped out sorry, the subject is "Fatih [sic] can not be lost"). Also, since the alt text would get extremely long with some of the transcripts, I've provided a text dump of the emails here for screen reader users and will offer a more abridged description in the alt text: https://d-shoot.net/files/kagiemails.txt
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2024-04-01 13:35:06

Periodic reminder that Kagi, despite having an image of being a no bullshit search engine, is almost entirely focused right now on developing AI bullshit, including misguided ideas like a news feed that uses AI to decide if news articles are good (as in healthy) for you to read.
I see it come up so often when people are offering suggestions in response to Google's increasing LLM shit, if you have a problem with LLM/AI garbage, Kagi is fully committed to making more of it, but it's hard to know that if you don't lurk in their discord.