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AnandTech Farewell 2 years ago

I agree, but so does the article; I quote: "Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again."

Absolutely not. This stuff happens in a lot of technology groups, custom ROM groups, even a small (but public) board game group got overrun with it once; multiple accounts posting dozens of CSAM videos/images in a minute after joining - kept going for a few weeks.

Telegram is not E2EE (with the exception of phone-only 1-on-1 Secret Chats, which are also questionable security-wise). Telegram has access to everything ever shared on their services, even if users delete it.

Signal by design can't moderate their service. Telegram by design has full access, but doesn't act on it.

To be fair, anyone that has used Telegram for a while know that this is just a mock option to fool regulators. You can report all you want; zero action is taken. There are dozens of accounts that joined groups I'm in to spam CSAM. We've reported them, kicked/banned them from the group. Months later you can look them up and they're still there and still active. They even post CSAM in their public (visible for everyone on their profile) stories.

Paint.net 2 years ago

Agreed, I switched to Krita and it's amazing in comparison.

As someone who does quite some audio stuff on Windows, using Focusrite Scarlett interfaces - I never encountered issues like that.

On Linux however..

The upload verification afaik requires: - copy of ID - clear photo of self holding up a hand-written sign saying either PornHub or a random phrase that is given

After that they manually compare the ID and photo.

But I can imagine there is going to be a market for verified accounts if access is given this way, and they can't do this process on every login. Plus it will require logins to access content in general, while I think most PH visitors never log in.

I recently (yesterday) for the first time tried various variants to get code completion and refactoring after all the hype, and was quite disappointed in it. Now I mainly develop in C# using VSCode on Windows, which is not the most common platform for things like this I suppose. Most articles I could find were targeted towards macOS and M1/M2 chips.

I tried:

- Continue.dev with local DeepSeek: couldn't get it to work with CUDA easily and my Python experience is close to zero. After over an hour of debugging wild errors and issues I ran into a library that wasn't compiled with CUDA support (which auto-downloaded from the requirements-file) and refused to work, so I gave up.

- Continue.dev with GPT-4 (latest preview which should be less lazy): Still very lazy and slow, and I got tired of having to copy/paste (well, there's a hotkey) everything into the chat window and then missing context. And it preferred giving recommendations over actual code, even when directly instructed to write something.

- Codeium.dev: This seemed very promising right out of the box, but then it started recommending Python code in the middle of a C# project, despite being context aware. I wasn't able to get any useful C# out of it, but it is also not listed in the supported language section so perhaps I should have known better.

- Github Copilot: As a paid premium product and all the hype surrounding it I expected something better here, but it was even worse than Continue.dev with GPT-4. It was incredibly lazy, just gave textual answers instead of code or broad recommendations on how to fix something, or just repeaded what I asked (please provide a method to handle both these cases to remove duplicate code -> oh yes you can indeed write a generic method to handle both these cases; but no actual code, just confirming that it was possible).

Either I did something horrible wrong, or C# is entirely out of scope in these projects, or all the hype is.. People that got lucky? I have no idea. But I was heavily disappointed with my first experiences with this.