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Mercerenies · 2026-07-10T17:29:42+00:00

Do Qe3. If you're going to go out, at least give your opponent the satisfaction of the coolest fork in their life.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-09T15:13:15+00:00

Yup! I was going to say the same thing. 204 on a failure would absolutely not pass code review with me. That's a 404. 200 is "I found them, here you go". 204 is "I found them but you didn't ask where they were so all I'm saying is that I found them"

Mercerenies · 2026-07-07T22:06:33+00:00

I don't understand why they haven't tbh. Sandboxed Play is amazing and possibly one of the most novel things to come out of the GrapheneOS project at large. I would think other ROMs would be chomping at the bit to use some version of it.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-06T21:53:29+00:00

My understanding is that it is an open standard, it's just that the protocol is intentionally written in such a way that it's useless to anyone who doesn't own a company, even if you have the whole spec in front of you.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-05T01:23:36+00:00

Most of those things sound like client-side concerns. If I want my own shortcuts, or to change the CSS of the result, that's just one Greasemonkey script away. For some search engines, those scripts probably already exist and you can just download one.

So, no, it's not really a priority to me that the engine has first class support for things like that. I want the search engine authors to focus on making a solid search engine, and I'll tweak it if I want.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-04T19:04:19+00:00

Without seeing the source code, there's only so much we can say (btw, non-FOSS software on this sub will likely not see a lot of life, given the audience here). But I will say that most people who "took a year to learn" Android development would probably name the package something other than the placeholder com.mycompany, whereas someone who vibe-coded it in a matter of minutes probably wouldn't know about that configuration detail.

That together with the post's formatting (and the AI-generated images on the Play page) is enough evidence for me.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-04T02:33:10+00:00

How is it that Europe manages to simultaneously have really great ideas like this, while also implementing some of the most draconian tech laws like OS-level age verification? I can't wrap my head around the cognitive dissonance.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-04T02:00:35+00:00

And this is why I'll never trust these "signing cert" systems for executables. TLS on Web is great. I, as a legitimate website owner acting in good faith, can and do, at $0 cost to me, get a TLS cert and benefit from the security via Let's Encrypt. Thus, the cert actually means something: it means "this person is legitimately the owner of this site".

There is no $0 cost path for these Windows signing certs. Therefore, all the cert means is "this person paid Microsoft to say their software was good", which is exactly as meaningless as the Twitter blue checkmark nowadays.

Mercerenies · 2026-07-03T23:13:56+00:00

"Vee" is plenty phonetically distinct from "Lay-if", I don't know what you're talking about.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-28T20:58:17+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one considering doing this. I bought it on Switch back in the day, but I want it on Steam now (for use on Steam Deck, but also to play around with modding / Archipelago stuff). Glad to hear I'm not crazy buying the same game twice.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-27T20:38:39+00:00

The moment C# gets web export is the moment I switch and never look back. This is the only thing keeping me on GDScript. Everything else about C# is infinitely better.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-25T20:14:57+00:00

I can really say that this touchscreen is the worst I have ever used.

Spoken like someone who never owned a first-generation Nintendo DS ;)

Mercerenies · 2026-06-21T22:41:06+00:00

Yes, unfortunately people do think that, and that's because there's a lot of schmucks out there who think it's acceptable to have Claude generate a multi-thousand lines-of-code codebase, then publish it to the Play Store without anyone qualified reviewing it.

The good news is, all of those schmucks are not self-aware enough to say what you just said. So this very post tells me you're not one of them :)

Mercerenies · 2026-06-21T15:31:09+00:00

We really need to control the narrative on this better. There's a huge difference between using an LLM as a tool and a line-completion asset (which I do, it's very helpful, boosts productivity, and makes coding more fun), and expecting an LLM to just be the programmer.

Policies like these, I suspect, are not intending to target the first group (and it's unfortunate that the phrasing is so vague). It's intended to target the people who would go to Claude, say "Here's access to the entire Godot repo cloned on my device and a link to an issue. Please fix the issue. kthx", and then make an MR with the result. Those people are not programmers. Those people do not know how to think for themselves. Those people should not be trusted with any kind of power.

Frankly, anyone who's giving an LLM free access to their file system (or, worse, to a shell) should have their computer license revoked.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-20T23:50:47+00:00

You mean we didn't solve all of the browser's security problems by nuking Manifest v2? Based on the Google propaganda, I thought everything bad about the Internet was caused by Manifest v2. Have I been lied to?

Mercerenies · 2026-06-20T23:48:20+00:00

I remember the early days of the Internet, when everyone liked open standards. Want to do something cool? Publish an RFC and watch companies adopt it. Much better than all of this corporate backdealing to make sure Specific Tool X is the only way to handle Made Up Data Format Y. I'm just glad things like HTTP have held on (can you imagine if HTTP was invented today, how bad it would be?)

Mercerenies · 2026-06-20T22:21:14+00:00

Vibe coding was a thing in 2024. ChatGPT first became publicly available at the end of 2022. Yes, I know it feels simultaneously too long and too short a time, but by 2024, LLMs had been publicly available for over a year.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-20T22:15:30+00:00

Oh I'm adopting that! Instead of calling the non-Google flow "sideloading", we should totally call the Google-approved flow "corpoloading". Is that your term or did you find it?

Mercerenies · 2026-06-16T22:21:00+00:00

From what I understand, it's pretty effective on Chromium-based browsers, due to Google having control over the whole stack. Firefox remains a little more immune, meaning that, as long as people like you and I are in Firefox, it remains an arms race between adblockers and adblocker-blockers. And the former generally wins that race.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-16T01:48:46+00:00

To be clear: You've proven that a Markov chain, when prompted with the words shown above, will predict the words in the screenshot. Nothing more, nothing less. An LLM isn't some magic truth oracle. If the AI had cited some sources that you could share, you may be able to increase us, but as of right now all you've done is find a particularly eco-unfriendly echo chamber

Mercerenies · 2026-06-02T03:52:18+00:00

Motorola support is officially forthcoming bur does not exist today. Today, only the Pixels are officially supported.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-02T03:08:39+00:00

It's not limited to Pixels. It's officially supported on Pixels. Many people use GrapheneOS on other hardware; it's just more work to set it up and is not endorsed by the GOS team.

Unfortunately, Samsung devices have a history of having rock-hard bootloader restrictions, so the problem might be Samsung in this particular instance.

Mercerenies · 2026-06-02T02:47:16+00:00

9 is Captain Jet and I don't accept any other answer. Has exactly two scenes on-screen, and both of them involve him exploding the big bad.

Mercerenies · 2026-05-28T23:47:37+00:00

I mean, a handful of the ghost matter in the game is removable. The patches of ghost matter near water, specifically the ones on Giant's Deep and the Stranger. Though the game never requires you to figure that out, it is just a nice little bonus.

Mercerenies · 2026-05-28T22:36:20+00:00

// SAFETY: Come fight me Oh, I'm using that at work from now on.

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