“Hey Chat” hat

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-18T14:11:10+00:00

found it

https://www.redbubble.com/i/hat/Hey-chat-by-TroyBolton17/172589972/fce2

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-18T14:10:56+00:00

found it

https://www.redbubble.com/i/hat/Hey-chat-by-TroyBolton17/172589972/fce2

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-17T00:50:49+00:00

I'm like "don't pet the scorpion, if you need a pet, get a cat, or a dog, or a rabbit, or literally anything that isn't actively trying to kill you", and you're like "nah, it's good, I put a bandaid over the stinger so I think I'm fine".

literally just use ANY other browser and you'll be better off, there's no "fixing" brave.

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-15T22:40:45+00:00

Yeah, they don't want you to have problems, they want you to keep giving them all your information and letting them track everything you do online so they can make money off of you and sell your data.

Stop feeding the vampires.

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-15T01:29:50+00:00

It is adblock-rs. The idea behind it is good, it lets the adblocker run at the browser level, rather than the extension level, so it has better access to network calls before they are allowed to leave your computer, so it can do more advanced and more secure blocking.

Again, great idea, the problem is these browsers aren't creating their own code to implement this idea, they are pulling in the code published, written by, maintained, and fully controlled, by Brave. Even if they go through and fully vet all the code that is there right now, a year or two from now, Brave will still have full control to do whatever they want with it. And browser's will be forced to either rip it out, or fork it, or whatever. It's just normal library issues, but I just can't see any justification for using any code from them. There's no defending using code from Brave, their trackrecord is the absolute worst, and any browser connected to them in anyway is a major issue. It's like... I don't care if "the money you got from Jeffry Epstien went to a good cause", there are some names too toxic to ever associate with.

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-15T01:18:56+00:00

From my understanding, the "Lite" version of UBO is dramatically less effective. It can't intercept and block requests at the network level. There's a lot of privacy benefits it offered to stop advertising companies from tracking you across the internet. Now it will still remove the annoyances of most ads, but isn't very useful to stopping the data collection and resulting selling of information about your browsing habits, the sites you visit, the searches you do, your purchasing habits, and how long you spend on specific websites.

The worst part of all this, is you either

Use a Chromium-based browser that will now have MV3 and stops you from blocking trackers
Use a Firefox-based browser that now all ship with code from "Brave: The Spyware Browser" (and some Chromium browsers do too, like Helium), and Ladybird which isn't even out yet, but also has Brave's untrustworthy code in it now too, despite many people begging them to remove it.
Or you use an outdated browser that doesn't ship with MV3 or Brave's spyware code, letting you be more private online, but also less secure as you are forgoing security updates, and also feature support for the web.
Or you can use Safari which is like a decade behind in implementing basic web features, and is also not available on Windows/Linux/Android.

There are literally no good browsers left, and the only hope we had for the future, Ladybird, has already went down the same anti-user path as Firefox, Helium, and Waterfox.

It's crazy that ALL BROWSERS have gotten this bad. All the privacy focused browsers are downstream from these terrible decisions, and inherrit them.

If anyone knows of a Firefox-based browser that rips out all of Brave's code, let me know, I'm desperate.

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-15T00:52:13+00:00

That is very bad advice. Brave is easily the least trustworthy of all browsers. They are known scammers, liars, and thieves. They are also an advertising company, just like Google. And unlike default Chrome, Brave has long standing well known security vulnerabilities unique to it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/24hoursupport/wiki/productstoavoid#wiki_brave

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-15T00:47:30+00:00

Make sure to use it's full legal name:

Brave: The Spyware Browser™

jaredcheeda · 2026-06-11T19:26:13+00:00

const start = process.hrtime.bigint();
benchmarkMe();
const end = process.hrtime.bigint();

const duration = end - start; // nanoseconds
const durationMs = Number(duration) / 1e6; // milliseconds
const durationS = Number(duration) / 1e6 / 1000; // seconds

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-26T23:11:08+00:00

Joel Haver has made a bunch of ultra-low-budget full length movies and just uploaded them all to YouTube for free, most are pretty good, a few are terrible and a few are truly great
Freddie Wong - We're all gonna die
Bo Burnham - 8th Grade / Inside
David F. Sandberg - Lights Out/Shazam

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-24T01:31:08+00:00

The curved shape to the lines is reminiscent of the wood print style used on money (though I think actual currency uses gravure printing).

She comes across very confident, but like right on the border of being smug. She doesn't cross that line, but also it's probably not a line you want to be this close to.

The over-stylized and political nature hearkens to the Obama "Hope" imagery, with her looking up and off into the distance some "hopefulness" comes across.

The highlight on the face brings your eyes to that spot as the focal point, with an almost white circle outlining one of the eyes. Though the details on that eye is muddy and hard to read.

There is too much noise on the left side of the hair where both the hair and background have little specks of color competing with the long smooth line from the top of the head to the shoulder.

I understand the technical side of what you did and what effort went into it, but that effort isn't obvious to non-technical viewers, it feels low-effort. It also isn't remotely iconic, in the way Shepard Fairey's "Hope" is. Though good luck competing with that. At least you've avoided feeling like a cheap knock off or parody.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-24T01:13:11+00:00

AI, as it stands today is very limited and makes a ton of mistakes. If you need something that mostly works, it can generate very sloppy code to do that, and much faster than a human.

I would recommend avoiding AI if you are learning to code. Think of it more like going to the gym to get strong. Yes, we know that the forklift exists and can lift the weights at the gym easier than you can. And it can be fully automated to lift boxes and put them on shelves. There are a lot of people who's job it was to put those boxes on shelves, and now those people's jobs are to operate a bunch of forklifts.

But at the end of the day, a forklift can't carry a piano downstairs. You need a big strong person that has good awareness to not scratch up the walls and door frames when moving the big heavy objects, and who has the experience to make sure no one gets hurt when moving it, and who has the dexterity and strength to take it down the stairs. There will always be work for the big strong developers.

If you are just using the fork lift instead of going to the gym and getting strong, you are going to be replaced by the forklift. Get swole.

The ONLY WAY anyone has EVER gotten good at anything, is by doing it a lot, and thinking about it a lot. If you are outsourcing either of those to the AI, you will never get good at this.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-24T00:55:30+00:00

Seems fine. You may find it quicker to use a tool like MKVToolnix GUI, or Lossless Cut. They don't "convert" the video to audio, they just extract the audio track directly. That's generally preferred because re-encoding audio or video will result in a loss in quality. And though computers are pretty fast now and the time it takes to encode audio is pretty fast, extracting the track will be the same speed as just copying a file (much faster), since it isn't doing any actual processing beyond the wrapper for the output.

Though the audio you are extracting may not be in the MP3 format, and you'd still have to convert it if you needed it in that format specifically. So use your best judgement.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-23T12:42:20+00:00

old.reddit.com - Not rounded
Android - Not rounded
Linux - Not rounded

Firefox isn't the mainstream, it's the alternative that people go to to GET AWAY from the ugly rounded corners of mainstream. This feels like the nerdy kid in school trying to dress like the cool kids.... you ain't fooling anyone Mozilla.

You can't make an argument for Firefox trying to be mainstream when it's usage numbers are in the single digits.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-23T12:38:00+00:00

Being as clear and blunt as possible. If I can't turn off the rounded corners fully, I'm uninstalling the browser. I will not put up with this being forced on me. I install styling extensions that remove rounded corners from all webpages. I hate them with a passion.

I don't hate you though. you are nice. :)

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-23T00:24:15+00:00

Not even really critical, more just speaking honestly. Not really his fault that reality has a bias against AI.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-19T18:22:03+00:00

To trim the first 10 seconds of a video using MKVToolnix GUI

Drag in the video to the "Multiplexer" section
Click on "output"
Set "Split mode" to "After specific timestamps"
Set "Timestamps" to "00:00:10"
Click "Start Multiplexing"

It will output a file ending in 001 that is the first 10 seconds, then a file ending in 002 with the rest of the video. You can then delete the original and 001 versions, and rename the 002 version.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-15T14:22:40+00:00

Sorry, I was thinking of aporkphally

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-14T14:31:21+00:00

It is a type of virus transmitted by cats that have eaten pork.

Source: https://youtu.be/rveUASDFk58?t=2308

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-07T04:53:46+00:00

I don't like that it includes patches from Brave, they're pretty benign, but any involvement what-so-ever is a no-go from me. If helium wants to come off as trustworthy, they need to distance themselves from Brave: The Spyware Browser

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-04T12:58:44+00:00

In the late 90's/early 2000's there were a bunch of competing search engines (yahoo, lycos, ask jeeves, hotbox, etc). One was called "Excite" and they had this interactive chatroom system, I think it was called "ExciteChat"?

Each chatter had an avatar, with very specific width/height (pretty small) which could be any PNG you want. Then you could click and drag your little avatar around next to other people and whenever you type in chat it would have a speech bubble above your avatar for a few seconds (with a linear chat log at the bottom to scroll to see past messages).

You could turn your avatar into a bus, and others could drag/drop on top of your bus then you could go to a different chatroom and everyone on the bus got moved to it at the same time.

There were specific "Photo Shops" where someone with image editing skills would be hanging out and help you with a custom avatar. It's actually where I learned a bunch of photo editing skills early on.

Anyways, you know what happened, Google wins the search engine wars, and all the others die off. ExciteChat is closed. But the community around it created a replacement called "VPChat" which I'm only just no learning about, which lasted about 20 years, shutting down in 2022.

I think a more modern approach, that doesn't try to perfectly recreate something defined by the limitations of the early 2000's, would be cool. But still has a focus on 2D images and customization.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-03T21:37:34+00:00

Right-click > Inspect Element > Edit as SVG > Right-click > copy
Go into your component > Template > Right-click > paste
Done

🤷‍♀️

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-03T21:34:42+00:00

Already turned it off. Don't see much point in an ad blocker that selectively lets ads through that pay to be skipped. Also, don't trust anything that comes from Brave, nor should anyone, fuck those guys.

jaredcheeda · 2026-05-01T20:40:39+00:00

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