Lol get the fuck outta here with this.

Here’s the take I read elsewhere:

• Meta is pushing this hard through various lobbyist groups and shell groups
• The supposed reasoning is that because of the massive flood of bots on the internet, advertisers are now incapable of discerning between bots and humans. This is bad for the advertising industry, so advertisers are apparently bailing on Meta. This means Meta is bleeding income on that front
• To stop the bleeding, Meta is pushing age verification for a few reasons: 1. It signals that the entity on the other side is indeed a human and this gives advertisers more confidence; 2. It ensures that advertisers are not advertising to children (a big no-no)
• Next up comes the government buy-in. They see this as a new wedge for pushing mass surveillance and shoving tons of people out of the shadow of privacy.

Here’s a chart I grabbed from elsewhere that shows how Meta is achieving this and how the money is exchanging hands:

It’s just computers all the way down.

I was actually having fun until we were all forced to use AI or fall behind. Now it’s boring as fuck and I’m not even allowed to work part-time? Typical capitalist scam.

That said, I like being an adult with adult money. I wouldn’t go back.

I continue to use GamePass because you can download the games to your console, but if/when they go fully cloud-only, I’m out. That will be the death knell for mainstream consoles for me. I’ll stick to my Steam Deck and modded classic consoles.

Go back to old consoles like I’ve been doing. I’m in the process of modding a PS2, and I’ve got a 3DS that is on Pretendo Network and has a fuckload of games installed on an SD card.

Edit: forgot to mention that I also recently threw my old BD burner into an external case. So now I can archive stuff to DVD like we did back in the day. I’ve been really leaning into reviving old tech.

I can’t remember exactly what I did but enabling autovacuum was one of the big ones. I’ll try to provide some info below:

Walks through VACUUM and autovacuum - https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-25-use-vacuum-analyze-postgresql/view

How to see if autovacuum is already enabled (these are commands you’d run while in sql):

SHOW autovacuum;

View current settings:

SELECT name, setting FROM pg_settings WHERE name LIKE '%autovacuum%';

Monitor which tables need attention:

SELECT schemaname, relname, n_dead_tup, n_live_tup 
FROM pg_stat_user_tables 
WHERE n_dead_tup > 1000 
ORDER BY n_dead_tup DESC;

I wish I had documented it at the time because info about this for Lemmy specifically is pretty lacking. I was in kind of a dire situation though because my disk space had filled up quickly and my system was struggling. A lot of what I did was basic PostgreSQL maintenance stuff, so you should be able to find some general guides for that.

EDIT: I had Claude help me corral some optimization stuff into a PDF. This is along the lines of what I did to get my db back under control. Make sure to always backup first! https://u.orca.casa/1771250081

And Copilot is still one of the weakest AI offerings out there based on my experience.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a vibe-coded OS at this point.

As someone that turned a programming hobby into a career… it fucking sucks. I don’t have enough time in the day to get back to hobbies, so when the work day ends, zoning out to video games late into the night becomes my main quest. Can’t complain but this full-time job side quest fucking sucks, especially with AI muscling into everything and sucking the oxygen out of the room.

I know this is kinda dumb, but feed your comments to some free AI tool and ask it to change the tone to be more neutral. Totally phone it in lol.

Hell yeah, friendo.

Pineapple and jalapeño is fire on pizza. I don’t care what anyone says.

but Lemmy really fucked up their database performance somehow.

Can confirm. I spent like 4 hours one day configuring auto vacuum and other shit on my Lemmy DB because it was bloating to hell and eating up resources. Runs much smoother now but it was a massive PITA to get there.

I swear I can find an applicable Marx excerpt for almost anything. His work has strengthened my anti-capitalist conversations a ton.