while it’s not great, a ton of websites did this to themselves by turning every 1 paragraph piece of information into a 5 page listicle with ads splattered all over the place. I don’t think AI search stuff would be nearly as popular if websites didn’t make their content impossible to view.

Cloudflare stuff has broken for me when I had a user agent switcher enabled. maybe that’s it?

@grok is this true

well, I don’t think people would actually move platforms if that happened. reddit did some stuff that everyone hated and it’s still absolutely massive while the alternative, Lemmy, is small af. that’s not even considering the difficulty of making an alternative to YouTube.

They’re eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.

Im surely not the only one who thinks this article is ai generated? it spams the exact same structure and has the typical smells

I think the fact that there’s so few Linux desktop users that use Linux phones is a testament to how much friction there is.

most Linux OS don’t support mainstream phones I think for a few reasons:

• these phones were built for the vendor’s specific flavor of android, and thus already have the drivers for the proprietary hardware and everything.
• custom android ROMs are able to reuse proprietary firmware blobs from the manufacturer’s software and it will work fine with Android. On Linux however, you can’t just plug these blobs in, you’d have to rewrite everything to work with plain Linux.

it’s been the time for years, I highly doubt that it will ever happen. it’s been a lot of friction to get desktop users to switch, it’s gonna be 5x more difficult, considering mobile users are less tech-savvy and typically do things on their phone (rather than a computer which most people can get away with just a web browser).

the linux kernel is on that list, bro it’s time to switch!

too bad. Mandatory Internet connection to enable the ai enhancement features, and as a bonus uses built in Infrared sensors to upload your walking habits straight to Palantir. Updates are 2gb each because what the hell are patches or deltas. Uses 24w on idle for some reason. Includes agentic ai!

good points. yeah, client side anticheats are still vulnerable and I think they’re mostly just popular out of pure laziness. Making a good server side anticheat takes a lot of thought into what is and isn’t possible so it’s easier for a company to just slap on some slop and get 80% of the way there.

in valorant’s case, their anticheat is also a great date collection software to beam every possible identifier straight to John Data or whoever it ends up with.

i’m a proponent of server-side anticheat, but there is a few reasons games do it client side.

• server-side anticheats depend on heuristics and “checks” determining if a player is doing something “impossible”.
• one example would be checking if the player somehow has perfect accuracy on every player before even shooting, or if the player moves further than is possible in a given timespan (these are very simple examples).
• this is MUCH more difficult to make accurate, since these checks are fallible to network conditions or other hiccups.
• most online games opt for client-side anticheat since it lets the devs just “trust the client” easier. it can also detect things that would be impossible server-side, like X-ray (seeing other players through walls. this is impossible to detect server side).

+1 for Zed, switched to it and it is significantly more responsive. it also ACTUALLY supports Wayland instead of some cursed chromium ozone abomination

Hibernation is underrated. If you don’t want to risk losing stuff you have open but want 0 energy draw, hibernation is great. As a bonus, you can store your swap file in an encrypted partition to prevent attacks possible with normal sleep mode.

I have my sleep option set to automatically switch to hibernation if it’s been asleep for 3 hours.

anyone gonna cop the $1500 hour session for agentic engineering

yes, i posted that screenshot publicly only after changing the password

Infinite scrolling is optional and also a feature the majority of users (not hyper specific tech nerds) want. If we are to have any hope of bringing the average social media user onto these platforms, we have to design it for them. Most of the addictiveness comes from the algorithm (lemmy lacks a personalized one), not necessarily the infinite scrolling itself

the extremely concerning thing is that I changed the password after leaking that screenshot. I have no idea how OP logged into it, it signals to me a Lemmy bug of some sort

Don’t link p.lemmy.world. it’s well over a year out of date.

phtn.app probably looks a bit less suspicious, and also lets you use any Lemmy/Piefed instance.

You could say it as “phtn.app is a web portal for the fediverse” or something like that because the concept of web apps is confusing to many

is ts 4d ragebait or huh