vitorfblima's comments

On: A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

[vitorfblima]

This is all common knowledge, unfortunately.

On: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

[vitorfblima]

Exactly. So many people missing the whole point.

On: Ring owners are returning their cameras

[vitorfblima]

This. The survelliance state smiles when people find ok to film their neighbors for "safety" purposes.

On: An AI agent published a hit piece on me

[vitorfblima]

Well, well, well, seems you're onto something here.

On: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

[vitorfblima]

Most people wouldn't want to be constantly bothered by an agent unsolicited. Just my 1 cent.

[quietsegfault → vitorfblima]

If the agent is good enough, it wouldn't have to bother me at all.

I don't have to manually change my thermostat to get the house temperatures I want. It learns my habits and tells my furnace what to do. I don't have to manually press the gas and break of my car to a certain distance away from the car in front. It has cameras and keeps the correct distance.

I would love to be able to say "Keep an eye on snow blower prices. If you see my local store has a sale that's below $x, place the order" and trust it will do what I expect. Or even, "Check my cell phone and internet bill. File an expense report when the new bills are available."

I'm not sure exactly what my comfort level would be, but it's not there yet.

[raincole → vitorfblima]

I'd like to say something about this project but you guys have run out all the cents.

[collingreen → raincole]

That's just the traditional finance market holding you back. This is yet another reason we need crypto.

[cmehdy → raincole]

Incentives invite inventive invectives?

On: A Social Filesystem

[vitorfblima]

Back in the old twitter days you could have screenshots of your tweets being displayed by a number of different 'dubious' accounts on instagram, completely out of your control.

That's just how things work, I guess.

On: JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

[vitorfblima]

Back in the day I used to log in to a MUSH called Elendor (telnet).

It was simply magical and I have many good memories venturing through middle-earth and meeting fellow chars.

[vhtr → vitorfblima]

It is crazy to me how captivating and immersive text-based games can be. I've been exploring them for fun in recent years, the roots of modern mmorpgs. Fun to come across stuff you still have in modern games. :)

On: Vietnam bans unskippable ads

[vitorfblima]

I don't see how less video time for people would harm innovation.

If you, like me and most people I know, hate ads, why would it be a bad thing to limit it?

What are we expecting to actually accomplish with all this platform growth thing?

[hdgvhicv → vitorfblima]

Most people don’t hate adverts, at least not enough to do something about them (subscribe to YouTube premium, install an adblocker, install a pi hole)

On: Don't Become the Machine

[vitorfblima]

Ironically Amiga means "female friend" in portuguese.

[bigstrat2003 → vitorfblima]

And Spanish. And probably French, since if it's in two Romance languages the odds are decent it's in others lol.

[dmbche → bigstrat2003]

Would be Amie in french, sadly

[butlike → dmbche]

Why is that sad? lol

[dmbche → butlike]

Would've been neat, no?

On: GPT-5.2

[vitorfblima]

I don’t get the comparison. It would be like saying it’s okay if an excel formula gives me different outcomes everytime with the same arguments, sometimes right, but mostly wrong.

[ssl-3 → vitorfblima]

People can accomplish useful things, but sometimes make mistakes and do shit wrong.

The bot can also accomplish useful things, and sometimes make mistakes and do shit wrong.

(These two statements are more similar in their truthiness than they are different.)