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TurboSkyline
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- Hey! I played your game with my friends last weekend! We get together every month to play board games, and lately we've been doing a lot of party games like Jackbox or King of the Castle. One of our guys had heard about your game and we gave it a go and we ended up playing it for most of the day!
We tried most of the game options and had really great fun with all of it. Everything worked fine, no issues, no desync, and it didn't destroy battery life on the phone controllers either. I'd say the ferry race and the parking games were my favourite overall, but the others aren't bad by any means! So, thanks a lot for your work, and I'll definitely be returning to Gaming Couch with my group!
And for a question: Do you have plans to monetize the platform in the future? If so, can you share any details on how that would work?
- I'm not familiar with Zen, but how do you reconcile that Waterfox frequently lags behind upstream Firefox in terms of security fixes? Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities?
- But it is popular! YouTube's preferred format uses opus for most, if not all, videos upload in the last ~5 years (they also offer an AAC option alongside it). Several VoIP services use opus, including Zoom, Discord, FB Messenger, and WhatsApp (until recently). Opus is part of WebRTC and thus implicitly available for audio/video conferencing software that runs in the browser. And if you look up what audio enthusiasts recommend you use to encode your lossless music for smaller file sizes, it's almost always opus!
- Or perhaps Photoview? https://github.com/photoview/photoview
- > It is just, that I also don't trust that with those toggles now everything is switched off, or if there is a hidden other toggle or there will be one shipped with the next update.
But you can apply the same argument to everything, right? Any piece of software could be taking actions that it doesn’t disclose. Any toggle could assure the user that their settings are respected but not actually change anything. So how do you then trust running _any_ code on your computer?
- I also think about this sometimes. On the one hand, I have a natural instinct to give away as little personal data as I can, and it intuitively makes sense to me that it’s in your favour to keep as much private as possible; I assume many of us here feel the same way. But on the other hand, it takes a lot of energy to keep track of all the data that you leak, and often you have to give up better tools or workflows for a small perceived privacy gain.
Does this matter? Even if I do everything “right”, nobody around me does it. I can try to keep my shopping preferences and my searches private, but there is so much to gather from everyone else who doesn’t care about this that my efforts are very likely in vain. Even without my cookies, if you have as much data as a big tracker does, you can definitely make pretty good assumptions about what I like.
The response I usually see to this is that if everybody cared about privacy, then the picture would be different. But I’ve been reading exactly the same argument about using Firefox for the last ~15 years, and look where the Firefox share of the market is now…
- Even though the title suggests this piece is about Firefox, most of it is bashing at Google. The author’s main reason for leaving Firefox seems to be that… others have left Firefox?! That, and the quintessential mention of “AI is now in Firefox” that all these articles seem to repeat.
- Don’t Ecosia/Qwant have their own index now?
Do you find Bing better through Bing proper, or just as good through DDG (which uses the Bing index)?
- Especially in the case of aggregators, I like that they remove, or at least tone down, the sensationalism.
- A summary of the study by NPR, who themselves participated in the study, is [here](https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2025/10/21/g-s1-94424...).
> The study identified multiple systemic issues across four leading AI tools. Based on data from 18 countries and 14 languages, 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue, and 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems — missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
The PDF report has a lot more detail, including individual examples and analysis of the issues encountered.
- Hey, this has been my experience, too! I like Gemini because I’ve told it the tone and style I like my answers in and the first answer is very, very on point with that. But several times I’ve noticed that if I ask follow-up questions, the style immediately changes for the worse, often no longer following my preferences. I’ve also noticed that in follow-ups it makes really bad analogies that are not suitable at all for the kind of audience that the first response is catered to. I’ve been clicking the thumbs-down button every time I’ve seen this and commenting on the change in style and quality, so hopefully the training process will ingest that at some point.
- The Claude models seem to be focused on generating code more than anything else. Are they still competitive with Open AI and Google for more general use cases, or have they sacrificed that?
- But a VPN, commercial or self-hosed, also won't stop fingerprinting. It changes your apparent IP address, but the rest of the characteristics of your device and browser stay the same.
- > But the thing is, we've killed off a lot of these certificate types. We don't have EV certs anymore.
EV certificates are no longer in use? Do you know why?
- Is this article written by an LLM?
- I would also like a proper address bar in file selection dialogs.
The closest alternative I know of is dragging the target folder from an open Finder window into the dialog. Unlike pretty much any other OS, that doesn’t move the folder, but makes the dialog navigate to it. If you don’t have the folder open in Finder, you can do it with `open .` from a terminal.
Could you give some examples of issues you encountered because of that? I've been using fish for about 8 years now I can't remember an instance where that was a problem in interactive use.