Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 hours ago:
ies in this case. I hope you don’t want to know why. ‘y’ usually (but not always) becomes “ies”?
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 6 hours ago:
You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!
Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.
I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 1 day ago:
The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 5 days ago:
It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
You can not push the button that says AI.
You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.
That’s opt-in enough.
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 1 week ago:
It’s been a hundred years and we’re still making WWII movies. You think living through it is going to be any less worthy of attention?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
Yeah, nuance exists. Weird, I know.
- Comment on YSK that when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it! 1 week ago:
The corp doesn’t get the tax break either way.
You only get it if you claim it (in the US), of course. Nobody is tracking that for you.
- Comment on YSK that when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it! 1 week ago:
The corporation does not get a tax break.
They get the PR, and they get some leverage over the org they’re donating to. But, you know, the leverage is that they stop collecting money to the org, so if you refuse to give in the first place then…
It’s better to give to the charities of your choice without needing some other corp to effectively advertise and collect for them, but that seems unlikely. It probably is helpful that someone is out there advertising. It may be worth making that deal with the corp.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
How do I put this.
AI isn’t exactly the cause of the rise in the price of hardware. Only 1/6th of the purchased Nvidia cards are actually in data centers. Same for the memory.
We’re not using it.
What’s really drumming up all the prices is that the billionaires are convinced that AI is going to replace tons and tons of people. It’s not. It’s the insane corporate hype that’s doing all the damage.
It will replace some, sure. The same way the electric drill replaced carpenters. One electric drill does not replace one carpenter. That’s not how that works. Instead the carpenters can work a bit faster and their job is a bit easier. It’s worth buying and it’s worth using, but it doesn’t really replace a person. Accountants didn’t disappear as a profession when spreadsheets were invented.
There were books written in the 1980s about how household appliances raised the standard of cleanliness. Turns out people change clothes more when cleaning clothes doesn’t involve a washing board. And I don’t think Roombas replaced that many jobs either.
In particular, I think this is a thing that will happen for software development. I don’t think it’ll reduce the number of developers we need. I think the standards for development will just be higher. All the front end stuff in particular is going to get easier, and you won’t need as many frameworks. We’ll especially need just as many devs, if not more, in the short term. Someone’s going to have to fix the mess all these companies are going to make after they’ve fired half their devs and tried to just vibe code everything.
- Comment on The Good Old days. Wish I had lived through them. Seems like lots of fun 1 week ago:
Would be better without the text overlay.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 week ago:
To expand on that, the prosecution wouldn’t have an obligation to reveal that evidence to the jury, but they would have an obligation to provide it to the court and/or defense during discovery. And, you know, that seems like something the defense would both use and request if it were missing.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 1 week ago:
Or just a little fun.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.
- Comment on Don't assume the horrors of the Trump administration will be over after the next election 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little of each. There was a lot of social media propaganda and traditional media propaganda. But in the end, people still had to choose. They still voted.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 2 weeks ago:
I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.
It’d be a public service in more ways than one.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 2 weeks ago:
5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 3 weeks ago:
anti-China and anti-Russia
Uh huh. Yeah okay.
We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Remember r/reddit ?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 3 weeks ago:
If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.
The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.
If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 3 weeks ago:
Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.
Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.
The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.
You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 4 weeks ago:
There was a day in 2003 when literally everyone who had touched a computer applauded without knowing why.
It was the day Iomega stopped producing zip drives because they were finally obsolete.
- Comment on Well, when you frame it like that it sounds absurd. But yes. 5 weeks ago:
In case you want the actual link:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Nvidia is the stock.
Good luck with the timing. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
