That’s what’s crazy.

Some indie dev was like, “Yeah I used AI to help me learn Godot” and suddenly there’s a dozen negative reviews about how his game uses AI.

Appreciate it as a mobile user!

I shit you not that one or the proposals for fixing AI security issues is throwing a AI agent in there.

One department did that. The pro-Ai manager hired a bunch of juniors in 2024. I’m all about giving people opportunities. But what I didn’t know was they were all juniors who were vibe coders.

The whole team of like 30+ got fired during our summer 2025 layoffs.

Rumor has it none of the code was reusable and a new department inherited all of their responsibilities.

I was just coming to share this. Their feel-good recruitment number is a small drop in the bucket for how much layoffs there have been in the past two years.

I wanted to say VLC because to me, it’s the gold standard of fully working open-source software that just destroys the commercial competitors.

But it’s not perfect only because society changes. New video formats forces VLC and open-source devs to adapt. Bigger video and new tech specs require VLC to update. If it wasn’t for all those external needs, VLC would be perfect.

Did I also mentioned the many times rich companies wanted to buy VLC and they laughed?

Didn’t IRC have major insecurity issues?

I can’t remember why IRC died.

My favorite is when this security researcher showed on camera how she did it. She took out her laptop and pulled up a soundboard. She pretended to be mom with a crying baby, and begged the customer support to change her account email and reset her password. When they did try to ask for some verification, she played the baby crying sound effects louder. Feeling bad for her, they did what she asked and she “hacked” into the account.

I’m somewhat better than the average Joe but I’m also lazy as hell.

When I handed down my laptop to my cousin, I didn’t install a flavor of Linux. I reseted it back to basic ass windows and called it a day. I’m not interested in tech support either.

When my brother in law bought a gaming PC, I didn’t push him to leave Win 11. That guy just wants to watch YouTube and play CoD.

Linux is cool and all. But let’s face it - people only change to something if they’re in pain. Otherwise they stick to the default.

This is why I hate how everything is AI now.

Generative AI is absolute trash.

A fancy suped up search engine using AI to check files and answer questions about the files, whatever.

Is Chris Roberts going to make everyone his bitch?

It doesn’t have the feature where whales can give the devs $10,000 for a spaceship.

Check mate.

Not certain what others experienced, but in my company, a bad Windows Update knocked out most of our computers for a full day. It was so bad, you can see it in like monthly financial reports when it happened.

It was one of the motivators for why my job dropped Microsoft.

It took a long time, but my company is fully off Windows.

Most of our workstations are on Linux. Unfortunately, the programmers and designers are still on Mac.

I have to admit. This is incredible.

This is the way.

Lemmy feels a lot more like old reddit.

New Reddit feels artificial. The written content posts LOOK like they’re from AI. Much of the subreddits are now curated. You can’t say Luigi.

Here, it’s a bit of a wild west. And that’s okay.

There isn’t much written content posts. But the comments? I’m loving it. It comes off genuine. Human. Real. Even the shitty ones that make me want to downvote but damn do I somewhat see their perspective.

Just joined tuta a week ago from jumping ship out of Proton. They had a pretty nice sale going on.

When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.

They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.

They said things like, “He can’t be racist”, which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don’t want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn’t bring that up at all.

Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they’re going to sell access - no question.

This bothers me more than it should.

Shoddy writeups quickly inject reference links just to make their page look more trustworthy and SEO-friendly, while also not actually READING the links they add.