Flit's Nest

will this be the smoking gun? please??

discord probably processes all server messages for AI usage. this is a conclusion i'm drawing based on things i'm seeing and it's possible this isn't actually accurate. i'm pretty confident though.
i personally am not much of an AI fan. my friend group is ...

got an ad popup for hardware discounts with nitro.

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what this tells me is that, even if you are paying discord directly , you will still be advertised to. (for the record i was gifted nitro and don't plan on renewing)

this is probably a good time to point out that ...

i've finally written a good set of udev rules for the unbranded gamecube adapter i use to play sadx and ship of harkinian . the control stick and trigger deadzones were quite bad out of the box, so i needed to use udev to configure them automatically when connected.

for the curious, a photo of the ...

I decided to integrate Mumble with my primary (not fully public) Discord server, where I spend most of my time online and, these days, in general.

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Why are you doing this?

I don't like Discord. I think I've made my stance on that ...

i just updated the server running flitpix.net to debian trixie (from bookworm ).

the documentation for the upgrade process was quite good for the most part. i was slightly confused by the new deb822 format for apt source files, but that was the only real roadblock.

there's a very specific reason i ...

discord MAY be sharing the people you are in vc with to youtube/google to feed recommendations. this is unconfirmed as of now

someone in an archipelago sync i was participating in last night, was later recommended someone else's vod channel on youtube. both were in the discord vc. the other person ...

discord has begun blocking VPN users... but only if they're on linux.

even better is they just check the user agent which is very easy to spoof, so it's not like they're even trying

https://x.com/vencordapp/status/1976622260162314292

this is a really old post lol. was gonna do like, update recaps every few days, but then decided that maybe i don't want to do that.

there's a new discord quest asking users to try an AI browser for 5,000 orbs. (for those who aren't aware, discord quests are ads you can watch or tasks you can perform for a discord-specific currency, orbs, which you can spend in the store)
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this is more than enough ...

i appreciate when software provides linux builds

i don't appreciate it when said builds are broken and don't work like they're supposed to

test your software. if your builds for a particular platform are broken, i'd rather you not mislead me into thinking you have functional builds for it, and ...