fux0r

keep swimming. Opinions my own. If you don't like 'em, mute me 🤷

[fux0r @fux0r]

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)

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

ofc, it backpedals when challenged, but really, this is too close to the median assholery of the human race. AIs used to be nice.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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 😭

And yes, I have raised issues.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

@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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

@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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

Ah, April 1st, a day to completely ignore all online stories as they will all be a giant waste of time. I don't get the fascination with the day.

[fux0r @fux0r]

@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 🥲

[fux0r @fux0r]

Tho I really really need to add that I love the top gear / grand tour trio, and wouldn't trade a single one of them.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

@claudeai is currently broken. Can't complete answers. Fortunately, I'm still an ok coder. Vibe coders must be very sad right now.

[fux0r @fux0r]

Now just imagine if @elonmusk improved, even microscopically, every week. People with insane amounts of money have no handle on the real world.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine gets better every week.

Download the latest @Grok app!

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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.

[fux0r @fux0r]

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!