Long ago i was building a front-end for YouTube. Back then it was just a parameter to the video in the embedded iframe. So my front-end was playing all videos without any account or being logged in.

Since the plugin works, I guess it just toggles that parameter too. Not sure why Google doesnt require an actual login but they dont (or didnt).

Depends on your setup. If you use a 4k screen with fractional scaling in Gnome, Pycharm and all Jetbrain editors have blurry text and run under xwayland.

But vs code works fine, also zed and many others.

I would check out Pop OS instead of mint. But you can easily boot both of them from usb stick and look around and get a feeling before you choose.

Cats from the same race tend to look very similar dont they?

Anyway, this is more interesting than more chat robots.

I moved to Plasma… And I still dont think those rounded buttons looks good in 2025.

So do something about it.

Please let it be over, yes.

Nobody even tries to write code from scratch anymore. I think it will have a lot of negative effects on programmers over time.

I mean, people were fine without social media before, I dont think we need those. :) At least not the big tech ones.

Numbers nobody has seen before. Lol.

Every Trump action is appearently the best ones ever made in the history of civilization.

If Jesus would come back, he would be second to Trump in how amazing he is.

Don’t worry about it. If you don’t post anything they disagree with (and most people don’t), you will not be annoyed by them.

If you have only mainstream opinions, you will be fine. You don’t question mainstream science, you think everyone needs to vaccinate for the public good, and so on. Nothing strange for the majority.

This war is about control, not by weapons but by controlling minds. It’s fairly obvious. Social media forms opinions. It’s also full of bubbles where people get reinforcement for their existing beliefs. What people believe doesn’t matter so much, just that their beliefs are shaped by social media.

Social media platforms are controlled by big tech algorithms, so they in turn control what information should surface. On computers and phones, you have survellience apps running (called AI) that collects information about each users private life. This is all combined with other info to build an accurate profile of everyone having a device using social media or the web.

The end goal is to watch everyone, keep them in line. In the west I think it’s mostly used to sell ads, but in other countries like China and Russia, I think it’s more sinister.

Either way, the end goal is control of people. Before, it was control of land and borders.

I used to switch between plasma and gnome but that stopped with plasma 6. It was so good that it just became my primary. Now gnome feels bad when I try it. Everything looks bad there. No proper fractional scaling support, no hdr support etc etc.

Yeah. I dont think what we have now is general intelligence. It’s just word prediction models. But they still manage to give an impression of intelligence. I think there will be some big change at some time where Ai models will use some different technology and probably give something closer to actual thinking.

In the future we will have lots of options. A colleague is self hosting some of the open source models and it’s very nice to not have the big tech censorship in there.

Why is that?

Yeah. I think long term, many advancements in Ai will still need Nvidia chips and it will be better to have more of them still.

I used this for a while but the fastmail web interface is actually good enough… I use thunderbird for cleaning up and deleting stuff, and organizing… There it shines.

It’s up 5% in premarket right now, so… We will see how long they stay down.

Maybe arrested and then let go without any consequences. These guys are too rich to have proper punishments.

Someone has a gun to your head? Because I just stop doing something I don’t like.