rPlayer6554 (u/rPlayer6554)

rPlayer6554 commented on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal frommers.com/tips/airfare... · Posted by u/donohoe

renewiltord · 6 days ago

Lots of society is like this. For example, red lights. I run them all the time and nothing happens. You just have to pay attention. It's why the police won't ticket you in SF. It doesn't matter. If anyone else complains you just yell "Am I being detained" a few times and then hit the accelerator. Teslas are fast. They can't catch you.

rPlayer6554 · 6 days ago

Another pro tip is to not pay at restaurants. If you can leave the restaurant fast enough before they give you the bill, they must have forgotten to charge you and sucks for them! The trick is not to bring bags so you can fake a trip to the toilet!

rPlayer6554 commented on Bugs Apple loves bugsappleloves.com... · Posted by u/nhod

rPlayer6554 · 17 days ago

You forgot when autocorrect fixes your word the second time, in 50% of cases you hit send too fast and have to send a follow up correction or edit the message

rPlayer6554 commented on Why I left iNaturalist kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06... · Posted by u/erutuon

WoodenChair · a month ago

Business books sometimes get a bad rap on here, but I never read an essay where I more thought "wow this guy really needs to read some basic business books." Even though it was a non-profit, there is so much wisdom in them about management and leadership that was clearly lacking throughout his experience. It's too late now. But maybe if he understood some of the reasons back when they were starting the app why organizations are structured the way they typically are, he wouldn't have experimented with so many poor (and ultimately failed) governance structures.

It seems like he was looking at his organization through a social lens (democracy, everyone should have a say) from a governance perspective but having it focused through a product lens (the app). That just doesn't mesh well. Social organizations typically have social missions, not products. When the two mix it doesn't always go well (see Mozilla).

He also explicitly gave up his leadership position and then later wanted a say in management's direction. Ultimately, he sounds like a caring, nice guy, who was more interested in "having everyone heard" than learning some management skills. What happened later after he dropped out of the leadership circle is just a product of that and I imagine significant bad blood between him and those who remained.

rPlayer6554 · a month ago

Could you recommend any book in particular?

rPlayer6554 commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi

tliltocatl · 2 months ago

I think people screaming "but AI is the future" doesn't recognize what the problem is. The problem is not AI. The problem is that Mozilla keeps jumping on fads instead of focusing on their browser core. There are a tons of "we bundled all the latest crap" Chrome forks out there. Nobody needs more those. Stop pushing bells and whistles. Give us more extensibility instead. Keep supporting v2 manifest and add more. There were genuine technical reasons for why XUL and NPAPI had to die, but we need an equally powerful alternative.

And yea, having a faint through about removing adblock support, yet alone speaking it aloud is a really bad sign for Mozilla's future.

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

Ok so walk me through how _only_ focusing on the browser core will make them money other than continuing to be dependent on Google. How can they diversify their revenue streams?

I agree they should make the browser core good, but right now they are entirely dependent on their biggest competitor.

rPlayer6554 commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

Just to be clear, they are NOT deactivating IntelliSense which suggests classes and functions.

This is an AI inline code suggestion tool using local LLMs.

Not great but may or may not impact your workflow. I love using agents, but Intellijs inline code suggestions (also based on a local LLMs) are usually useless to me.

rPlayer6554 commented on Framework Sponsors CachyOS discuss.cachyos.org/t/fra... · Posted by u/d3Xt3r

nrp · 2 months ago

We also sponsor Debian. We are distro-agnostic and pick our sponsorships largely based on what we see Framework Laptop owners using in our post-purchase surveys and community polls.

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

Thanks for the clarification. Glad to see your support for the open source community.

rPlayer6554 commented on Framework Sponsors CachyOS discuss.cachyos.org/t/fra... · Posted by u/d3Xt3r

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

Very interesting that Valve and Framework seem to be throwing their eggs in the Arch basket over Debian/Ubuntu. When I got my first computer, I installed Ubuntu because it was dominant. Maybe it still is for the average Linux downloader, but why are the Hardware companies more into Arch?

rPlayer6554 commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

phartenfeller · 2 months ago

I don't like this. Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? Are cinemas now second behind streaming?

Edit: I agree Netflix has good Originals. But most are from the early days when they favored quality over quantity. It is sad to see that they reversed that. They have much funding power and should give it to great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time instead of mediocrity.

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

They have a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.” Sure it has a lot of crap but they also have major hits like Squid Games, Stranger Things, (both became cultural phenomena) and Daredevil.

rPlayer6554 commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

typeofhuman · 2 months ago

You could just not let your kids go on YouTube.

There's a long history of people not using it. Most people today don't use it.

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

YouTube has a lot of really positive educational content. I have learned so much from it. For instance, I was able to learn photography from it. Yes it’s still social media in a way, but the benefits can really outweigh the drawbacks with proper use.

Shorts as a whole are incredibly addictive and have a much lower benefit to drawback ratio. Parents should be able to make this cost/benefit decision for their kids. I wish I could turn them off for myself. I settled on only using YouTube on my laptop because shorts don’t have the same appeal in that context.

rPlayer6554 commented on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team cendyne.dev/posts/2025-11... · Posted by u/speckx

triword · 2 months ago

Somehow I feel like this article was very unclear? The way it's written, the way it tells its story, I'm really not sure what happened. I wish there was just a link to the saas in question.

Like maybe it's that I just woke up, but all I really got out of this was that a vibe-coded app resulted in a company being downsized. But that's in the title. Any specifics beyond that? I really couldn't say despite having read the whole article.

rPlayer6554 · 2 months ago

The writing style and random interjections with eye catching cartoons make it hard to follow.