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- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 day ago:
WTF she said it does!
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 1 day ago:
Doctors face a similar obstacle before they can practice: medical school and residency. They literally have to jump from zero to hero before the first real paycheck.
Things may evolve this way for senior software developers with a high rate of dropout.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 days ago:
True, I tried to qualify it with just about or on the way.
From the perspective of my desk, my core business apps have AI auto suggest in key fields (software IDEs, ad buying tools, marketing content preparation such as Canva). My Whatsapp and Facebook messenger apps now have an “Ask meta AI” feature front and center. Making a post on Instagram, it asks if I want AI assistance to write the caption.
I use an app to track my sleeping rhythm and it has an AI sleep analysis feature built in. The photo gallery on my phone includes AI photo editing like background removal, editing things out (or in).
That’s what I mean when I say it’s in just about everything, at least relative to where we were just a short bit of time ago.
You’re definitely right that it’s not literally in everything.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 days ago:
What do you consider having “taken off”?
It’s been integrated with just about everything or is in the works. A lot of people still don’t like it, but that’s not an unusual phase of tech adoption.
From where I sit I’m seeing it everywhere I look compared to last year or the year before where pretty much only the early adopters were actually using it.
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 1 week ago:
I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this too. After finding a t-shirt style that I really like, I’ll buy 20 or 30 at once.
Same with pants, socks, shoes. In every pic I’m dressed exactly the same. I never have to think what to put on and I never have to think too hard about what to pack on a trip.
One less thing to worry or think about in life.
- Comment on Monty Python predicted social media 1 week ago:
If you came looking for the video: https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 1 week ago:
I’m selfhosting it on box next to me. Wasn’t so hard for me to find the GitHub link on their website.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
I was just thinking about ricochet while perusing the thread. Ricochet was new when I was starting in IT and I can still remember connecting a ricochet modem to a company laptop and then pulling up our novell netware file share over our vpn. It was jaw dropping to see it at the time. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 weeks ago:
They have a SaaS option as well, I’m guessing that’s the main revenue plan.
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 weeks ago:
Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.
Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 2 weeks ago:
Hey that’s awesome! thank you for the share. Planning to install proxmox this weekend and give it a try.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 2 weeks ago:
Having electric stability issues this week in Bangkok - several 2-3 hour outages, which are too long for a UPS to cover the gap. I have several mid range but older PCs running docker, virtualbox, etc for various things including a postfix server for the family email, immich, QBittorrent, pihole, paperless, huly, postiz, a Minecraft bedrock server, a flightradar24 ads-b collector, and a variety of other homegrown projects.
Thinking about getting some or most of this over to a service like hetzner, perhaps even splurging on a baremetal dedicated system.
Recently I’ve been reading about/trying to learn qemu and proxmox, but don’t understand them yet. Is that where it’s at for managing a bunch of your own VMs? Or kubernetes/k8s?
I’ve been a little out of the loop for a few years and of course coming back up to speed IT wise judge take weeks. Looking for recommendations on offloading my home stuff to a cloud that I control.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of vibe coding but in the context of being able to identify music that fits a “vibe”. What are you talking about?
This is when you give some LLM a prompt such as “write a game like Minecraft except cooler” and the system will output some code that might run and might vaguely resemble a block game.
So then you go back ask for more, it does something to the code potentially improving or breaking it, go back again ask for more, and repeat over and over. I’m being a little bit sarcastic because most serious developers look down on this, but really this is how a lot of coding is happening these days. There are tools to make this process somewhat usable and they are getting better every day.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. I can buy that idea, a model that’s designed to be general and answer all questions is going to have to make compromises in a lot of ways.
So it’s possible that model benchmarking needs to be revised in some way to give more useful analysis of its capabilities.
The industry is quickly moving towards using agents, MCP connections (sources of real-time data for the model to pull from, and apis that allow the model to perform tasks, like putting things on a calendar), and RAGs (augmentation with sources of truth, such as a 100 page pdf guide for example), and models that seem to be more aware that they can get data from other sources.
The future might become specialized models all the way down.
Just today I’m playing with “vibe coding” and using one agent as an orchestrator that assigns and monitors tasks to other agents. The result is still slightly bullshit code but it’s amusing to watch it work. Not sure yet if this is a strategy to spend all my money through API fees or will result in something useful 😂
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
You can do due diligence as a buyer forever but if the seller lies or doesn’t disclose… Problems like these happen. Lawsuits are potentially incoming to figure that one out.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
It kind of looks like the new owners of VPN Secure got screwed - the last owner made all these costly lifetime deals and didn’t tell them. The obligation/liability to service those deals wasn’t transferred to the new owners.
Which means the old owner is probably the bad guy here and still owes these customers for their lifetime subscriptions.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 3 weeks ago:
Just curious if you’re a developer or using LLMs often.
I like Anthropic’s sonnet 3.7 model for agent and code related tasks more than the Open AI models at the moment.
Deepseek and LLama can be run offline, which is great for certain uses especially the aforementioned BS tasks that can perhaps burn through API tokens. Quality of output doesn’t match the top models but this is second to privacy for many.
Not sure where things are at with Dall-E 3 image generation but the last time I was looking it seemed like Stable Diffusion has gotten damn good and is extensible in ways that dall-e is not.
Voice recognition, and TTS output w/emotion OpenAI has the best I’ve ever heard.
Image recognition openAI might lead but the llama4 multimodal stuff is pretty awesome
Anyways I’m just some rando but my observation is that OpenAI better get on that IPO fast unless they have some magic in the pipeline because they are being attacked by competent solutions from every side in a niche that is showing diminshing promise to change everything the father we go.
- Comment on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO 3 weeks ago:
A lot of their staff will be finished with needing to make any money ever again in their lives if they IPO.
But that will also throw OpenAI into the public sphere of needing to make money quarter after quarter forever, which inevitably leads to them sucking and no longer being innovative. Actually OpenAI is already teetering on this already as others are catching up. Sam and other top guys will leave because they hate people telling them what to do and don’t need it.
Facebook and Deepseek are literally giving it away for free now to kill the competition and in some areas other competitors are producing better products already.
It’s a weird space. I used to think we were on the verge of entering a whole new era of technology but now I think it’s going to be muted. Perhaps AI (as we know it now) eased some tasks and eliminated some BS stuff that used to waste our time, but we’ve not yet completely eliminated most professional jobs - if anything I think we just added more for them to learn and do to remain competitive.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 3 weeks ago:
I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.
IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 3 weeks ago:
The state asserts its sovereignty and backs up the claim with the consensus of the people and a lot of guns.
A sovereign citizen makes the same claim but fails to convince or compel others to agree.
They very well might believe in some god-given authority but that’s not how any of this works.
But maybe an SC will uncover a deeply hidden loophole someday and win an argument. The law affords them the opportunity to try.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 4 weeks ago:
GTA 6 is just going to be client app to a universe of micro transactions. They should probably just give it away free.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 5 weeks ago:
4444 4444 4444 4446
Damn you’re right
- Comment on Waymo Partners with Toyota, Opening Door to Sell Autonomous Vehicles to Consumers 5 weeks ago:
I was in San Francisco last week and got to take Waymo several times. Truly a surreal experience and if properly implemented seems like it’s very much our future.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 2 months ago:
This. Your data is stored in .md text files so even if Obidian somehow stopped being the best your data is so easy to move around.
Also add to your list mega.nz works for syncing Obsidian across many systems.
- Comment on What is going on behind the scenes when searching for a lemmy post in a search engine? 2 months ago:
I think most search engines are not optimized for this. I’m sure it’s changing but might take some time.
Google historically penalizes duplicate content and selects one source as canonical, usually whichever domain is the most authoritative. When it comes to lemmy, whichever instance hosts the community should probably be the canonical source.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
Fascinating… I knew some of this and it is indeed troubling.
It seems that Brave’s mission is actually about generating revenue by any method possible (including manipulation of end users) more than anything to do with privacy.
If you’re cool with all that then Brave is for you I guess.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 2 months ago:
Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 3 months ago:
Haven’t checked in a while but is there any hope for cloud storage of the image library yet? I’m kind of holding out for S3 support because I don’t want to manage multiple terabytes locally.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Obsidian has a plug in for this… here is an announcement from the plugin author: reddit.com/…/alpha_release_of_my_handwriting_plug… (sorry for a reddit link)
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Switched from Onenote to obsidian. There was a small learning curve and I had to install some plugins, but I love it. It looks amazing and runs so much faster than OneNote ever did.