If I follow you, it's because:
- you're interesting (the contents of your tweets)
- you're active, but not overly so (1-9x per day)
- I can learn from you (smarter than me or just different enough from me that you make me think)
- your tweets are mostly original (not RT city)
honestly tho, this feels like a regression - a lot of confidence shown for wrong answers with a quick backpedal when challenged puts the burden on the user to know the domain, which is entirely what most people depend on ai to be proficient at.
Is it just me, or is @claude opus 4.8 just a little bit of a dick? From the "well akshually"s that I get it to backpedal later, to a recent implication in a chat that the trauma of war "burns off the surplus" for human beings? @AnthropicAI you should get a handle on this.
For anyone in the same boat (VLC was awesome, now just a headache), try mpv. I think VLC has more codec support (one of the reasons I used it for many years) but at least mpv has sane behavior. VLC lost the plot ๐ญ
And yes, I have raised issues.
I don't know what the @videolan devs have been smoking, but the transition from 3-4 is an abysmal user experience. Aspect ratios not considered - alignment broken and a glass effect to make underlying windows bleed through? Wtf? Fullscreen often needs f11 to un-fullscreen.
There are other issues, but basically, VLC has gone from the definitive video player to trash, just like that. Reluctantly switching to mpv, because it just works as expected. I want VLC3 back, but Gentoo has masked it to facilitate qt upgrades. So long and thanks for the fish.
@neerajjj6785 Everyone has a love/hate relationship with GitHub. Either it's working or half your day is wasted because of some stupid update they pushed out.
@StandardBankZA why is there still no 2fa when logging into online https://t.co/PjlbED51gV? Must be literally the only banking site without 2fa, and it's INSECURE.
Wanna know a good enough reason to ditch lodash? Apart from the fact that most of it is polyfills you don't need, it's frequently the reason for dependabot PRs on my repos - well over 10 rn. Your code could be faster, lighter, and more secure if you can wean off of it.
@humble steam redemptions are a bit broken rn. Most games I had to click redeem, then reload the page to actually get the key and option to redeem on steam. I can't claim the last one for this month tho: Curse of Pirates. No amount of refreshing works ๐ฅฒ
Watching old top gears, and I can help but say that all @JeremyClarkson's gripes with diesels come down to... Skill issue.
Did you really think you could keep with the stig, even in the same car? Hilarious.
Also, having zero understanding of torque probably interfered a little. Lucky for viewers, the stig is a competent race driver who can adapt to the machine.
https://t.co/tWqljVG561
The wealthy really could make the world a better place, if they wanted to. But they actively choose this world, actively make this world what it is.
@JeffBezos@elonmusk and others could be making the world a better place, but choose not to.
I get that y'all wanted to block old stolen credentials. Y'all could have just required 2fa and expired all existing tokens. One login for compliant users, friction for non-compliant users. Instead, everyone has to be affected. Fail.
dear @npmjs, I totally understand the need for security - I have 2fa enabled, so I need that for logging in or pushing a package - fine. But forcing me to relogin periodically, when I also have to 2fa the package upload is just unnecessary friction.
Often, I issue "npm run release" (my own npm script to test, increment versions, bundle, upload, push to git) and the flow is:
1. 2fa for upload - 404! Should be a 401...
2. Npm login, have to wait, press enter, find my browser, log in, 2fa
3. Back to code, rerun release, 2fa!