Yeah I also wanted the blur/dim for unfocused windows. I tried going the DWL route because there’s a patch to do just that but it’s an absolute headache to get working on NixOS. I mean I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me, just kept failing to build. so I settled with River.

it’s a shame too because I figured Peertube would be a haven of decent linux content but it isn’t. I can’t find anything on there worth watching.

Veronica Explains. That’s it. I’ve yet to find any other decent content on peertube.

get good at code reviewing and, unfortunately, spend time on linkedin. subscribe to tech bros in your area and when they start posting their usual slop and AI bullshit make comments calling them out. Managers and owners of other companies, especially startups, will see this and contact you for help. Because all these startups and small tech companies are ALL following the tech bros in linkedin and when they read your comments calling said tech bro an idiot, why whatever their pushing won’t work and how it’s going to hurt businesses in the long run they’ll want to get in touch with you to fix/tell them what they’ve done wrong to avoid the stuff you were calling tech bro out on.

I mean it’s so damn simple. None of these companies are going to advertise or actively look for help/a position to fix their stuff because they’re either embarrassed they fucked up or they don’t want their investors finding out they fucked up. So they call in me, the cleaner, like Harvey Keitel from Pulp Fiction.

I was a freelance/contract dev that over a year ago transitioned to a sort of code review for AI/LLMs type deal with companies. I make more money doing this than dev work. Essentially I review the slop that their vibe coders churn out and tell them how it’s not going to work and everything that’s wrong with it and then 9 times out of 10 suggest a complete rebuild without utilizing AI.

that’s it. that’s all I’m doing now. I have so much more free time and I’m making way more than I was previously. Majority of my new clients come from linkedin via tech bro posts.

I thought the exact same thing when I watched the OSW Review of RE8 the other day. I thought it was still like a few months to a year away…then again it always seems like that with RE. I mean hell feels like 8 didn’t come out all that long ago.

Welp looks like I can FINALLY put down Mewgenics for something else this weekend.

this is like text book definition of Anthropic. they ONCE had a great LLM, it was reliable, great solutions, Claude Code was pretty good.

now? it’s all garbage. all of it. Sonnet 4.6 hasn’t improved a damn thing. If you use Code you’re literally shooting yourself in the foot now.

All it knows how to do now is hallucinate. that’s it. They should pivot Claude to being a creative writing LLM because man it’s FANTASTIC at making stuff up and making it sound believable.

They should have died the hero.

meanwhile me on NixOS-unstable: a single font and an image editing program has brought my system to its knees.

I really hope Leafs fans boo Matthews out of the building on the first home game back. But knowing Leafs fans, I don’t see that happening.

I mean your average Hockey Player is stupid but being a fan of a team that hasn’t won since the 60s isn’t much better.

This really shouldn’t be recent news to anyone. it’s been like this since day one of vibe coding. It’s all exploitable, none of it scales, and the “vibe coders” have zero clue how any of it works when it comes out the other end of the AI. none of them. and anyone that tells you otherwise is lying.

It’s not a “growing blind spot” it’s a blind spot that has always been there. And it happens with all companies even large ones like Amazon. look what happened with the AWS outages. hell you can even go on youtube and watch people who work at Amazon and you’ll quickly realize these kids have no idea what the hell they’re doing. I’ve followed one guy for the past year who documents his on calls with Amazon and this kid hasn’t learned a single thing. He doesn’t know what he’s doing but will proudly tout how Amazon “helps” those that are laid off. The kid still gets tickets at 1am and has no clue how to fix the stuff and just hands it off to another team in the morning. he’s been doing this for over a year!

So of course this stuff is going to go unchecked because the ones who are supposed to monitor it don’t know what they’re doing.

I like retro computing so I have one computer that has Niri themed like Windows 98, also have Plasma on it themed the same way. then I have another that has Sway themed like the Apple II.

Bunkers just prove yet again the short term mindset of the wealthy. they’re useless. They hold off death for a brief period of time. Eventually though you need to leave said bunker of which we kill you on exit OR you go the hitler route.

These idiots honestly believe if they throw themselves in one we’re not just going to camp the outside?

you mean the social network whose CEO told users to simply stop posting on their platform when she refused to ban a publicly known racist and transphob from the platform? that social network? The social network whose users decided segregating themselves was the best way to use said platform? that one?

Bluesky is a joke and its userbase are the punchline.

this is because apparently the other day Denmark provided medical aid to a US Navy Submarine.

I shit you not. this is Trumps response to that.

sounds like me this past week when my external SSD decided to finally crap out on me. running around the house plugging it into multiple devices to make sure it was dead.

yup, buy old rigs/laptops “for parts”. This is what I’ve been doing.

Also go to thrift stores and look for old DVRs. you can take the HDs out of those and they’re usually in the 1tb range.

Mainly i’ve been buying old laptops purely for the ram and ssds.

my guy out of ALL the illegal shit he’s done you honestly thought THIS was the thing that would stop him? no. He has literally killed children. He could do it on live TV right now and nothing would happen to him. He could round up all the people he doesn’t like, go on fox news, and put a gun to the back of each of their heads and pull the trigger on live TV and nothing would happen.

You’re in a fascist dictatorship. Laws don’t apply to fascist dictators. he’s murdered and raped people, children even, he rigged the last election, he has a gestapo that kills american citizens with zero consequences, he has concentration camps.

There’s only 3 ways he’s going to be stopped, only 3.

1. the Military coups
2. the US people rise up and storm the capital
3. he dies. and this option is the worst because they’ll just replace him with someone younger and worse.

that’s it.

oh neat. so that means this ruling will be enforced right? …right?

of course it won’t. it’s another dog and pony show from the US.

Plasma has improved A LOT in the past year. Like a year ago I hated it. now? I daily drive it. I hate to use this phrase but everything just works.

I was kinda disappointed with the 6.6 release as I really just want dedicated virtual desktops per monitor but their compromise actually isn’t that bad. I just had to turn off animation for changing workspaces and it’s fine. Even tiling works A LOT better on Plasma than it used to and dare I saw kinda works better/is more smooth than Sway and the like and I’m not even using krohnkite. you can quickly toggle the splits for windows and even do vim style navigation between windows. you can even do vim navigation with windows that aren’t tiled.

Plus the stuff they have packaged in is just better than most alternatives out there. I love Konsole. it has everything I need. and Kate is also a fantastic IDE you can REALLY customize that is slept on by many people. Dolphin is great too. It’s nice having a DE that just has all the stuff you need right out of the box and you don’t really have to change any of the defaults.

Canadian here. We find you annoying. Daily, multiple times a day, we’re just slammed in the face with your bullshit. “What Trump is doing is illegal” or “Democrat Sen. says what Trump has done today is illegal” and then…fuck all is done about it. Meanwhile we wake up this morning to see former Prince Andrew has been arrested and we kind of just throw our hands up like “ok…now your turn”

Again, another example FROM TODAY, Trump has taken 10bil from the US and put it into his “Board of Peace” essentially controlling his own personal slush fund. Right on queue Democrat Senators and Reps are saying “that’s illegal!” ok…you going to do something about it THIS time? I’m still waiting on Ro Khanna to “draft up” those charges against Pam Bondi that he said he was going to do last December.

It’s all talk and very little, if any, action from your leaders and it’s annoying. And ALL of them are complicit in this including your favourites be it Bernie Sanders or AOC or Crockett. They all make sure they get a good sound bite or twitter post in and then…nothing, no follow through. another couple reps list off names from the files and then…nadda. One just straight up came out and said “Trump raped kids” soooooo where’s that impeachment? arrest? no? nothing?

And the infuriating thing is your Republicans NOW know they can get away with it. Again look at how Bondi behaved. many Americans on here and on reddit were saying “she’s acting that way cause she’s scared” no she wasn’t. she’s was acting that way cause she knew she could get away with it.

And to TOP it all off you still have your fellow americans posting daily things like “I think we’re the baddies now” or “we’re starting to become fascist” or “I don’t like America either”. You just don’t get it. You still have yet to accept the fact that you currently ARE a fascist country. you ARE the Nazi’s. you ARE the enemy. Even this post “Hey guys look how much Canada doesn’t like us NOW” now? NOW!? newsflash, we haven’t liked you for a good long while. We’ve TOLERATED you. We’ve rolled our eyes at you for decades. Even the insulting posts people made of “We’re sorry Canada”. no, stop. That’s like saying you chose to make a sandwich out of turds and puke instead of ham and cheese and then you gave the sandwich to the world and after we took a bite you said “oh, my bad, I shouldn’t have done that huh?” It’s like NONE of you get it until WELL after the fact and in many cases a lot of you STILL don’t get it.

We don’t want to hear your apologies anymore, we just want you to accept the fact that you’re Nazi’s, you’re the bad guys and MAYBE you’re going to consider fixing the mess you made. But as a Canadian who has had the unfortunate “pleasure” of living above you I know you’re not going to. I know you might fix the current problem but a few years down the line we’ll be right back at it again. I’ve lived through your Reagan and Bush years (multiple) you keep ramping up the worst you can be and I’m more scared of the person you elect AFTER Trump.

No, we don’t like you, and many of us never have.