osk

Indie gamedev and founder @tetriogame, an online stacker game with over eight million players.
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[osk @oskdev]

i remember when people were starting to block brave's useragent for this reason and then brave suddenly added the "privacy feature" where they made it so it doesn't have its own useragent. real smooth, guys

[osk @oskdev]

brave's entire business has always been to be an alternative ad network. nothing more, nothing less. their browser's main purpose has always been to remove webmasters' own advertisements, and replace them with brave's own ads without giving said webmasters any compensation

[wukko @uwukko]

A fresh Brave install in 2026: sponsored ad wallpapers on new tab page by default (opt out). Brave VPN, News, Talk, Leo (AI), Rewards and other revenue-milking bloat is advertised/pinned by default. Analytics and "phoning home" by default. Google as default search engine in most regions by default. Sponsored search engines like Russian Yandex in CIS countries by default: https://t.co/nCK7ZErytG

Brave has an ad branch that handles advertising within the browser: https://t.co/EwJwKKgWxq. Brave does on-device ad targeting based on cohorts and interests, just like what Chrome used to do and what Google was largely hated for (remember FLoC?). This applies to additional (opt-in) rewarded ads, shipped as part of Brave.

Brave has injected referral IDs to crypto-related URLs entered into the omnibox in the past, intentionally, by design:
https://t.co/hovGMDz8Et
https://t.co/3wdWDEV85H
https://t.co/fo1mD75vAF

Brave also uses dark patterns to drive users away from turning off ads in their browser. For example, an article linked from the "opt out" button in the browser has a wall of text making excuses for ads before the actual steps needed to be taken to disable them: https://t.co/dka1EIMtbw

kind of hypocritical for brave to judge firefox for lesser bullshit, don't you think?

[osk @oskdev]

despite being such a webmaster, losing a ton of money every month on adblock, i think users should block ads. but replacing them with brave's own is nasty. privacywashing that as "we're saving you from those pesky invasive ads!!" is even more nasty

[osk @oskdev]

@tzukima ~$920 → $10,211
it's fucked up

[osk @oskdev]

@swengsbelike chatgpt, whatever model it gives you when you open the page for the first time for the day on free tier

[osk @oskdev]

tried out this AI "vibe coding" thing for the first time by asking the computer a little question
i don't get how anyone uses this

[osk @oskdev]

@realpastaya it doesn't, i wasn't sure though and google wasn't giving me a result so i figured Hey let's use that magic machine
it sounds like a horrible idea (getters shouldn't have business logic), but then also, i don't like returning a promise without tagging it clearly

[osk @oskdev]

Is some AI company giving out free/cheap credits or something? The Tetris community has also suddenly seen an uptick of bottom-barrel slop all of a sudden.

[osk @oskdev]

This is getting ridiculous
My blog almost never gets spam (mostly because I block VPNs, sorry!), but recently there has been an insane uptick in spam. The reason?
Indian "security researchers" asking LLMs to spam the blog to then send me Markdown emails (without pgp key).

[osk @oskdev]

People have probably heard by now about this happening to open-source projects (ie curl) but it's happening to practically all websites at this point, and it's undermining actual security by wasting people's time on these scam artists.

[PokeDialga @Poke_a_Dialga]

ウィマーマ・サーガ dance but https://t.co/T7kS0IZI4s

Full Short ↓↓↓↓
https://t.co/qmnEJT67UX

T-Mino Chan's moving again 😭😭😭

[osk @oskdev]

this guy's pages are really fun to browse through: https://t.co/esIJnDIWJs
it's a time capsule of old OSes and in particular captures well how people have thought about microsoft over time and, more importantly, how none of it has really changed

[osk @oskdev]

have we forgotten that "the os is just webpages" has been a thing since windows 98? that "classic control panel" is also just a webpage
remember how XP tried to make people think you needed a ".NET Passport" to use the internet
there has never been a "year of the windows desktop"

[Elorm Daniel @elormkdaniel]

Microsoft doesn’t stop you from uninstalling Edge just to annoy you or take away your freedom. It’s because, in modern Windows, Edge is no longer just a browser but rather part of the operating system itself.

A lot of Windows components now depend on Edge’s rendering engine (WebView2) to display content. Things like Settings pages, help screens, widgets, login flows, Microsoft Store content, and even some third-party apps use Edge in the background to render web-based interfaces. So if you completely remove Edge, you’re not just deleting a browser, you’re removing a shared system dependency. That can break core features or make parts of Windows unstable. Because of that, Microsoft treats it like a protected system component and restricts normal users from uninstalling it.

Linux works differently because of its design philosophy. Nothing is “sacred” or protected at that level. The system assumes the user has full control and full responsibility. If you have root privileges, you can remove anything even critical parts like the bootloader, kernel, or libc. Linux won’t stop you, warn you much, or lock it down. If you delete the bootloader, the machine simply won’t boot. That’s not a bug; it’s intentional freedom.

[osk @oskdev]

@thatstojguy there's no system that prevents unranked players from playing against ranked ones, in fact this is a good thing because it allows them to get settled in the system faster (playing against opponents the system knows of how good they are)

[sarah @SarahStarberry]

thats my goat i love you andrew

[Web Game Database @webgamedb]

Added tetrio and colonist to the database.

[osk @oskdev]

@webgamedb Cool site, surprised something like this never existed actually! How are you getting stats like these? I publish them for TETR.​IO both through oskstatus and tetra channel APIs but wondering how you're doing it elsewhere. Hope to be able to see the weekend dips LOL

[osk @oskdev]

I'm Bac k

[osk @oskdev]

@skiplogic plus, i wouldnt want tetrio-desktop to be "inferior" to the browser by the nature of browser being able to use an adblocker lol

[osk @oskdev]

@skiplogic trust me i dont like ads either lol id remove them if i could, but realistically id be bankrupt in maybe a year at most if i did that lol
the tetrio-desktop adblock toggle also costs me like 1300$ or so monthly but id rather that than have the game be bad for people rly