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.
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.
No automatic browsing activity reporting - The extension only searches for Lemmy discussions when:
A page finishes loading (background.js:119-128)
URL changes are detected (content.js:37-54)
What data is sent:
Only the current page URL and its variations (content.js:73-80)
URL variations include cleaned URLs (no tracking params), with/without www, http/https variants
(content.js:109-168)
Where data is sent:
Only to Lemmy instances you've configured (background.js:149-152)
No third-party analytics or tracking services
All requests go directly to Lemmy APIs for post searches
Privacy protections:
Results are cached locally for 30 minutes (background.js:141-143)
No persistent logging of browsing history
You can disable the notification indicator (content.js:172-184)
Only sends URL when you actually visit a page, not preemptively
User control:
You choose which Lemmy instances to search
You can remove instances at any time
The extension only activates on http/https URLs
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.
With 30-minute caching, actual API calls = ~300/hour
Distributed across 5 default instances = 60 requests/hour per instance
That's 1 request per minute per instance
Lemmy Server Context:
Normal web traffic: Thousands of requests per hour
Single user browsing: 10-50 requests/hour easily
RSS bot: Often 100+ requests/hour
This extension: 1 request/minute = trivial load
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.
I've had a few cats in my life and I've never once paid for one, Hell I've never even gone to a shelter to adopt one, they just show up. Naturally every time I take to the vet to get checked out and see if they're chipped. nope. just random kitties that decide "you seem nice and seem like you'll feed me"
The only time you might have issues with Ubuntu is when it comes time to update/upgrade it. I've seen people on Mastodon, every time an update rolls out, say that its broken something. But I think those cases are few and far between.
Mint is a good choice to get your feet wet. Install it with KDE Plasma so it will at least feel familiar to you. Cinnamon is fine but I always found it a little bit wonky. When I first started on linux I got kinda carried away with customizing Cinnamon and it totally just wrecked my install.
There's a lot of documentation and support for Mint/Ubuntu so you can pick up stuff pretty quickly. Once you get comfy with it you can always switch your distro to something else. But yeah there's nothing wrong with starting on Mint to get a feel for it.
I don't watch him, and neither should you. He's a con artist. It's painfully obvious he's grifting his viewer base with his "hot takes". He doesn't present jack shit honestly. Remember when he called the Palestinian people "inferior"? He discovered he could milk people like you for money by saying the most dumb shit and you eat it up like pigs eating shit.
Asmongold...you have got to be shitting me. imagine getting your "news" from a guy that used a dead rat as an alarm clock, wipes the blood from his gums on his bedroom wall, used to routinely eat snacks that had maggots in them, and treats drinking water like it's poison.
A guy who could barely play WoW and left his main account on twitch because making money from viewers on that was "too stressful" proceeds to start an alt channel where he nows grifts the right for money.
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.