I got banned for ban evasion recently. I do have two old accounts, but neither were banned before so idk why lol.
Their website is so shit that I can’t even ask why. The auto mod sent me a DM and says if I want further info to reply to that message, but I have to accept the message request. Which I can’t do because I’m banned.
Yeah that was a big part of why I swapped, but it’s getting flooded again.
There was a glorious few months before Reddit enshittified even further, before the bigger migration of users. After that it turned into 90% American politics.
Edit: downvote me all you want Americans, but the rest of the world is kind of sick of your shit ngl.
Idk Albo is a huge pussy and rolls over for billionaires regularly. 50/50 chance he tells them to fuck off or makes it mandatory to upload all art to anthropic servers for scanning before we’re allowed to share it anywhere else.
He had a meeting with Sam Altman after that breach came out and his response was he’s “disappointed”. So far no other action taken.
The age verification shit is so bad that even adults will be locked out of using shit if you can’t try again.
The whole policy is both stupid and poorly implemented. The government should have supplied us with a way to verify our age through official means, and a way for the company to confirm it without us giving a hundred different third parties our facial scan or government ID. We already have the myID app which is used to verify our identity for government services. But no, we’d rather set up honey pots for data breaches. Many of which have already happened.
I tried to browse a sale on epic Games last week and ran into age verification just trying to look at games in the store. I guess ignoring the fact that I already have R18 games installed. Tried to upload ID and it kept saying there was an issue. No explanation or anything I can do to fix. I’m 32 for fuck sake.
Tried to contact support and ended up with a fucking llm which told me I needed to clear my cache and restart my computer. Had the nerve to say “you don’t need to wait for a support member to reply” when I told it to connect me to a human. After swearing at it, it finally put through an email for me. The reply was in broken English with zero punctuation or grammar. Didn’t bother replying and just decided that was the last time I touch epic games.
But regardless, VPNs still work to get around it with minimal trouble for me. It’s just dumb all around.
Are you trying to tell me the old ones don’t listen already?
Wow he’sdisappointed. They fucking accessed government medical data illegally. And he’s disappointed. Exactly the milqeutoast response I expected from this useless pm.
Press some fucking charges. Fine them enough that they never do it again. Ban them and their product from the country. Fucking anything. Having a meeting with the guy and telling him to do better or pathetic. And exactly the reason I’ve never voted for Labor. And exactly the reason the racist cunts in one nation are gaining momentum even though they’re clearly not a viable party.
An American investment firm bought Arnott’s and the quality of their products dropped significantly. They also went from $2 a pack to $8 in like 5 years while a pack went from 12 biscuits to 7 in the same sized package, and the chocolate is shit now.
Like everything, they used to be amazing, then rich Americans stepped in.
Every time I hear about a pixel release it’s something being downgraded from the previous versions lol
It’s been quite a few years so I don’t remember specific models, but there was a period where Australian releases weren’t shipping with Snapdragon, while global releases were. I recall being quite annoyed at the pixel at the time. Samsung was bad for it too. Probably still is but I’ve had the same phone for ~7 years now so I’ve not been keeping up with releases.
I stopped buying Google hardware after I got the pixel 2. It was an amazing phone, had an incredible camera. Really wanted to upgrade when the 4 was coming out so I started following the release news and noticed that they were putting previous generation processors in the 4 - like, previous to what was already in the 2. The camera was worse, the storage was smaller etc. killed my hype for it.
Then before the 5 was released, my 2 stopped charging and it was out of warranty so they wanted more money to repair than it would cost me to buy a phone from another manufacturer. Bought something else and never looked back.
I also had a Google Home at the time and it was one of the most frustrating tech experiences I’ve ever encountered.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they brick the tablets now that they don’t care about the product anymore.
Exactly. Sounds like your boss just asked the ai for a program that does team tracking and this is what it gave him. No understanding of how or why, and all pretense of best practices is out the window.
Meanwhile ask anyone with a basic understanding of software and programming and they’d be able to whip something basic up that works and isn’t difficult to use. And if there’s an issue, they’ll know how to fix it or make changes if boss doesn’t like something about it. Meanwhile your boss will probably defend his clunky slop to the grave, because he made it and calling it out is a personal attack on him.
I think my issue with the vibe coding trend is that it’s made programming too accessible. Not that that’s a bad thing, but that people without the fundamentals are selling what look to be complete projects. AI could eventually get so good at programming that it’s indistinguishable from a human’s but without an understanding of why it’s doing things, the people vibe coding have no real way of offering support, fixing bugs, or making updates to keep the program working as software updates.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a programmer, just a 3D artist. I did half a computer science degree before dropping out lol. My partner is a software engineer and uses AI to help on occasion. But he knows when the ai has made a mistake, or when to use specific code snippets and how to edit them if the result isn’t perfect. He’s said it helps speed things up and give him a base to work from. People with no coding experience that are letting the ai do everything get something akin to garbled text or extra fingers that the image generators produce. It’s just never 100% what you’re trying to get, and they settle for close enough because they have no idea how to fix it.
I’ve made the mistake of trying out a few vibe coded projects (without knowing they were at first) and there’s almost always a problem with it that an experienced programmer wouldn’t have made. Like the mouse is somehow not clicking the right spot, or the UI is difficult to navigate/operate. And the issue I pointed out in my first comment, it breaks when you try and use it on any new update and they don’t plan on offering any support. They wouldn’t know where to begin to update it without getting the ai to just remake it from scratch with a different prompt.
I think my lack of programming experience combined with the bit of schooling I got in the subject is what’s giving me this perspective. I know for a fact that if I got an ai to write an entire program for me that I wouldn’t know how to make any changes or updates. I would just have to keep prompting it until I got something that was good enough. If someone asked me for help with it I’d have no answer. And people are asking money for stuff written like that without disclosing the fact that it’s basically unsupported.
I’ve also seen open source projects begging people to stop submitting vibe coded shit, because it’s completely flooded them with crap that’s broken or not up to standard and actual programmers are drowned out which is essentially killing open source.
The amount of posts in r/blender titled “I made an add-on that…” Then you look inside and it’s slop. Works on one specific version of blender and the creator has no intention of figuring out how to update it to keep it working, making it completely unviable to add to my workflow even if they weren’t trying to charge money.
Also most of them are like the one I saw literally yesterday “quickly turn an image into a 3D mesh!”. They downvote me when I reply “you can already do this with imported images. right click → convert to mesh” and reply to me with crap like “but now you can do it with one click, and the result is better!” when it genuinely isn’t.
Slop is fucking everywhere these days.
And an apartheid era emerald mine
People here are complaining about another device to carry around, android phones not having enough storage, streaming being better etc.
There are programs and apps to stream your own. I have a nas (network attached storage) where I keep my music. It came with a music player and a mobile app out of the box that can stream and cast my collection. Plex can also do it quite easily. I’m sure there are others too.
I had a 3DS back in the day and that thing gave me a headache and made my eyes hurt, even as a kid. I was annoyed they made me buy it to play the new games when I was just turning the 3D off anyways, and still had a perfectly functional DS.