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New comment by glanzwulf in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

glanzwulf — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:19:41 +0000

> It messes up sometimes

i have the opposite experience as i've found it to mess up a lot to the point that I can't trust the AI Overview answer at all. I've seen it be confidently wrong too many times and now the trust factor just isn't there.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity'"

glanzwulf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:47:58 +0000

just because you lift weights and eat protein doesn't mean you'll be bulky, do not be ridiculous.

New comment by glanzwulf in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

glanzwulf — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:49:09 +0000

If they wanted to have this in the EU, they would've. Not going to blame brussels for the dirt that apple is throwing at my face.

New comment by glanzwulf in "FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices"

glanzwulf — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:43:23 +0000

Germany is a special case actually because they just refused to go on the fiber train and instead kept doubling down on DSL. Goes all the way back to the administration from the 80s and onwards, it's finally changing tho.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts"

glanzwulf — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:50:55 +0000

yeah, it's been a bitt iffy for me this week. took a few days off and came back yesterday and in the mean time feels like claude code took 15 steps backwards

New comment by glanzwulf in "Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions"

glanzwulf — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:44:21 +0000

Is this drug sponsored by Roger Goodell?

New comment by glanzwulf in "[dead]"

glanzwulf — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 08:44:13 +0000

Who wrote the title? Joseph McCarthy?

New comment by glanzwulf in "E3 Is Officially Dead"

glanzwulf — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:42:00 +0000

RIP. An important part of the gaming history is now gone, such a shame.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023"

glanzwulf — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:24:11 +0000

Same boat here, also Germany. Wanted to watch the Bourdain show "No Reservations" and it's practically impossible.

There are only 3 ways:

1. Import the DVDs from the US, but pay a high cost for the DVDs, the high cost of shipping, the taxes and customs and eventually, once it arrives, watch it.

2. Be a criminal, get a VPN, fake address and data, prepaid US credit card and subscribe to discovery in the US and watch it.

3. Be a criminal and pirate it easily.

Is piracy really the problem?

New comment by glanzwulf in "NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month"

glanzwulf — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:31:02 +0000

From what I remember when I last tried it, NaNoWriMo worked with the honor system. If you wanted you could paste a wikipedia article in the editor and it would count the words and tell you good job, but you'd only be lying to yourself in the end.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Tim Sweeney on Layoffs at Epic"

glanzwulf — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:15:43 +0000

I'd argue it was a bad play, they gambled on something others had gambled and failed, and just as the rest they didn't even put a dent in the market. All they did was overspent their resources and now have to resort to layoffs.

You mention EA, and they did try to break into the market and left steam for a while... they had the money, the franchises, the personnel and they couldn't do it. Now they're back on steam. Anyone else would look at what happened and would learn from their mistakes.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Tim Sweeney on Layoffs at Epic"

glanzwulf — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:40:43 +0000

> For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn

I guess giving away free games and not charging deveveloper (or charging very little depending on exclusivity deals) wasn't the best financial decision. Who would've thought?

Shame about the people impacted by this, I actually know some of them, hope they find something quick.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694"

glanzwulf — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:34:42 +0000

Well, questionable original source aside, just went on a rabbithole in wikipedia reading about it. Or do you consider wikipedia also propagandist?

New comment by glanzwulf in "TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken"

glanzwulf — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:59:58 +0000

Damn, that was fun.

Got 40,465/50,000, I feel like I'm the geoguessr guy from twitch.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN"

glanzwulf — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:55:50 +0000

Tell that to my app I guess. Just opened it and checked some "threads", refreshed, got some likes. All seems to be business as usual. Located in Germany, no VPN, via iOS.

New comment by glanzwulf in "Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN"

glanzwulf — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:09:42 +0000

But you don't need a VPN to access it. As long as you can install the app, you can use it, no need for VPN. That's how I've been trying it out just to see what the fuss is all about.

New comment by glanzwulf in "How blind photographers visualize the world"

glanzwulf — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:55:01 +0000

Would be interesting to actually be able to see this. But alas I'm a little bit too far from Walnut Creek

New comment by glanzwulf in "iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on"

glanzwulf — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:00:35 +0000

> I use uBlock Origin on Firefox on Android with "Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool" added

That's the problem. This is too complicated/too much trouble for the end user who just uses his iPhone via Safari. Do they the privacy and all that? Yes, will they go out of their way with all that trouble? No.

While you're not wrong that it's a company A fighting company B with users as pawns, it still is a win for the normal end user.

New comment by glanzwulf in "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release"

glanzwulf — Fri, 12 May 2023 08:03:28 +0000

Well, looking at the time it takes them to make a mainline Zelda game, the next one will not come out on the Switch, so it'll be easy to overcome that technical bar.

New comment by glanzwulf in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

glanzwulf — Wed, 10 May 2023 14:55:30 +0000

I dunno, I think it's pretty hard to keep cheating as a developer. How would a developer even cheat to get promoted? I mean, a PM I can see survive for longer, but a SDE?

I actually had this issue at my current job where we hired someone who seemed great and who did really well on his interview exercises but then once he started working... well, it was pretty obvious he did not know what he was doing at all. So he was let go straight away. There was no way he could cheat his way to stick it out for longer than a month.