They’ve already “flocked”. The site and userbase is a shell of its former self and it’s hey day is long passed. The users aged out or just went to places like kiwi farms, random discord channels, etc.
I mean you’re on Lemmy, a good chunk of old 4chan users are here, so you’re amongst them.
nice of them to put everything in one place for easier access for the ruskies.
I charge them more than I would if I was just developing for them from scratch. I USED to actually build things, but now I’m making more money doing code reviews and telling them where they fucked up with the AI and then myself and my now small team fix it.
AI and Vibe coders have made me great money to the point where I’ve now hired 2 other developers who were unemployed for a long time due to being laid off from companies leveraging AI slop.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for the bubble to burst (and it will VERY soon, if it hasn’t already) and I know that after it does I can retire and hope that the two people I’ve brought on will quickly find better employment.
For the DC? yeah, it would play burned CDs no problem.
For the playstation? not sure. I had mine modded so I could import games from Japan but I don’t believe it could play burned CDs.
Xbox and the 360 were easy to mod though and you could play burned games on those also.
But yeah the Dreamcast just did it right out of the box. no mods required.
use either Mullvad (yes, I know, the GUI sucks) or set up your own VPN.
the mullvad cli is very quick and easy. it’s a lot faster than what it was. OR set up your own wireguard VPN on your server, again very easy to set up.
I had a program that came with special CD Labels for the printer where you could make your own cool CD label covers. that was fun.
Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.
I read the manuals for everything now. I think it’s because when I was a kid videogames used to come with great manuals and half the fun was just reading through those. One of my favourites was for the original Heavy Gear on PC. that thing was like a hybrid manual and lore bible. Or old Flight Sim games with manuals that were as thick as text books.
Now you don’t get shit.
I don’t see how it would save time as someone whose job is to currently undo what “time” it “saves”. You can give Claude Code the most fantastic and accurate prompt in the world but you’re still going to have to explain to it how something actually works when it gets to the point, and it will, that it starts contradicting itself and over complicating things.
You said yourself he has to reiterate through the code with the LLM to get something that works. If he already knows it, he could just write it. Having to explain to something HOW to write what you ALREADY know can’t possibly be saving time. it’s Coding with extra steps.
God bless vibe coders, because of them I’m buying a new PC build this week AND I’ve decided to get a PS5.
Thank you Vibe Coders, your laziness and and sheer idiocy are padding my wallet nicely.
Thanks, when I have the time I’ll look into implementing this.
No automatic browsing activity reporting - The extension only searches for Lemmy discussions when:
What data is sent:
Where data is sent:
Privacy protections:
User control:
Answer: No - The extension does not report all browsing activity to third parties. It only queries your configured Lemmy instances with the current page URL to find relevant discussions, and only when you actually visit a page.
Regardless after some discussion last night I’ve added a consent notification when the extension is installed, it can now also be enabled/disabled via the sidebar so now people know exactly how the extension is being used: https://codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge/commit/2e735b56f273d44bae9df638b01985519debcfd1
…it doesn’t view the browser history at all.?
Fair enough. also to your earlier point it’s only 1 request per instance. the reason you might be seeing 5 is because 5 instances are the default.
Worst-Case Scenario (10 Heavy Users)
Lemmy Server Context:
A single person browsing Lemmy normally generates more API traffic than 10 extension users combined. The /api/v3/search endpoint is also one of the lightest operations, it doesn’t involve complex database queries like fetching full comment threads.
Totally understandable. I added in some rate limits, search result caching, timeout handling and error handling (to prevent retry storms), there’s also a max result limit per instance. If this WERE to take off with like 1000+ users I’d have to adjust it further. But right now as it stands the impact should be negligible.
It was easy to pull out of the browser as a standalone because really that’s all it was, just an extension that was baked into the browser. and since a lot of people requested it I just decided to do it.
the extension: https://codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge
Eventually yes, I will be turning it into a standalone extension.
honest question because personally I’m not seeing it or maybe I’m just blinded to it but how is it worse? From what I’ve seen the moderation hasn’t been anywhere near as heavy handed as on Reddit with the exception of nuking bots. Maybe because I’m just blocking certain instances that I’m not seeing it.