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agreed
didn't realize that, though I wouldn't be surprised then if it also changes on sony's end
from your perspective this feels like a positive, then, no? cheaper price per hour, no requirement that you use those hours all at once?
yep, actually in my area this will be cheaper than the gaming cafes people frequent—I think the lack of reasonably-local servers is the main thing that will block adoption.

I'm not so certain the average gamer is well-informed enough to realize what they're giving up, or that they feel strongly enough to take a stand for it if they do. I'm hopeful they will, we'll see.

frankly, if I'm playing a game I own on a remote server, I expect to pay something for that

and I don't actually think that's substantially different from other competitors, like geforce now

whether I will choose to play it on a different server in the first place is a different question (I won't)

Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:56AM (#50085611)
what's stopping you from using the same extension (ublock origin lite) in safari?
am I missing something or is there an incredible amount of title editorialization here? on the page itself (and within the slug), the title is:

"Benchmarking AI decision models against traditional guardrails"

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:28PM (#49913210)
neither, actually, just that unattended "oneshot" sessions are incredibly token inefficient

if you talk about them (in which you lean on an LLM as a sort-of independent employee) and conservative, chunk-based usage (in which you use the LLM as more of an extension of yourself), you're comparing apples to oranges

a predefined spec obviously reduces that gap but how much is highly dependent on the level of detail

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:10AM (#49906756)
> unattended overnight claude opus session

yes, exactly

Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:22AM (#49800878)
Honestly, I'm not clear where the line is as far as what is reasonable, and it seems to me that no one is really addressing that question. It's easy to wave your hands and say "vibecoding is bad", without really defining what vibecoding is.

I suppose it'll be a few years before we see the true volume of technical debt catch up with the worst offenders, but even then, without the original LLM conversations associated with it, it'll be difficult to assess that in a structured way. Mind you, that doesn't even address the ever-improving models.

Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:17AM (#49800802)
I think the issue here is the nebulous definition of vibecoding.

You, as an experienced engineer, are doing a lot of hand holding and review of LLM-generated output, maybe even(?) using it as purely a check on your own work. There are others, though, that are essentially outsourcing the entire process to a basic, underspecified chat prompt.

Re:Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:16PM (#49756558)
absolutely! no shade towards contributors, my impression was that compiling for iOS is just a bit of a moving target. everyone was willing and ready to help where they could, I just had a lot of trouble.
Re:Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:51PM (#49748409)
kivy, which does the same thing, has been around for over 10 years. I built my thesis in it a few years ago. not recommended—too many limitations and build issues in practice. given that this one is less mature...I'm not optimistic.
Re:One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:17AM (#49741154)
sorry, what? servo existing as a mozilla side project did not give it broad adoption
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:46AM (#49726980)
waterfox is downstream of firefox and can't meaningfully match mozilla's maintenance of the core browser

librewolf devs are just more honest about it

did you sign up with your actual details? or were you using a throwaway email and/or phone?

as for using it without an account, try https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

Re:SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:22PM (#49567490)
I do believe it makes sense in this particular case. xPaw made it clear in his other half of the announcement that he's been burnt out for years, and a big portion of burnout is being asked to do things, whether you love them or not, for free.

https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-nexus-mods/

Re:SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:19PM (#49567450)
you should read the other half of the announcement in which the founder talked about the burnout he was experiencing

https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-nexus-mods/

Re:SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#49539741)
I think that's perfectly reasonable if it means a more sustainable future
Re:SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:42PM (#49539737)
that's optimistic
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:20AM (#49521643)
need this for android. on average, it takes genuinely about five minutes to open—I think it reindexes my entire micro sd card every time.
Re:Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:13AM (#49108407)
who's ready for gpu piracy?
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:40PM (#49010510)
enrico, at this point you're knowingly spreading misinformation. I corrected you in my last comment: the yandex search index is owned by the russian entity. there is no non-russian "yandex" anymore, period.

> After a short transition period following completion, YNV will cease to use the Yandex brand, which will be retained by the Target group. We expect that our International Businesses will develop their own branding going forward. We intend to seek shareholder approval to change the legal name of YNV in due course.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513845/000151384524...

Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:13AM (#49004891)
this is absolutely not true. yandex IS the russia-related business that got sold in 2024, the dutch entity (now known as "nebius group") is basically just data centers now.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:45AM (#49004127)
I'm not saying I agree with it, but I think this comment

> Yandex does not add any special feature or functionality that is so great they should make it obligatory to include as a default option.

kind of captures kagi's argument: that its removal would degrade search results in a not-immediately-noticeable way, particularly for certain areas of the world, which might actually be worse than a loss of a distinct add-on feature or something.

...but yeah, from my perspective, it'd be great if you could turn it off.

Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:39AM (#49004074)
they're conflating yandex with the international entity that sold it off to russian investors (now known as "nebius group"). the entire basis of the argument is wrong.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:38AM (#49004060)
no it didn't. the international entity sold off the vast majority of yandex businesses and assets to russian investors, then rebranded to "nebius group". that is to say that the yandex index/api used by kagi is wholly russian-owned and has essentially doubled down on russia/its allies.

if you're curious, the dominant business retained by the international entity was their data center stuff (though yandex still operates its own cloud business in russia/elsewhere).

Re:Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:45PM (#48866258)
I'm aware. regardless, when it comes to models, the advice to "not use Google in Production" falls short.
Re:Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:42PM (#48866239)
there was a community of people who used (famously sycophantic) gpt 4o as—for lack of a better word—a friend, who were devastated when it was shut down

I suppose at least in this case the loss is not an emotional one?

Re:Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:38PM (#48866202)
have you experimented at all with the deepseek flash models?

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