Yeah, but OTOH, do we cheer for centralisation of technology for thems that can affords to pay?

I think that compresses the nuance too much. I think of vibe coding like this:

Back in the day, the C64 bedroom coder wasn’t trying to “disrupt” anything. They were making something that worked for them, modifying example code (usually…poorly) and then sharing it. That’s how the demo scene started. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago.

The pride was in the craft, not the pitch deck.

The difference between that and the “we shipped” crowd isn’t that the C64 coders don’t want recognition - it’s that they weren’t substituting the performance of shipping for the thing itself.

Or using a woodworking analogy; you want people to appreciate the dovetail joint, not the Instagram reel of you cutting it.

If you made the dovetail joint, it’s obvious. Does which tool you used particularly matter? Shouldn’t I independently assess the quality of the joint regardless?

It’s very trendy right now to be anti-ai everything, and I get that, but we’re at risk of missing the forest for the trees here.

AI is a force magnifier and it’s not going anywhere. Take the same due diligence with projects you see here you do with other areas of your life - if it sounds too good to be true etc etc.

I hate being the wowser police on this, but from where I sit both the “FuckAI” and “we just shipped… curious to hear” crowds have the same issue.

Basically, yes

See

YOU. ARE. ALREADY. DEAD.

PS: I just wanted a working fork of their app. Instead, I got this masterpiece. 5/7, would infohazard again

Infohazard, beratna

Except, fr fr!

Highlights:

• “Serverless Legal Immunity” - the Principal is “Un-Hostable”
• “Grand Trespass of the Soul” if you try to psychologically coerce him
• “maritime Admiralty jurisdiction” - classic SovCit
• Cryptographic validation keys that are just his initials in binary
• Emoji legal seal: ⚡︎⚖︎🛡️𓀠🛡️⚖︎⚡︎
• Explicit warning to “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES” not to trespass on his cognitive integrity

Welcome to the internet, 2026. Cookers are everywhere!

P.S. For extra double fuck irony, I got Lumo to actually summarise that. Haha…fuck

Right? I still have my OG Xbox 360, Wii U etc, with physical discs.

For a while, I went the other way; I bought a Lenovo M93p (think: size of Wii) - it runs everything up to PS2 era at 2x resolution, as well as PC games to around 2015/6 era (and later indies). Total cost was under $100. I turned it into a kiosk with Playnite, so you could turn it on and be playing whatever in under 10 seconds.

Right now I have the OG Wii (modded) sitting in its place…something about the joys of original hardware speaks to me. But I could (should) swap the lenovo back in. That way I have Just Cause 2 sitting right next to Mario Kart Double Dash, right next to Luanti and modded Fallout 3.

Part of me thinks “eh, emulation” but the other part is “dude…not everything is Nintendo”.

I do hope people realise that 7th gen and earlier consoles are still fucking awesome. Yes, that’s PS3/Xbox360/Wii/GBA/DS era.

Some of those still have lively homebrew scenes. Hell, the Wii just got a new (physical) release game.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/its-2026-and-the-wii-is-getting-a-new-physical-game-release/1100-6538083/

Reject modernity. Embrace retro.

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Hmm. Not sure I agree with “just mark the parts that are AI generated” because that obfuscates the parts that were human made, skewing perception towards “it’s all AI gen”.

Require the full accounting - human, clanker, level.

• Design - Human
• Implementation - Pair
• Testing - Assist
• Documentation - Human
• Review - Human
• Deployment - Human

Reads differently to

• Implementation - Pair
• Testing - Assist

4/6 human vs ?? / Human is a different trust signal (which is what this is actually about, right?)

PS: I’m a fan of acronyms, so how about “show us the STACK or show us the DIRTY”

• Spec (Design)
• Testing
• Assembly (Implementation)
• Checks (Review)
• Knowledge (Documentation)

Or

• Design
• Implementation
• Review
• Testing
• Yeet (deployment)

Those are rookie numbers. They need to pump that up. $10K a console, and you need to scan your retina to use it.

Ya know… for a luxury good with literally dozens of other, better options… “Make it impossible to buy our stuff” is a dumb hill to die on.

Oh well.

laughs in 40 years of non PlayStation games

You could not live with your failure. And where did that bring you? Back to (Lem)my.

Despite setting up SmartTube for them, my parents still sometimes watch Free2Air TV. If you think YouTube is bad…jfc…try Aussie F2A TV.

As for radio…I either listen to music on my USB stick or I play AM only stations (or occasionally, on a long drive, AntennaPod - gotta get that sweet Coast to Coast Art Bell on at 2am).

• Brands increase prices
• People stop buying brands
• Brands cry foul
• Oh no! Anyway…

The trick, William Potter, is to bleed the people just enough to satiate your parasitism without exsanguinating them, eh?

Gee, we’ve never seen that trick before.

Does shreddit not work any more?

Ah but redreader parses old.reddit.com. So with the proposed changes, you will probably need an account to use even the excellent RedReader.

IIRC, when the APIpocolypse happened, Reddit tried really hard to nerf Redreader. They got shamed into allowing it access again on accessibility grounds.

It’s only a matter of time before it stops working.

Take solace in knowing that “lol, fuck reddit then” is a perfectly cromulent response to this.

I just hope Lemmy doesn’t become Reddit 2.0

Oh no! Anyway…

EDIT: Just to be clear, I am not dismissing OP. I’m saying “fuck Sony” and “this would be a good time to convert to PCmasterrace or go retro”

Nice LLM you have there. Be a real shame if one that costs 1/10 the price (and another that can run on a consumer rig self hosted) could outperform it.

Lol

#JustMicrosoftThings

Hey assholes? Eat a fat bag of shit. You’re all surplus to requirement.

https://www.luanti.org/en/