“Versus” videos or articles in general seem to be especially susceptible to being awful garbage

Systemd haters when you use systemd instead of UltraXinitializer made in 2005 by John Init in C-- that requires you to manually write init scripts and has 894 critical severity CVEs

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.

is this really a problem? if you don’t make a Zed account (this is for their paid services) you don’t have to agree to any TOS. The editor remains untouched.

man they dont even got everyone on windows 11 yet

AVIF is also great! if for some reason you don’t like webp because google makes it, AVIF uses AV1 which is an open codec.

it’s also much smaller. great for web graphics

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).

ai piracy is still possible! Break into the openai servers and yoink the gpt 5.2 weights. and then publish them

Blorp absolutely does not “suck” and this user either has a problem or is just generally rude.

throughout my nearly 3 years making Photon I’ve had my fair share of hate comments, including one thread on a post, by someone encouraging people to check photon out, filled with people absolutely dunking on it.

your software is great enough to be noticed and hosted by several Lemmy and piefed instances, and you’ve got nearly 1000 or more users on a client for a super niche platform. you’ve done something right.

speaking from experience, hate comments really do dig into you even amongst a sea of positivity, but I hope you know that the opinion of 1 immature person does not matter in the grand scheme of things.

one more thing: people are much more likely to speak out when they have a problem versus when they enjoy some software. I guarantee you for every person either leaving feedback or complaining, there are 10 more silently enjoying your app.

yo you can just turn a choice into a meme and the crowd will go crazy

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

even if it was skewed, I knew that it’s what everyone else was seeing. it brings a sense of community (even though it started to get overtaken by frontpage bots)

it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.

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.

anthropic is despised in the open weight & local ai community. this is rather ironic given that anthropic partnered with Palantir (who does assist the government with mass spying)

anyone gonna cop the $1500 hour session for agentic engineering

artifact from the ancient times. In the UI a few months ago I changed it to “Server domain” but I forgot to change the environment variable with it. probably caused one of those issues for people that is impossible to debug

I find it interesting that it was designed off of the material 3 expressive concept design that was marked as “Poor usage”. Not saying this looks bad though!

some git weirdness didn’t commit the actual version change. I’ll update that on phtn.app as soon as I can, but for now all the features will be there but the version number will read 2.2.2