Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 day ago:
Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 1 day ago:
I keep seeing the “it’s good for prototyping” argument they post here, in real life.
For non-coders it holds up if you ignore the security risk of someone running literally random code they have no idea what does.
But seeing it from developers, it smells of bullshit. The thing they show are always a week of vibing gave them some stuff I could hack up in a weekend. And they could too if they invested a few days of learning e.g. html5, basic css and read the http fetch doc. And the learning cost is a one-time cost - later prototypes they can just bang out. And then they also also have the understanding needed to turn it into a proper product if the prototype pans out.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 day ago:
Hey I am not in need of convincing haha. Am Linux gamer and genuinely find it easier than Windows already.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
It is.
And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.
- Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn’t)
- Install the sound card drivers correctly
- Edit the computer’s config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates’ 640 kb RAM available to load a game
- Borrow (!) a network card from my dad’s computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
- Install network drivers
- Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
- Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
- Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight
We all did that back then!
If someone was a “gamer” they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.
Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider “mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux”, running GNU GUIX:
- Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
- Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
- Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.
O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 days ago:
Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.
- Comment on CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage 4 days ago:
Reading it yeah… The claim is not very plausible.
CrowdStrike saying “we are safe” but then later doing a fuckup does not constitute intention to defraud.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 4 days ago:
I can totally believe that nobody else felt like
bribingpaying out of their nose to have a Guinness employee fly over and look at a small computer and go “yep its small”. - Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
Don’t be so negative! It’s also found a huge market in scams. Both for stealing celebrity likenesses, and making pictures and video of nonexistent products.
- Comment on Microsoft says Windows 11 is leveling up agentic development 1 week ago:
Wow so next time I have a burning need for agentic experiences in my life I know a product exists to serve my need.
- Comment on Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews 1 week ago:
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
The awards are fun when I compare my vote list with my friends’ vote list, but the actual awards are just annoyingly pointless.
The winner of each category is predictable immediatelt. It will only ever be the game with the highest number of players and the category doesn’t matter.
If GTA6 comes out in 2026 and posts “we are hoping to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award”, it’s going to win the Emotional Indie Platformer Award.
- Comment on How I Left YouTube 3 weeks ago:
It’s baffling how people in the US accept and even adopt the language of NDAs being trade secrets. They aren’t. It’s a weapon to make it harder for people to leave.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
TBH he probably knows he is lying, but is making confusing claims in order to push some other agenda.
Probably firing core people to save money while maintaining plausiblish deniability that this won’t do irrepairable damage.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
The expensive autocomplete can’t do this.
AI markering all wants us to believe that spoon technology is this close to space flight. We just need to engrave the spoons better. And gold plate them thicker.
Dude who wrote that doesn’t understand how LLMs work, how Rust works, how C works, and clearly jack shit about programming in general.
Rewriting from one paradigm to another isn’t something you can delegate to a million monkeys shitting into typewriters. The core and time-consuming part of the work itself requires skilled architectural coding.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a “wrong start” in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
This was a very directed experiment at purely LLM written maintainable code.
Writing experiments and proof of concepts, even without skill, will give a different calculation and can make more sense.
Having it write a “starting point” and then take over, also is a different thing that can make more sense. This requires a coder with skill, you can’t skip that.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been coding for a while. I did an honest eager attempt at making a real functioning thing with all code written by AI. A breakout clone using SDL2 with music.
The game should look good, play good, have cool effects, and be balanced. It should have an attractor screen, scoring, a win state and a lose state.
I also required the code to be maintainable. Meaning I should be able to look at every single line and understand it enough to defend its existence.
I did make it work. And honestly Claude did better than expected. The game ran well and was fun.
But: The process was shit.
I spent 2 days and several hundred dollars to babysit the AI, to get something I could have done in 1 day including learning SDL2.
Everything that turned out well, turned out well because I brought years of skill to the table, and could see when Claude was coding itself into a corner and tell it to break up code in modules, collate globals, remove duplication, pull out abstractions, etc. I had to detect all that and instruct on how to fix it. Until I did it was adding and re-adding bugs because it had made so much shittily structured code it was confusing itself.
TLDR; LLM can write maintainable code if given full constant attention by a skilled coder, at 40% of the coder’s speed.
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 4 weeks ago:
No way to know for sure based on this. If you used any app that “works with” WhatsApp in any way, you could be affected.
- Comment on Free AI customer support tool— TWT Chat 4 weeks ago:
Liar
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 5 weeks ago:
Hades 2
- Comment on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst 1 month ago:
An economic bubble isn’t when something is fake and ceases to exist when the bubble bursts.
We use the term when the market is inflated way beyond its value.
A bubble bursting is when people realize the market is inflated way beyond its value and pull out, leaving debt-ridden companies to their debt.
Some go bankrupt, stock prices fall, economy news outlets insist nobody could have predicted this, investments go elsewhere, people are laid off, and the people responsible fail upward to another grift.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 1 month ago:
Wait, you’re surprised it did what you asked of it?
No. Stop making things up to complain about. Or at least leave me out of it.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 1 month ago:
I tried the image of this real actual road collapse: www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/…/12875776
I told ChatGPT it was fake and asked it to explain why. It assured me I was a special boy asking valid questions and helpfully made up some claims.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive none.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
The game being banned for a misunderstood piece of placeholder concept art in a Steam approval preview build, which was both removed, and explained. Then Valve refusing to reconsider it and rejecting all attempts to clarify their objections.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
Looks like it has triggered someone’s “we can’t be seen backing down!” reflex at Valve
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 month ago:
The fucking lunacy of the AI bros he lists as examples…
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 1 month ago:
Heyyyy! Who switched the labels on the pods?
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Now who’s going to clean up Gene?
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And explain it to his family?
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Rob, can you show up to Gene’s wedding pretending to be him while we figure this out?
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 1 month ago:
Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human
