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ChannelFence

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About ChannelFence

QA engineer. I test software for a living and build tools for annoyances I get tired of working around.

Currently maintaining ChannelFence, an open-source Chrome extension for persistent YouTube creator blocking.

https://channelfence.app/

https://github.com/boahs/ChannelFence

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49495595

    the people without a model are also the easiest users to lose, they won't file a bug or explain what broke. they'll just click twice, decide the product is unreliable and use somet…

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    Comment #49486863

    so the robots will end up making things worse and it'll still require on site calls for maintenance. sounds like money well spent, mark.

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    Comment #49486668

    i'll be surprised if anthropic doesnt follow. cursors biggest advantage has been giving users a polished wrapper around whichever frontier model they prefer

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    Comment #49486655

    this is a pretty clean test of whether people were buying cursor or just using it for convenient access to whichever model was flavor of the week. i work in qa so i'm naturally war…

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    Comment #49480421

    I really wasn't trying to offer anything constructive. I was just pointing out something I found funny and made a joke about it. It wasn't anything more serious than that.

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    Comment #49479848

    Why is it a bad thing I found this funny? Two months and 1.1k+ commits to rediscover an already known bug IS funny. That doesn't mean I hate the person or want to discredit their w…

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    Comment #49479730

    4 now lol. why would my karma matter anyway? this isnt reddit

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    Comment #49479693

    I'm getting model fatigue at this point. Impressive pace, but fucking exhausting to follow.

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    Comment #49479537

    Two months and 1100+ commits to rediscover a bug that was already found in 2024 is probably the funniest possible ending to a "vibecoded fuzzer" story.