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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And instead install a chromium based browser, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  California, Colorado and New York now.

  Honestly is getting insane.

  Given how many states are pushing legislation like this and how quickly they’re doing it, there’s effectively no way to push back against it…

  I do hope that they stop this bullshit though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The maintainer you and said that they tirelessly tested, reviewed and verified changes over the course of 3 weeks to make sure that things were running and operating correctly.

  This is how it should be done. It’s not like they’re vibe coding this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much.

  I’ve started using AI on a project last week and the first thing I do is write tests. Lots of tests.

  With enough guardrails, you could actually get pretty decent quality output out of it and with enough regression tests, you can ensure that nothing’s actually breaking.

  Similarly, reviewing its changes and actually reading the code that’s being generated to ensure correctness is necessary. However, I am finding ways to automate that and reduce the incident rate of problems to even lower than my co-workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an abysmally bad idea. This would be a wet dream for companies like Meta.

  Effectively that would lock in the monopoly by huge social media platforms and absolutely no one would be able to try and make alternatives.

  That idea would raise the bar for entry into social media to such a degree that only establish platforms can maintain themselves.

  Which would make things like Lemmy, anything on the fedaverse, any third-party or fledgling social media platform…etc defunct overnight. And the only options would be existing, abusive, monopolistic, corporate managed platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes of course but also restricting access to information doesn’t exactly help much either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The line between medical advice and personal research is pretty freaking gray, so banning medical advice. Does that also ban talking to llms about anything that is medical adjacent?

  Does medical adjacent mean personal disabilities? Drug related interests? Pet health?

  …etc

  It’s a slippery slope and we don’t need to be sliding down it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always love it when folks who don’t actually know what they’re talking about, comment like they do…

  It’s not just the browser. This example is the browser, but it’s your entire system stability that is affected by random bit flips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly yeah it’s 100% checks out.

  I have device that has ECC ram and I can keep it online and applications running for well over 18 months with no stability issues.

  However, both my work computers and my personal computer start to become unstable after about 15 to 20 days. And degrade over the course of 1 to 2 years (with a considerable increase in the number of corrupt system files)

  Firefox and chrome start to become unstable after usually a week if they have really high memory usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally not possible.

  I’m not talking about from a practical standpoint I’m talking about from a theoretical standpoint.

  Given that social media being a form of media where humans socialize with each other is not something that can be banned because humans are intrinsically social creatures and modern technology facilities media based communication.

  What we don’t need is social media banned. We need regulation and enforcement and teeth for those regulations.

  Almost all of the bad and negative parts of social media are results of companies driving profits and engagement at the cost of everything else, including the well-being of their users (Such as artificially, inflating, negativity and division because that drives more engagement).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah ofc they are chasing the buck.

  It’s either they find alternatives revenue streams or we no longer have Firefox as a viable alternative anymore.

  Browsers development is crazy engineering heavy, and this, expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s a catch 22.

  They either fail to get a big enough use base because their core users are not enough and they fail from a lack of funding.

  Or they try to follow trends to increase their appeal and user base, and annoy their core users.

  Most users don’t realize that Mozilla is doing what Google is doing with Chrome with an engineering team 1/4 the size of the chrome team. And that the grand majority of their costs are engineering related.

  Browsers are expensive, and Mozilla needs to find revenue streams to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc

  Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.

  It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can thank walled gardens like Discord for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moats are back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s not that they’re going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Police are to society like HR is to workers.

  They are not there for you, they are there to serve and protect their masters and enforce their masters will against the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When in fact the crime was actually just not being rich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guaranteed the software in many of these printers is going to require an always online connection and is going to be baked with DRM in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about firearms.

  It’s about controlling what you can 3D print.

  When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it’s allowed to print what you just sent it. That’s a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.

  Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they’re blocked.

  Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that’s banned.

  Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that’s banned.

  Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing. This isn’t about banning weapons. It’s about controlling access to IPs and preventing right to repair.

  A forcibly Internet connected online. Only 3D printer that has to first check a public database to see if it’s allowed to print the thing you just sent is most definitely going to be used to block you from printing parts to fix your appliances or devices.

  And definitely going to be used to provide copyright protection and blocking to IPS of large corporations and companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking the truth about the fascists in power.

  Laws don’t matter anymore, there is no more order. They are not being followed, and the ones used to hard you are being made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, my team members put out code that’s like this or worse on a regular basis that gets caught in PR review without using AI tooling…

  I’ve supported legacy projects that of course were built without tooling that didn’t exist. That are structured and written in ways that are far far worse than this.

  Nothing here screams vibe coated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who’s built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.

  With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.

  And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM coding tools.

  With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.

  With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it’s possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.

  So the time spent doesn’t necessarily say that it’s vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is misinformation.

  You can self host it, for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trash guide to be fair.

  Discord has more functionality than all of these, yet it gets ranked lower than… Rocket chat??

  If we’re objectively finding alternatives then we need to be objective, this guide seems sus AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They taste like it too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do… Do you not know what price manipulation is?