Serinus
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- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 4 hours ago:
The game would have been appropriately hyped if it weren’t for a few massive fuckups.
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Resource gathering was supposed to be a cat & mouse game. But the potential PvP while gathering resources doesn’t appeal to the masses, so marketing added a “you can’t touch me” PvE flag.
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Item duplication. There were exploits that allowed item duping. They didn’t reset the economy after those exploits were addressed, and they didn’t catch everyone.
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They decided the content was too easy (especially given the duped gear above) and made everything much harder after a couple weeks. Again, no server reset. So if you didn’t get in in the first couple weeks and duplicate some items in that time, you were forever behind.
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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 days ago:
Reagan.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Sometimes you get a new dream machine that has internal ipv6 disabled by default and only your matter over WiFi lights stop working, but you think they’re thread, which shouldn’t leak ipv6 past the otbr. So you work on getting them reconnected to the Internet by removing your firewall policy that kept them local, but Ubiquity now has Zones as well, and your dumbass did a little of each. Plus, for some reason, they’ll negotiate an ipv4 and drop off the network, and there’s no easy way to identify a bulb by it’s IP or mac address. It’s not like the Mac addresss is printed on the bulb, so you try to judge by signal strength. But then your buddy who’s been helping you troubleshoot for the past couple hours tells you to link him the lights from your order history, so only then do you realize they’re matter over WiFi and not matter over thread, and enabling ipv6 locally does the trick. Now you’ve just got a set up your automations again, because you had the bright idea to put actual switches in the walls that depend on home assistant, and the automations don’t know the new entities so none of your wall switches work until that’s fixed. And eventually you’ll get around to reinstating that firewall policy to block them from the Internet, but not today because you’ve spent long enough for one day on fighting with your light bulbs.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.
All hail Putin, Xi.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
If you want to find out if they’re an actual tankie, just look for anything related to Russia or China. They out themselves pretty quick, usually.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.
End of story.
There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.
Also it’s always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It’s so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.
Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
start small … nextcloud
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 3 weeks ago:
Vaultwarden is what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
All that domestic violence that happens on coffee house first dates.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
I feel like if I don’t participate, it’ll only be the bots manipulating people.
And yeah, as people we’re probably outnumbered. But I kind of hope the truth counts for something.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 4 weeks ago:
Doctor. Everyone always needs doctors, all the time forever. And they’ll always make good money, because even rich people like to continue living.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 4 weeks ago:
Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?
You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?
- Comment on He looks so shocked 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t appreciate that my someone had apparently spent a year smoking in my car while I was inside the pizza shop.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 5 weeks ago:
we’re seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism.
Absolutely.
We’re not seeing an increase in Autism
Not sure about that. It can be both.
- Comment on Poland will shoot down objects in clear-cut airspace violations, prime minister says 5 weeks ago:
“Will not hesitate”
… anymore, I guess.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 weeks ago:
If the thousand instance users are controlled by three people, it’s not that hard.
We might not be there yet though. Elections are far enough out.
I expect 95% of Lemmy to be propaganda and manipulation when we get closer. There’s only so much that can be done to keep our nation states when all the users are anonymous.
And when you put your real name on things, you get cancelled.
It’s a bad time for the Internet, and I don’t have easy answers. Just be very aware that what seems to be “consensus” opinion might actually be twenty accounts controlled by the same guy or organization. They might even argue with each other, and just have the side they want to lose present weak arguments.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 5 weeks ago:
I wrote a paper for English in college, which I wouldn’t write the same way today.
I started with a shocking, racist statement that I held up as an example of things that aren’t acceptable. I spent the rest of the paper both refuting that and drawing parallels to other things that shouldn’t be acceptable.
My shocking statement was effectively taken at face value, and I was originally given a D on the paper. I went back and argued it into a B, because it really wasn’t what it seemed at first, if you just read it.
That attention getter sure got attention though. I don’t remember if that was part of the assignment.
I tend to have this writing style often enough that my super power is convincing people to do the opposite of whatever I’m advocating for. There’s at least one famous Lemmy example from me.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 5 weeks ago:
It’s also kind of surprising how my education mattered. When you’re going through it a lot of it doesn’t feel useful.
But then you meet people who really can’t read or write effectively or understand simple concepts.
Even people here on Lemmy are more likely to take the feeling of each word than to understand the sentences as a whole.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 5 weeks ago:
(Hint: If you subsidize eggs, you can make them cheaper.)
Why didn’t Biden think of that? /s
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 5 weeks ago:
You’re not helping. You might be worse than the idiots. You have the awareness to see what is happening, and this is how you respond.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem
They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.
LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 5 weeks ago:
But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.
I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.
I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”
It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.
I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.
